Citizen Participation: Linking Government Efforts, Actual Participation, and Trust in Local Politicians

Marthe Holum

International Journal of Public Administration, 2023, vol. 46, issue 13, 915-925

Abstract: The present study analyzes several aspects of the relationship between citizen participation and trust employing data from Norwegian municipalities: first, the impact of local government efforts to increase participation on trust in local politicians, and second, the impact of these efforts on actual participation, which is a missing piece in the literature. The findings show that local government initiatives have a very limited effect on trust, and no effect on actual participation. A strong negative relationship between actual participation and trust suggests that participation is mainly protest-related, and not the result of local government initiatives to include citizens in decision making.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1080/01900692.2022.2048667

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