Trust and Public Policy: Lessons from the Pandemic

Mausumi Das () and Ajit Mishra
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Mausumi Das: Delhi School of Economics

Chapter Chapter 14 in Contextualizing the COVID Pandemic in India, 2023, pp 297-314 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This paper examines the importance of mutual confidence or trust between a government and its citizens on the effectiveness of public policies. We develop a theoretical framework where the designing of government policies and the concomitant actions of the citizens are meditated by the degree of social trust. We introduce a short-term aggregative health shock—a pandemic—which is novel: its characteristics are not fully known at the onset. This creates scope for government intervention in the form of framing the policy announcement and its information content. We use this framework to examine the relationship between government communication, social trust and compliance. For any given level of trust, we analyse the equilibrium framing of the policy as well as the corresponding response and examine the degree of policy effectiveness as a function of the existing level of trust.

Keywords: Trust; Public policy; Pandemic; H11; I12; I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-99-4906-9_14

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