Why Trust Weighs More? Investigating the Endogenous Relationship Between Trust and Perceived Institutional Effectiveness

Hanyu Xiao; Ting Gong; Wenyan Tu

doi:10.1177/00953997241239000

Why Trust Weighs More? Investigating the Endogenous Relationship Between Trust and Perceived Institutional Effectiveness

Hanyu Xiao
, Ting Gong
, Wenyan Tu^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Public and International Affairs

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Abstract

This study investigates the intricate interplay between citizens’ trust in government institutions and their perceptions of institutional effectiveness. The two may have an endogenous relationship as they influence each other. Yet, since they stem from different sources and have distinct dynamics, their relationship may exhibit a directional bias in terms of causality: citizens’ trust may impact the perception of institutional effectiveness more than vice versa. As the survey results from Hong Kong suggest here, this may indicate that trust is not only performance-based but also character-based, with the latter lasting longer and exerting a greater impact on perceptions of institutional performance. © The Author(s) 2024.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	602-627
Journal	Administration and Society
Volume	56
Issue number	5
Online published	25 Mar 2024
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/00953997241239000
Publication status	Published - May 2024

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The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong under Grant HKIED11603219; the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 72304069.

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SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Research Keywords

anti-corruption agency
Hong Kong
institutional effectiveness
trust

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Why Trust Weighs More? Investigating the Endogenous Relationship Between Trust and Perceived Institutional Effectiveness

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