Public confidence and public services: it matters what you measure

被引：15

作者：

Cowell, Richard ^{[1
]}

Downe, James ^{[2
]}

Martin, Steve ^{[2
]}

Chen, Alex ^{[3
]}

机构：

[1] Cardiff Univ, Cardiff Sch City & Reg Planning, Cardiff, Wales

[2] Cardiff Univ, Ctr Local & Reg Govt Res, Cardiff, Wales

[3] MindShare, London, England

来源：

POLICY AND POLITICS | 2012年 / 40卷 / 01期

关键词：

public confidence; public services; performance measures; ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE; CITIZEN SATISFACTION; TRUST; FRAMEWORK;

D O I：

10.1332/147084411X581862

中图分类号：

D0 [政治学、政治理论];

学科分类号：

0302 ; 030201 ;

摘要：

Governments around the world are concerned about declining public confidence in democratic institutions. It has been widely assumed that improving the performance of public services will help address this problem. Policy makers in the United Kingdom (UK) have therefore been puzzled to discover that public confidence in local government continued to decline at a time when local services seemed to be improving.The reason for this apparent paradox is that public confidence is influenced by a wide array of factors only some of which are captured by official measures. Since different data can lead to quite different conclusions, it matters what is measured.

引用

页码：123 / 143

页数：21

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