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Across the Western world we have witnessed an erosion of trust in public institutions over the past decade. Against this daunting backdrop, Scott E. Robinson, James W. Stoutenborough, and Arnold Vedlitz challenge us to embrace a much more nuanced world view where the reputation of government agencies can diverge from a general path of low trust and decline. They do so in a convincing manner, by introducing experimental and observational data that is explored with clear theoretical predictions derived from public administration, political science, and psychology.

Asmus Leth Olsen,
University of Copenhagen

UNDERSTANDING TRUST IN
GOVERNMENT

Growing disenfranchisement with political institutions and policy processes has generated interest in trust in government. For the most part, research has focused on trust in government as a general attitude covering all political institutions. In this book, Scott E. Robinson, James W. Stoutenborough, and Arnold Vedlitz argue that individual agencies develop specific reputations that may contrast with the more general attitudes towards government as a whole.

Grounded in a treatment of trust as a relationship between two actors and taking the Environmental Protection Agency as their subject, the authors illustrate that the agencys reputation is explained through general demographic and ideological factorsas well as policy domain factors like environmentalism. The book presents results from two approaches to assessing trust: (1) a traditional attitudinal survey approach, and (2) an experimental approach using the context of hydraulic fracturing. While the traditional attitudinal survey approach provides traditional answers to what drives trust in the EPA, the experimental results reveal that there is little specific trust in the EPA across the United States.

Robinson, Stoutenborough, and Vedlitz expertly point the way forward for more reliable assessments of trust, while demonstrating the importance of assessing trust at the agency level. This book represents a much-needed resource for those studying both theory and methods in Public Administration and Public Policy.

Scott E. Robinson is the Bellmon Chair of Public Service at the University of Oklahoma. His research and teaching focus on the management of public service organizations as they cope with various forms of disasters or extreme events.

James W. Stoutenborough is an Assistant Professor at Idaho State University. His research and teaching interests include public policy, public opinion, and political psychology with a substantive interest in science and technology, environmental, and energy policy.

Arnold Vedlitz is holder of the Bob Bullock Chair in Government and Public Policy at the Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University. His teaching and research focus is on science and technology policy and environmental and natural resources policy.

Routledge Studies in Public Administration and
Environmental Sustainability

Edited by Daniel J. Fiorino and Robert F. Durant, American University

Climate change, loss of habitat and bio-diversity, water security, and the effects of new technologies are placing pressure at all levels of government for effective policy responses. Old policy solutions and the administrative processes associated with them not only seem inadequate for managing environmental and energy sustainability issues, but even counterproductive. The challenge for societies worldwide often is how best to harness in the public interest the dynamism of markets, the passion and commitment of nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations, and the public interest oriented expertise of career civil servants at all levels of government. Routledge Studies on Public Administration and Environmental Sustainability focuses on core public administration questions as they relate to the topics of environmental, energy, and natural resources policies, and which together comprise the field of environmental sustainability.

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Understanding Trust in Government
Environmental Sustainability, Fracking, and Public Opinion in American Politics
Scott E. Robinson, James W. Stoutenborough, and Arnold Vedlitz

UNDERSTANDING
TRUST IN
GOVERNMENT

Environmental Sustainability,
Fracking, and Public Opinion in
American Politics

Scott E. Robinson, James W. Stoutenborough,
and Arnold Vedlitz

First published 2017
by Routledge
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and by Routledge
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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

2017 Taylor & Francis

The right of Scott E. Robinson, James W. Stoutenborough, and Arnold Vedlitz to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Names: Robinson, Scott E., author. | Stoutenborough, James, author. |
Vedlitz, Arnold, author.
Title: Understanding trust in government : environmental sustainability,
fracking, and public opinion in American politics / by Scott E. Robinson,
James Stoutenborough, and Arnold Vedlitz.
Description: New York, NY : Routledge, [2017] |
Series: Routledge studies in public administration and environmental Sustainability; 4 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016051972 | ISBN 9781138698239 (hbk) |
ISBN 9781138698246 (pbk) | ISBN 9781315519531 (ebk)
Subjects: LCSH: Environmental policyUnited StatesPublic opinion. |
United States. Environmental Protection AgencyPublic opinion. |
Hydraulic fracturingGovernment policyUnited States. |
Hydraulic fracturingUnited StatesPublic opinon. |
Transparency in governmentUnited States.
Classification: LCC GE180.R63 2017 |
DDC 363.7/01560973dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016051972

ISBN: 978-1-138-69823-9 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-138-69824-6 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-51953-1 (ebk)

Typeset in Bembo
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CONTENTS

It is important to take a moment to thank the various people without whom this book would not have been possible.

We could not have conducted this research alone. We have to thank the institutions who supported this research in various ways. This material is based upon research conducted by the Institute for Science, Technology, and Public Policy (ISTPP) in the Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University in cooperation with the Texas A&M Energy Institute. ISTPP provided an important setting in which we designed the survey and analyzed the data. In particular, we would like to thank Xinsheng Liu, Carol Goldsmith, and Brian Shreck for their assistance and consultation in the development of this book.

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