Trust in Administration and Governance

• Author: Brian J. Cook
• Published date: 01 April 2019
• Date: 01 April 2019
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1177/0095399719834744
• Subject Matter: Editorial

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Administration & Society

2019, Vol. 51(4) 515

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Editorial

Trust in Administration

and Governance

The first four articles in the April 2019 issue explore the roles and effects of

trust and distrust in a wide range of administrative and governance settings

and conditions. The articles examine the relationship between power and

trust in collaborative governance, the conditions that influence the trust rela-

tionship between elected and appointed officials in local government, the

effects of stakeholder control on trust relations among infrastructure project

partners, and the functions and dysfunctions of trust and distrust in inter-

organizational relationships. Trust and distrust are remarkably complex,

even elusive, phenomena in public administration and governance. Scholars

from a number of disciplines have made important strides toward increasing

general knowledge about these phenomena. Along with the recent analysis

of the layered character of trust in innovation network information exchange

(Geist, 2019), and a number of articles in previous issues over the past

decade in A&S, the articles in this month’s issue bring significant new con-

tributions to the body of expert and general knowledge about the intricate

dynamics of trust in the public sector.

Brian J. Cook

Virginia Tech

Reference

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