Trust and State Effectiveness: The Political Economy of Compliance
研究了公民对政府的信任如何通过提升政策合规意愿来降低执行成本、扩大可行政策范围，从而增强国家效能，并利用综合价值观调查和英国新冠期间自愿合规数据提供了实证证据。
Abstract This paper explores the link between trust in government, policymaking and compliance. It focuses on a specific channel whereby citizens who are convinced of the merits of a policy are more motivated to comply with it. This, in turn, reduces the government’s cost of implementing this policy and may also increase the set of feasible interventions. As a result, state effectiveness is greater when citizens trust their government. The paper discusses alternative approaches to modelling the origins of trust, especially the link to the design of political institutions. We then provide empirical evidence consistent with the model’s findings that compliance is increasing in government trust using the Integrated Values Survey and voluntary compliance during COVID-19 in the United Kingdom.