Designing for trust: How policy targeting shapes political trust

• In Event: Explaining Satisfaction with Democracy and Trust in Institutions

Brief Overview

Public policies can build political trust when states show responsiveness. Using a lab experiment comparing self-targeting (citizen requests aid) vs. pre-targeting (state assigns aid), the study tests how policy design affects trust in government.

Authors

• Ganesh Gorti, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

• Dorothea Kübler, WZB Berlin Social Science Center

• Jan Christoph Steckel, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research