Building Trust in the State with Information : Evidence from Urban Punjab

Building Trust in the State with Information : Evidence from Urban Punjab

Can communication designed to increase support for government policy and shift perceptions of state capacity redress deep-rooted mistrust in state institutions? This paper finds providing information on past state effectiveness, highlighting citize...

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Main Authors: Khan, Adnan, Nasim, Sanval, Shaukat, Mahvish, Stegmann, Andreas
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
Subjects:
STATE CAPACITY
TRUST
PUBLIC SERVICE DELIVERY
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/188481604516771120/Building-Trust-in-the-State-with-Information-Evidence-from-Urban-Punjab
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spelling okr-10986-347362022-09-20T00:10:30Z Building Trust in the State with Information : Evidence from Urban Punjab Khan, Adnan Nasim, Sanval Shaukat, Mahvish Stegmann, Andreas STATE CAPACITY TRUST PUBLIC SERVICE DELIVERY Can communication designed to increase support for government policy and shift perceptions of state capacity redress deep-rooted mistrust in state institutions? This paper finds providing information on past state effectiveness, highlighting citizens' cooperation in enabling past effectiveness or appealing to religious authorities' support for government policy have limited impact on support for policy, perceptions of state capacity and trust in the state in Pakistan. This holds true on average and across important dimensions of heterogeneity after accounting for experimenter demand. This paper highlights the limits of using information to build trust in state institutions, and the importance of measuring experimenter demand. 2020-11-05T16:19:18Z 2020-11-05T16:19:18Z 2020-11 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/188481604516771120/Building-Trust-in-the-State-with-Information-Evidence-from-Urban-Punjab http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34736 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9469 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper South Asia Pakistan
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topic STATE CAPACITY
TRUST
PUBLIC SERVICE DELIVERY
spellingShingle STATE CAPACITY
TRUST
PUBLIC SERVICE DELIVERY
Khan, Adnan
Nasim, Sanval
Shaukat, Mahvish
Stegmann, Andreas
Building Trust in the State with Information : Evidence from Urban Punjab
geographic_facet South Asia
Pakistan
relation Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9469
description Can communication designed to increase support for government policy and shift perceptions of state capacity redress deep-rooted mistrust in state institutions? This paper finds providing information on past state effectiveness, highlighting citizens' cooperation in enabling past effectiveness or appealing to religious authorities' support for government policy have limited impact on support for policy, perceptions of state capacity and trust in the state in Pakistan. This holds true on average and across important dimensions of heterogeneity after accounting for experimenter demand. This paper highlights the limits of using information to build trust in state institutions, and the importance of measuring experimenter demand.
format Working Paper
author Khan, Adnan
Nasim, Sanval
Shaukat, Mahvish
Stegmann, Andreas
author_facet Khan, Adnan
Nasim, Sanval
Shaukat, Mahvish
Stegmann, Andreas
author_sort Khan, Adnan
title Building Trust in the State with Information : Evidence from Urban Punjab
title_short Building Trust in the State with Information : Evidence from Urban Punjab
title_full Building Trust in the State with Information : Evidence from Urban Punjab
title_fullStr Building Trust in the State with Information : Evidence from Urban Punjab
title_full_unstemmed Building Trust in the State with Information : Evidence from Urban Punjab
title_sort building trust in the state with information : evidence from urban punjab
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2020
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/188481604516771120/Building-Trust-in-the-State-with-Information-Evidence-from-Urban-Punjab
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34736
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