Transparency of Public Decision‐Making: Towards Trust in Local Government?
Transparency of Public Decision‐Making: Towards Trust in Local Government?
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公共决策的透明度：走向对地方政府的信任？
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2010
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S. Grimmelikhuijsen
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S. Grimmelikhuijsen
地方议会的在线会议记录提供了一个了解地方政府决策幕后情况的机会。这种承诺的透明度会带来更高的信任度吗？这个问题进行了调查，进行了一项实验，比较参与者谁没有访问可用的信息，人们谁只允许有限的信息有关的会议记录，和那些谁显示了完整的地方理事会的会议记录。结果表明，人们接触到更多的信息显着更消极的感知能力的理事会相比，那些谁没有访问可用的信息。此外，那些只收到有关会议记录的有限信息的参与者认为，与那些没有阅读会议记录的人相比，理事会不那么诚实。透明度和信任之间的关系部分受到网站信息可信度的影响。此外，关于决策过程的知识似乎会改变判断标准。对过程有充分了解的人倾向于将他们对感知能力的判断建立在这些知识的基础上，而不是信息的可信度。从公众期望与现实的对比中寻求公共决策透明度负面效应的理论解释。公众对合理决策的期望与透明度所暴露的公共决策所涉混乱的现实之间存在差距，这可能是能够获得充分信息的人认为能力较低的原因。
Online minutes of local councils offer the opportunity to look behind the scenes of local government decision-making. Will this transparency, as promised, lead to higher levels of trust? This issue was investigated by conducting an experiment comparing participants who did not access the available information, people who were only allowed restricted information about the minutes, and those who were shown the full minutes of the local council. Results indicated that people exposed to more information were significantly more negative regarding perceived competence of the council compared to those who did not access the available information. Additionally, participants who received only restricted information about the minutes thought the council was less honest compared to those who did not read them. The relationship between transparency and trust is influenced partly by the perceived credibility of the message on the website. Also, knowledge about the decision-making process appears to shift judgment criteria. People well informed about the process are inclined to base their judgment of perceived competence on this knowledge and less on message credibility. A theoretical explanation for the negative effect of transparency of public decision-making is sought in the expectations of the public versus the reality. A lower perceived competence by those who had access to full information might be explained by a gap between public expectations of rational decision-making and the reality of the chaos involved in public decision-making exposed through transparency.