LSS Postdoctoral Fellowship: Trust and Confidence

这个项目资助了一个跨学科信任和信心研究的博士后研究员。公众对政府机构的信任和信心是民主的组成部分，也是有效和高效治理的必要条件。然而，说有信任或不信任意味着什么？绝大多数关于信任和自信的研究和理论只沉浸在一门学科中，往往忽视了其他社会科学的贡献。这项提议资助了一名博士后研究员，他可能来自任何社会科学学科，加入一个跨学科团队，致力于开发和测试对政府机构的信任和信心的全面、多阶段、跨学科理论。该研究员将进行相关研究，并将其他对推进信任/信心研究和理论感兴趣的跨学科研究人员聚集在一起。这项跨学科研究是在各种环境和背景下进行的，在这些环境和背景下，研究结果将产生实际影响：法院、执法、市政府、水管理和自然资源管理机构，以及包括纳米技术和农业生物技术在内的科学。信任和信心的测量及其与管理机构知识的关系对研究团队所从事的管理机构极其重要。该小组一直在向社区组织传达他们的研究结果；博士后研究员将密切参与协调与管理机构的信息共享。

This project funds a postdoctoral fellow in interdisciplinary trust and confidence research. Public trust and confidence in governmental institutions is integral to democracy and necessary for effective and efficient governance. What does it mean, though, to say there is trust or distrust? The vast majority of studies and theories in trust and confidence are immersed only in one discipline, often ignoring contributions from other social sciences. This proposal funds a postdoctoral fellow, who could come from any social scientific discipline, to join an interdisciplinary team dedicated to developing and testing a comprehensive, multi-stage, interdisciplinary theory of trust and confidence in governmental institutions. The fellow will conduct relevant research and also bring together additional, interdisciplinary researchers interested in advancing trust/confidence research and theory. The interdisciplinary research is being conducted in a variety of settings and contexts where the findings will have practical implications: courts, law enforcement, municipal government, water regulation and natural resource management agencies, and science, including nanotechnology and agricultural biotechnology. Measurement of trust and confidence and its relationship to knowledge about governing institutions is extremely important to the governing institutions the research team engages. The team has been communicating results of their research to the community organizations; the postdoctoral fellow will be closely involved in coordinating information sharing with governing institutions.