Kaifeng Yang

TL;DR: Although the link between government performance and citizen trust in government seems intuitive, the relationship is not supported in some of the literature as mentioned in this paper, and the difficulty of empirically demonstrating this link is rooted in the difficulty in defining and measuring government performance meaningfully.

TL;DR: In this article, the efforts of local governments to involve citizens in administrative processes were explored, including what social and political groups in the community promote citizen involvement, which groups are likely to succeed, and what barriers obstruct citizen involvement efforts.

TL;DR: In this article, a survey of 320 public administrators found that public administrators' trust in citizens is a relevant and valid construct and a predictor of proactive citizen involvement efforts, and factors affecting the level of trust are identified at individual, organizational, and societal levels.

TL;DR: The authors developed and tested an organizational theory model that explores the conditions under which citizen involvement as a general strategy can improve administrative decision making, and the results suggest that public management matters for citizen participation.

TL;DR: Strategic planning and related strategic management elements have become ubiquitous practices at all levels of U.S. government and many nonprofit organizations over the past 25 years as discussed by the authors, and the authors r...