Stephan Grimmelikhuijsen

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the effect of transparency on trust in government in the Netherlands and South Korea and found that transparency has a subdued and sometimes negative effect on public trust in the Dutch government, while the negative effect in South Korea is much stronger.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used theories from social psychology to advance their understanding of the effects and mechanism of the relation between transparency and the perceived trustworthiness of a government organization, and they proposed two alternative hypotheses, which state that the general predisposition to trust government and prior knowledge about the specific issue moderate the relation of transparency and trust.

TL;DR: Behavioral public administration is the analysis of public administration from the micro-perspective of individual behavior and attitudes by drawing upon insights from psychology on behavior of individuals and groups.

TL;DR: Behavioral public administration is the analysis of public administration from the micro-perspective of individual behavior and attitudes by drawing upon insights from psychology on behavior of individuals and groups as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of transparency on trust in government between the Netherlands and South Korea was investigated by two similar series of three experiments, and the results revealed similar patterns in both countries: transparency has a subdued and sometimes negative effect on trust.