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Ziller, Conrad ORCID: 0000-0002-2282-636X and Andress, Hans-Jurgen . Quality of local government and social trust in European cities. Urban Stud.. LONDON: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD. ISSN 1360-063X

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Abstract

Communities are responsible for a range of public services and represent critical experiential contexts for social interactions between residents. However, the role of local governance and public service provision for creating social trust has received limited attention so far. This study examines how quality, efficiency and fairness of local public service provision relates to social trust. Using multilevel models on repeated cross-sectional survey data from the Quality of Life in European Cities project, we test the relationship between time-varying city-level indicators of quality of local government and social trust. The empirical results show that an increase in the dimension of local public service quality is substantially associated with an increase in social trust. We find improvements in sport and leisure facilities as well as the state of public spaces, streets and buildings to be particularly relevant.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Ziller, Conrad UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-2282-636X UNSPECIFIED Andress, Hans-Jurgen UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-573257
DOI:	10.1177/00420980211019613
Journal or Publication Title:	Urban Stud.
Publisher:	SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
Place of Publication:	LONDON
ISSN:	1360-063X
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language ETHNIC DIVERSITY; SERVICE QUALITY; PUBLIC-SECTOR; PERFORMANCE; COHESION; STATE; INSTITUTIONS; EFFICIENCY; COMMUNITY; CAPACITY Multiple languages Environmental Studies; Urban Studies Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/57325