Building Institutional Trust Through Service Experiences—Private Versus Public Provision Matter

Author:

Berg Monika1,Johansson Tobias2

Affiliation:

1. Department of Sociology, Örebro University

2. Örebro University Business School, Örebro University

Abstract

Abstract Welfare service experiences are known to shape citizens' trust in public institutions and their support of the welfare state. But, there is poor understanding of how this relationship is shaped in systems of mixed provision, that is, welfare states that use public in-house as well as contracted private providers for publically funded services. Drawing on the notion of system trust this article provides a theoretical account of how mixed-provision welfare systems condition the relationship between service experience and trust, affecting the legitimacy of the state. Utilizing a randomized vignette experiment with participants in a general citizen survey in Sweden, we investigate whether it matters for the formation of institutional trust if the welfare service is provided by a public or third-party private provider. The main result show that the spillover of trust from positive service experiences with the provider to trust in public institutions is higher in cases of public service provision. Thus, the possibility of using welfare services to build trust in the welfare system seems to be greater when public provision is used.

Funder

Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Marketing,Public Administration,Sociology and Political Science

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