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This study examined a knowledge-centered theory of institutional trust development. In the context of trust in water regulatory institutions, the moderating impact of knowledge was tested to determine if there were longitudinal changes in the bases of institutional trust as a function of increases in knowledge about a target institution. We hypothe...
Longitudinal data.
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Slopes-as-outcomes model 1: Dispositional and governmental trust predicting institutional trust.
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Appendix of measures.
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Formatting.
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Longitudinal syntax.
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Slopes-as-outcomes model 4: Trustworthiness predicting institutional trust.
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Slopes-as-outcomes model 2: Dispositional and governmental trust predicting trustworthiness.
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Slopes-as-outcomes model 3: Dispositional and governmental trust predicting distrustworthiness.
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Slopes-as-outcomes model 4: Distrustworthiness predicting institutional trust.
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The purpose of this report is to provide an economic snapshot of the Nebraska manufacturing industry. In particular, the report is designed to present contributions of manufacturing to the state economy, recent trends in Nebraska manufacturing, and considerations for the future of Nebraska manufacturing. The information contained within the report...
Citizen budgeting has become an increasingly common practice in municipalities across the United States. It offers an alternative to traditionally technocratic budgeting processes, and can connect and engage citizens in decisions about services and funding. Little research has been conducted on how local policymakers perceive citizen budgeting and...
Using confirmatory factor analyses and multiple indicators per construct, we examined a number of theoretically derived factor structures pertaining to numerous trust-relevant constructs (from 9 to12) across four institutional contexts (police, local governance, natural resources, state governance) and multiple participant-types (college students v...
This article introduces a new measure of resilience and five related protective factors. The Five-by-Five Resilience Scale (5×5RS) is developed on the basis of theoretical and empirical considerations. Two samples (N = 475 and N = 613) are used to assess the factor structure, reliability, convergent validity, and criterion-related validity of the 5...
Examinations of trust have advanced steadily over the past several decades, yielding important insights within criminal justice, economics, environmental studies, management and industrial organization, psychology, political science, and sociology. Cross-disciplinary approaches to the study of trust, however, have been limited by differences in def...
Examinations of trust have advanced steadily over the past several decades, yielding important insights within criminal justice, economics, environmental studies, management and industrial organization, psychology, political science, and sociology. Cross-disciplinary approaches to the study of trust, however, have been limited by differences in def...
The relationship between team cohesion and individual well-being is clear. Being part of a highly cohesive team is likely to contribute to the well-being of individual team members. A multidirectional relationship is likely as individual well-being is also likely to contribute to team cohesion. This chapter examines such critical relationships in t...
Public attitudes about electronic medical records (EMRs) have been primarily gauged by one-time opinion polls. The authors investigated the impact of an interactive deliberative polling process on general attitudes towards EMRs and perceptions of governmental roles in the area. An initial online survey was conducted about EMRs among a sample of res...
Organizations have increasingly sought to adopt resilience‐building programmes to prevent absenteeism, counterproductive work behaviour, and other stress‐related issues. However, the effectiveness of these programmes remains unclear as a comprehensive review of existing primary evidence has not been undertaken. Using 42 independent samples across 3...
The purpose of this document is to provide a systematic review of the literature characterizing
the well-being-performance relationship in isolated, confined, and extreme (ICE) environments.
This report also examines temporal effects on well-being and stress/negative psychosocial
functioning over the duration of ICE missions. In doing so, this repo...
This report is intended to satisfy the requirements of solicitation NNJ13487837QA: “Individual Growth and Resilience”. This report is presented in two parts: a review of existing literature and an operational assessment of resilience specifically in the context of long-duration spaceflight. The literature review begins with a description of the con...
Public attitudes about electronic medical records (EMRs) have been primarily gauged by one-time opinion polls. The authors investigated the impact of an interactive deliberative polling process on general attitudes towards EMRs and perceptions of governmental roles in the area. An initial online survey was conducted about EMRs among a sample of res...
The court unification movement has progressed in fits and starts over the decades. Recent proposals have been put forth that attempt to continue the move toward a state court structure that utilizes a more coherent approach to governance. Drawing on a survey of court personnel who were asked about a set of proposed governance principles, this artic...
The US Army launched the Global Assessment Tool (GAT) – a 105-item psychometric instrument taken by approximately one million soldiers annually – in October, 2009 in support of a population-wide resilience development initiative known as the Comprehensive Soldier and Family Fitness (CSF2) program. The lead developer of the GAT was Chris Peterson, a...
Both corruption and subjective well-being (SWB) are of concern to academics, governments, and policy makers. Although intuition suggests that corruption deteriorates SWB, some evidence suggests that corruption can enhance the economy, which may in turn improve SWB. We seek to explore whether, how, and when corruption is related to SWB using represe...
This article examines the relationship between trust in government and support for local govern-mental services. It is hypothesized that trust in government will predict support for local government services, but that trust will differentially predict support across policy areas. The results demonstrate that trust predicts support for human service...
This chapter examines the role of stress and emotional well-being as critical antecedents of important outcomes in the military context. In it, we provide a framework for understanding the sources of stress among military personnel. Using this model, we review the risk factors associated with combat and deployment cycles in addition to protective f...
Regulating water resources is a critically important yet increasingly complex component of the interaction between ecology and society. Many argue that effective water regulation relies heavily upon the compliance of water users. The relevant literature suggests that, rather than relying on external motivators for individual compliance, e. g., puni...
Although researchers have consistently demonstrated the importance of confidence in public institutions like the courts, relatively little attention has been paid to understanding what confidence itself really is. This article presents data from two samples of community members, thereby building on and extending a preliminary investigation that sou...
The purpose of this evaluation is to examine the effectiveness of Master Resilience Training, which is a pillar of the Comprehensive Soldier and Family Fitness (CSF2) program. The report evaluates the relationship between resilience training and diagnoses for mental health or substance abuse problems and whether this relationship was mediated by So...
Faced with long intervals between federal minimum wage increases in recent years, state legislatures are increasingly likely to take action. Motivated by the relative dearth of empirical work on minimum wages in the American states, this article considered various explanations to determine which factors are associated with legislative efforts to pa...
The purpose of this article is to test whether the use of public participation by a local government increases perceptions of procedural fairness among the public and to propose an explanation for why fairness is a strong predictor of satisfaction with governmental decisions. To do this, we draw on the uncertainty management model to hypothesize th...
Background — This paper presents results from a public engagement effort in Nebraska, USA, which measured public opinions about governmental involvement in encouraging the use of electronic health records (EHRs).
Objective — We examine the role of trust in government in contributing to public support for government involvement in the development of...
Purpose — Municipalities commonly ask the public to give input by answering questions about their preferences. There is some belief that input enhances the public’s confidence in government. The purpose of this paper is to examine whether different types of input activities (obtained by phone or online surveys, or via face-to-face engagements) diff...
This article examines the moratorium on Internet sales taxation in the U.S. through perspectives of federalism and intergovernmental relations. First, it provides a brief overview of the literature describing contemporary theories of federalism and intergovernmental relations in the U.S. Second, it describes the efforts of U.S. governors to shape f...
It would be ideal if we knew the best ways to structure the judicial system, the best processes to use to ensure fairness for litigants, and the best incentives to ensure compliance with the law. Unfortunately, as all of us who work in or with the system and those of us who study such issues well know, we do not. So what should we do?
As social sci...
This article examines the effectiveness of using different kinds of written reminders to reduce misdemeanor defendants' failure-to-appear (FTA) rates. A subset of defendants was surveyed after their scheduled court date to assess their perceptions of procedural justice and trust and confidence in the courts. Reminders reduced FTA overall, and more...
The purpose of this article is to provide evidence regarding the comparability of results provided by two survey methods—a random phone survey and a nonrandom online survey—using the derived importance–performance approach to examine service satisfaction data at the local level. Specifically, we measure whether nonprobability opt-in online survey r...
Regular public input into a city's budget is frequently associated with municipal budgeting in Brazilian cities, successes in public engagement that have been emulated around the world. American communities are adopting the practice to varying degrees. This paper will report on a five-year old public input program that is taking place in Lincoln, N...
This technical report is the third in a series of reports evaluating the impact of the Army’s Comprehensive Soldier Fitness (CSF) Program. This report focused on determining the efficacy of the train-the-trainer component of CSF – Master Resilience Trainer (MRT) – in influencing Soldier resilience and psychological health (R/PH) across time. Four B...
This paper examines the political, economic, and institutional variables associated with the presence of state laws that mandate the use of public input in local budgeting. The results show that political and institutional variables can help explain the presence of such laws, but the relationships between variables of interest shift depending on wh...
This technical report presents an analysis of reported resilience and psychological health among the U.S. Army’s Officer Corps. The focus of the current report is on linking resilience and psychological health (hereafter referred to as R/PH) to objective outcomes associated with high job performance.
Specifically, this report examines the statistic...
This document is the first of a series of reports evaluating the impact of the Army’s Comprehensive Soldier Fitness (CSF) Program by examining relationships between reported resilience and various health and behavioral outcomes (both positive and negative) among Soldiers. Resilience is measured by the Global Assessment Tool (GAT), a self-report inv...
Despite its contemporary and theoretical importance in numerous social scientific disciplines, institutional confidence research is limited by a lack of consensus regarding the distinctions and relationships among related constructs (e.g., trust, confidence, legitimacy, distrust, etc.). This study examined four confidence-related constructs that ha...
Failure to appear (FTA) rates in the U.S. can be as high as 25-30% depending on jurisdiction and type of offense. These failures to appear are costly for the criminal justice system as they can lead to inefficient use of time and resources, and FTA can also be costly for defendants by leading to additional court dates, enhanced penalties, and even...
KEY FINDINGS Perceptions of Career and Technical Education (CTE) Courses o The Nebraska public believes that CTE prepares students for careers and college, and that CTE courses are just as important as traditional academic subjects. o However, substantial proportions of Nebraskans believe that CTE students are not as respected as students who take...
Municipalities across the country use various methods of public input to inform managers and elected policymakers about citizen’s preferences and perspectives regarding budget matters or performance measures. One benefit of actively involving the public on key governmental decisions is the belief that it enhances the public’s trust and/or confidenc...
This report contains the findings of the survey: “Examining the Perceptions of Career and Technical Education (CTE) in Nebraska.” The purpose of the survey was to measure the perceptions of Nebraska Educators regarding CTE in Nebraska. The results of the study are intended to inform standards revisions in Nebraska Career Education. The survey was a...
Abstract: Trust and confidence are important in any human interaction but this importance is heightened for public institutions like the various regulatory institutions responsible for the Platte and other rivers because of their connection with increasing public willingness to accept the institution’s authority. Public trust and confidence in inst...
Municipalities across the country use various methods of public input to inform managers and elected policymakers about citizen's preferences and perspectives regarding budget matters or performance measures. One benefit of actively involving the public on key governmental decisions is the belief that it enhances the public's trust and/or confidenc...
Electronic medical records (EMRs) continue to be in the national spotlight. In 2004, Presi-dent Bush first called for all Americans to have a personal EMR as part of a nationwide domestic agenda.
President Obama restated the push for electronic medical information in a speech in January of 2009: “To improve the quality of our health care while lowe...
In November of 2008, the University of Nebraska Public Policy Center implemented a public input project to gather information from Nebraskans about electronic sharing of medical information. One hundred and sixty eight Nebraskans completed an online or paper copy survey, and 34 of those survey respondents also participated in a deliberative discuss...
Table of Contents: Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction A Note on Terminology and Population Fund Mapping Challenges Approach and Presentation Fund Mapping Results Current Funding Survey of Nebraska Funding Sources Summary of Federal Funding Programs Early Childhood Care Survey of Nebraska Afterschool Programs Federal Funding for 21st Ce...
Table of Contents: What Are Expanded Learning Opportunities? Identifying resources available to support expanded learning opportunity programs in Nebraska Some Key Findings of the Fund Mapping Project
The office of the governor in the United States has received increased attention from political scientists in recent years. The main focus of this scholarly activity has mainly centered on the rising prominence and importance of the governor in leading state governments and guiding state policy. As a result of this focus, the role of the governors...
The editors of this book are Willem E. Saris, professor of political science at the University of Amsterdam and teacher at the ESADE business school of Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona, and Paul M. Sniderman, Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. Professor of Public Policy and professor of political science at Stanford University. In Studies in Public Opini...
John A. Hird, associate professor of political science and director of the Center for Public Policy and Administration at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, has put together a unique analysis of the role of nonpartisan research organizations (NPROs) that exist in the United States. In Power, Knowledge, and Politics: Policy Analysis in the...
Californians periodically capture the attention of the nation with their dynamic political activities. In 2003, Californians once again managed to command the national spotlight when California became only the second state in the union to recall its governor. California’s eccentric political atmosphere has widely been recognized, but few observers...
The federal minimum wage has remained unchanged for the past decade. However, a number of states have enacted minimum wage legislation that is more generous than the federal standard. But what factors influence such decisions? To date, the terms of debate have emphasized economics: proponents argue that increasing wages benefits those at the lower...