Predators and the public trust

Predators and the public trust

Many democratic governments recognize a duty to conserve environmental resources, including wild animals, as a public trust for current and future citizens. These public trust principles have informed two centuries of U.S.A. Supreme Court decisions and environmental laws worldwide. Nevertheless numerous populations of large-bodied, mammalian carnivores (predators) were eradicated in the 20th ce...

Providing an optimal model for gaining public trust in the Complaints System and Inspection Agency's announcements

This research seeks to provide an optimal model for gaining public trust in the Complaints System and Inspection Agency's announcements.In this research, a survey method and a researcher-made questionnaire were used. The study population was consist of customers and users of the complaint handling system and the organization's inspection reports in Mazandaran province comprising equal numbers o...

Air Quality and the Public Trust

Conflict of interest and the public trust.

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Public trust and government betrayal

This paper presents a simple model of government reputation which captures two characteristics of policy outcomes in less developed countries: governments which betray public trust do so erratically, and, after a betrayal, public trust is regained only gradually. ∗This paper was formerly titled “Randomly Bad Government.” The author has benefited greatly from discussions with Andrew Atkeson, V.V...