Research Projects and Surveys

Trust in Government

In 2000, The Community Participation and Citizenship Survey was conducted to better understand how people developed a sense of obligation to be a good citizen and to pay tax. Trust in family, work mates, neighbours, local institutions and government institutions all were implicated in the development of a sense of obligation to others and to the community as a whole.

Chief Investigators

Ms Jenny Job
Professor Valerie Braithwaite

Data Set

The Community Participation and Citizenship Survey

• (survey codebook pdf version)

Key Publications

Job, J.
How is trust in government created? It begins at home, but ends in the parliament, Australian Review of Public Affairs 6(1) 2005: 1–23.
(pdf version)

Job, J. & Reinhart, M.
Trusting the Tax Office: Does Putnam's thesis relate to tax? Australian Journal of Social Issues 38(3) 2003: 307-334.
(pdf version)

Job, J.
Building social and political trust: The role of civic engagement, The International Scope Review 8 (13) 2006: 1-23.
(pdf version)

Other Trust Publications

Braithwaite, J.
Institutionalizing Distrust, Enculturating Trust. In Braithwaite, V. & Levi, M. (eds) Trust and Governance. Russell Sage Foundation, New York,  1998: 343-375.
(pdf version)

Braithwaite V.
Communal and exchange trust norms, their value base and relevance to institutional trust. In Braithwaite, V. & Levi, M. (eds) Trust and Governance. Russell Sage Foundation, New York,  1998: 46-74.
(pdf version)

Braithwaite, V. & Levi, M. (eds)
Trust and Governance. Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 1998
(pdf Introduction) (pdf Conclusion) (pdf Front and Back Covers)

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