Testing Statebuilding’s ‘Missing Link’: Effects of Government Communications in Colombia

Nussio, Enzo; Sánchez, Miguel García; Oppenheim, Ben; Pantoja-Barrios, Sebastián

doi:10.1080/00220388.2019.1585815

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“…Arguably, citizens may have chosen to participate in the meeting to influence or benefit such investments in their own localities. This is in line with the argument that exposing citizens to goods or services can create reference points about what citizens can expect in their own lives and hence increase aspirations, expectations and demands for such investments (Bernard et al, 2014;Gottlieb, 2016;Gurr, 1970;Kruks-Wisner, 2018;Nussio, García-Sánchez, Oppenheim, & Pantoja-Barrios, 2020). Carefully interpreted to the setting of our experiment, our results suggest that exposure to information about public or private infrastructure investments, even if conducted elsewhere and in a fictitious village, can lead to higher political participation and hence reinforce citizen-state relations.…”

Section: Political Participationsupporting

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Do Social Investments by Mining Companies Harm Citizen-State Relations? Experimental Evidence from Burkina Faso

Bezzola

Brugger

Günther

et al. 2021

The Journal of Development Studies

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Do mining companies investing in public infrastructure in their host communities harm citizen-state relations? This study presents results from a survey-based field experiment conducted in two mining areas in Burkina Faso. We test whether informing respondents about investments undertaken by mining companies in domains considered classic government responsibilities affects citizens' legitimating beliefs in their government and their likelihood of political participation. We randomly expose respondents to short audio stories about water infrastructure investments conducted by either a mining company or a municipal government in a fictitious but comparable village. Hearing about private as opposed to public investment leads to worse perceptions of the capacity and the legitimacy of the government in the fictitious village. Yet, the intervention does not affect respondents' legitimating beliefs in their own local government. At the behavioural level, we find that hearing about either public or private investment as opposed to no information at all significantly increases participation in town hall meetings. Our experimental findings suggest that providing citizens in low-income settings information about investment in public infrastructure elsewhere can raise expectations in their own contexts and thereby stimulate citizen-state relations.

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Section: Political Participationsupporting

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Do Social Investments by Mining Companies Harm Citizen-State Relations? Experimental Evidence from Burkina Faso

Bezzola

Brugger

Günther

et al. 2021

The Journal of Development Studies

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“…Even when there is alignment and the state effectively delivers goods and services, citizens may not attribute the change to the state (McLoughlin 2015). Moreover, expanding goods and service provision could raise expectations about the state’s ability to provide goods and services, which, if unmet, could lead to resentment (Blair, Karim, and Morse 2019; Nussio et al 2019).…”

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“… 2 Nussio et al (2019) find that participatory governance could have adverse effects on perceptions of the state.…”

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Relational State Building in Areas of Limited Statehood: Experimental Evidence on the Attitudes of the Police

Karim

2020

Am Polit Sci Rev

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Under what conditions does state expansion into limited statehood areas improve perceptions of state authority? Although previous work emphasizes identity or institutional sources of state legitimacy, I argue that relationships between state agents and citizens drive positive attitude formation, because these relationships provide information and facilitate social bonds. Moreover, when state agents and citizens share demographic characteristics, perceptional effects may improve. Finally, citizens finding procedural interactions between state agents and citizens unfair may adopt negative views about the state. I test these three propositions by randomizing household visits by male or female police officers in rural Liberia. These visits facilitated relationship building, leading to improved perceptions of police; shared demographic characteristics between police and citizens did not strengthen this effect. Perceptions of unfairness in the randomization led to negative opinions about police. The results imply that relationship building between state agents and citizens is an important part of state building.

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“…Como resultado, a comunicação governamental é agora uma indústria em crescimento em muitos países e sujeito a aumentar a atenção de ambos os profissionais e teóricos (Howlett, 2009). A investigação sobre os países desenvolvidos indica que a melhoria na forma como o governo comunica com o público pode aumentar a confiança no governo e a satisfação com os serviços públicos (Nussio, García-Sánchez, Oppenheim, & Pantoja-Barrios, 2020).…”

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Comunicação Governamental – A Magna Carta Do Dubai

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2020

New Trends in Qualitative Research

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Resumo. No ano de 2019 o Governo do Dubai formalizou a sua "Magna Carta", documento que, na ausência de uma Constituição escrita, sistematiza os oito princípios que regem a governação do Emirado. O objetivo da "Magna Carta" é assegurar o bem-estar dos cidadãos, o desenvolvimento sustentável da Nação e a prosperidade das gerações futuras. Enquadrado num estudo que se vem realizando desde 2016 sobre a comunicação governamental do Dubai e EAU e em particular do Ministério da Felicidade, este trabalho tem por objetivo compreender se existe articulação entre a abordagem da Felicidade, Positividade e Bem-estar integrado no Plano Nacional de Felicidade e Positividade com a referida "Magna Carta", bem como a visibilidade dada ao tema nos media. Para a realização do estudo, consultou-se o documento e recolherem-se no corpus latente os títulos das notícias publicadas no corpus latente em língua inglesa. Através de uma abordagem qualitativa procedeu-se à análise de conteúdo do documento com o apoio do software webQDA. Os resultados permitiram inferir que, por um lado, se trata de um documento que visa manter um legado centenário e, por outro, transmitir esse legado às gerações futuras. Do ponto de vista da comunicação governamental, o documento foi amplamente divulgado e a comunicação coloca o foco na comunidade e na preocupação do governo, em trabalhar para o bem-estar da sociedade em linha com o Plano Nacional para a Felicidade lançado em 2016.

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Testing Statebuilding’s ‘Missing Link’: Effects of Government Communications in Colombia

Cited by 10 publications

References 25 publications

Do Social Investments by Mining Companies Harm Citizen-State Relations? Experimental Evidence from Burkina Faso

Do Social Investments by Mining Companies Harm Citizen-State Relations? Experimental Evidence from Burkina Faso

Relational State Building in Areas of Limited Statehood: Experimental Evidence on the Attitudes of the Police

Comunicação Governamental – A Magna Carta Do Dubai

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