To Trust an Adversary
Integrating Rational and Psychological Models of Collaborative Policymaking
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3589274 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William D Leach (0000-0001-7565-6600, California State University, Sacramento), Paul A Sabatier, Paul Sabatier (0000-0002-9620-1514, University of California, Davis) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 99 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 491-503 |
| Publication date | 2005-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s000305540505183x |
| OpenAlex | W2116869786 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 145 |
| References cited | 61 |
This study explores how trust arises among policy elites engaged in prolonged face-to-face negotiations. Mirroring recent evidence that citizens' procedural preferences (as opposed to policy preferences) drive trust in government, we find thatinterpersonaltrust among stakeholders in consensus-seeking partnerships is explained by the perceived legitimacy and fairness of the negotiation process more so than by the partnership's track record of producing mutually agreeable policies. Overall, hypotheses derived from social psychology do as well or better than those based on rational-choice assumptions. Important predictors of trust include small and stable groups, generalized social trust, clear decision rules, political stalemate, congruence on policy-related beliefs, and absence of devil-shift (the belief that one's opponents wield more power than one's allies). Surprisingly, null or negative correlations exist between trust and network density, measured by membership in voluntary associations. The study illustrates the value of behavioral models that integrate institutional, rational, and psychological explanations
General partnership · Interpersonal communication · Interpersonal influence · Legitimacy · Mirroring · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Stalemate · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering · Psychology · Social Capital and Networks · Social Psychology
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Understanding and applying principles of social cognition and decision making in adaptive environmental governance
The Institutions of Programmatic Action
Punctuated Equilibrium Theory
Adaptation in Collaborative Governance Regimes
Evaluating the Productivity of Collaborative Governance Regimes
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Policy change and the persuasive potential of polysemic ideas
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New Insights into Coalition Negotiations—The Case of German Government Formation
Compatibility of the Incompatible
“Everyone Has a Truth”
Learning from Your Neighbor
Understanding Environmental Cognition
Community Disaster Recovery
The impacts of trust, cost and risk on collaboration in environmental governance
Implementing the Agenda 2030 – what is the role of forums
Power and inclusion in Redd+ policy networks in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Meeting the Challenge of Learning for Sustainability Through Policy Networks
Unpacking reputational power
Political Trust and the Ultimate Attribution Error in Explaining Successful and Failed Policy Initiatives
Producing Agreements and Innovations in Collaborative Governance
Beyond Belief
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Hydraulic fracturing, coalition activity and shock
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Comparable and Yet Context-Sensitive? Improving Evaluation in Violently Divided Societies through Methodology
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Collaborative partnerships in complex institutional systems
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Uncovering the political dimension of social-ecological systems
Policy learning over a decade or more and the role of interests therein
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How to conduct a Narrative Policy Framework study
Exploring the Diverse Effects of Stakeholder Engagement on Organizational Performance
Assessing Collaborative Policymaking Outcomes
Thinking Harder About Outcomes for Collaborative Governance Arrangements
Public participation and local environmental planning
Applying Ostrom’s Institutional Analysis and Development framework, and design principles for co-production to pollution management in Louisville's Rubbertown, Kentucky
Policy styles and political trust in Europe’s national responses to the Covid-19 crisis
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The effectiveness of network administrative organizations in governing interjurisdictional natural resources
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Beliefs, social identity, and the view of opponents in Swedish carnivore management policy
Symposium
Social identities in the policy process
Betrayal of trust in the European Parliament
Emotion and the Advocacy Coalition Framework
There Is Always a Bigger Fish. Determinants of Power Perceptions in Swiss Biodiversity Policy
Themes and Variations
Governance and policy learning in the European Union
The role of trust in obtaining and following advice in farming
Can non-state global governance be legitimate? An analytical framework
Coalizões e preferências políticas na crise hídrica da Região Metropolitana de São Paulo
Political deliberation and the challenge of bounded rationality
Coevolution of Networks and Beliefs in U.S. Environmental Risk Policy
Theorizing the functions and patterns of agency in the policymaking process
Are responses to official consultations and stakeholder surveys reliable guides to policy actors’ positions
Understanding coalitions' emotion-belief expressions and rural identity
Trust and Decision‐making in Times of Crisis
How Patterns of Democracy Impact Policy Processes
Devil Shift und Angel Shift in eskalierten politischen Konflikten am Beispiel von Stuttgart 21
The Coevolution of Perceptions of Procedural Fairness and Link Formation in Self-Organizing Policy Networks
Familiarity Breeds Trust
Secondary learning and the unintended benefits of collaborative mechanisms
Diversity, Trust, and Social Learning in Collaborative Governance
Analytics and Beliefs
What Do We Know and Need to Know about the Environmental Outcomes of Collaborative Management
A Floor Without a Ceiling
Does Holding Beliefs with Conviction Prevent Policy Actors from Adopting a Compromising Attitude
From Mistrust to Understanding
Generalized Trust in Multi-organizational Policy Arenas
Belief System Continuity and Change in Policy Advocacy Coalitions
Constructive conflicts
Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory
Stealth Democracy
Governing the Commons
A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance
The Psychological Underpinnings of Democracy
Strong Inference
Random group effects and the precision of regression estimates
Biased Assimilation, Attitude Polarization, and Affect in Reactions to Stereotype-Relevant Scientific Information
Making Watershed Partnerships Work
Social Justice
Bowling alone
The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice
Constructing social theories
Policy change and learning
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
Governing the Commons
Rules, Games, and Common-Pool Resources
The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics
Avoiding Politics
A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance
The Logic of Collective Action
Making Democracy Work
Social and Unsocial Capital
Stakeholder partnerships as collaborative policymaking
Jay’s Pirouette, or Why Political Trust is Not the Same as Personal Trust
Have Americans' Attitudes Become More Polarized?-An Update
Have Americans' Attitudes Become More Polarized?—An Update
Ideology and the Interpretation of Personal Experience
When self-interest makes a difference
Conflict and Cooperation
Self-Interest and Public Opinion Toward Smoking Restrictions and Cigarette Taxes
American Association for Public Opinion Research
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Shared Beliefs and Imposed Interdependencies as Determinants of Ally Networks in Overlapping Subsystems
Trust, Social Dilemmas and Collective Memories
Individual-Level Evidence for the Causes and Consequences of Social Capital
Cooperation, Reciprocity, and the Collective-Action Heuristic
Template matching
Biased assimilation and attitude polarization
More Order with Less Law
Contrasting Rational and Psychological Analyses of Political Choice
Human Nature in Politics
The Devil Shift
A "Cognitive Miser" Theory of Cooperators Advantage
A Behavioral Approach to the Rational Choice Theory of Collective Action
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| Unique citing works | 145 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 7,25 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2026 (21) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 142 |