Trust in the Technical Information Provided by Interest Groups

The Views of Legislators, Activists, Experts, and the General Public

Bibliographic Data

ID6330388
AuthorsJohn C Pierce (0000-0002-0863-9584, Washington State University), Nicholas P Lovrich (0000-0002-9173-547X, Washington State University)
Year1983
Volume11
Issue4
Pages626-639
Publication date1983-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolicy Studies Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0190-292X • E-ISSN: 1541-0072
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1541-0072.1983.tb00566.x
OpenAlexW2131291713
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited6

The timely provision of information is crucial to the success of interest groups seeking to influence policymakers, the public and their own members. This paper examines the extent to which legislators, citizens, and policy area experts and activists trust the information provided by specific interests in the water resources managment area. It is shown that citizens and policy area activists are less trusting than are legislators and experts, and that they also discriminate more among information sources than either of those types of actors. On the individual level, multiple regression analysis is employed to investigate the extent to which partisanship, ideology, environmentalism and degree of informedness influence the level of trust accorded particular interest groups among citizens, legislators, activists, and experts

Environmentalism · Ideology · Interest group · Political science · Politics · Public interest · Public relations · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Environmental Education and Sustainability · Law · Public Administration · Social Media and Politics

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