Replication Data for: Public Trust and Collaborative Governance: An Instrumental Variable Approach

Trust in government has attracted much attention as an important social outcome, but we know little about its effects on citizen-state interactions. In this study, I posit that trust in government affects citizens’ perceptions of collaborative governance. To overcome the endogeneity problem of measuring trust in traditional surveys, I proposed an alternative design that uses randomly assigned public integrity information as the instrument of trust in government. In two online experiments, I test the effect of trust further on several collaborative governance outcomes. The results indicate that citizens have strong preferences on public-citizen-partnership, regardless the variations of trust in government. Moreover, trust in government has nonlinear effects on perceived public-private partnership and willingness to coproduce. These findings provide new opportunities to study trust in government and offer implications to further develop collaborative governance theory.