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This chapter extends our application. It presents a public policy process template. It also argues that a significant by-product of the intervention of nongovernmental organizations (NGO) in the public policy process may be trust in government and the benefits there from. The basic questions are as follows: How can the community of NGOs representing varying, compatible, and contrasting views be integrated into a public policy process? What may that process look like? Again, as throughout this book, the approach to answering that question will be structural and normative. We focus as did they on the concept of trust. How can civic engagement lead to greater trust in government, and why is this consequence of significance?1
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This chapter is a near-complete reproduction of Herrington J. Bryce, “Trust in Government: A By-Product of NGO Intervention in the Public Policy Process,” International Journal of Public Administration, Vol. 32, 2009, pp. 951–969, and
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Bryce, H.J. (2012). Trust in Government. In: Players in the Public Policy Process. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137273925_13
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