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Public institution is an organization founded by governmental units, with duties and liabilities framed by the law, which provides public services to the citizens.
Trust is to be confident about something or to have confidence on others or to believe in someone or something.
Introduction
The public institutions are vital agencies for the functioning and the continuation of a state. Besides this crucial fact, the purpose of these institutions is to provide the public services which are essential to facilitate the citizens’ everyday life. Though there is not a commonly accepted definition for the public institution, it may be understood as an institution which has the authority to access the public sources and to utilize them in favor of the public welfare.
As it has been rightly observed (Thoenig 2003) for a long time, “public institutions were taken for granted. They were neither an issue for knowledge, nor a...
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Özçobanlar, M. (2018). Trust in Public Institutions in Greece and Turkey. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3608-1
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