Government Credibility Research Articles

Research and Prediction of China's Air Environment

Abstract: With the rapid development of China's economy, environmental issues, particularly air pollution, have become increasingly severe, posing significant threats to human health and ecosystems. This study employed statistical learning methods to analyze air pollution composition data from thirty major Chinese cities throughout 2019-2022. The study used algorithms like regression, classification, fitting, and filtering to find changes in multi-source heterogeneous data patterns and predict how air pollutant concentrations would change over time and space. At the same time,the results indicate that the primary factors influencing the Air Quality Index (AQI) are fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and inhalable particulate matter (PM10). Additionally, this research is significant for improving public health, advancing environmental protection, fostering economic growth, strengthening laws and regulations, ensuring social stability, and promoting scientific and cultural advancements. Through this research, scientific bases can be provided for formulating policies that reduce disease, enhance government credibility, drive innovation in atmospheric research, and preserve cultural heritage.

Turn-Taking in Political Interviews and Its Impact on Building Government Credibility

Television political inquiry is conducted through question-and-answer exchanges with host and government officials on prominent livelihood issues, which helps to improve the efficiency of government governance. Interview participants’ identity, communicative intention, power, and contextual factors have a significant impact on the discourse choices of both parties. This research clarifies the mechanism by which communicators mobilize appropriate discourse strategies to promote the solution of social problems. It adopts qualitative research method and conversation analysis to interpret interview participants’ talk-in-interaction and discourse strategies in “Ask Government Affairs of Shandong”. Research finds that adjacency pairs in political interview perform social behaviors such as greetings, requests, suggestions, apologies, acknowledgement. Interview participants’ turn-taking is divided into claiming for the turn, holding the turn, and giving up the turn. Discourse strategies such as insertion, interruption, and repetition are adopted to claim for the turn. Discourse markers and conversation repair are applied in communicators’ turn-holding stage. Communicators adopt explicit nominations, vague job designations, and silence strategies to give up the turn. Clear, accurate, and highly relevant official responses are conducive to projecting a responsible government image and improving government credibility. The phenomenon of avoidance, hesitation, and pause in official response is likely to cause the masses to question government officials’ work capability, which is not conducive to establishing a positive and trustworthy government image. Suggestions for optimizing the process setting of political interview and official responses are provided to enhance the effect of political enquiry.

A knowledge-Aware NLP-Driven conversational model to detect deceptive contents on social media posts

The widespread dissemination of deceptive content on social media presents a substantial challenge to preserving authenticity and trust. The epidemic growth of false news is due to the greater use of social media to transmit news, rather than conventional mass media such as newspapers, magazines, radio, and television. Humans' incapacity to differentiate among true and false facts exposes fake news as a threat to logical truth, democracy, journalism, and government credibility. Using combination of advanced methodologies, Deep learning (DL) methods, and Natural Language Processing (NLP) approaches, researchers and technology developers attempt to make robust systems proficient in discerning the subtle nuances that betray deceptive intent. Analysing conversational linguistic patterns of misleading data, these techniques’ purpose to progress the resilience of social platforms against the spread of deceptive content, eventually contributing to an additional informed and trustworthy online platform. This paper proposed a Knowledge-Aware NLP-Driven AlBiruni Earth Radius Optimization Algorithm with Deep Learning Tool for Enhanced Deceptive Content Detection (BER-DLEDCD) algorithm on Social Media. The purpose of the BER-DLEDCD system is to identify and classify the existence of deceptive content utilizing NLP with optimal DL model. In the BER-DLEDCD technique, data pre-processing takes place to change the input data into compatible format. Furthermore, the BER-DLEDCD approach applies hybrid DL technique encompassing Convolutional Neural Network with Long Short-Term Memory (CNN-LSTM) methodology for deceptive content detection. Moreover, the BER approach has been deployed to boost hyperparameter choice of the CNN-LSTM technique which leads to enhanced detection performance. The simulation outcome of the BER-DLEDCD system has been examined employing benchmark database. The extensive outcomes stated the BER-DLEDCD system achieved excellent performance with the accuracy of 94 %, 94.83 % precision, 94.30 % F-score with other recent approaches.

Public Communication Strategy in the Protest of Garbage Collector Workers

Background: Public perception is vital for government trust and communication. Specific Background: Protests by waste collectors in Sidoarjo impacted the government's image due to controversial waste management fees. Knowledge Gap: Few studies explore the role of government communication in shaping public perception during local policy protests. Aims: This study analyzes the Sidoarjo Communication Office's efforts to maintain a positive image post-protests. Results: The office's inadequate response, especially its failure to engage protestors, worsened negative media coverage. Novelty: The study underscores the importance of transparent crisis communication. Implications: Local governments must strengthen communication strategies to manage public sentiment and maintain credibility during crises. Highlights : Transparent communication prevents negative public sentiment. Lack of engagement worsens media narratives. Robust strategies are needed to maintain government credibility. Keywords: public perception, crisis communication, waste management, local government, Sidoarjo protests

The political logic of just transition policies

ABSTRACT A ‘just transition’ calls for compensations to fossil fuel workers whose jobs will be lost because of the clean energy transition. The ethical case for a just transition acknowledges the hardship of vulnerable workers. In contrast, I examine the political case for a just transition. The logic of such a case remains hazy and under-theorized. I draw on the insights of ultimatum games to understand the strategic dimension of the relation between governments and fossil fuel workers. In a successful just transition, the government compensates workers in exchange for their exit from the fossil fuel industry. This ensures a faster clean energy transition. Yet the prospects of such an agreement depend on several parameters: the quality of outside options available to workers, their cost of mobilization, and the climatic benefits that the government obtain from a fossil fuel phaseout. I show that a government's credibility is also critical. This theoretical exercise helps make sense of several otherwise puzzling patterns in just transition policies and offers guidance on critical policy issues. Key policy insights Just transition policies can break the carbon deadlock by incentivizing the exit of fossil fuel workers. The ability of the government to induce the exit of labour depends on climatic benefits, fossil fuel wages, outside option wages, and anti-government mobilization costs. Lack of government credibility, which can be caused by political risks, capacity constraints, or low trust, reduce the prospects of phaseouts and increase their cost. Unions play an ambiguous role: they increase wages and reduce mobilization costs, but can improve outside options, solve coordination failures, and reduce transaction costs. Fossil fuel firms can and do use financial and non-financial strategies to reduce the mobility of their workers.

Evolutionary game analysis of carbon emission reduction in transportation infrastructure construction under dual regulation

Under the dual regulation of government intervention and environmental constraints, user demand, low-carbon awareness, and the willingness of construction enterprise to reduce carbon emissions are crucial to the realization of low-carbon transportation infrastructure construction. Basing on prospect theory, this paper constructs an evolutionary game model for the government, construction enterprise, and user, explores the stabilization of the three-game players' strategy choices, and discusses the influence of key parameters on the behavior evolution of relevant players through simulation analysis. The results indicate that: the regulatory cost when the government adopts incentives or no incentives is an important factor affecting the strategy choice. The enhancement of incentives by the government can promote the construction of enterprise and the selection of low-carbon transportation infrastructure by user. However, when the benefit of government credibility outweighs the incremental cost of household subsidies, carbon subsidies, and regulation, the government changes its strategy and no longer adopts encouraging strategy. Improving benefits of build low-carbon transportation infrastructure reducing incremental costs, setting a ladder carbon tax rate, increasing carbon tax rate for traditional construction, and decreasing for low-carbon construction is an effective approach to stimulate enterprise to construct low-carbon transportation infrastructure. The user's choice of low-carbon transportation infrastructure strategy is positively correlated with the subsidy received and is less affected by environmental benefits. And the construction enterprise's strategy choice hasn’t been influenced by user, which is related to the public service characteristics of transportation infrastructure.

A study of collaborative governance of online users tourism information (Revision 2)

ABSTRACT With the rapid development of the Internet, the spread of tourism information is more rapid, and tourism information governance is increasingly important. This research adopts a system dynamics approach to construct a system dynamics model of collaborative tourism information governance from government, netizens, tourism enterprises, and the information itself, using the Huangshan information as a case study. The results show that the impact of ‘information popularity’ is the largest, ‘government credibility’ in the second place; ‘emergency management capability of tourism enterprises’, ‘the intensity of information disposal efforts’ and ‘role of opinion leaders’ have the weak influence to the tourism information governance. It is proposed to improve the public’s judgment, strengthen its judgment, improve the efficiency of the use of official media, promote the openness of information, and encourage the government to take the initiative and increase the level of interaction, strengthen the emergency management training of tourism enterprises, improve the ability to respond to the leading role of opinion leaders, correct guidance and other strategies.

Exploring consumer responses to official endorsement: roles of credibility and attractiveness attributes in live streaming.

Official endorsement, distinct from celebrity, expertise, and peer endorsement, introduces a new paradigm where local government officials use online platforms, particularly live streaming, to promote local products and brands. This study examines the influence of official endorsement on consumer responses using the source credibility and source attractiveness models. We developed a framework that considers official credibility and attractiveness attributes as antecedents, and consumer perceived security and enjoyment as mediators, affecting purchase intention and local brand awareness. The study also incorporates variables such as consumer region and power distance belief. Data from 594 responses obtained through an online survey were analyzed using structural equation modeling. The results indicate that official credibility attributes (expertise, trustworthiness, government credibility) enhances consumer perceived security, while official attractiveness attributes (physical attractiveness, interaction friendliness, and similarity with consumers) increases consumer enjoyment. Both perceived security and enjoyment positively influence purchase intention and local brand awareness. These relationships are partially moderated by consumer region and power distance belief. This research pioneers the study of official endorsements, expanding the endorsement literature. It also provides practical insights for marketing professionals and government officials on leveraging official endorsements to enhance the value of local products and brands..

Information dissemination behavior of self-media in emergency: Considering the impact of information synergistic-hedging effect on public utility

In the context of emergency, besides handling the incident itself, controlling public opinion is also crucial. Self-media, as a crucial channel for the public to access information, controlling its dissemination behavior is key to public opinion management. Given the complexity of self-media information dissemination, we propose an evolutionary model for social media information dissemination behavior based on complex network theory and evolutionary game theory. Firstly, aiming at the synergistic and hedging effects of information dissemination, we use the utility function to depict the public's information demand. Next, based on the public's information needs, evolutionary game theory is introduced to analyze the information dissemination behavior between two self-media entities. Lastly, we map the dissemination behavior of self-media onto network space, analyzing the information propagation behavior of self-media within a complex network. The study shows that the probability of self-media disseminating positive information increases with the rise of the positive information synergistic effect and decreases with the increase of the negative information synergistic effect. When positive and negative information coexists, the dissemination behavior of self-media depends on the influence size of positive and negative information. With the improvement of government credibility, the probability of self-media disseminating positive information decreases slightly at first, and then increases rapidly. When the government's penalties increase, the probability of self-media disseminating positive information quickly rises. The changes in noise intensity have an uncertain impact on the positive information dissemination behavior of self-media. Compared with other factors, self-media is more sensitive to government credibility and punishment.

The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Interactions of the Economic and Political Cycle in the Czech and Slovak Republics

The global SARS-CoV-2 pandemic was unprecedented for human society. On the one hand, it brought an authentic experience of the sudden collapse of the economic cycle, on the other hand, it tested the strength, credibility and management skills of governments. The slowdown in economic activity as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, forced quarantines and emergencies showed a number of differences and specifics between countries. These are, among other things, the result of different approaches of individual governments and their ability to solve the crisis. The primary goal of this article is to analyze the political dimension of the pandemic crisis. In connection with the hypothesis of the political economic cycle, we ask the question to what extent the pandemic crisis affected its mechanism. Has the pandemic crisis become a limiting factor in the concept of the political-economic cycle? In the context of the relevant phases of the political cycle of two institutionally close countries, we analyze and compare the approach of their governments (the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic) to solving the coronavirus crisis and examine whether governments can influence the performance of the economy in this extraordinary situation in accordance with the theoretical assumptions of the political economic cycle.

Government reporting credibility as immunity: Evidence from a public health event

We investigate the relationship between the credibility of officially reported COVID-19 infection cases and the direct effects of the public health crisis on stock market performance. Employing the law of left digits, we estimate the likelihood of misreporting in official data to evaluate government reporting credibility (RC). A higher deviation from expected Benford’s distributions implies a greater likelihood of misreporting and lower RC. Our premise is that high credibility of government reporting during crisis mitigates the negative consequences of disasters through lowering investors’ risk aversion and bolstering their confidence. Our main results are highly consistent with this hypothesis. The positive influence of RC is particularly pronounced for companies situated in economies characterized by higher uncertainty and weaker governance before the crisis, and during periods of heightened market panic. Our findings suggest that the credibility of government reporting can act as immunity-like protection for stock markets in times of crisis.

Exploration of the Impact Mechanism of Government Credibility Based on Variable Screening Method

Exploration of the Impact Mechanism of Government Credibility Based on Variable Screening Method

Analysis of the effect of content innovation and public interaction in new governmental media

Abstract With the arrival of the Internet era, the construction of digital government has been deepening, which promotes the continuous updating and development of governmental new media. This study explores the support role of government new media, explores the trust mechanism of government new media from the perspective of its credibility, and proposes a creation strategy based on the trust generation model. Considering the diverse needs of users, a governmental new media matrix platform has been established to increase the interactive effect with the public and to explore the communication innovation path of government new media. One of the manifestations of political new media content. The material splicing video and real clip are higher, the number of comments on the works is more than 2 million, and the traffic peak of public interaction is concentrated in the two stages of 12:00~18:00 and 18:00~24:00. The increase of 440,000 visitors and 3,260,000 fans under the new communication model shows that the actual operation of the government new media model in this paper has excellent performance and can effectively improve the operation of government new media. This study provides a feasible path to improve government credibility and the development of new media for government.

Public Sector Corruption in Nepal: Causes and Consequences

The research paper discusses corruption in Nepal's public sector, a significant challenge in the development agenda. The main objective of this study is to find the causes and consequences of corruption in the public sector. This study used primary and secondary data to determine the causes and consequences of corruption in Nepal. The results found that the political, court, and administration sectors are the most corruption-prone zones, losing the government's credibility. The leading causes of corruption are non-compliance with existing rules and regulations, lack of political commitment, transparency, accountability, consistency, and institutional weaknesses. Corruption reduces competitiveness and increases the cost of living, becoming a significant obstacle to economic growth, social development, and political stability. The government has taken various measures to combat corruption, including establishing anti-corruption bodies and laws. However, these measures have yet to be effective in curbing corruption, and there is a need for more significant reforms. The political leader, bureaucrats, civil society, and media should take responsibility for controlling corruption in the public sector of Nepal.

The COVID-19 Vaccination Problem and Its Solutions in the United States

With COVID-19 coming to an end, the challenges faced in its epidemic prevention process will undoubtedly play an exemplary role in the large-scale public health crisis that may be faced in the future. Among them, the promotion of vaccination is the first to bear the brunt. As one of the most effective means to curb the spread of the COVID-19 epidemic, the complete vaccination rate is not satisfactory in some countries, such as the United States. This is because, as a complex issue, the reasons for its emergence involve conflicts and trust between government credibility, race, culture, and religion. This article provides a detailed analysis of the reasons for the low complete vaccination rate in the United States and corresponding solutions. At the same time, it is expected that when other countries encounter similar government credibility crises or large-scale public health crises in the future, the example of the United States can be used as an effective reference.

DEVELOPING CREDIBLE GOVERNMENT LEADERSHIP: INDONESIAN PUBLIC POLICY VIEWS

The Trusted Government Leadership Model: Public Policy Perspectives in Indonesia is the subject of this study's description and analysis. This paper is based on several ideas and earlier research findings that illustrate the dynamics and issues with government leadership specific to regional heads of state. A literature review, including a conceptual analysis of textbooks and earlier research findings pertinent to this study, is the methodology employed. The results demonstrated that competence, goodness, integrity, and policy are the four (four) factors that impact a trustworthy government leadership model. Government leaders must possess the following qualities: (1) competence, which includes knowledge, skills, personality, and managerial abilities; (2) kindness and compassion; (3) integrity, which includes ethics and adherence to the law; and (4) policy, which consists of ten main principles, including the following: (a) public interest; (b) planning; (c) qualified; (d) management; (e) morality; (f) integrated; (g) impact; (h) honour; (i) glorify; and (j) learning.

Exploring mechanisms affecting environmental risk coping behaviors: evidence from China.

Environmental risk issues pose athreat to human life and well-being. In order to reduce environmental risks, environmental risk response strategies have become increasingly vital. As the group most affected by environmental risks, the public environmental risk coping behaviors affect the effectiveness of environmental risk management. However, the public adoption of such behaviors mainly depends on their willingness. Therefore, the key to effective governance lies in guiding the public to voluntarily adopt appropriate environmental risk coping behaviors. The theory of environmental psychology provides relevant references for this. The internal psychological motivations of the public (including attitudes and subjective normsetc.) affect their choices of environmental risk behavior. The main purpose of this research is to explore the determinants underlying environmental risk coping behaviors using extending the theory of planned behavior by additional constructs (trust, risk perception, interaction satisfaction). The research applies aquestionnaire survey method to collect data from the public living in the vicinity of two locations in China-an industrial area and a waste incineration plant in a Chinese city. The result of SEM shows that the public's trust in governments has a positive influence on the intention to collaborate, while the public's trust in the government and enterprises is negatively correlated with their intention to engage in confrontational behavior. Also, there is a positive correlation between confrontational intention and confrontational behavior, while theintention to cooperate may not necessarily result in collaborative behavior. Risk perception is not related to trust and theintention to collaborate, but it positively affects theintention to confront. The reason for the public to willingly take collaborative actions is not because they have perceived ahigh level of risk, and the public's high trust in the government can enhance their intention to take collaborative actions. It is thus clear that government credibility plays an important guiding role in public risk responsive behavior. The research findings provide policy recommendations for guiding public environmental risk coping behavior.

Publicity governance in contingency management during the COVID-19 pandemic in China: A “Government-Society” perspective

Background Publicity is a common form of governance in government and is even more important in contingency management, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Publicity has two sides, the main body of publicity is led by the government, the object of publicity is the response to the public. So, publicity exists in the "government-society" field. Our aim was to find out how governments have been able to achieve effective publicity in the COVID-19 and to promote the active participation of society in governance. Materials and methods We adopted a case study approach. Taking Chongqing Municipality as an example, we collected 201 messages from five forms of publicity, including cell phone SMS, village (community) broadcast, publicity placards or banners, official websites, and government media platforms during the period of 2020–2021, and described and analyzed the publicity content of different forms of publicity. Results During the whole period of the COVID-19, the publicity governance under contingency management showed the characteristics of focusing on administrative efficiency, social efficiency and post-social efficiency, and showed specific publicity governance functions such as mobilization and control, education and clarification, cultivation of public consciousness and shaping government credibility. Conclusions Publicity governance in contingency management during the COVID-19 pandemic emphasizes three effective approaches: time synchronization, organizational scale, and interaction among multiple advocacy agents. This can extend the existing government-centered research to the level of interaction between the government and society, and help the government to better use effective publicity to achieve the governance task under contingency management.

Can the deposit-return scheme promote recycling of waste PV modules in China? Analysis of an evolutionary game

China's PV module scrapping tide will arrive in 2025, but the recycling market has not been regulated, and the recycling rate and reuse rate of waste PV modules are low. From the perspective of self-interest, photovoltaic power stations tend to abandon and illegally dump waste PV modules in informal channels that do not meet environmental protection standards. This seriously hinders the recycling of scrapped photovoltaic modules. In order to restrict the photovoltaic power plant recycling behavior and improve the recovery rate, this paper explores the application of recovery deposit-return system(DRS) in the recovery of s waste PV modules, constructs an evolutionary game model between PV power stations and government, and simulates it with actual data. The results are as follows: (1) DRS is effective when the deposit amount is higher than a certain condition. It can not only restrict the behavior of PV power plant from the angle of interests, but also enhance the government's credibility and bring economic benefits. (2) The present value of the deposit amount returned shall not be higher than the present value of the deposit amount originally collected, otherwise it shall become invalid. In addition, this paper calculates the minimum value of the recycling deposit, analyzes the factors affecting the recycling choice of power stations, and puts forward policy suggestions.

Fighting against COVID-19: With or without politics?

To respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, governments frequently resorted to declaring the state of emergency, fuelling contestations over the abuse of public powers and effectiveness of the measures to induce compliance. This article examines how the denial of the political nature of emergency governance known as depoliticisation undermines government credibility and may suit anti-democratic actors. We contribute to understanding the relationship between depoliticisation and democracy by showing how Slovak coalition parties during key parliamentary debates on the state of emergency during the COVID-19 pandemic insisted on depoliticising the pandemic while parliamentary opposition parties with anti-democratic leanings successfully opted for its repoliticisation. Repoliticising a key decision on managing the public health emergency granted credibility to illiberal political actors at the expense of the government, cautioning against depoliticisation strategies to be invoked by democrats in fragile democracies. Instead, accepting that such decisions are political may prevent the loss of credibility due to unsuccessful rhetorical practices of depoliticisation.