What drives trust in regulatory agencies? Probing the relevance of governmental level and performance through a cross-national elite experiment on EU regulation

M Kappler, K Verhoest, T Bach, L Maman… - European Political …, 2024 - cambridge.org
Trust between constituent actors within the European Union (EU)'s multilevel regulatory
regimes is decisive for regulatory success. Trust drives information flows, increases …

How do elite core actors assess trust in national and EU authorities? The varying role of generalised trust at different governmental levels

M Kappler, R Schomaker, E Guaschino… - Comparative European …, 2024 - Springer
In this paper, we position generalised trust as central to the debate on elites' assessments of
trust in EU multi-level governance. We leverage one of the most influential factors in …

Public-private partnerships caught in a trust-trap and the potential role of information: the burden of divergent rationales

M Kappler, RM SCHOMAKER… - European journal of …, 2024 - cadmus.eui.eu
Trust is known to be beneficial for cooperation, though remains underdeveloped in public-
private partnerships (PPPs), which are caught in a trust trap due to the cooperative regime's …