Fudan-LSE Lecture Series No.42

复旦-LSE讲座系列第42期

Title/题目: 

Taxes, information and trust: How citizens respond to the value of government

税收、信息和信任：公民如何回应政府的价值

Speaker/主讲人:

Professor Mark D. Robbins, University of Connecticut

马克·罗宾斯教授 康涅狄格大学

Host/主持人: 

Professor Yijia Jing, IGPP, Fudan University

敬乂嘉教授 复旦大学全球公共政策研究院

Discussant/评论人: 

Associate Professor Yu Shi, Department of Public Administration, University of North Texas

施雨副教授 北德克萨斯州大学公共管理学院

Time/时间: 

12:00-13:15 (Beijing Time), April 27th

北京时间4月27日12:00-13:15

Venue/地点: 

Room 805E, 8th Floor, West Sub-building of Guanghua Towers

光华楼西辅楼8楼805E会议室

Tencent Meeting ID: 969 139 012  Password: 111222

腾讯会议会议号：969 139 012  会议密码：111222

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主讲人介绍/ The Speaker：

Mark Robbins is Professor (Emeritus) at the University of Connecticut School of Public Policy, where he served as department head for many years. He is also Fudan Chair Professor (visiting) at the Institute for Global Public Policy (IGPP). He received his PhD in Public Administration from Syracuse University. He has published widely in the area of public budgeting and finance, particularly in debt and financial management. Much of his work seeks to understand citizen preferences for taxing and spending and how the information that citizens receive affects their support for the resources needed to provide public services.

讲座内容/ Abstract:

Subnational governments collect and spend revenues constantly in order to deliver services that residents require. Signals about how much service to require, how much tax revenue to collect,  and how much debt to incur, are not always clear. This lecture reviews a variety of approaches to revealing  citizen preferences on taxing and spending with a particular focus on the author’s decades long pursuit of these topics.  

Included in this talk are the recent results of an experiment that examines the effect of revealing school district performance on perceptions of efficiency and on trust in government. The study compares a control group to one that received information about their school’s performance compared to a state average and finds that providing information about good performance produces significant gains in efficiency perceptions and trust in government.