Pursuing Trust in Environmental Regulatory Interactions: The Significance of Inspectors' Interactions With the Regulated Community

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In environmental policy, the interactions of frontline environmental regulators and their counterparts in the regulated community constitute environmental protection in the United States. The authors offer a framework of the different types of interactions these actors may have with one another based on trust. Kettl and Fiorino, among others, have indicated that trust is a fundamental problem in environmental regulation. Building on these assertions, the authors delve into the extant trust literature and offer a definition of trust and, argue that trust is positive and should be sought in these relationships. The authors develop a framework of relationships between inspectors and facility personnel based on varying degrees of trust and offer testable hypotheses. © 2012 SAGE Publications.

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Pautz, M. C., & Wamsley, C. S. (2012). Pursuing Trust in Environmental Regulatory Interactions: The Significance of Inspectors’ Interactions With the Regulated Community. Administration and Society, 44(7), 853–884. https://doi.org/10.1177/0095399711429108

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