Keynote presentation and panel debate on: “Trust in Governance and Regulation in Europe”

Abstract

Keynote presentation by Martino Maggetti, University of Lausanne, panel debate with: • David Levi-Faur, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (ERC grantee on trust and regulatory intermediaries) • Juan A. Mayoral, Carlos III University of Madrid (ERC grantee on trust in courts) • Martha Baxter, OECD Public Governance Directorate (senior policy analyst and coordinator of the OECD Network of Economic Regulators) As the EU-funded Horizon 2020 TiGRE project “Trust in Governance and Regulation in Europe” comes to an end, its main findings will be presented and discussed in the course of this opening keynote. In TiGRE, a multidisciplinary research project, the goal was to investigate under which conditions regulatory regimes are trusted and provide a comprehensive view of trust dynamics, their drivers and their political and socio-economic effects. Martino Maggetti, coordinator of the TiGRE project, will present the key research findings from the TiGRE consortium’s studies of trust relationships in governance. This includes findings on if, and how, trust and distrust can coexist, how (dis)trust and cooperation link with the functioning of the regulatory regime, how accountability, transparency, and participation affect regulatory trust dynamics, how to explain citizens’ trust dynamics, etc. After that, there is a panel debate on the relevance of TiGRE findings for science and policy. The panellists get the opportunity to discuss and reflect, considering how the TiGRE findings resonate with their own work and how they would build on those findings in their future work.