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Restoring Trust in Public Policy: What Role for the Public Service?
Author(s) -
Banks Gary
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
australian journal of public administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.524
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-8500
pISSN - 0313-6647
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8500.12053
Subject(s) - citation , government (linguistics) , public service , public policy , commission , public administration , sociology , library science , political science , public relations , media studies , law , philosophy , linguistics , computer science
In a recent Australia-wide poll of public trust in the professions, top places were dominated by those who work in the healthcare and emergency fields – paramedics and fire-fighters coming equal first. In second last spot (49 th ) were politicians, who were ranked just below real estate agents, talkback radio hosts and sex workers, and eclipsed for the wooden spoon only by door-to-door sales people.