(In)equality Through Unrestricted Grantmaking: Examining Trust and Power in the Collaboration Between the Dutch Charity Lotteries and Their Grantees

Abstract Trust between actors is vital to delivering positive health outcomes, while relationships of power determine health agendas, whose voices are heard and who benefits from global health initiatives. However, the relationship between trust and power has been neglected in the literatures on both international politics and global health. We examine this relationship through a study of relations between faith based organisations (FBO) and donors in Malawi and Zambia, drawing on 66 key informant interviews with actors central to delivering health care. From these two cases we develop an understanding of ‘trust as belonging’, which we define as the exercise of discretion accompanied by the expression of shared identities. Trust as belonging interacts with power in what we term the ‘power-trust cycle’, in which various forms of power undergird trust, and trust augments these forms of power. The power-trust cycle has a critical bearing on global health outcomes, affecting the space within which both local and international actors jockey to influence the ideologies that underpin global health, and the distribution of crucial resources. We illustrate how the power-trust cycle can work in both positive and negative ways to affect possible cooperation, with significant implications for collective responses to global health challenges.

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Fuzzy Decision Making in Politics: A Linguistic Fuzzy-Set Approach (LFSA)

Political Analysis ◽

10.1093/pan/mpi002 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 23-56 ◽

Cited By ~ 46

Author(s):

Badredine Arfi

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Set Theory ◽

Fuzzy Set ◽

Fuzzy Set Theory ◽

Multiple Criteria ◽

Decision Makers ◽

Fuzzy Decision Making ◽

Fuzzy Decision ◽

Trust And Power

In this article I use linguistic fuzzy-set theory to analyze the process of decision making in politics. I first introduce a number of relevant elements of (numerical and linguistic) fuzzy-set theory that are needed to understand the terminology as well as to grasp the scope and depth of the approach. I then explicate a linguistic fuzzy-set approach (LFSA) to the process of decision making under conditions in which the decision makers are required to simultaneously satisfy multiple criteria. The LFSA approach is illustrated through a running (hypothetical) example of a situation in which state leaders need to decide how to combine trust and power to make a choice on security alignment.

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A INFLUÊNCIA DA FÉ NO TRATAMENTO DE PACIENTES ONCOLÓGICOS

Psicologia e Saúde em Debate ◽

10.22289/2446-922x.v7n2a14 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 214-235

Author(s):

Catia Almeida Alves da Silva ◽

Karina Aparecida Ferreira da Rocha ◽

Luiz Roberto Marquezi Ferro ◽

Aislan José de Oliveira ◽

Márcia Guimarães Rivas

Keyword(s):

Treatment Process ◽

Life Quality ◽

Public Health Problem ◽

Technical Knowledge ◽

Hospital Unit ◽

The People ◽

Oncological Patients ◽

Long Time ◽

Trust And Power ◽

Negative Feelings

The cancer has been studied for a long time and some conclusions of these illness should be associate of many reasons. According some researches, this illness has been considered one of the biggest public health problem around the world and with many cases registered. Everybody who is in front of possibility to positive diagnostic of cancer can be negative feelings or thoughts about the future and their uncertainties. The psychologist should contribute with the mental process by using technical knowledge to help people and mental impacts caused because the illness and contribute with a complete care identifying potentials psychical disorders. In this process the faith becomes a significant alternative to the treatment, could result in trust and power of balance. The faith should be represented part of a process to understand and take on lidding with the cancer, improving the life quality and intensifying the struggle of illness. The focus on this studying was identifying the influence of faith on oncological patients’ treatment on hospital unit in São Paulo from capital. It was about a qualitative research and were considered seven people with the same repetitive talks after had been interviewed. The people selection was random, inside the hospital and all of participants was interviewed following a guide prepared before of the researches. The analyses results were produced about the “Talk Analyses or Speech Analyses” making the categories. In terms of expected results, the faith was considered a positive alternative and source to face or to feel of cancer. The faith phenomenon can contribute significantly to the cancer treatment process.

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The Future of Tax Audits? The Acceptance of Online-Based, Automated Tax Audits and their Effects on Trust and Power

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.3769337 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Paul Brezina ◽

Eva Eberhartinger ◽

Maximilian Zieser

Keyword(s):

The Future ◽

Trust And Power

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Power and Trust in the Virtual Workplace

Advances in Human Resources Management and Organizational Development - Communication, Relationships and Practices in Virtual Work ◽

10.4018/978-1-61520-979-8.ch014 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 239-263 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ardis Hanson ◽

Eric Paul Engel ◽

Sheila Gobes-Ryan

Keyword(s):

Communities Of Practice ◽

Focal Point ◽

Work Environments ◽

Practice Model ◽

Research Perspective ◽

Virtual Workplace ◽

Emergent Technologies ◽

Computer Mediated ◽

Alternative Research ◽

Trust And Power

How we work in an increasingly computer-mediated world requires new ways of understanding the construction of teams, their co-construction of tacit knowledge to make sense of the organization, and their use of emergent technologies. We posit an alternative research perspective –that of the communities of practice construct – allows a fuller understanding of the relationships of power and trust in team behaviors and processes. The communities-of-practice model provides an avenue to examine the intricate dance that trust and power perform in virtual environments, with people as the focal point. It is how people interact with each other, with in technology, to be or become successful virtually that is the focus of this chapter. We explore trust and power in virtual or blended work environments using a reflexive autoethnographic narrative, comprised of three case studies, grounded in the larger context of the organizational communication literature.

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Tax Compliance Behavior

Handbook of Research on Public Finance in Europe and the MENA Region - Advances in Public Policy and Administration ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-0053-7.ch012 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 248-267 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Larissa Batrancea ◽

Anca Nichita ◽

Ioan Batrancea ◽

Erich Kirchler

Keyword(s):

Cluster Analysis ◽

High Power ◽

Tax Compliance ◽

Economic Market ◽

International Assistance ◽

Mena Countries ◽

Compliance Behavior ◽

Trust And Power ◽

Fierce Competition ◽

Gallup World Poll

The volatility of the global economic market and the fierce competition in attracting foreign investments have determined European and MENA authorities to reconsider interactions with taxpayers. Thus, benefitting from international assistance, authorities have started implementing tax strategies and models like co-operative compliance, horizontal monitoring, whistleblowing. This empirical investigation is grounded on the “slippery slope” framework that attempts to solve the “riddle of tax compliance” via trust in and power of authorities. The former is proxied by “Trust in national government” (Gallup World Poll), the latter by “Rule of law” (World Bank). The two-step cluster analysis run on 215 countries worldwide, including 35 from Europe, 12 from MENA, yielded four tax climates: trust and power high (T+P+), trust and power low (T-P-), trust high-power low (T+P-), trust low-power high (T-P+). While the majority of European countries are spread between T+P+ and T-P+, MENA countries generally belong to T-P-, demanding stability and efficiency in all major areas of the societies.

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