New public management och den mellanmänskliga tilliten : En kvantitativ analys

Sammanfattning: Sweden is a country with a relatively high level of trust, both between citizens and towards the public sector and its institutions. During the corona epidemic of 2020, a large amount of responsibility to avoid spreading the virus has been placed on the people. The last three decades there have been a number of reforms applied to the public sector in Sweden. These reforms, which fall under the blanket name of New Public Management, have the purpose of making the public sphere more like the private one. The purpose of this study is to, through a use of statistical method, examine how the level of trust between the residents of Sweden has changed since the implementation of NPM-policies began at the end of the 80’s. This is done by using a theoretical framework of the concept of social trust. The results show that although the trust between residents continue to be strong, it has gone down from 2006 to 2011, which may be a cause for concern.