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L'intégrité des fonctionnaires est considérée comme un déterminant essentiel de la confiance du public dans le gouvernement et comme un concept capital dans le domaine de la bonne gouvernance. Le système d'intégrité se compose de différents éléments, comme les politiques, les pratiques, les institutions et les gardiens de l'intégrité, visant à contribuer à l'intégrité de l'organisation au cœur du système d'intégrité. Dans le présent article, nous proposons un modèle théorique en matière d'efficacité des systèmes d'intégrité pouvant être vérifié de manière empirique. Six conditions sont considérées comme importantes pour assurer une intégrité élevée. Des configurations différentes sont censées produire les mêmes résultats, en raison de trajectoires développementales variables. Nous examinerons les implications pour les recherches futures. Remarques à l'intention des praticiens Beaucoup de pays ont mis en place des mesures afin de faire face à la corruption et aux comportements contraires à l'éthique des agents de l'État. Ces mesures sont rarement considérées dans le cadre d'un système global. Parallèlement à cela, rares sont les recherches qui s'intéressent à l'efficacité des différentes mesures ou du système dans son ensemble. Le présent article aborde ces questions et est dès lors important pour les décideurs qui mettent au point des mesures anticorruption.

The integrity of public officials is considered a key determinant of public trust in government and a central concept in good governance. An integrity system consists of all components, such as policies, practices, institutions and integrity guardians meant to contribute to the integrity of the organization at the heart of the integrity system. In this article we propose a theoretical model for the effectiveness of integrity systems that can be tested empirically. Six conditions are proposed as important for delivering the outcome of high integrity performance. Different configurations are expected to deliver the same outcome, because of varying developmental trajectories. Implications for further research are discussed. Points for practitioners Many countries have in place measures for dealing with corruption and unethical behaviour on the part of public officials. Rarely are these measures considered as part of a whole system. At the same time, there is little research evidence for the effectiveness of individual measures or the system as a whole. This article addresses these issues and is, therefore, important for policy makers who are developing anti-corruption measures.

Contents: 1. Trust in regulatory regimes: scoping the field / Frédérique Six and Koen Verhoest -- 2. The role of trust in the regulation of complex and high-risk industries: the case of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration's voluntary disclosure programs / Russell W. Mills and Dorit Reiss -- 3. When the going gets tough: exploring processes of trust building and repair in regulatory relations / Frédérique Six and Hans Van Ees -- 4. Interorganizational trust in Flemish public administration: comparing trusted and distrusted interactions between public regulatees and public regulators / Peter Oomsels and Geert Bouckaert -- 5. In vino veritas? the development of producer trust and its market effects in regulated French and Italian quality wine markets / Betsy Carter -- 6. Being everybody's accomplice: trust and control in eco-labelling / Lovisa Näslund and Kristina Tamm Hallström -- 7. Trust and cooperation over the public-private divide, an empirical study on trust evolving in co-regulation / Haiko Van der Voort -- 8. Deliberate trust-building by autonomous government agencies: evidence from responses to the 2009 H1N1 swine flu pandemic / Erik Baekkeskov -- 9. An agenda for further research into the role of trust in regulatory regimes / Frédérique Six and Koen Verhoest -- Index.

1. Introduction -- 2. The trust process -- 3. Governance seen from a framing point of view : the employment relationship and relational signalling -- 4. Trust and power as means of coordinating the internal relations of the organization : a conceptual framework -- 5. Calculativeness, trust and the reciprocity complex : is the market the domain of cynicism? -- 6. Understanding the nature and the antecedents of trust within work teams -- 7. Trusting others in organizations : leaders, management and co-workers -- 8. Trust building inside the "epistemic community" : an investigation with an empirical case study -- 9. Norm violations and informal control in organizations : a relational signalling perspective -- 10. The dynamics of trust and trouble -- 11. Conclusions.

AbstractThe COVID‐19 pandemic provides a unique opportunity to study which factors drive compliance and how the evolving context in society –virus fluctuations and changing government measures – changes the impact of these factors. Extant literature lists many factors that drive compliance – notably enforcement, trust, legitimacy. Most of these studies, however, do not look across time: whether a changing context for citizens changes the impact of factors driving compliance. In this study, we use Lindenberg's Goal Framing Theory to explain the dynamics of these drivers of compliance during the COVID‐19 pandemic. We formulate hypotheses for pro‐socialness, trust in government, observed respect for rules, rule effectiveness, rule appropriateness, fear of COVID‐19 (severity and proximity), opportunities for pleasure and happiness, as well as worsened income position. We test our hypotheses with data collected at three different moments during the beginning of the COVID‐19 crisis in Flanders, Belgium. Findings show that over time the constellations of factors that drive compliance change and, later in the pandemic, more distinct groups of citizens with different motivations to comply are identified. The overall conclusion is that the voluntary basis for compliance becomes more fragile over time, with a more differentiated pattern of drivers of compliance emerging. Public policy and communication need to adapt to these changes over time and address different groups of citizens.

Governments worldwide are relying on the COVID-19 vaccines as the solution for ending the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting crisis. Although scientific progress in the development of a vaccine has been astonishing, policymakers are facing an extra hurdle as increasingly more people appear to be hesitant in their intention to take such a vaccine. Based on a large Corona survey in Belgium, this study aims to explain the vaccination intention by linking it to trust in government and experts, while accounting for individuals' risk perceptions and prosocialness.