Rational Skepticism: The Pressure Mechanism to Improve Government Trust

The crisis of government trust has become an international phenomenon. Thus, how to improve government trust is a common problem that is focused on by the polit ical and academic circles of every country. Because of the restriction of the fi xed thinking pattern of host-guest duality, we tend to emphasize excessively th at we can improve the government trust through government itself, but the actual result has not been so satisfactory. We need to break through the traditional t hinking set and change our research approach. Government trust should be that th e government and the public are of equal status, resulting from the interaction of each other. Therefore, improving the government trust not only needs the gove rnment’s promising, but also the public’s self-awareness. In the background o f a lack of rational skepticism and critical spirit in China, the public’s self -awareness is to let the public hold a rational skepticism of the government, a nd make it become the pressure mechanism. So we should not only make an analysis in theory, but go in for exploration in practice.