Good governance and civil society in japan

The purposes of this article are to clarify which factor, citizens` or governmental, affects the trust in civil service in Japan and to verify the hypothesis that the trust in civil service is determined by the governmental performance / the citizens` expectation for governmental role. In order to achieve these purposes, we used the Japanese data of the World Values Survey 2005 and executed ordered probit regression analysis. As a result, the following facts are found. First, the governmental factor affects than the citizens` ones. Especially, the governmental performance such as the degree of respect for human rights and the degree of democratic government in Japan affects most of all factors. Second, the performance / expectation hypothesis could not be verified.