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ejge-9773	Kappler, Moritz; Schomaker, Rahel; Bauer, Michael; Schomaker, Rahel	Public-private partnerships caught in a trust-trap and the potential role of information: the burden of divergent rationales	2024	24	.pdf	application/pdf	11290	623	45	In general, evidence was found supporting H1 and H2, since the median trust level score was statistically significantly lower (i.e. also different) for public sector respondents (3.5) than for private sector respondents (4.0), U=604, z=-2.032, p=.042.9 In addition, cautiously confirming sectoral belonging as partly explaining trust in PPPs, scrutinizing group difference of post-test trust levels based on sectoral belonging, excluding different interventions for now, confirms both trust differences within PPPs and relatively lower values for the public partner (with a median of 3.0 for public sector respondents and 3.5 for private ones, though becoming insignificant, U=609, z=-1.887, p=.059.10 Summarized in Figure 4, evidence found (stronger in the case of pre-test trust levels) supports the notion of PPP’s internal heterogeneity and the low(er) public trust levels. However, the effect of the information treatment on trust levels is limited.	cache/ejge-9773.pdf	txt/ejge-9773.txt