id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt WOS-000295681700004 Alm, J Citizen "Trust" as an Explanation of State Education Funding to Local School Districts 2011 .txt text/plain 125 5 46 We measure trust directly via public opinion polls that capture citizen attitudes about the appropriate responsibilities of state versus local governments; we also measure trust indirectly, by the role of state government as revealed by its relative importance in overall service provision (net of K-12 spending). We find that the state share of K-12 education spending tends to be higher when there is greater citizen trust in state versus local governments. cache/WOS-000295681700004.txt txt/WOS-000295681700004.txt