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- Title
Familiarity and Trust: Explaining Trust in Government through Ethno-racial Differences.
- Authors
Vaidelytė, Eglė; Butkevičienė, Eglė; Morkevičius, Vaidas; de Vries, Michiel S.
- Abstract
The paper investigates whether generalized trust in government varies among ethnic groups in a society. Theories on trust predominantly explain such institutional trust by the capabilities and intentions of the trusted actors, and research into trust is mainly done at the individual level measuring whether individual characteristics of the trustee and trusted one has explanatory power. Meanwhile, this paper analyzes the institutional trust at the macro (country) level. Based on a comparative study among 27 countries, this paper argues that there are significant differences between ethnic groups regarding their trust in the country‘s government and that significant effects are visible with the country‘s income inequality and one of Hofstede‘s dimensions of national culture, namely ‘power distance‘. This is an important finding as it calls for multi-level analyses when explaining institutional trust. Trust is not only dependent on the individual characteristics of the trusted one and the trustee but also on macro-level variables.
- Subjects
POWER (Social sciences); INCOME inequality; ETHNIC groups; ETHNIC differences; POLITICAL trust (in government)
- Publication
Public Policy & Administration / Viesoji Politika ir Administravimas, 2021, Vol 20, Issue 3, p397
- ISSN
1648-2603
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5755/j01.ppaa.20.3.28518