Trust in government and system of governance is one of the major concerns in modern research in social sciences. Trust is defined from different angles in different times. Context is one of the important variable which shapes the conceptualization of trust. A politico-administrative perspective is crucial to see how the interaction occurs between citizens’ trust and structural-functional aspect of the government and system of governance evolved over time. Regarding the correlation between citizens’ trust in government and the system of governance it naturally portrays that citizens would trust more in their government and system of governance if they deem the responsible institutions are not deviating in delivering required services and fulfilling
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There is a lot of factors and actors interplay with each other to pose such a challenging and complex puzzle to a researcher. The study of generalized trust and its effect in the state of citizens’ trust in government and governance has made the foundation as it has challenged every understanding of trust as an outcome of government’s efficiency. It typically forces to think about trust as cause behind government’s performance and success of governance system. Interestingly, as often considered democracy, rule of law and education can create generalized trust find no support in different surveys like World Values Survey and USA’s General Social Survey. If at all associated with trust, these variables are more likely the outcomes of high-trust nations being better at creating strong institutions (Uslaner, 2002; Bjørnskov, 2007). Apart from this basic question it is also important to understand that people often trust in people and institutions merely on some strategic standpoints. It means there are some important factors that actually lead them to make such strategic decision. Specifically looking at the contextual difference between local and national governance system each and every country in the world presents some interesting and differing backgrounds to enhance the understanding of trust. Regardless of contextual difference it is necessary to measure citizens’ trust in government and governance system based on some universal variables. Those variables that can actually provide the answer to basic questions as to whether trust is consequence or cause. Thus, it would be important to look at the formation of trust based on the variables like knowledge, values, norms, culture, social networks, legitimacy, credibility and reliability of the government and governance system. It would be useful to understand citizens’ trust separately in local and
There is a lot of factors and actors interplay with each other to pose such a challenging and complex puzzle to a researcher. The study of generalized trust and its effect in the state of citizens’ trust in government and governance has made the foundation as it has challenged every understanding of trust as an outcome of government’s efficiency. It typically forces to think about trust as cause behind government’s performance and success of governance system. Interestingly, as often considered democracy, rule of law and education can create generalized trust find no support in different surveys like World Values Survey and USA’s General Social Survey. If at all associated with trust, these variables are more likely the outcomes of high-trust nations being better at creating strong institutions (Uslaner, 2002; Bjørnskov, 2007). Apart from this basic question it is also important to understand that people often trust in people and institutions merely on some strategic standpoints. It means there are some important factors that actually lead them to make such strategic decision. Specifically looking at the contextual difference between local and national governance system each and every country in the world presents some interesting and differing backgrounds to enhance the understanding of trust. Regardless of contextual difference it is necessary to measure citizens’ trust in government and governance system based on some universal variables. Those variables that can actually provide the answer to basic questions as to whether trust is consequence or cause. Thus, it would be important to look at the formation of trust based on the variables like knowledge, values, norms, culture, social networks, legitimacy, credibility and reliability of the government and governance system. It would be useful to understand citizens’ trust separately in local and