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Explaining trust for the EU

Falini, Victor LU (2019) STVK02 20182
Department of Political Science
Abstract
Trust is considered one of the main preconditions for good democratic governance. Trust in political systems facilitates effective policy implementation and rule due to increased government compliance. Due to the importance of trust for democratic political systems, in this paper I study the factors that cause trust for the EU, focusing on the relationship between citizens trust for national institutions and trust for the EU. Previous research has given conflicting results, with some showing that there is a positive relationship and others a negative one. I use survey data from the Eurobarometer 2018 and use logistic regression to see if there are differences in the domestic-EU trust relationship between the first EU15 states and the EU13... (More)
Trust is considered one of the main preconditions for good democratic governance. Trust in political systems facilitates effective policy implementation and rule due to increased government compliance. Due to the importance of trust for democratic political systems, in this paper I study the factors that cause trust for the EU, focusing on the relationship between citizens trust for national institutions and trust for the EU. Previous research has given conflicting results, with some showing that there is a positive relationship and others a negative one. I use survey data from the Eurobarometer 2018 and use logistic regression to see if there are differences in the domestic-EU trust relationship between the first EU15 states and the EU13 new member states. I demonstrate that there are differences, in what factors cause trust and the strength of their effect, between these groups of countries. I then run a multi-level logistic regression accounting for country-level factors such as corruption and whether the country has a net profit from EU membership. My results differ from previous ones and may indicate that corruption does not affect the domestic-EU trust relationship as previously shown. (Less)
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author
Falini, Victor LU
supervisor
organization
alternative title
The political factors that influence European Citizens trust for the EU
course
STVK02 20182
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Institutional Trust, European Union, Congruence Model, Contestation Model, Corruption
language
English
id
8965258
date added to LUP
2019-03-21 09:59:18
date last changed
2019-03-21 09:59:18
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  abstract     = {{Trust is considered one of the main preconditions for good democratic governance. Trust in political systems facilitates effective policy implementation and rule due to increased government compliance. Due to the importance of trust for democratic political systems, in this paper I study the factors that cause trust for the EU, focusing on the relationship between citizens trust for national institutions and trust for the EU. Previous research has given conflicting results, with some showing that there is a positive relationship and others a negative one. I use survey data from the Eurobarometer 2018 and use logistic regression to see if there are differences in the domestic-EU trust relationship between the first EU15 states and the EU13 new member states. I demonstrate that there are differences, in what factors cause trust and the strength of their effect, between these groups of countries. I then run a multi-level logistic regression accounting for country-level factors such as corruption and whether the country has a net profit from EU membership. My results differ from previous ones and may indicate that corruption does not affect the domestic-EU trust relationship as previously shown.}},
  author       = {{Falini, Victor}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Explaining trust for the EU}},
  year         = {{2019}},
}