Institutional Trust in Contemporary Sweden - A Quantitative Study of Institutional Trust in Sweden over time.
(2024) SOCK10 20241Sociology
- Abstract
- The Swedish social-democratic state has long been synonymous with a strong welfare system accompanied by high levels of trust. Lately, the Swedish population have demonstrated unease and dissatisfaction towards the Swedish state, and this trend seems to be more apparent amongst some specific socioeconomic and demographic groups. Previous research and theories have used trust as a measurement of the quality of democratic institutions. However, the relationship between institutions and trust has been mainly measured by generalised, interpersonal trust. In this thesis, we aim to study trust in institutions over time by conducting a timeline analysis, a cross-tabulation analysis, and a multivariate regression divided by the years 2010, 2015,... (More)
- The Swedish social-democratic state has long been synonymous with a strong welfare system accompanied by high levels of trust. Lately, the Swedish population have demonstrated unease and dissatisfaction towards the Swedish state, and this trend seems to be more apparent amongst some specific socioeconomic and demographic groups. Previous research and theories have used trust as a measurement of the quality of democratic institutions. However, the relationship between institutions and trust has been mainly measured by generalised, interpersonal trust. In this thesis, we aim to study trust in institutions over time by conducting a timeline analysis, a cross-tabulation analysis, and a multivariate regression divided by the years 2010, 2015, and 2020. We use data from the SOM Institute cumulative national dataset to examine a potential correlation between institutional trust and the background variables consisting of age, gender, income, education, labour market situation, and country of origin. The background variables are based on Southwood and Standing’s precarity theories and Putnam and Rothstein & Stolle’s theories on trust. In line with previous research, we found that levels of institutional trust are lower amongst men about women, and those with lower education which persists with a decrease in trust over 2010, 2015, and 2020. The other variables showed non-significant results in the multivariate regression analysis. As the variables were chosen based on theory and previous research the relationship of institutional trust and the non-significant variables should be further researched. A mixed method of quantitative and qualitative methods and interaction terms of the background variables would be in place to fully grasp the structural dimension of trust. (Less)
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- author
- Bäckius, Linnéa LU and Svanström, Klara LU
- supervisor
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- Axel Fredholm LU
- Daniel Görtz LU
- organization
- course
- SOCK10 20241
- year
- 2024
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Institutional trust, social capital, precarity, segregation, diversity, The Precariat, postmodernity, New Public Management, income, education, gender, country of origin, labour market situation, age, multivariate regression analysis, cross-tabulation analysis, timeline
- language
- English
- id
- 9164238
- date added to LUP
- 2024-06-20 07:37:59
- date last changed
- 2024-06-20 07:40:54
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abstract = {{The Swedish social-democratic state has long been synonymous with a strong welfare system accompanied by high levels of trust. Lately, the Swedish population have demonstrated unease and dissatisfaction towards the Swedish state, and this trend seems to be more apparent amongst some specific socioeconomic and demographic groups. Previous research and theories have used trust as a measurement of the quality of democratic institutions. However, the relationship between institutions and trust has been mainly measured by generalised, interpersonal trust. In this thesis, we aim to study trust in institutions over time by conducting a timeline analysis, a cross-tabulation analysis, and a multivariate regression divided by the years 2010, 2015, and 2020. We use data from the SOM Institute cumulative national dataset to examine a potential correlation between institutional trust and the background variables consisting of age, gender, income, education, labour market situation, and country of origin. The background variables are based on Southwood and Standing’s precarity theories and Putnam and Rothstein & Stolle’s theories on trust. In line with previous research, we found that levels of institutional trust are lower amongst men about women, and those with lower education which persists with a decrease in trust over 2010, 2015, and 2020. The other variables showed non-significant results in the multivariate regression analysis. As the variables were chosen based on theory and previous research the relationship of institutional trust and the non-significant variables should be further researched. A mixed method of quantitative and qualitative methods and interaction terms of the background variables would be in place to fully grasp the structural dimension of trust.}},
author = {{Bäckius, Linnéa and Svanström, Klara}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Institutional Trust in Contemporary Sweden - A Quantitative Study of Institutional Trust in Sweden over time.}},
year = {{2024}},
}