Institutional Trust, Education, and Corruption: A Micro-Macro Interactive Approach

Institutional Trust, Education, and Corruption: A Micro-Macro Interactive Approach

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Institutional Trust, Education, and Corruption: A Micro-Macro Interactive Approach

dc.contributor.author	Hakhverdian, Armen
dc.contributor.author	Mayne, Quinton
dc.date.accessioned	2012-09-25T19:27:13Z
dc.date.issued	2012
dc.identifier.citation	Hakhverdian, Armen, and Quinton Mayne. 2012. Institutional Trust, Education, and Corruption: A Micro-Macro Interactive Approach. Journal of Politics 74(3): 739-750.	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0022-3816	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:9639965
dc.description.abstract	This article examines how the effect of education on institutional trust varies cross-nationally as a function of the pervasiveness of public-sector corruption. We approach institutional trust as a performance-based evaluation of political institutions. Given their greater capacity to accurately assess the level of corruption coupled with their stronger commitment to democratic values, we hypothesize that higher-educated citizens should react differently to corruption from those with less education. Employing multilevel models we find that education has both a conditional and a conditioning effect on institutional trust. First, education is negatively related to institutional trust in corrupt societies and positively related to institutional trust in clean societies. Second, the corrosive effect of corruption on institutional trust worsens as education improves. The article ends with a discussion of the implications of these findings for the functioning of contemporary democracies.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Cambridge University Press	en_US
dc.relation.isversionof	htttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022381612000412	en_US
dash.license	OAP
dc.subject	institutional trust	en_US
dc.subject	corruption	en_US
dc.subject	education	en_US
dc.subject	Public Management	en_US
dc.subject	public opinion	en_US
dc.title	Institutional Trust, Education, and Corruption: A Micro-Macro Interactive Approach	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article	en_US
dc.description.version	Accepted Manuscript	en_US
dc.relation.journal	Journal of Politics	en_US
dash.depositing.author	Mayne, Quinton
dc.date.available	2012-09-25T19:27:13Z