Liam Swanson, Jonah Carnell, Isaiah Gerena, Bradley Miles

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Trust in Government

Abstract:

Trust in the government has been a long debated topic as there is not much transparency nor accessibility to actual data. While other studies have examined demographic variables such as age (Kumagai S & Iorio F, 2020), gender (McDermott, M. & Jones, D 2022), race (Perrin & Smolek, 2008), political association (Lawrence Norden 2007), etc. we seek to know whether the general public's opinion on how much their involvement or vote matters in government affects their trust in the government. To the best of our knowledge we will be the first to examine and research the relationship between government surveillance and trust in the government system. We hypothesize that those who feel their participation and involvement in government has no impact will have less trust in the government. We surveyed (#) individuals from social media platforms as well as personal outreach via a convenience sampling design. This survey included questions that measured the individual’s involvement in government as well as level of agreeance to statements related to general trust in the government. We used OLS regression to test the hypothesis that those who feel their participation and involvement in government has no impact, will have less trust in the government. OLS regression is appropriate for our study because our dependent variable is measured at the ratio level. The results are forthcoming.