A Tale of Political Trust in American Cities |
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| Authors: | Rahn Wendy M; Rudolph Thomas J |
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| Institution: | WENDY M. RAHN is an associate professor of political science at the University of Minnesota. THOMAS J. RUDOLPH is an associate professor of political science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Earlier versions of this article were presented at the 2001 Princeton Conference on Trust in Government, sponsored by the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, and the 2002 meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. |
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| Abstract: | This study performs a multilevel analysis of public trust inlocal government. We develop and test competing hypotheses aboutthe contextual and individual-level sources of local politicaltrust. The results show that citizens’ trust in localgovernment is shaped not only by individual-level factors butalso by city-level factors such as income inequality, ideologicalpolarization, political institutions, racial fractionalization,and size of population. Cross-level analysis further indicatesthat the effects of race on local political trust are conditionedby cities’ systems of political representation. |
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