Investigating a typology of trust orientations towards national and European institutions: A person-centered approach |
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| Institution: | 1. University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Department of Economics, Italy;2. University of Minnesota, School of Law and University of Bologna Department of Economics, United States;3. University of Bologna, Department of Economics, Italy;1. Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, School of Medicine, University of Maryland-Baltimore, MD, USA;2. Instituto de Química, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico;3. Department of Chemistry, Hawaii Biotech, Inc., Aiea, HI, USA |
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| Abstract: | There is a growing recognition that trust attitudes towards national and European institutions are systematically related. Despite substantial research interest, the exact nature of this relationship remains unclear. We argue that a person-centered approach with its focus on identifying groups of individuals with similar attitudinal profiles provides a valuable complement to the currently standard variable-oriented approach in addressing this challenge. To illustrate, we examine the extent to which a prior typology of diffuse support for the European Union (EU) would emerge from a multilevel latent class analysis of the Eurobarometer data (2014). Our results provide support for the investigated typology by identifying four distinct trust profiles at the individual level that coalesce into separate latent clusters at the country level. Our findings underscore the value of a person-centered approach for the study of EU support. |
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| Keywords: | Political trust EU support Eurobarometer Person-centered approach Multilevel latent class analysis |
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