Modern approaches to measuring political trust: a review of Russian and foreign scientific literature

10.54398/1818510X_2022_4_75

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The review article contains an analysis of the main trends in the study of the issues of measuring political trust in domestic and foreign scientific literature. The main attention is paid to the scientific literature of the period of the 2010s and early 2020s: in this period of time, there is a surge in the attention of both domestic and foreign researchers to the issues of measuring trust. The reasons for the growing attention of political trust researchers to the issues of its measurement are revealed. In modern scientific literature, the exceptional methodological importance of solving the problems of measuring trust in order to conduct correct studies of political trust is recognized. The main approaches to the classification of methods for measuring trust are characterized. The prospects of the main approaches to measuring political trust are considered. The prospects and limitations of the technique of a single question when using direct methods of measuring trust are determined. It has been established that the use of several indicators when using direct methods for measuring political trust provides significant advantages, however, the question of the correct definition of the list of these indicators will remain a constant source of controversy. The main scientific problems and achievements in using indirect methods for measuring political trust are characterized. Until now, approaches to measuring political trust have not appeared that could become dominant in science.

Keywords

• political trust
• public trust
• trust
• measurement of trust
• measurement of political trust
• methods of measuring trust
• types of trust
• elections
• social exchange
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Acknowledgments

the study was carried out at the Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences with the financial support of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation and the Expert Institute for Social Research within the framework of the scientific project № 122101100043-9 "Political Trust of Russian Youth: Formation Mechanisms, State, Trends and Risks".

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