Gozgor Giray
Istanbul Medeniyet University, Istanbul, Turkey.
CESifo, Munich, Germany.
Appl Res Qual Life. 2022;17(2):559-578. doi: 10.1007/s11482-020-09902-6. Epub 2021 Feb 5.
Using the Global Behaviors and Perceptions in the COVID-19 Pandemic dataset covering 108,918 respondents from 178 countries, the paper examines the determinants of public trust in governments during the COVID-19. It is found that older and healthy people trust more to their governments. Education is negatively related to trust in governments. The results are robust to consider different measures of trust in government as well as including various controls, such as precautionary behaviors, first-order beliefs, second-order beliefs, and the COVID-19 prevalence in the country. The findings are also valid for countries at different stages of economic development as well to varying levels of globalization, institutional quality, and freedom of the press.
利用涵盖来自178个国家的108918名受访者的“新冠疫情中的全球行为与认知”数据集,本文研究了新冠疫情期间公众对政府信任的决定因素。研究发现,年龄较大且健康的人对政府的信任度更高。教育与对政府的信任呈负相关。考虑到对政府信任的不同衡量标准以及纳入各种控制变量,如预防行为、一阶信念、二阶信念以及该国的新冠疫情流行情况后,结果依然稳健。这些发现对于处于不同经济发展阶段的国家以及不同程度的全球化、制度质量和新闻自由度水平也同样有效。