Schipper, Richard (2021) Decentralization of Europe: the effects of administrative and political decentralization on trust in government-related institutions. Bachelor thesis.
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Abstract
This paper studies whether administrative and political decentralization are affecting trust in government-related institutions across the 27 countries of the European Union. This study expects a positive relationship between both administrative and political decentralization on the one hand and trust in government-related institutions on the other. This is based on multiple empirical arguments that fiscal decentralization positively influences trust and the argument that fiscal, administrative, and political decentralization are interrelated dimensions. Based on the linear regression models executed for this paper, there is no positive linear relationship found between administrative or political decentralization and trust in any of the studied government-related institutions. Therefore, this study cannot underline the arguments discussed by previous scholars that decentralization positively affects trust in government-related institutions. These results indicate that more study on the concepts of administrative and political decentralization and trust in government-related institutions is needed.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Degree programme: | Human Geography and Planning |
| Supervisor: | Jong, D.M.O. |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Jul 2022 12:07 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Jul 2022 12:07 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3862 |
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