eprintid: 3862
rev_number: 5
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datestamp: 2022-07-12 12:07:53
lastmod: 2022-07-12 12:07:53
status_changed: 2022-07-12 12:07:53
type: thesis
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sword_depositor: 1
creators_name: Schipper, Richard
creators_id: S3734749
creators_email: richardschipper2000@hotmail.com
title: Decentralization of Europe: the effects of administrative and political decentralization on trust in government-related institutions
ispublished: unpub
full_text_status: public
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.
date: 2021
pages: 22
thesis_type: bachelor
degree_programme: SGP
tutors_name: Jong, D.M.O.
tutors_organization: Fac. Ruimtelijke wetenschappen, Bureau Onderwijs
tutors_email: D.M.O.Jong@rug.nl
security: staffonly
keywords_local: Administrative decentralization
keywords_local: Political decentralization
keywords_local: Trust
keywords_local: Government
keywords_local: Institutions
keywords_local: European Union
language_iso: en
agreed_repository: yes
date_issued: 2022-07-11
citation:   Schipper, Richard  (2021) Decentralization of Europe: the effects of administrative and political decentralization on trust in government-related institutions.  Bachelor thesis.   
document_url: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/3862/1/Assignment%207%20-%20Final%20version%20of%20Bachelor%20Thesis_s3734749%20%28pdf%20version%29.pdf