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Cover of: Culture or Institutions? A Quasi-Experiment on the Origins of Political Trust among Russian Immigrants in Europe
Anna E. Shaleva

Culture or Institutions? A Quasi-Experiment on the Origins of Political Trust among Russian Immigrants in Europe

Section: Articles
Volume 172 (2016) / Issue 3, pp. 454-474 (21)
Published 09.07.2018
DOI 10.1628/093245616X14617619218701
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Summary
Political trust is an essential ingredient for the functioning of democracies. Cultural theory hypothesizes that trust in political institutions originates in deeply rooted and long-standing cultural norms, which are transmitted through early-life socialization and thus are exogenous to political institutions. By contrast, institutional theory views political trust as a direct consequence of institutional performance. This paper studies political trust in Europe within a quasi-experimental framework of migration. Results using European Social Survey data by itself or merged with the Integrated Values Surveys suggest that Russian-born migrants exposed to Western European institutions have higher probability of political trust than Russian-born migrants in Eastern Europe.