An Investigation of Relation Between the Economic Development and Confidence in the Major Institutions

This paper compares citizens’ confidence in some major public and civil institutions within their countries. An erosion or loss of confidence in the major institutions of the society is very serious threat to democracy. The continuity of institutions and political systems depends on the citizens’ confidence which may be a better indicator of public disaffection because they are the central pillars of society within the modern world and strongly related to societal trust. The confidence in institutions is the most important element to establish an interconnection between the citizenship and their own states, a part of a cohesive society in where citizens have confidence in national-level institutions and having a critically important emphasis in terms of institutionalization and consolidation of democracy. In this context, the aim of this study is the comparison of the countries taking into account the perception of confidence in court, government, political parties, parliament, university, labor unions, press, armed forces and police. In this study, the confidence in public and civil institutions is measured based on the perceptions of citizens, using the data, obtained from VI. Wave of world-values survey over the period 2010-2013