اثر ميزان دينداري بر اعتماد سياسي

To What Extent Religiosity Affects Political Trust?

Political trust addresses the relation between people and state. Researches say political trust has had a declining trend in Iran since the victory of the revolution. Religion is among the factors which affect political trust, and has been emphasized in the theories of the classical and contemporary sociologists and social capital theorists. This fact is more considerable in Iran where a religious government is in power and religion clearly and apparently intervenes with politics. Guidens describes the impact of religion on the political trust as one of the characteristics of the traditional societies and points to the religious commitments of the authorities in the traditional societies as well as function of the access point, basic trust, and govenmentʹs endeavor to provide social-economic welfare for the people as other factors which affcct the political trust. In order to investigate the political trust in three domains of trust in the political system, political institutions and political actors through a survey method, information was collected from 630 ovcr-20-year individuals in Tehran which had been selected by the quota sampling method. Results of thc research showed that people trust in the politica system more than institutions and actors. The extent of the religiosity of the respondents as well as their basic trust, satisfaction with function of the access point, interpretation of the extent of religious commitments of the authorities and also stateʹs endeavor to provide social-economic welfare for the people affect the political trust. The highest effect belongs to the interpretation of the respondents of the stateʹs endeavor to provide I social-economic welfare for the people.