Dynamic Relationships Between Trust in Three Levels of Government and Civic Engagement.

This paper aims to discover the dynamic relationships between trust in federal, state, and local governments focusing on the effect of civic engagement on the dynamics. Whether trust in these three levels of government move independently or influence each other has not been fully discussed. Previous literature suggests that each level of trust in government is differently shaped but related to each other. Additionally, civic engagement is supposed to work on each level government while the extent of the effect is different between three levels of trust in government. VAR and structural VAR models allow us to examine the mutual relationship and MCMC brings us efficient results. Discovering these relationships gives a clue to an understanding how the hierarchical structure of democratic society forms stability. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]