The purpose of this essay is to investigate the impact of perceived corruption on a person’s trust. Previous research shows that there mostly is a negative impact between perceived corruption and trust. This study uses these results as a hypothesis, and does this research on the country Sweden. The questions to be answered within this study are: “Is there a relationship between perceived corruption and trust in Sweden?”, and “Has there been any changes within the relationship between perceived corruption and trust in Sweden within the past years?”. The data that is used is Magnus Hagevis questionnaires from the years 2009, 2012, 2016, and 2020. The questionnaires have different focuses but the main focused subjects within this study are; politics, trust and corruption. This study uses a quantitative method. With the help of SPSS, multiple analyzes are created and discussed on the data. The drawn conclusions within this essay is that the relationship between perceived corruption and trust is the same within all questionnaires; low corruption equals high trust. There is a slight change over the past years within this relationship. The relationship between these two variables becomes stronger within the past years.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-118741 |
| Date | January 2022 |
| Creators | Nuytten, Layla |
| Publisher | Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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