The problem of trust in public institutions and economic development in the regions of Russia
The problem of trust in public institutions and economic development in the regions of Russia

Summary/Abstract: One of the main contradictions in the development of modern Russia is the conflict between its socio-political and socio-economic components. On the one hand, there is almost absolute confidence in the institutions of personified authority, that is confirmed many times by sociological research and the actual election results. On the other hand, there is constant capital outflow, internal and external emigration, economic degradation and deindustrialization, due to both economic and political factors. These processes happen together with low interpersonal trust, the weakness of social network interactions, growing institutional trust and enormous spatial gaps in social and economic projections. Economic development in countries with a low level of interpersonal trust traditionally bases on the government participation in the country's economy. Is a topical question whether the Russian tendency towards state capitalism due to the mentality? Russia is a country of regions, that is why the most powerful and profound processes take place in the regions. By statistical analysis we investigated the relationship between socio-economic processes in the Russian regions, the confidence of population estimates of different aspects of their lives and socioeconomic situation according to the materials of the 10-year sociological monitoring (2006-2016).

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