This paper intends to examine the relationship between various types of political participation and political trust. For the purposes, it explores at first the results of analysis of existing empirical studies on the subject done by domestic researche...
This paper intends to examine the relationship between various types of political participation and political trust. For the purposes, it explores at first the results of analysis of existing empirical studies on the subject done by domestic researchers. And then, it analyses the results of a survey on the same subject carried out by the author himself. From all these examinations of the research results, it leads to draw conclusions as follows. The relationship between the two behavioral variables composed with various types is very weak in general, having significant correlations only between a few of their types. That is to say, only the type of 'political trust in political institutions' has a significant positive influence on the types of political participation 'public activity' and 'voting', and has at least no negative influence on them. But the influential relationship between other types of the two behavioral variables is measured positive, negative or no significant along with the different empirical researches, not to show any consistent tendency of relationship.