TRUST IN STATE AND NON-STATE INSTITUTIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (THE EXAMPLE OF SERBIA

Vujović, Slavoljub and Lobanov, Mikhail and Vujić, Nenad (2024) TRUST IN STATE AND NON-STATE INSTITUTIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (THE EXAMPLE OF SERBIA. Вестник Нижегородского университета им. Н.И. Лобачевского. Серия: Социальные науки, 2024, 3 (75). pp. 173-181.

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Abstract

One of the key conditions for the sustainable development of the national economy is the level of public trust in formal and informal institutions, the directions of evolution of which are determined by state and non-state actors. Based on this assumption, this research deals with the level of citizens‟ trust in government institutions and the nongovernmental sector (on the example of the Republic of Serbia). The sociological survey allowed us to obtain data for statistical analysis, in which the results of answers to the question about institutional trust (in the government, parliament, judicial system, law enforcement agencies, armed forces, church, NGOs, media, health care and educational organizations) are used as dependent variables. The list of independent variables includes the characteristics of the respondents (gender, age, level of education, employment status, personal income, household income and a number of others). In addition, analysis of the results of a sociological survey allows us to provide additional justification for the search for a connection between the level of trust in state and non-state institutions and the prospects for sustainable economic growth in Serbia. It should be emphasized that more than half of the respondents do not trust the state and the nongovernmental sector, while the highest level of trust is relevant to the church and the national armed forces. Besides that, we show that the level of trust / distrust in government institutions and non-governmental organizations largely depends on the age characteristics and level of education of the citizens participating in the survey: a relatively lower level of trust is found among respondents under 20 years of age and respondents with a higher level of education.

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