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2013 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Citizens’ Trust in Public Officials: Bangladesh and Nepal Compared

Authors : Ishtiaq Jamil, Steinar Askvik

Published in: In Search of Better Governance in South Asia and Beyond

Publisher: Springer New York

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Abstract

Citizens’ trust in public officials is an indication of a political regime’s legitimacy and popular support for the political system. Public officials are representatives of public institutions. The more the distrust citizens’ display towards public officials, the direr the crisis of the regime and hence its viability to survive.

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Footnotes
1
Conducted and administered by “Governance Matter: Diagnosing, Assessing, and Addressing Challenges of Governance” in Nepal, and master in public policy and governance (MPPG) program in Bangladesh.
 
2
In Nepal, after selecting districts randomly based on their geographic spread across the country, households were selected both from VDCs and Municipalities within each district. In each household, efforts were made to select respondents on the basis of age and gender. Every fifth household was selected to administer the questionnaire, however, in the case of the mountain districts such as in Kalikot, Mustang, and Darchula every second house was selected because houses were few and highly scattered in those districts. In Bangladesh, from 6 divisions, 21 districts were randomly chosen and from these 43 upazilas and municipalities were again randomly chosen, however, maintining urban and rural divide. In this reard, within each district, urban municipalities and upazilas (rural local goernment) were randomly chosen and within these, unions (in the case of Upazila) and wards (in the case of municipalitiy) were again randomly chosen. In Bangladesh there are at present around 4,500 unions and more than 200 municipalities. The respondents were chosen randomly from households from each of these unions and wards.
 
3
The initial plan of the sample was 2,000 but due to political disturbances in the Terai region for more political power to the indigenous community, we could not conduct the rest of the interviews.
 
4
Only asked in Bangladesh and not in Nepal.
 
5
World Values Survey, website: http://​www.​worldvaluessurve​y.​org/​index_​surveys accessed 2 Nov 2011. Analysis carried out by the authors online at WVS website. Nepal is not included in WVS survey.
 
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Metadata
Title
Citizens’ Trust in Public Officials: Bangladesh and Nepal Compared
Authors
Ishtiaq Jamil
Steinar Askvik
Copyright Year
2013
Publisher
Springer New York
Book
In Search of Better Governance in South Asia and Beyond

Print ISBN: 978-1-4614-7371-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-4614-7372-5

Copyright Year: 2013

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7372-5_9

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