Political Trust of Parliamentary Elites in Latin America

Abstract

This chapter discusses the confidence that parliamentarians have in certain political institutions. In this sense, the research follows previous works based on data relating to the opinions of citizens. Here, we propose an index that allows comparison between countries and see the weight of their different components. The variation in political confidence in recent years is also discussed to know the relationship between the aggregate levels of political trust of parliamentary elites in institutions with the explanatory factors frequently used by the literature on this topic for the analysis of political confidence in public opinion.