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Discontent in Ukraine
(1999) Lyzogub, Iryna
This article examines the sources of rapid decline of trust in major political institutions in Ukraine in 1996-1997. Using the United States Information Agency (USIA) data sets of 1996 and 1997 I argue that the population's perception of government effectiveness (government perceived performance), market orientations, and the possibility to influence government (externalpolitical efficacy) are the key causes of trust in Ukraine. I analyze both time series evolution of trust and it's sources as well as evolution of relationships between these dimensions. I find that government perceived performance as well as trust are rapidly declining. I stress, on the one hand, the increasing of the influence of the government perceived performance and the political efficacy on political trust. On the other hand, I found in my study that the influence of market orientations on political trust is declining.