Autor: Díaz-Domínguez, Alejandro
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The aim of this research note is to study determinants of popular trust in Mexico’s judiciary, using several measures of trust across time, trying to understand the specific impact of long-and short-term variables.
Combining long standing theories of support for Courts elaborated for advanced countries, and further customizations of these theories for Latin American nations, this note offers a fruitful test of trust in the Supreme Court in one single country across time to make a relatively controlled comparison. Evidence from Mexico’samples of the Americas Barometer, the National Justice Survey, and El Financiero/ Moreno Research survey suggests that long-term forces, such as support for democracy increase support for the Court, whereas short-term forces, such as corruption related variables, and ideology decrease trust in the Supreme Court.