Figure 1 Percentage of US citizens trusting the US government over time. Entries are the weighted percentage of ANES face-to-face respondents saying that they trust the government most or all of the time. In 2008 and 2012, the ANES split sampled a new version of the question along with the original (red line), and in 2016, they carried the new question (blue line) only. The results show that the new question yields about 6–7% fewer trusting respondents than the old question. The original question is: How much of the time do you think you can trust the government in Washington to do what is right—just about always, most of the time, or only some of the time (with “never” coded if volunteered)? The new question is: How much of the time do you think you can trust the federal government in Washington to make decisions in a fair way—always, most of the time, about half of the time, some of the time (in 2012–2016; once in a while in 2008), or never?
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