ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT We assess the applicability of Mayer, Davis, and Schoorman’s (1995) integrative model of organizational trust for modeling citizens’ trust in their government using country-level survey data collected in four western Trans-Sahel countries (Burkina Faso, Senegal, Mali, and Nigeria) in 2010. Although the original model focused on trust between individuals, our fundamental supposition is that the model also applies to individuals’ trust in an organizational-level entity: government. Our ndings also suggest that there are two separate dimensions to the ability and the benevolence/integrity associated with trust in the government, as well as the existence of a new term that we hypothesized is related to government reputation.
