About:
- Name of the survey report: Politics and Society between Elections 2019.
- Bodies involved: The report has been published jointly by Azim Premji University and Lokniti.
- States/UTs covered in the survey: 12.
- Survey Objective: Apart from measuring institutional trust, the survey provides people’s views on governance, sexuality, gender, nationalism, populism, caste and religious identities.
Key findings of the survey:
- Political parties are the most distrusted political institutions in India. Political parties had a negative net trust rate of -55% (calculated as the percentage of respondent who trust them minus the percentage who do not). They are the only institutions with a negative net rate.
- The Army is the most trusted institution in the country, with an effective trust rate of 88%.
- The judiciary – including the Supreme Court, High Courts and district court – enjoys an effective trust rate of more than 60%.
- Almost 20% of those surveyed said that unemployment is the single biggest issue facing the country today. Other issues cited include development, growth and poverty (15%) and law, governance and corruption (13%).
