A Validation of Voter’s Political Trust in Mokokchung District (Nagaland)

Trust is an inevitable form which has become a pure significance towards the pillars of a democratic community. The nature and effects of trust in social and political institutions have been studied distinguishing between various levels of trust. Political trust is one of the key principle indicators that measure the depth of citizens‘ belief in the political system. Levels of trust relate to the stability of democracy for which political system needs to establish in order to foster political participation of the electorates. Perhaps democracies function more effectively when citizens support key institutions. The main purpose of this paper is to test different category of trust in the political institution/agents and examine voter‘s level of political trust to assess the overall health of democratic system. The present study is conducted in five assembly constituencies of Mokokchung District in Nagaland covering fifteen polling stations. The studies found out that majority of the respondents are highly confident with the performance of the non-governmental entities.