The political discourse surrounding the 2016 U.S. presidential election highlighted discontent with both Congress and corporations, a reality corroborated in recent scholarship highlighting declines in institutional confidence among U.S. citizens. Here we test theories of institutional confidence to understand the social and cultural determinants of confidence in Congress and corporations prior to the start of the 2016 presidential campaigns.

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美国机构信心的决定因素：国会和公司的比较

围绕2016年美国总统大选的政治言论突显了对国会和公司的不满，最近的奖学金证实了这一现实，突显了美国公民的机构信心下降。在这里，我们测试机构信心的理论，以了解在2016年总统大选开始之前对国会和公司信心的社会和文化决定因素。