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Public Opinion Quarterly Advance Access published online on April 1, 2009
Public Opinion Quarterly, doi:10.1093/poq/nfp012
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Association for Public Opinion Research. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Political Trust, Ideology, and Public Support for Tax Cuts

Thomas J. Rudolph

Address correspondence to Thomas J. Rudolph; e-mail: rudolph{at}illinois.edu

This article analyzes the relationship between political trust, ideology, and public support for tax cutting. Conceptualizing tax cuts as government action under conditions of risk, I argue that political trust should increase rather than decrease public support for tax cutting, particularly among those for whom endorsement of tax cuts entails ideological sacrifice. The results show that political trust increases support for a variety of tax cut initiatives, but only among liberals. The results further suggest that trust is an instrumental resource that can bolster support for a conservative as well as a liberal policy agenda.

THOMAS J. RUDOLPH is an associate professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 361 Lincoln Hall, 702 S. Wright St., Urbana, IL 61801, USA. The author thanks Jim Kuklinski and Scott Althaus for helpful comments and suggestions.


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