Institutional Trust as a Determinant of Citizen Evaluation of Access to Information at the Municipal Level in Chile

What factors determine citizen s evaluation of municipal transparency? The study, based on data from the 2020 National Transparency Survey prepared by the Chilean Transparency Council, evaluates two hypotheses on the determinants of citizen satisfaction with transparency and access to public information at the local level: greater trust in the public sector and a leftist ideology positively shape citizen perception of local transparency. From a logistic regression analysis we find evidence that indicates that trust in public agencies does affect citizen evaluation by increasing the probability of being satisfied with the information received; the influence of ideological orientation is dismissed.