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Sumedha Mahesh
Sumedha Mahesh is a junior at Wesleyan University majoring in Government and Global South Asian Studies with a concentration in International Relations. She is interested in studying the legitimacy and strength of international institutions as well as domestic bureaucracies. Apart from school, Sumedha is part of Wesleyan’s Mock Trial team and plays South Indian Classical violin.
Abstract: As the topic of immigration mitigation and control has taken the center stage of political debates, it becomes imperative to analyze the relationship between naturalized citizens and the US government. While many scholars have examined the relationship between immigration and governmental trust, literature remains scarce on naturalized citizenship. Moreover, there are very few studies examining this relationship within the United States population.
The goal of this analysis is to establish and examine the association between governmental trust and path of citizenship (naturalization versus US-Born). The study attempts to answer the following questions: 1) Is there an association between governmental trust and path of citizenship (naturalized versus US-born)? and 2) Does this association hold when a related variable (belief of governmental corruption) is taken into account?
By using data from the 2024 American National Election Studies (ANES) survey, the project utilizes univariate, bivariate, and multivariate graphs and regressions to examine the relationship between naturalization status and governmental trust. The project concludes that naturalization status and governmental trust are significantly associated with naturalized citizens having higher levels of trust in the US government compared to US-born citizens. The study also determined that beliefs of governmental corruption are also significantly associated with governmental trust.
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