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Americans' Views of Government: Low Trust, but Some Positive FOR RELEASE SEPTEMBER 14, 2020 Americans’ Views of Government: Low Trust, but Some Positive Performance Ratings Majorities in both parties say federal government should play a major role on public health, economy, many other areas FOR MEDIA OR OTHER INQUIRIES: Carroll Doherty, Director of Political Research Jocelyn Kiley, Associate Director, Research Nida Asheer, Communications Manager Calvin Jordan, Communications Associate 202.419.4372 www.pewresearch.org RECOMMENDED CITATION Pew Research Center, September, 2020, “Americans’ Views of Government: Low Trust, but Some Positive Performance Ratings” 2 PEW RESEARCH CENTER About Pew Research Center Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. It does not take policy positions. The Center conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research. It studies U.S. politics and policy; journalism and media; internet, science and technology; religion and public life; Hispanic trends; global attitudes and trends; and U.S. social and demographic trends. All of the Center’s reports are available at www.pewresearch.org. Pew Research Center is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts, its primary funder. © Pew Research Center 2020 www.pewresearch.org 3 PEW RESEARCH CENTER How we did this Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand Americans’ evaluations of the federal government’s performance in a variety of areas, as well as their attitudes about the proper size and role of government. For this analysis, we surveyed U.S. adults online and by telephone. We surveyed 11,001 U.S. adults online in July and August 2020. Everyone who took part is a member of the Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP), an online survey panel that is recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses. This way nearly all U.S. adults have a chance of selection. The survey is weighted to be representative of the U.S. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education and other categories. Read more about the ATP’s methodology. We also surveyed 1,750 U.S. adults by telephone in July and August 2020. The surveys were conducted in both English and Spanish over the phone under the direction of Abt Associates. Respondents to this survey were randomly selected via a combination of landline and cellphone random-digit-dial samples. To ensure that the results of this survey reflect a balanced cross- section of the nation, the data are weighted to match the U.S. adult population by gender, age, education, race and ethnicity and other categories. Here are the questions used for the report, along with responses, and its methodology. www.pewresearch.org 4 PEW RESEARCH CENTER Americans’ Views of Government: Low Trust, but Some Positive Performance Ratings Majorities in both parties say federal government should play a major role on public health, economy, many other areas For years, public trust in the federal government has hovered at near-record lows. That remains the case today, as the United States struggles with a pandemic and economic recession. Just 20% of U.S. adults say they trust the government in Washington to “do the right thing” just about Positive views of government's handling of terrorism, always or most of the time. disasters; negative views on public health, poverty % who say the federal government is doing a ___ job in each area Yet Americans also have long Somewhat bad Somewhat Very Very bad good good expressed positive views of the Keeping country federal government’s safe from terrorism NET 25 13 13 42 30 72 NET performance in several specific Responding to 36 19 17 40 23 62 areas. And majorities want the natural disasters government to play a major Ensuring safe food and medicine 37 16 20 43 19 62 role on everything from Strengthening keeping the country safe from the economy 43 22 21 35 19 54 terrorism to ensuring access to Maintaining health care and alleviating infrastructure 45 23 22 40 13 53 poverty. Ensuring access to health care 50 30 21 32 14 46 Attitudes about the appropriate Protecting the environment 53 32 21 35 10 45 role for government and its Effectively handling performance have changed threats to public health 56 35 21 31 11 42 only modestly since 2017, Helping people though Democrats have get out of poverty 60 40 20 23 13 36 become more critical of Managing U.S. 64 39 25 25 9 34 government performance in immigration system some areas since then. Note: Don’t know responses not shown. Source: Survey of U.S. adults conducted July 23-Aug. 4, 2020. Among the public overall, PEW RESEARCH CENTER majorities say the government does a very good or somewhat good job keeping the country safe from terrorism (72%), responding to natural disasters (62%), www.pewresearch.org 5 PEW RESEARCH CENTER ensuring safe food and medicine (62%), strengthening the economy (54%) and maintaining infrastructure (53%). Americans are far more critical of how the government handles several other issues, including managing the immigration system (just 34% say it does a good job), helping people get out of poverty (36%) and effectively handling threats to public health (42%). Partisanship continues to be a major factor in attitudes about the government’s performance and its role. Republicans and Republican-leaning independents are broadly positive about the government’s performance in most areas. Still, while substantial majorities of Republicans say the government is doing well in dealing in addressing natural disasters (89%), terrorism (87%) and the economy (80%), far fewer rate the government’s performance positively when it comes to helping people get out of poverty (59%) or managing the immigration system (58%). Democrats and Democratic leaners are far more negative; for example, just 18% say the government does a good job assisting people to get out of poverty, while 17% give the government positive ratings for dealing with public health threats. There is more common ground among partisans in views of the role the government should play. Large majorities of Democrats (no fewer than about three-quarters) say the government should play a major role in all 10 areas included in the survey. Republicans are less uniformly supportive of a significant government role, but half or more say it should play a major role in nine of 10. These are among the findings of Pew Research Center’s study of attitudes about government, which updates studies from 2019, 2017 and 2015. This study is based on two national surveys by Pew Research Center: A survey conducted July 27-Aug. 2 among 11,001 U.S. adults, including 9,114 registered voters, on the Center’s American Trends Panel; and a separate survey, conducted July 23-Aug. 4 on cellphones and landlines among 1,750 U.S. adults, including 1,455 registered voters. www.pewresearch.org 6 PEW RESEARCH CENTER Other findings from the surveys Just 20% trust the federal government. During the last three presidencies – through the final Public trust in federal government near years of the George W. Bush administration and historic lows for over a decade the presidencies of Barack Obama and Donald % who say they trust the federal government to do what Trump, the share of Americans who say they is right just about always/most of the time trust the government just about always or most of the time has been below 30%. Today, 20% say they trust the government. While the share of Republicans who trust the government has increased during Trump’s time as president, only 28% say they trust the government, compared with 12% of Democrats. Democrats’ anger at federal government rises. Among both Democrats and Republicans, the dominant feeling toward the federal government is frustration, rather than anger or contentment. Still, roughly a third of Democrats (34%) say they are angry with the federal Note: From 1976-2020 the trend line represents a three-survey government, the highest share in more than two moving average. decades. Among Republicans, anger at the Source: Survey of U.S. adults conducted July 27-Aug. 2, 2020. Trend sources: Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel federal government decreased sharply when (2020), Pew Research Center phone surveys (2019 and earlier), Trump became president. Today, 14% say they National Election Studies, Gallup, ABC/Washington Post, CBS/New York Times, and CNN polls. are angry with the federal government. PEW RESEARCH CENTER www.pewresearch.org 7 PEW RESEARCH CENTER Majority continues to say that Americans can solve problems. Despite the pandemic and the grim national mood, a majority of adults (57%) continue to say that, as Americans, we can Majority of Americans say the country ‘can always always find ways to solve our find ways to solve our problems’ problems and get what we % who say … want. This is essentially As Americans, we can always This country can't unchanged since September find ways to solve our problems solve many of its 2019, when 55% expressed and get what we want important problems optimism in the country’s Total 57 41 ability to solve its problems. Republicans are somewhat Rep/Lean Rep 65 32 more likely than Democrats to Dem/Lean Dem 50 48 say that Americans can always find ways to solve our Note: No answer responses not shown. Source: Survey of U.S. adults conducted July 27-Aug. 2, 2020. problems. Nearly two-thirds of PEW RESEARCH CENTER Republicans say this (65%), compared with half of Democrats. www.pewresearch.org 8 PEW RESEARCH CENTER Majorities of both Republicans and Democrats see a major role for the federal government in many areas Majorities of adults say that the federal government should play a major role on a wide variety of issues.
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