Keywords: Political participation; Trust; Public institutions; Political regime; Survey research

Trust is an important indicator for measuring how people perceive the quality of public institutions in democratic countries and how they associate with them (OECD. 2021). Trust depends on political culture because the latter constitutes the set of values and norms that guide citizens' political attitudes and structure their relationships with public institutions and any political regime. There are at least ten bodies on which any political regime is based. These include in particular the armed forces, the police, the government, the public administration, parliament, the judiciary, political parties, trade unions, the press and television. Political participation according to Patrick Lecomte and Bernard Denni , (1990) is the set of activities through which citizens are enabled to enter into contact with the sacred universe of power, always in a superficial or ephemeral way and while respecting certain ritual constraints.

In this paper, my primary objective is to describe the degree of trust that Moroccans place in these institutions, to monitor changes over time based on data from the World Values Survey (WVS) (Waves 7 and 8) and the Afrobarometer surveys (Rounds 9 and 10). Then I will study the main determinants of trust in Moroccan institutions. Finally, I will try to explain the differences observed by highlighting the changes they have undergone over time.

This paper will also present the methodological challenges encountered in national surveys carried out in Morocco, affecting political culture and trust in institutions. This last part will analyze the respondents' reactions to the different judgments they have towards political institutions.

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