Trust in religious leaders and regulation of the religious services market in Africa

Confiance dans les chefs religieux et réglementation du marché des services religieux en Afrique

Mathieu Juliot Mpabe Bodjongo, Ibrahim Abba and Moustapha Fofana
Additional contact information
Mathieu Juliot Mpabe Bodjongo: Université de Dschang Faculté des Sciences Economiques et de Gestion
Ibrahim Abba: International Relations Institute of Cameroon
Moustapha Fofana: Faculty of Economics and Management of Felix Houphouet Boigny University

Post-Print from HAL

Abstract: This paper aims to examine the effect of trust in religious leaders on preferences for religious services market regulation in Africa. The analysis is based on a sample of 46,585 people living in Africa, drawn from data collected by Afrobarometer (2023). The econometric results show that trust in religious leaders increases the preference for religious services market regulation in Africa. This result can be explained by the corruption of religious leaders. On the other hand, in a context characterized by government corruption, the trust in religious leaders reduces the preference for the religious services market regulation. Moreover, some differences emerge when the analysis is conducted within each religious group.

Keywords: Regulation; Trust; Religious services market; Réglementation; Corruption; Confiance; Marché des services religieux (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026-02-04
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Published in European Review of Service Economics and Management, 2026, 2025-2 (20), pp.163-198. ⟨10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-20142-7.p.0163⟩

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05558264

DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-20142-7.p.0163

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Post-Print from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD ().