SRP on politics

As the title says I’m currently working on a senior research paper about politics and the prompt for my senior research paper is how does a specific topic affect the population as a whole. So we all know how politics affect all of us because everywhere someone is under the rule of a government, but getting into the specifics of how we are affected by these things, i’m currently trying to understand how public trust in the government and voter participation go hand in hand. And I am at a point where I’m trying to analyze how economic factors influence public trust. How would you say public trust in the federal government changed after the 2008 stock market incident? More of how did it affect the working middle class and the working poor. How did this change in public trust effect the next voting turn out? If you could, please give me examples of other times of economic crisis that ended up affecting public trust and voter turnout for the following election.

Edit: I’d also like to include that to meet research requirements per my teacher I need a book as a source and my book is “Failed States” by Noam Chomsky, has anyone read this and if so how well would you say he did in describing the inconsistencies of modern-day democracy? Modern day being bush 2 as the book was written in 06.