How do cities foster political trust among informal workers? This question is particularly salient in Africa's growing cities where local governments must reconcile policy priorities across highly heterogeneous constituencies, including a burgeoning middle-class and a large informal economy. We argue that expectations about reciprocity and procedural justice shape the probability that informal traders trust their local government. In doing so, we analyse a survey of approximately 1000 informal traders in Ghana's three main cities – Accra, Kumasi and Tamale. We find that traders who paid requisite fees to local assemblies and could attribute a benefit from those payments were more likely to trust their local government while those who had experienced harassment by city authorities were less likely to do so. The paper highlights that drivers of trust among diverse urban constituencies deserve greater empirical and comparative attention, especially as countries deepen decentralisation initiatives and cities commit to development goals around inclusivity.

城市如何培养非正规工人之间的政治信任？这个问题在非洲不断发展的城市中尤为突出，在这些城市中，地方政府必须协调高度异质的选民（包括新兴的中产阶级和庞大的非正规经济）的政策优先事项。我们认为，对互惠和程序正义的期望决定了非正式贸易商信任当地政府的可能性。为此，我们分析了对加纳三个主要城市（阿克拉、库马西和塔马利）约 1000 名非正式商人的调查。我们发现，向当地议会支付必​​要费用并可以从这些付款中获益的商人更有可能信任当地政府，而那些遭受过城市当局骚扰的商人则不太可能这样做。该文件强调，不同城市选民之间信任的驱动因素值得更多的实证和比较关注，特别是当各国深化权力下放举措和城市致力于围绕包容性的发展目标时。