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Japan's political trust deficit
Japan Forum, 2016AbstractThis introductory article to the special issue on ‘Trust and Mistrust in Contemporary Japan’ lays out key trust concepts used in social science research. It then turns towards the Japanese case, summarizing important research on the notion of trust and Japanese politics and society, according to which trust levels are comparatively low.
Lukner, Kerstin, Sakaki, Alexandra
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How Trust Matters: The Changing Political Relevance of Political Trust
American Journal of Political Science, 2011Americans most often think about government in terms of its ability to grapple with issues of redistribution and race. However, the September 11 terrorist attacks led to a massive increase in media attention to foreign affairs, which caused people to think about the government in terms of defense and foreign policy.
Marc J. Hetherington, Jason A. Husser
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Political Trust in Polarized Times
2015As political trust levels continue to decline while levels of partisan polarization increase, we contend that more research is needed to explore the interaction between these two central features of contemporary American politics. Political scientists have debated whether explanations of political trust levels are best informed by the public’s ...
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The Political Relevance of Political Trust
American Political Science Review, 1998Scholars have debated the importance of declining political trust to the American political system. By primarily treating trust as a dependent variable, however, scholars have systematically underestimated its relevance. This study establishes the importance of trust by demonstrating that it is simultaneously related to measures of both specific and ...
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Political Performance and Political Trust in Australia
Australian Journal of Politics & History, 2022While political trust has declined in Australia, reaching its lowest level ever recorded in 2019, there remain very few studies on what explains the variation in political trust and therefore what leads to such change in political trust is less certain in Australia. This paper examines the role of political performance, grounded in the valence model of
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Globalization and Political Trust [PDF]
, 2012 This paper postulates that a country’s integration into the world economy may lower citizens’ political trust. I argue that economic globalization constrains government’s choice set of feasible policies, impeding responsiveness to the median voter. Matching individual-level survey data from 1981 to 2007, repeated cross-sections of altogether 260’000 ...
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, 2005 I’ve been asked to speak briefly today about trust in public and political life, and the extent to which there has been a genuine decline in public trust over the last few years. To cut a long story short, I believe there has been something of a decline, although its properties may be a little different from those that some commentators have detected ...
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Play It by Trust: Social Trust, Political Institutions and Leisure
2020Social trust has recently become a focal topic of research in political and social sciences. It is also becoming increasingly relevant in political philosophy or political theory, due to the importance of trust in ensuring a stable, or at least a decent society.
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The measurement equivalence of political trust
2017Political trust – in government, parliament, or political parties – has taken centre stage in political science for more than half a century, reflecting ongoing concerns with the legitimacy and functioning of representative democracy. To provide scholars, students and policy makers with a tool to navigate through the complexity of causes and ...
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