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Does inequality erode political trust?

open access: yesFrontiers in Political Science, 2023
A long-standing argument in the political sciences holds that high levels of inequality are incompatible with democracy. Although a number of studies have by now investigated whether income inequality endangers democratic consolidation and stability ...
Simon Bienstman
doaj   +1 more source

Does one trust judgement fit all? Linking theory and empirics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Copyright @ 2010 The Authors. This is the accepted version of the following article: Fisher, J., Van Heerde, J. and Tucker, A. (2010), Does One Trust Judgement Fit All? Linking Theory and Empirics.
van Heerde, J   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Boosting Political Trust with Direct Democracy? The Case of the Finnish Citizens’ Initiative

open access: yesPolitics and Governance, 2019
Complementing representative democracy with direct-democratic instruments is perceived to boost levels of political trust. This was why Finland in 2012 introduced an agenda initiative, which gives citizens the right to propose legislation and thereby ...
Henrik Serup Christensen
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Does Trust Associate With Political Regime? [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
Since trust correlates with economic development and in turn economic development associates with political regime, we conjecture that there may be a relationship between trust and political regime. Without looking for any casual inference, we investigate if trust aggregated on the country level correlates with the country's political regime ...
Khayouti, Sára   +2 more
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Determinants of political trust : a lifetime learning model [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This article addresses questions regarding the origins of individual variations in political trust. Using 2 prospective longitudinal studies, we examine the associations between family background, general cognitive ability (g) and school motivation at ...
Ingrid Schoon   +5 more
core   +1 more source

The Role of Social Trust in the Motivation for Political Participation: A Study among the Youth of Yazd City, Iran [PDF]

open access: yesتداوم و تغییر اجتماعی
Background and Aim: Social trust and political participation are key factors for enhancing social cohesion and promoting the desirability of social changes, as they facilitate civic participation and collective action.
Fahime Sadeghi-Sarcheshme   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Collective Action hinders the increase in post-election trust among election losers: Longitudinal evidence from the 2024 UK election [PDF]

open access: yesadvances.in/psychology
Political trust is a key component of civic investment in democratic societies. However, the reasons for its fluctuations within the democratic process remain insufficiently understood.
Gaëlle Marinthe   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Structure of Individualized and Generalized Political Trust: A Network Analysis of Data from Two Representative-Sample Studies

open access: yesSAGE Open
This study examined the relationship between generalized (trust in the political system) and individualized (trust in a specific political actor) political trust in two surveys with representative samples from Latvia (total N  = 2,001).
Girts Dimdins   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Is an Apple an Orange? A Large Language Model Benchmark for Candidate Term Extraction and Subclass Decisions Against Upper Ontologies in Engineering and Materials Science

open access: yesAdvanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Building machine‐readable vocabularies for materials science is slow, expert‐driven work. This study benchmarks 13 large language models on two of its first steps: finding candidate terms in engineering articles and deciding where they belong in a class hierarchy.
Thomas Bjarsch   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Education, socialization, and political trust [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Political 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 ...
Mayne, Q., Hakhverdian, A.
openaire   +3 more sources

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