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Why are Latinos More Politically Trusting than Other Americans? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This paper examines why Latinos, over the past thirty years, are consistently more trusting of the federal government than are Anglos and Blacks. We address this puzzle by turning to previous research on racial politics and political trust.
Abrajanoa, Marisa, Alvarez, R. Michael
core   +1 more source

The micro–macro interactive approach to political trust: Quality of representation and substantive representation across Europe

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Political Research, 2021
. The relevance of the macro-context for understanding political trust has been widely studied in recent decades, with increasing attention paid to micro–macro level interactive relationships.
K. Noordzij, W. Koster, J. Waal
semanticscholar   +1 more source

(White) Tyranny and the Democratic Value of Distrust [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper makes an argument for the democratic value of distrust. It begins by analyzing distrust, since distrust is not merely the negation of trust. The account that it develops is based primarily on Martin Luther King Jr.’s work in Why We Can’t Wait.
Krishnamurthy, Meena
core   +5 more sources

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
doaj   +1 more source

The voice of distrust? The relationship between political trust, online political participation and voting

open access: yesJournal of Trust Research, 2021
In this article, we examine how political trust is associated with participation in political discussions on social media and voting activity. We explore whether social media can provide platforms for those who are passive in terms of formal political ...
A. Koivula, S. Malinen, Arttu Saarinen
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Crisis of Political Trust? Global Trends in Institutional Trust from 1958 to 2019

open access: yesBritish Journal of Political Science
In the study of politics, many theoretical accounts assume that we are experiencing a ‘crisis of democracy’, with declining levels of political trust. While some empirical studies support this account, others disagree and report ‘trendless fluctuations’.
V. Valgarðsson   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Does Political Trust Matter? A Meta-analysis on the Consequences of Trust

open access: yesPolitical Behavior
Political trust has long been seen as fundamental for societal cooperation and democratic legitimacy. However, evidence about its consequences are partial and fragmented, and we do not currently have a systematic understanding of whether political trust ...
Daniel Devine
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Factors Affecting the Level of Public Confidence of Political Parties in the European Union

open access: yesСравнительная политика, 2021
Since the second half of the XX century, political parties as a socio-political institution were in a state of global crisis, the manifestations of which were the decline in the number of their members and the fall in the level of trust in them.
F. I. Dolgikh
doaj   +1 more source

Understanding the Psychological Perspective of Political Trust in Indonesia Context

open access: yesBuletin Psikologi, 2021
Political trust, conceptually understood as a trust in politics, refers to the positive expectation from the citizen that the government, as an institution leader, will deliver citizen’s best interest through policies and regulations.
Indro Adinugroho
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

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