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The mediating role of perceptions of municipal government performance on the relationship between good governance and citizens’ trust in municipal government
Evidence from existing literature shows that good governance practices impact citizens' attitudes and behaviors toward the governing authorities....
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Count on trust: the indirect effect of trust in government on policy compliance with health behavior instructions
Trust in government is considered a prominent factor for enhancing public compliance with government policies and instructions. The Coronavirus...
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Support for Gun Reform in the United States: The Interactive Relationship Between Partisanship and Trust in the Federal Government
Studies find that trust in the government is statistically related to support for gun control laws in the United States. Another finding in the...
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Treading Through COVID-19: Can Village Leader-Villager Relations Reinforce Public Trust Toward the Chinese Central Government?
Can village leaders’ performance impact villagers’ trust in the central government? Using village leader-villager relations at the village level as...
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Public Trust During a Public Health Crisis: Evaluating the Immediate Effects of the Pandemic on Institutional Trust
Institutional trust is pivotal in facilitating targeted policy implementation and fostering appropriate preventative behavior amid public health...
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Stratified Political Trust in a Nondemocratic Society: Magnitude, Forms, and Sources of Political Trust in Urban China
There has been a vibrant literature on political trust in China. However, a closer examination of this large literature points to no clear consensus...
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Public Trust in Government and Compliance with Policy during COVID-19 Pandemic: Empirical Evidence from Vietnam
This study explores how much the Vietnamese public trust their government during the COVID-19 pandemic and how public trust in government translates...
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In science we (dis)trust: technocratic attitudes, populism, and trust in science during the COVID-19 pandemic
During the pandemic, science became one of the most salient issues in European polities. At the same time, relevant sectors of European societies...
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Develo** Political Trust at Work: How Socialization Experiences in the Workplace Reduce Inequalities in Political Trust
Political trust is considered important for the stability of democratic political systems. However, there are large inequalities in political trust...
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Government performance, political trust, and citizen subjective well-being: evidence from rural China
Little is known about the political determinants of subjective well-being across nations. The objective of the study presented in this article is to...
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Does Political Trust Matter? A Meta-analysis on the Consequences of Trust
Political trust has long been seen as fundamental for societal cooperation and democratic legitimacy. However, evidence about its consequences are...
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Impeachment as Last Resort to Safeguard Democracy? Removing the Head of Government in Different Institutional Settings
Democracy would essentially fail if, despite an electoral defeat, the government refused to concede office. This possibility is a constant...
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Bureaucratic biases in trust of expert policy advice: a randomized controlled experiment based on Chinese think tank reports
The role of policy advisory systems in the bureaucratic policy-making process has expanded greatly, yet little is known about officials’ trust in the...
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Trust and corruption: how different forms of trust interact with formal institutions
The causal relationship between trust and corruption has sparked heated scholarly debates. This study holistically explores the impacts of three...
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How procedural and economic performance shape political trust: Affective and cognitive foundations of the performance-trust nexus
In which ways and under what conditions do the procedural and economic performance of political systems matter for citizens’ political trust? While...
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Political Trust and American Public Support for Free Trade
Debates over trade liberalization vs. protectionism have becoming increasingly relevant as the world moves through a contentious era of economic...
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Political elites and the democratic duty to trust the people
Political trust is usually construed in the terms of political elites’ duty to be trustworthy. This paper makes a modest yet radical claim,...
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A scandal effect? Local scandals and political trust
Scandals that hit political institutions and their actors are likely to contribute to lowering political trust. However, few studies examine the...
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Unpacking political trust: a review of conceptualisations, determinants, and consequences
Political trust is routinely invoked by social scientists and pundits, usually in a crisis narrative that sees a danger to democracy in declining or...
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Social and Political Trust in a Low Trust Society
We study the causal relationship between social and political trust in a low trust society, a setting where this topic has received very little...
