Trust in political actors and institutions has long been seen as essential for effective
democratic governance. During the COVID-19 pandemic, trust was widely identified as key …

This study shows that social and political trust may diverge in the face of shared threats, and
that this pattern is driven by negative information about crisis management. Leveraging a …

The COVID‐19 pandemic has led to an upswing in conspiracy theory beliefs, which creates
challenges for effectively countering the pandemic, with higher rates of COVID‐19 vaccine …

Purpose In spite of the merits of artificial intelligence (AI) in marketing and social media,
harm to consumers has prompted calls for AI auditing/certification. Understanding …

Lockdown interventions employed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic have been
evaluated via research at biomedical, economic, psychological, and ethical levels of …

While a large literature interrogates the causes and consequences of declining political trust
in democracies, considerably less work has considered the everyday leadership strategies …

This study explores shifts in political trust during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in
Switzerland, examining the role that media consumption and threat perceptions played in …

Minoritized groups have been severely affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, highlighting the
need to better understand how they and their interests were (not) represented in the political …

Crises like the Covid‐19 pandemic place an added premium on the social contract
underpinning principal‐agent relations in representative democracies, which relies, at a …

In 2020 governments worldwide implemented various laws and social distancing restrictions
to contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus. At the same time, conspiracy theories emerged …