The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic puts countries and their governments in an
unprecedented situation. Strong countermeasures have been implemented in most places …

This article extends and tests the trust-as-evaluation approach that is dominant in political
science. Citizens supposedly grant and withhold trust in politics based on an assessment of …

Recent cross‐national comparative studies have found no effect of countries'
macroeconomic performances on trust in national political institutions, once political …

The relationships among objective macroeconomic outcomes, subjective evaluations, and
political trust are widely studied. Yet, these relationships are not as straightforward as they …

There is a theoretical disagreement between the classical normative positive view on
decentralisation, which states that the fragmentation of power shifts policy more closely into …

The Great Recession that began in the late 2000s spurred a range of scholars to investigate
its effects on political trust (eg, Polavieja, 2013; Armingeon and Guthmann, 2014; Torcal …

Political trust is a fundamental bedrock for a political system to work. The “trust-as-
evaluation” approach has identified an individual's perceived evaluation of economic …

Recent empirical evidence suggests that decentralization challenges the stakes of
democratic control by blurring responsibility attribution between levels of government …

Since 2010, the European Central Bank (ECB) has established a range of unconventional
monetary policies in the context of several crises, including cheap and long-term refinancing …

It has been assumed that a trend toward devolution within a federal country would be
associated with a growing apart of public opinion, and the federal kingdom of Belgium is …