Increasing political distrust has become a commonplace observational remark across many
established democracies, and it is often used to explain current political phenomena. In …

Currently, very little is known about the individual level foundations of affective polarization
outside the US context. This paper addresses this research gap by exploring the predictors …

Abstract Focusing on 2002–2011, we analyse levels of trust in Greece and compare them
with 17 other European countries. During this period, Greece endured a serious economic …

Purpose This article contributes to a better theoretical and empiric understanding of mixed
results in the literature investigating the relationship between institutional confidence and …

Political trust is routinely invoked by social scientists and pundits, usually in a crisis narrative
that sees a danger to democracy in declining or low levels of political trust. However, the …

Throughout human evolutionary history, cooperative contact with others has been
fundamental for human survival. At the same time, social contact has been a source of …

This study sought to examine the differential effects of political trust on the adoption of e-
government services between foreign and Chinese students. Political trust was integrated …

While the relation between inequality and levels of political trust has been intensely
investigated, there is no consensus yet on the mechanism behind this relation. In this paper …

While in the older literature, low levels of political trust were routinely interpreted as a lack of
support for democracy, more recently authors have claimed that the value pattern of critical …

This study investigates the relationship between direct democracy and political trust. We
suggest a solution to the controversy in research centering on positive versus negative …