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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Institutional trust."”.
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Institutional Trust and Interpersonal Interaction: A Contact Theory Approach
… concerns about decreasing levels of public trust and confidence in government. Political and institutional trust, and the way this trust is earned and lost, has been attributed to such factors as civic knowledge, institutional performance, prior experience, prior perceptions, cultural or …
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Misinformation, Disinformation, and the Erosion of Institutional Trust: The Role of Social Media in Democracy
… and disinformation have helped erode public trust in democratic institutions. This thesis examines how constant exposure to false online content correlates with declining confidence in democracy and evaluates the roles of platforms, influencers, and mechanisms. Using a convergent …
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"Trust Deficit Disorder": The Role of Social or Economic Grievances on Institutional Trust During Covid-19 in the United States
Trust in institutions across Western countries has been on the decline for some time now. World events, such as the Covid-19 pandemic, had an impact on trust. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres (2018) titled this decline across countries a "Trust Deficit Disorder". A great deal of scholarship has …
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Age, period, and cohort effects on trust of government in rural America.
… between macro-level socioeconomic conditions and institutional trust. I hypothesize that rural communities have experienced significant period forces that have influenced their levels of institutional trust. The statistical model reveals that while there was little difference between cohorts, …
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The Political Consequences of Socio-Economic Inequality
… the direct effect of economic insecurity and institutional trust on populism (e.g. Guiso et al. (2017), Dustmann et al. (2017)), this is the first study of its kind to show how the impact of economic insecurity on populism varies depending on the level of institutional trust. I find that when …
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The impact of organisational trust on the work-from-home experience and work outcomes: a study of high-tech employees in Hong Kong
… to examine the impact of organisational trust on the WFH experience of job effectiveness and well-being and the subsequent influence on engagement and satisfaction. An instrument was developed to measure the various constructs coupled with an expert review and pilot test prior to the …
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DONT' BE FOOLED BY FAKE NEWS? MAPPING THE SOCIAL, COGNITIVE, AND POLITICAL MECHANISMS OF MISINFORMATION BELIEF.
… styles, motivated reasoning, anti-elitism, institutional trust, and social norms. The second contribution of this doctoral thesis is the inclusion of these latter three explanations (one of which - social norms - is also experimentally manipulated), as the literature often focused on …
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Social capital, trust in institutions, discrimination and self-rated health. An epidemiological study in southern Sweden.
… studies and concern the associations between institutional trust in the health care system, political trust in the Riksdag (the Swedish parliament) and anticipation of discrimination, on the one hand, and self-rated health, on the other, adjusting for generalized (horizontal) trust in other …
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Braiding Education, Workforce, and Community: Designing Cohesive Learning Systems for Democracy and Mobility
… to better align opportunity, contribution, and institutional trust. Grounded in youth voice and lived experience, particularly youth furthest from opportunity, this integrated research–practice dissertation examines how fragmented learning and labor-market pathways are experienced and how …
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Exploring the effect of perceived relevance and privacy concerns on consumer responses to online behavioral advertising
… knowledge of OBA privacy risks, and institutional trust in online marketing practices were found to be significant factors influencing the two perceptual factors. Implications for advertising practitioners and directions for future research are discussed.
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A Qualitative Exploration of the Perceptions of Cellular Grown Meat and Seafood with Virginia Tech Students
… expectations, cultural traditions, and distrust of unfamiliar technology. Limited exposure, lack of trusted role models, and unclear information reduced students' confidence and outcome expectations. Despite this, many expressed conditional openness, highlighting the importance of …
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Tracing Violence Against Women from the Francoist Dictatorship to Democratic Spain
… against women. While democratization created the institutional framework for progress, this study contends that structural political change alone is insufficient to dismantle deeply entrenched patriarchal norms. By employing a triangulated methodology that combines historical analysis, thematic …
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The collaborative capacity of the NYPD, FDNY, and EMS in New York City : a focus on the first line officer
… homeland security partners. Different types of trust and influences of organizational cultures have been explored in previous studies on collaboration. An integral part, or central idea of this thesis, is to explore how the organizational culture and institutional trust, as demonstrated in the …
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The Digital Language Divide: Accessibility and Usability of Icelandic Public Digital Services for Foreign-Born Residents
… mechanisms influence usability, autonomy, and institutional trust. Although Iceland has developed extensive digital government infrastructure, core platforms such as Ísland.is, Skatturinn.is, and Heilsuvera.is remain predominantly Icelandic in language and administrative style. As a result, …
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Lessons of a Public Consultation = Egy társadalmi konzultáció tanulságai
… challenges of consultative politics. Emphasising trust as one of my key notions reflects on the loss of institutional trust characterizing the post-socialist countries of Europe in the years 2010.
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On the Determinants of Generalised Trust: An Investigation of the Institution-Centred and Society-Centred Perspectives
… and society-centred perspectives on generalized trust. Using advanced statistical techniques, I first assess some central implications of the two approaches employing observational data. In particular, I begin by suggesting that the scarcity of different goods in a region (lack of personal …
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Contextual Dynamics of Immigration Attitudes: Regional Differences in Southern Europe
… tolerance towards immigrants. Drawing upon institutional theory and realistic conflict theory, I further refine a theory of ethnic competition and prejudice in the Southern European context. I argue that popular attitudes towards immigration are correlated with a set of individual level …
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AI Trust and Technology Optimism in the Workforce: Data-Driven Insights into Regional Variation
… to local contexts. Workers’ willingness to trust and embrace these technologies is shaping how this transformation unfolds in practice. Some workers trust AI more than others, and interestingly, trust levels differ from one region to another. Drawing on a far-reaching 2024 worker survey …
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Enhancing trust in US nuclear waste management institutions
… to the stalemate has been a deficiency of public trust in nuclear waste management institutions. I argue that nuclear waste management institutions, such as the Department of Energy, have inspired distrust as a result of behavior that has undermined public perceptions of their trustworthiness, …
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