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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"political trust"”.
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A Comprehensive Examination of the Determinants and Consequences of Political Trust among Latinos
Political trust is an important concept in a representative democracy because it defines citizens’ expectations of their elected officials, their willingness to allow government to act on their behalf, and the quality of democratic accountability. Distrust, or when government outcomes fail to …
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General Social Trust And Political Trust Within Social And Political Groups: A Case Study
… society with high levels of generalized social trust and political trust are more likely to engage in civic activism and participation. Therefore, people involved in social and political groups will likely have higher levels of generalized social and political trust than the general public. What …
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Where The Two Trusts Meet: How Social Trust Influences Political Trust In The New Media Environment
… in person or to fully internalize the complex political system, news articles strongly influence the forming and updating of political trust. Technical developments have created the layer of one’s personal network between traditional media and its audience by allowing one to share any article …
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Explaining and predicting suggested relationships between human social capital, citizen political trust, and citizen political engagement
… democracy. Citizens engage in various political activities to elect representation to create policies and programs that may benefit individuals, groups of individuals, and special interests. A citizen’s type of political engagement and level of political engagement may be influenced by …
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Freedom to Vote in Kenya: Effects of Perceived Corruption, Levels of Political Trust, and Fear of Political Violence and Intimidation
… by 1) perception of corruption, 2) levels of trust in the government, 3) fear of political violence and intimidation, and 4) ethnic identity. Rational choice theory and an insideroutsider perspective are applied to examine the issue from a theoretical framework. Previous research conducted in …
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To trust or not to trust: Examining trust and perceptions of police in the United States
The trust between people of color and law enforcement is marked by conflict. From the early history of slavery to the convict lease system to modern day, the American system of justice failed communities and people of color. This historical relationship combined with the acquittals or the failure …
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POLITICAL CORRUPTION AND POLITICAL ENGAGMENT: A MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS INVESTIGATING THE EFFECT OF POLITICAL CORRUPTION PROSECUTIONS ON VOTING AND GOVERNMENT TRUST IN THE UNITED STATES
… factors in predicting voter turnout and citizen trust in the government. In international research particularly, political corruption has been shown to negatively affect citizen trust, though the effect of corruption on voter turnout is mixed. To date, no research has examined the effect of …
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Mechanisms of Trust in Indigenous Tourism: A Study of the Pataxó Jaqueira Community in Porto Seguro, Brazil.
… explores the role of interpersonal, social and political trust among key stakeholders in indigenous tourism in the making of partnerships and relationships in the Pataxó Jaqueira community, situated in the city of Porto Seguro in the south of Bahia in Brazil. The study provides a historical …
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Egyptian Attitudes toward Democracy: What the Afrobarometer Reveals about the Influence of Individuals' Social Characteristics
… interest in public affairs, social and political trust, and employment status on attitudes toward and interpretations of democracy among 1200 Egyptians living in urban and rural areas who participated in Afrobarometer survey in 2013. The author uses principle component and regression …
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Lived scarcity, social attitudes and political behaviour in Kenya : evidence from Afrobarometer Round 5
… model to test the effect of people's social and political perceptions and attitudes on the linkage between scarcity and violence. I find both direct and indirect significant linkages between respondents' experienced scarcity ('lived scarcity') and their propensity to use violence. I find that the …
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ESSEYS ON HISTORY, CULTURE AND ECONOMIC OUTCOMES
… the effect of history on current levels of trust in political institutions and the twofold relationship between culture and economic outcomes. My first chapter examines the effect of historical changes in political borders on current citizens' levels of trust in political institutions. …
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Political Cynicism: A Critical Re-Examination
The social scientific study of political cynicism is a complicated one. Cynicism has been understood both as a motivating source for change as well as a deep-rooted obstacle. This paper argues that part of the problem is that current survey scale items for political cynicism studies are flawed. …
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The political consequences of trauma
… terrorist attacks, and natural disasters for political behavior, we lack a comprehensive understanding of how and why trauma affects one’s orientations toward government and their engagement with politics. This dissertation provides a framework for understanding the relationship between trauma …
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CHINA¿S BELT AND ROAD `POLITICAL IMPACTS¿ IN THE INTERNATIONAL SPHERE(2013¿2023): HOW TO CONCEPTUALISE, ANALYSE AND EVALUATE THEM?
… less attention has been paid to detecting its political impacts. This study conceptualises impact as a dual concept encompassing both influence and effects. Based on this conceptualisation, it investigates whether China has been successful in altering or strengthening participating states' …
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Social capital, trust in institutions, discrimination and self-rated health. An epidemiological study in southern Sweden.
… 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 people as a …
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New Methods and Perspectives on the Administration of American Elections
… common, they do occur. Given the importance of political trust and existing rhetoric on the accuracy of voting tabulation, it is important to present voters with situations that reflect the types of errors that occur in real elections. Overall, I by using a large field experiment I find that …
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Lithuanian Emigrants and Home–Country Elections 2014–2016
… if still relatively scarce, body of empirical political science literature has been addressing the increasingly important topic of voting from abroad, studies of external voters from Central and Eastern European countries of origin lag behind considerably. The highly relevant case of Lithuania …
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Return to the realm of the Kob Kings: social capital, learning, resilience and action research in a changing fishery
… challenges drawing on four emergent themes: 1) trust and social capital, 2) social learning, 3) resilience and transformation, and 4) participatory action research/co-development. The thesis underlines how participation leads to co-developed strategies to address realworld challenges. The work …
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