van Ham, Carolien van Elsas, Erika
Published in
Frontiers in Political Science
Democratic legitimacy is essential for democratic stability, as democracies rely on citizen support to survive. However, perceived legitimacy gaps can also be an important catalyst for change and potential democratic renewal, begging the question when challenges to legitimacy become problematic for democratic survival. Easton distinguished between ...
Sanusi Gumbi, Khadijah Baba, Yahaya T.
Published in
Frontiers in Political Science
The article examined the manifestations of political trust deficits associated with people's response to policy choices of Nigeria's government during the COVID-19 pandemic. Like many other states, the African states and particularly the Nigerian government adopted WHO-recommended containment measures to limit the spread of the virus and the associ...
Murumba, Ruth N. Pashayan, Angela R.
Published in
Frontiers in Political Science
This paper examines declining political trust at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in the informal settlements of Mukuru Kayaba, Mukuru kwa Njenga, and Mukuru kwa Ruben; part of the Mukuru Informal Settlement located in Nairobi, Kenya. The average resident lives on $1.90–$3.50/day with no financial security net. During the COVID-19 pandemic gov...
Valgarðsson, Viktor Orri
Published in
Frontiers in Political Science
A potential puzzle has emerged in the study of political trust: recent studies indicate that individuals' trust judgements are remarkably stable over their life course, but many other studies have observed long-term declines of trust in the aggregate. In particular, trust clearly declined substantially during and following the 2008 economic (and po...
Goerres, Achim Vail, Mark I.
Published in
Frontiers in Political Science
How do national models of solidarity shape public support for distinctive policy responses to social and economic crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic? We analyze American and German policy responses from March 2020 to June 2021 across a number of economic and social policy domains and identify path-dependent institutional contingencies in both co...
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Malmlöf, Jennifer Tjärnberg, Algot
Sweden has been commended for incorporating sustainable practices in society. Personal responsibility is an important part to reduce climate emissions. Although, little is known about what factors impact how citizens experience their personal responsibility to reduce climate change. Previous studies have not explicitly focused on personal responsib...
Kern, Anna Marien, Sofie Muradova, Lala
How do citizens react to repeated losses in politics? This paper argues that experiencing accumulated losses creates strong incentives to externalize responsibility for these losses to the decision-making procedure, which can, in turn, erode legitimacy perceptions among the public. Using a survey experiment (N = 2,146) simulating accumulated losses...
van Noord, Jochem Spruyt, Bram Kuppens, Toon Spears, Russell
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The British journal of sociology
Less educated citizens are both descriptively and substantively outnumbered by higher educated citizens in political and societal institutions. While social science has devoted much time to explain why such education effects exist, it has largely neglected the role of feelings of misrecognition in inducing political alienation among less educated c...
Stivas, Dionysios Cole, Alistair
Securitization was a common practice of governments during the first phases of the COVID-19 outbreak. To successfully securitize a pandemic, a government has to convince its citizens of the magnitude of the threat. Trusted governments should be able to do this more effectively than untrusted ones. Hong Kong, our case study, is unique because the go...
