Intergenerational spaces: citizens, political marketing and conceptualising trust in a transitional democracy

Abstract

As the third largest democracy in the world, Indonesia's relatively peaceful transition from authoritarian rule to democracy deserves academic attention. This study explored the notion of trust and how it could influence electoral behaviour. An intergenerational perspective was used to compare the differences between parents who were familiar with the previous political system and their children who have only been exposed to a new democratic system. Through the extension of the Dermody and Hanmer-Lloyd model of electoral behaviour, this study identifies the antecedents of trust/distrust in a transitional democracy and shows how these are different when citizens' consider the political system and the political candidate. The work can benefit policy makers and political candidates who can develop political marketing strategies to engage citizens in the electoral process.

Regulating sharing platforms in lateral exchange markets: the role of power and trust

“…Therefore, it is difficult to reduce uncertainty through process control (Lenz, 2016), and the sense of a weak control further fuels risk perception (Khan and Kupor, 2017). On the other hand, although individuals participating in collaborative consumption may be affected by uncontrollable environmental factors (Daft et al, 1988), interaction and communication can effectively increase the sense of trust between the two parties of a transaction (Mukherjee and Nath, 2007), which helps alleviate the risk perception (Susila et al, 2015). Therefore, shared knowledge platforms are expected to rely on legitimate power to maintain interaction and communication between knowledge users and providers, and wield necessary regulations to assure voluntary commitment of the supply-side to the demand-side:…”