Political Trust, Commitment and Responsiveness

Festenstein, Matthew

doi:10.1177/0032321719852569

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“…Additionally, he asserted that political trust is an ‘evaluative or affective orientation toward government,’ (Miller, 1974, p. 952). Individuals generally trust those who they believe have their best interests in mind and with whom they share similar perspectives (Bianco 1994; Festenstein, 2020; Hardin, 2002; Klein & Robinson, 2019; Lupia & McCubbins, 1998).…”

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The Public’s Perceptions of Government Officials’ Communication in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Bickham

Francis

2021

Journal of Creative Communications

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Early news coverage in the US about the COVID-19 pandemic focused on information released from local, state and federal government officials. With an emphasis on US government at these levels, this study examined whether the public’s credibility perceptions and trust in government, along with message exposure, influenced their adherence to information from the government about (a) stay-at-home orders, (b) social distancing and (c) COVID-19 testing. Source credibility theory and situational crisis communication theory provided the theoretical framework for this study. Through the survey data analysis, we investigated communication preferences in the wake of the pandemic and whether credibility perceptions differed according to the level of government. Survey findings revealed that message exposure influenced respondents’ perceived credibility of and trust in government officials during and after the stay-at-home order. Finally, practical implications regarding recommended communication strategies based on the findings were discussed.

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The Public’s Perceptions of Government Officials’ Communication in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Bickham

Francis

2021

Journal of Creative Communications

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“…Identification with a candidate generates trust that structures political beliefs and behavior. The more people trust the politician, they accept more easily their campaign ideas and believe that the politician will fulfill campaign pledges (Duval and Petry, 2018;Festenstein, 2020). Voters who trust politicians are usually more connected with them (Vergeer, 2013) and consider the campaign a reflection of politicians' ideas and intentions (postelection pledge fulfillment).…”

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“…Voters who trust politicians are usually more connected with them (Vergeer, 2013) and consider the campaign a reflection of politicians' ideas and intentions (postelection pledge fulfillment). In this case, voters think that politicians will fulfill the commitment they have undertaken (Hawley, 2014) because politicians have the right kind of motivations and incentives to be responsive to voters' interests (Festenstein, 2020).…”

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Begin Again: Election Campaign and Own Opinions Among First‐Time Voters in Romania

Gherghina

Rusu

2021

Social Science Quarterly

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Objective. This article analyzes under what circumstances first-time voters are likely to be influenced by the election campaign or by their opinion prior to campaign in their vote choice. Methods. It uses individual-level data from an original online survey conducted among Romanian first-time voters in the November 2019 presidential election. Results. The results indicate that those who trust politicians, find the campaign informative and use social media are influenced by election campaign. Those with higher political knowledge and interest follow their precampaign attitudes in casting the vote. Conclusion. The study reveals the existence of distinct causal mechanisms for young voters who are influenced at the polls by the election campaign or by their own attitude prior to campaign. This indicates the necessity to include the existence of an opinion prior to campaign in future analytical frameworks about voting behavior.Election campaigns are short periods of time in which candidates spend considerable time, effort, and money to shape what citizens think about them (Fridkin and Kenney, 2011). They generate news coverage, informative material, and persuasive messages that can influence citizens' preferences, evaluations, and vote intentions (Ansolabehere and Iyengar, 1994;Nadeau et al., 2008). Campaigns make the electorate more knowledgeable and increase both the external and internal efficacy of voters (Hansen and Pedersen, 2014). Extensive literature indicates that many individuals decide how to vote based on the content of election campaigns (Peterson, 2015). At the same time, another strand of literature argues that campaign effects are limited and previous preferences, partisan dispositions, or political context outside the campaign may drive people's decisions how to vote (Hillygus and Jackman, 2003). The theory of campaigns' minimal effects goes back to more than half a century (Campbell et al., 1960) and claims that voters select a candidate before the campaign begins, mostly by identification with that person (Levine, 2005) and in accordance with their own preferences and values (Ha and Lau, 2015). As such, individual votes can be predicted based on voters' attitudes prior to the campaign (Gelman and King, 1993). In this sense, voters' partisanship is one important determinant that makes the campaign effects fade.So far, the debate about campaign effects has sought to provide evidence at the level of the entire voting population. There is little empirical evidence about these effects on the first-time voters. This category is special for two reasons. First, since they could not vote before, this is the first election campaign to which they have been subjected and arguably

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“…В другой статье (Festenstein, 2020) выделяются три концепции политического доверия: этическая концепция (moral conception), концепция реагирования (responsiveness conception) и концепция выполнения обязательств (commitment conception). Причем автор развивает относительно новую третью концепцию, которая вписывается в теорию состязательности общественного пространства.…”

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Institutional Factors Influencing Political Trust in Modern Russia

Malkina¹,

Ovchinnikov²,

Kholodilin³

2020

JIS

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The aim of this study is to analyze and assess the impact of institutional factors on political trust in various levels of government (federal, regional and local) in modern Russia. Data and methods. The study is based on microdata from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) “Life in Transition Survey” (LiTS). We examined such institutional factors of political trust as perceived government performance and level of corruption, as well as the level of interpersonal trust. The subjective decile of household wealth was an additional explanatory variable in our analysis. We estimated the model parameters using linear regressions with instrumental variables. Results and their application. First, we found that in 2016 the perceived effectiveness of the federal government was the main determinant of Russian trust in the president. At the same time, the perceived level of local corruption was a major factor of Russian citizens’ (mis)trust in local authorities. Second, we found that poor households turned out to be the most loyal groups of the population towards the Russian president, and we explained this phenomenon by the active redistributive policy of the federal authorities. Third, we revealed a significant positive relationship between political and interpersonal trust at the micro level. In conclusion, we made recommendations on the effective management of political trust in modern Russia.

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Political Trust, Commitment and Responsiveness

Cited by 17 publications

References 63 publications

The Public’s Perceptions of Government Officials’ Communication in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic

The Public’s Perceptions of Government Officials’ Communication in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Begin Again: Election Campaign and Own Opinions Among First‐Time Voters in Romania

Institutional Factors Influencing Political Trust in Modern Russia

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