Political trust in North America

Dalton, Russell J.

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“…First, the findings suggest that distrust in politicians, in part, reflects citizens' dissatisfaction with behavior that is institutionalized and facilitated in many political systems. The article answers recent calls to move beyond accounts stressing low incumbent performance and misconduct in specific countries and identify more generic, structural aspects of politics that may depress and impede public trust in politicians more generally (e.g., Dalton 2017). While important contextual scope conditions for the reported findings may apply (as discussed in detail below), the results establish that the adverse effects of politicians' party loyalty travel across important institutional and cultural settings.…”

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Politicians as Party Hacks: Party Loyalty and Public Distrust in Politicians

Bøggild

2020

The Journal of Politics

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Public distrust in politicians is widespread across Western democracies. This general pattern suggests that the problem not only reflects dissatisfaction with government performance and misconduct-the main focus in existing research-but also how democratic politics is generally conducted. This article identifies a mismatch between the representation facilitated by modern democracies and the representation wanted by a majority of citizens. Because political representation is organized around cohesive parties, several institutions incentivize politicians to exhibit loyalty to party policy over other considerations (partisan representation). Observational and experimental data from three countries demonstrate that citizens generally perceive politicians as conducting partisan representation, but they prefer that politicians follow their own conscience (trustee representation) and constituency (delegate representation) over party policy. This mismatch translates into distrust in politicians, even in countries with strong norms for party discipline and among politicians' own party supporters. The findings have implications for understanding and counteracting political distrust.

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Politicians as Party Hacks: Party Loyalty and Public Distrust in Politicians

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2020

The Journal of Politics

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“…La confianza política tiene una relevancia fundamental en las democracias y sus instituciones, al constituir "un indicador central del sentimiento subyacente del público sobre su sistema político" (Newton & Norris, 2000, p. 53), que cristaliza el estado del contrato social asumido entre los ciudadanos y su gobierno (Dalton, 2017). Así, la confianza presenta implicaciones lo mismo en instituciones políticas, ciudadanos, que el régimen mismo.…”

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“…No todos los entes políticos son afectados por igual en las cuotas de desconfianza. Los objetos del nivel macro -la confianza difusa en el sistema político democrático-no registran niveles de desconfianza tales que puedan generar crisis sistémicas agudas; a lo sumo existen fluctuaciones en dichos niveles de confianza cuya intensidad y duración en el tiempo varía (Norris, 2011), aunque dicha insatisfacción no llega a afectar negativamente la adhesión a los principios democráticos (Dalton, 2017;Zmerli & van der Meer, 2017). En las antípodas, los partidos políticos son los que "generan mayor desconfianza de entre todas las instituciones y organizaciones políticas de todos los continentes y tipos de regímenes" (Dogan, 2005, p. 23); a su vez, líderes o figuras políticas también salen desfavorecidas, puesto que "en las encuestas internacionales de ética profesional relativas a la honestidad de unas veinticuatro profesiones, los políticos aparecen en muchos países como los menos dignos de confianza" (Dogan, 2005, p. 26).…”

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“…La necesidad por parte de las naciones de formar parte de una sociedad global ha restringido el poder de los gobiernos sobre sus condiciones sociales y económicas. Muchas políticas son moldeadas por acuerdos internacionales y estas restricciones impuestas a los gobiernos contribuyen a la erosión de la confianza de sus ciudadanos hacia ellos (Dalton, 2017). El manejo de los gobiernos respecto de los factores macroeconómicos es una muestra de ello, pues éstos ya no ofrecen proyecciones fiables a medio y largo plazo, dejando al ciudadano en un ambiente económicamente inestable y proyectando la impotencia de los poderes públicos para controlar la economía.…”

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Confianza política y medios de comunicación. Teoría, hallazgos y metodologías

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2019

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En el contexto de la relevancia de la confianza política para la gobernabilidad democrática, se ofrece un estado del arte basado en 52 trabajos publicados en los últimos diez años en bases de datos latinoamericanas e internacionales, acerca del factor mediático implicado en ello. El documento reseña la función de la confianza para la democracia y las principales teorías que explican su variación temporal. Centrándose en la explicación específicamente mediática, se explicitan las vertientes clásicas y contemporáneas de los efectos de los medios a este respecto, así como los trabajos empíricos que las apoyan o refutan. El artículo concluye con una reseña de las principales metodologías implementadas para su estudio, así como una reflexión crítica acerca de las lagunas de conocimiento e insuficiencias encontradas en la revisión, como punto de partida para nuevas pesquisas.

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“…Zmerli and Van der Meer 2017).5 For the purpose of this analysis, we split items based on the median sum score of the items. 6 Unfortunately, this selection of data sets does not encompass the United States and Canada, that tend to employ a different set of questions to measure trust in government(Dalton 2017).…”

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Putting ‘political’ back in political trust: an IRT test of the unidimensionality and cross-national equivalence of political trust measures

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Ouattara

2019

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Much research intro political trust-its causes, correlates and trends-builds on the twin assumptions that trust in a wide range of political institutions is ultimately an expression of (1) a singular and (2) a cross-nationally equivalent underlying attitude. Yet, the widespread assumptions of unidimensionality and cross-national equivalence of political trust is at odds with the dominant conceptual understanding of political trust as a relational concept, driven by subjects, objects, and their interplay. This paper employs Rasch modelling as a direct, strict test of unidimensionality, equivalence and item hierarchy. We test the fit of the Rasch model on political trust items in seven widely used, cross-national surveys (World Values Survey, Afrobarometer, Arabbarometer, Asian Barometer, Eurobarometer, European Social Survey, and Latinobarometro), covering 161 national surveys in 119 countries across the globe. We find that the unidimensional specification of the Rasch model does not fit the standard political trust question batteries. Political trust is not cross-nationally equivalent; trust in specific political institutions is more than a mere indicator of an underlying attitude. This conclusion does not impede cross-national research into political trust; rather it illustrates the need for consistent robustness checks across a range of objects of political trust. Our findings open up new venues for substantive research questions on specific objects of political trust and their relationships.

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Political trust in North America

Cited by 60 publications

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Politicians as Party Hacks: Party Loyalty and Public Distrust in Politicians

Politicians as Party Hacks: Party Loyalty and Public Distrust in Politicians

Confianza política y medios de comunicación. Teoría, hallazgos y metodologías

Putting ‘political’ back in political trust: an IRT test of the unidimensionality and cross-national equivalence of political trust measures

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