The European Social Survey: Contents, Design, and Research Potential

Schnaudt, Christian; Weinhardt, Michael; Fitzgerald, Rory; Liebig, Stefan

doi:10.3790/schm.134.4.487

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“…More details about the European Social Survey are available elsewhere. 16 The study protocol subscribes to the Declaration on Professional Ethics of the International Statistical Institute.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Few European Adults are Living a Healthy Lifestyle

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Few European Adults are Living a Healthy Lifestyle

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“…For the empirical test of our hypotheses, we require data covering both citizens' political trust and their justice evaluations at the individual level. The European Social Survey (ESS) contains a standard series of questions on political trust comprising representative and regulative authorities and institutions (for a general overview of the ESS, see Schnaudt et al, 2014). In addition, the ninth round of the ESS, 2018/19 implemented a specific thematic module on "Justice and fairness, " which provides a topical and comprehensive data basis for the research questions at hand (ESS, 2018).…”

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Distributive and Procedural Justice and Political Trust in Europe

2021

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Previous research underlines that a political system's adherence to principles of distributive and procedural justice stimulates citizens' political trust. Yet, most of what is known about the relationship between justice and political trust is derived from macro-level indicators of distributive and procedural justice, merely presuming that citizens connect a political system's adherence to justice principles to their trust in political authorities and institutions. Accordingly, we still lack a clear understanding of whether and how individual perceptions and evaluations of distributive and procedural justice influence citizens' political trust and how their impact might be conditioned by a political system's overall adherence to principles of justice. In addition, previous research has implicitly assumed that the link between justice principles and political trust operates identically for all major political authorities and institutions, disregarding the possibility that citizens evaluate representative and regulative authorities and institutions on the basis of different justice criteria. Against this background, the aims of the present study are (1) to investigate the impact of individual evaluations of distributive and procedural justice on citizens' political trust, (2) to analyze to what extent the effects of justice evaluations on political trust depend on political systems' overall adherence to principles of distributive and procedural justice, and (3) to assess whether and in which ways the influence of justice evaluations differs for trust in representative and regulative authorities and institutions. Our empirical analysis covering more than 30,000 respondents from 27 European countries based on data from the European Social Survey (ESS) and the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) project demonstrates that (1) more positive evaluations of distributive and procedural justice foster citizens' political trust, that (2) the impact of justice evaluations on political trust is amplified in political systems in which the overall adherence to justice principles is compromised, and that (3) different facets of distributive and procedural justice evaluations exert varying effects on citizens' trust in representative as compared to regulative authorities and institutions. These findings entail important implications with regard to the relation between justice and political trust and the general viability of modern democratic systems.

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“…Further details about European Social Survey are available elsewhere. 19 The study protocol subscribes the Declaration on Professional Ethics of the International Statistical Institute (http:// www.europeansocialsurvey.org/about/ethics.html).…”

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confidence: 99%