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Rebuilding Trust in Broken Systems? Populist Party Success and Citizens' Trust in Democratic Institutions
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Abstract What effect does the recent rise of populist parties harnessing an anti-system rhetoric have on political trust? Will citizens become disenchanted with and lose trust in the political system, or could populist party success even stimulate a growth of political trust? Arguing that populist parties ma... mehr
What effect does the recent rise of populist parties harnessing an anti-system rhetoric have on political trust? Will citizens become disenchanted with and lose trust in the political system, or could populist party success even stimulate a growth of political trust? Arguing that populist parties may well be conceived as a corrective force giving voice to and addressing citizen concerns about the established political system, this contribution hypothesizes that populist party success will increase political trust among the general public, especially in countries lacking democratic quality, with weak corruption control, and meagre government performance. Empirically, it combines ParlGov data with survey data from the European Social Survey (2002-2016) as well as aggregate data from the Varieties-of-Democracy project and the World Development Indicators to investigate how political trust has changed in relation to the growing success of populist parties and how democratic quality, corruption control, and government performance have moderated this relationship in 23 European democracies. Its main findings indicate that, at least in the short run, political trust increases rather than decreases following populist party success and that this increase in trust is most pronounced in political systems that lack democratic quality, struggle with corruption, and deliver only meager government performance.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
politische Rechte; öffentliche Meinung; Demokratie; politische Einstellung; Populismus; Europa; Vertrauen
Klassifikation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Freie Schlagwörter
corruption control; democratic quality; economic performance; government performance; political trust; European Social Survey (2002-2016); ParlGov (1997-2016); V-Dem (v9, 1997-2016); World Development Indicators (2002-2016)
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2020
Seitenangabe
S. 45-58
Zeitschriftentitel
Politics and Governance, 8 (2020) 3
Heftthema
Populism and Polarization: A Dual Threat to Europe's Liberal Democracies?
ISSN
2183-2463
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)