Does inequality erode political trust?

Does inequality erode political trust? - Frontiers

This study provides new evidence for a sociotropic effect of macroeconomic income inequality on trust in the institutions of representative democracy.

SocArXiv Papers | Does inequality erode political trust? - OSF

The findings show that both long-standing differences in income inequality between countries and changes in inequality within countries over ...

Why Economic Inequality Undermines Political Trust: An Analysis of ...

Abstract. Research suggests that economic inequality reduces political trust after the public recognizes the inequality and perceives it as ...

Economic inequality and injustice evaluations erode social and ...

Similarly, when people trust political institutions, they report lower levels of polarization, more support for democratic regimes, and can ...

Does inequality erode political trust? - OPUS 4

The findings show that both long-standing differences in income inequality between countries and changes in inequality within countries over time are negatively ...

Inequality, external efficacy and political trust

Causal mediation analysis confirms that inequality affects trust through lower efficacy. Further analyses show that this efficacy-based mechanism does not.

How income inequality threatens democracy - the Loop: ECPR

Inequality does indeed depress trust via an outcome-based mechanism, as shown by the direct effect depending on political orientation. At the ...

Does inequality erode political trust? - OUCI

A long-standing argument in the political sciences holds that high levels of inequality are incompatible with democracy. Although a number of studies have ...

Income Inequality and Political Trust: Do Fairness Perceptions Matter?

If individuals have biased perceptions of inequality, actual inequality per se may not directly affect individual trust levels but such ...

Does inequality erode political trust? Wiki - OSF

This is the replication material for the article "Does inequality erode political trust?", published in Frontiers in Political Science - Section Comparative ...

Rising inequality: A major issue of our time - Brookings Institution

An increasingly unequal society can weaken trust in public institutions and undermine democratic governance. Mounting global disparities can ...

Does economic inequality reduce political system support? Local ...

It is a long-standing claim in political science that economic inequality leads to dissatisfaction with democracy and concomitant distrust in ...

The trust-eroding effect of perceived inequality: Evidence from East ...

Our results suggest that the political salience of inequality on citizens' minds is of crucial importance for political trust and political consequences of ...

Does inequality erode social trust? Results from multilevel models of ...

... When levels of generalized trust are low, countries experience economic stagnation (Algan and Cahuc 2013;Tabellini 2010), stunted political participation ( ...

Does inequality erode generalized trust? Evidence from Romanian ...

Generalized trust in post- communist countries tends to be low, and Romania is no different in this respect (Uslaner 2003). A lackluster economy, weak political ...

Corruption and Inequality as Correlates of Social Trust:

I argue that the fairness of a society affects its level of social trust more than does its homogeneity. Societies with fair procedural rules (democracy), fair ...

Democracy and inequality - Brookings Institution

Inequality is only loosely associated with weaker democracies. A loose correlation between inequality and reduced political freedoms (as ...

Unequal Societies The effect of economic inequality on political trust

of social and economic inequality lastly erode trust in political institutions, as it is perceived that the ... Does inequality erode social trust? Results from ...

Does inequality erode social trust? Results from multilevel models of ...

We show that while people are less trusting in US states with higher income inequality, this association holds only cross-sectionally, not longitudinally.

Income Inequality and Political Instability

If the quality of institutions remain low causing a deterioration of trust in government, high levels of civic participation, contrary to the ...