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Institutions matter: The impact of the covid‐19 pandemic on the political trust of young Europeans
In this paper, we study the short‐run evolution of political trust during the recent covid‐19 pandemic using survey data for a sample of young individuals living in Germany, France, Italy, and Spain. In particular, we analyze whether pre‐pandemic perceptions and experiences of citizens about various...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9115117/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35599964 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jors.12588 |
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author | Bottasso, Anna Cerruti, Gianluca Conti, Maurizio |
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description | In this paper, we study the short‐run evolution of political trust during the recent covid‐19 pandemic using survey data for a sample of young individuals living in Germany, France, Italy, and Spain. In particular, we analyze whether pre‐pandemic perceptions and experiences of citizens about various dimensions of local governments and institutional quality had any mediating effect on the evolution of political trust after the outbreak of the covid‐19 pandemic. The results show a relative increase in political trust of about 9% in regions with high institutional quality (75th percentile) compared with regions with low institutional quality (25th percentile) over the period 2019−2020. This divergence can be associated with either a better performance of policymakers in high‐quality institutions regions, or to more positive attitudes toward politicians by citizens that, before the pandemic, believed to live in regions with efficient institutions. Overall results are not affected by the inclusion of regional fixed effects or by possible differential evolution of political trust according to a large set of observable regional characteristics. |
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spelling | pubmed-91151172022-05-18 Institutions matter: The impact of the covid‐19 pandemic on the political trust of young Europeans Bottasso, Anna Cerruti, Gianluca Conti, Maurizio J Reg Sci Research Articles In this paper, we study the short‐run evolution of political trust during the recent covid‐19 pandemic using survey data for a sample of young individuals living in Germany, France, Italy, and Spain. In particular, we analyze whether pre‐pandemic perceptions and experiences of citizens about various dimensions of local governments and institutional quality had any mediating effect on the evolution of political trust after the outbreak of the covid‐19 pandemic. The results show a relative increase in political trust of about 9% in regions with high institutional quality (75th percentile) compared with regions with low institutional quality (25th percentile) over the period 2019−2020. This divergence can be associated with either a better performance of policymakers in high‐quality institutions regions, or to more positive attitudes toward politicians by citizens that, before the pandemic, believed to live in regions with efficient institutions. Overall results are not affected by the inclusion of regional fixed effects or by possible differential evolution of political trust according to a large set of observable regional characteristics. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-03-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9115117/ /pubmed/35599964 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jors.12588 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Journal of Regional Science published by Wiley Periodicals LLC. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. |
spellingShingle | Research Articles Bottasso, Anna Cerruti, Gianluca Conti, Maurizio Institutions matter: The impact of the covid‐19 pandemic on the political trust of young Europeans |
title | Institutions matter: The impact of the covid‐19 pandemic on the political trust of young Europeans |
title_full | Institutions matter: The impact of the covid‐19 pandemic on the political trust of young Europeans |
title_fullStr | Institutions matter: The impact of the covid‐19 pandemic on the political trust of young Europeans |
title_full_unstemmed | Institutions matter: The impact of the covid‐19 pandemic on the political trust of young Europeans |
title_short | Institutions matter: The impact of the covid‐19 pandemic on the political trust of young Europeans |
title_sort | institutions matter: the impact of the covid‐19 pandemic on the political trust of young europeans |
topic | Research Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9115117/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35599964 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jors.12588 |
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