A Matter of Political Sophistication? The Relationship Between Institutional Performance and Political Trust Reconsidered

• In Event: European Voters and Political Change

Brief Overview

Using data from the data from the European Election Study 2104 and the European Social Survey 2002-2016, we show that political sophistication plays an important moderating role in the relation between institutional performance and trust.

Authors

• Christian Schnaudt, GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences

• Sebastian Adrian Popa, Newcastle University