Terrorism and institutional trust: A longitudinal study

• In Event: Violence and public opinion I: Legacies of civil war

Brief Overview

We test if terrorist threats impact citizens’ long-term trust in legislative, judicial and executive institutions using data from eight waves European Social Survey (ESS 2002-2016) and country-level data on exposure to terrorism.

Authors

• Jacob Aars, University of Bergen, Norway

• Dag Arne Christensen, Uni Research Rokkan Centre

• Gunnar Helgi Kristinsson, University of Iceland

• Jon Kåre Skiple, Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen