Signalling That They Care: How Participatory Processes Can Strengthen Legitimacy Perceptions

• In Event: Trust and Legitimacy

Brief Overview

Vignette experiments studying whether and under which conditions participatory processes can signal to citizens that authorities care about them and their opinions and if this, in turn, increases perceptions of legitimacy.

Authors

• Hannah Werner, University of Leuven

• Anna Kern, Ghent University