Trust in Times of Diploma Democracy: Testing the Role of Substantive Representation, Populist Rhetoric, and Cultural Distance in the Educational Gradient in Political Trust Through a Population-Based Survey Experiment

• In Event: Challenges to Democracy

Brief Overview

Using a survey experiment in which participants watch a video of a fictitious politician, we test the role of cultural attitudes, populist rhetoric, and cultural distance to politicians for explaining the educational gradient in political trust.

Authors

• Kjell Noordzij, Erasmus University Rotterdam

• Willem De Koster, Erasmus University Rotterdam

• Jeroen van der Waal, Erasmus University Rotterdam