Polarizing Ideological Shifts as a Cause of Falling Institutional Trust? A Cross-National/Longitudinal Public Opinion Study

• In Event: Trust and Faith in Politics and Government

Brief Overview

We test whether national publics experienced polarizing ideological shifts to the effect that those segments at the reactionary end of used cleavages lost institutional trust in ways that make them ready to sacrifice democracy’s liberal principles

Authors

• Christian Peter Welzel, Leuphana University

• Agnieszka Turska-Kawa, University of Silesia in Katowice

• Lennart Brunkert, Leuphana University Lüneburg