Coups and Social Trust

• In Event: Political Violence and Instability

Brief Overview

How do coups affect social trust? We argue that coups will increase trust, as an adaptive response to uncertainty. This is supported of cross-national analysis of Afrobarometer data, and by causal evidence from a natural experiment in Burkina Faso.

Authors

• Thomas James Brailey, University of Oxford

• Robin Harding, University of Oxford

• Thomas Isbell, Afrobarometer