Are citizens more likely to trust parties under institutionalized party systems?

• In Event: Political Trust & Contention in Asia

Brief Overview

We argue that party systems play a central role in boosting voters’ trust toward political parties, because more standardized and structured inter-party competition helps voters to choose elites in the electoral arena.

Authors

• Don S. Lee, University of Nottingham

• Mark Weatherall, National Taiwan University

• Yutzung Chang, National Taiwan University