Responsiveness, performance and corruption: reasons for the decline of political trust

We test the importance of responsiveness, performance and corruption to explain the evolution of political trust in Spain between 1997 and 2019. To this end, the study analyses two longitudinal datasets, namely, a repeated cross-sectional dataset from the Spanish samples of Eurobarometer and an indi...

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Autores: Torcal, Mariano, Christmann, Pablo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Repositorio:Repositorio Digital de la UPF
OAI Identifier:oai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/54945
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/54945
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpos.2021.676672
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Palabra clave:Political trust
Corruption
Political responsiveness
Political process
Economic performance
Spain
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spelling Responsiveness, performance and corruption: reasons for the decline of political trustTorcal, MarianoChristmann, PabloPolitical trustCorruptionPolitical responsivenessPolitical processEconomic performanceSpainWe test the importance of responsiveness, performance and corruption to explain the evolution of political trust in Spain between 1997 and 2019. To this end, the study analyses two longitudinal datasets, namely, a repeated cross-sectional dataset from the Spanish samples of Eurobarometer and an individual-level panel survey conducted during a period of economic recovery in 2015. The study finds that perceptions about political corruption and responsiveness matter greatly in shaping political trust and to a lesser extent economic performance. Although the Great Recession is likely responsible for the sharp decline in trust towards political parties and the parliament between 2008 and 2012, the analysis suggests that trust in representative institutions remains low even after the Recession because of a series of devastating corruption incidents and a perceived lack of responsiveness of the political system. On the other hand, the study finds indications that trust in the judicial system might have been mainly affected by perceptions of corruption.The research study was supported by the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Programa Estatal de Fomento de la Investigación Científica y Técnica de Excelencia—Subprograma Estatal de Generación de Conocimiento, under grant number CSO 2016-79772-P (2016–2020) and by the ICREA-ACADEMIA Intense Research Award.Frontiers202220222021info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/54945http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpos.2021.676672reponame:Repositorio Digital de la UPFinstname:Universitat Pompeu FabraInglésFrontiers in Political Science. 2021 Jul;3:676672info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/CSO2016-79772-PCopyright © 2021 Torcal and Christmann. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/549452026-06-12T07:21:37Z
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title Responsiveness, performance and corruption: reasons for the decline of political trust
spellingShingle Responsiveness, performance and corruption: reasons for the decline of political trust
Torcal, Mariano
Political trust
Corruption
Political responsiveness
Political process
Economic performance
Spain
title_short Responsiveness, performance and corruption: reasons for the decline of political trust
title_full Responsiveness, performance and corruption: reasons for the decline of political trust
title_fullStr Responsiveness, performance and corruption: reasons for the decline of political trust
title_full_unstemmed Responsiveness, performance and corruption: reasons for the decline of political trust
title_sort Responsiveness, performance and corruption: reasons for the decline of political trust
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Torcal, Mariano
Christmann, Pablo
author Torcal, Mariano
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Christmann, Pablo
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Political trust
Corruption
Political responsiveness
Political process
Economic performance
Spain
topic Political trust
Corruption
Political responsiveness
Political process
Economic performance
Spain
description We test the importance of responsiveness, performance and corruption to explain the evolution of political trust in Spain between 1997 and 2019. To this end, the study analyses two longitudinal datasets, namely, a repeated cross-sectional dataset from the Spanish samples of Eurobarometer and an individual-level panel survey conducted during a period of economic recovery in 2015. The study finds that perceptions about political corruption and responsiveness matter greatly in shaping political trust and to a lesser extent economic performance. Although the Great Recession is likely responsible for the sharp decline in trust towards political parties and the parliament between 2008 and 2012, the analysis suggests that trust in representative institutions remains low even after the Recession because of a series of devastating corruption incidents and a perceived lack of responsiveness of the political system. On the other hand, the study finds indications that trust in the judicial system might have been mainly affected by perceptions of corruption.
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