Overview
- Investigates the distinctiveness, antecedents and consequences of citizens’ confidence in representative and regulative institutions and authorities
- Offers an in-depth analysis of citizens’ political confidence for a total of twenty-one European countries based on individual-level data from the European Social Survey (ESS)
- Provides novel insights into the relevance of citizens’ political confidence for the functioning and well-being of modern democracies
Part of the book series: Contributions to Political Science (CPS)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
Keywords
- Political trust
- Institutional trust
- Political support
- Democratic performance
- Legitimacy crisis
- Social capital
- Political participation
- Democratic norms
- European Social Survey (ESS)
- Comparative politics
- Political confidence
- Political authorities
- Representative institutions
- Regulative institutions
- democracy
About this book
This book examines the antecedents and consequences of citizens’ confidence in different political institutions and authorities. Its main argument states that a distinction between confidence in representative and regulative institutions and authorities is of crucial importance in order to gain novel insights into the relevance of political confidence for the viability of democratic systems. Relying on individual-level data from the European Social Survey (ESS), the author provides empirical evidence that citizens from a total of twenty-one European countries make a distinction between confidence in representative institutions and authorities and confidence in regulative institutions and authorities. Furthermore, the author shows that both types of political confidence emanate from different sources and are associated with varying consequences. Overall, these findings indicate that confidence in representative and confidence in regulative institutions and authorities establish two qualitatively different types of political confidence, each with distinct implications for the functioning and well-being of modern democracies.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Christian Schnaudt is a research fellow at GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Mannheim, Germany. Prior to that, he worked as a research associate and lecturer at the Department of Political Science at the University of Mannheim, Germany. His research interests are in the area of political behaviour and comparative politics, including topics such as political confidence and trust, political participation, and democratic norms and values. His research has been published in the European Journal of Political Research, The Journal of Information Technology & Politics, and methods, data & analyses.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Political Confidence and Democracy in Europe
Book Subtitle: Antecedents and Consequences of Citizens’ Confidence in Representative and Regulative Institutions and Authorities
Authors: Christian Schnaudt
Series Title: Contributions to Political Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89432-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-89431-7Published: 18 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07770-9Published: 02 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-89432-4Published: 09 July 2018
Series ISSN: 2198-7289
Series E-ISSN: 2198-7297
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 302
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations
Topics: Comparative Politics, Political Sociology, Public Policy, Governance and Government, Democracy