Under what conditions do threat perceptions lead to an increasing distrust in government? This article argues that the answer is degree of ease with which a perceived can be linked governmental actors. First, I argue threats directed toward society should more easily by citizens domestic government compared individual (general linkage). Second, citizen’s general political stance strongly affect...

In recent years, there is a noticeable increase in cashless transactions due to financial technology development. With the enhancement of fin-tech products like e-wallet, most consumers shift from cash-based cashless. particular, locked down Citizens country had no other choice than stay at home COVID-19 pandemic Sri Lanka. The social distancing and avoidance physical touch were significant mea...

Abstract How much public and elite support is there for the use of a citizens’ assembly – random selection citizens brought together to consider policy issue tackle major, deadlock-inducing disagreements in deeply divided places with consociational political institutions? We focus on Northern Ireland evidence from cross-sectional attitude survey, survey-based experiment interviews. find that ge...

Democratic and participatory evaluation raises questions of power. Power lies not only in agenda setting and problem definition but also in formulating alternatives. The latter seems to have been forgotten in the literature on democratic evaluation. This may be partly due to the general neglect of assessing alternatives in evaluations, whether ex ante or ex post. The article distinguishes diffe...

Abstract The study described the creation and validation of Corruption Perception Scale (CPS), which assesses how citizens perceive corruption. In a qualitative step, instrument was evaluated by experts, followed pre-test. quantitative exploratory confirmatory factor analysis performed, totaling sample 1,075 cases. Finally, methodology for application CPS suggested. final structure measure comp...