the aim of this research is to study the amount of student's interest in political participation in governmental universities of tehran, and its effective factors. this research has been done with measurement method using the questionnaire tool, and the date of 667 questionnaires from a total of 700 questionnaires distributed among the students of governmental universities are analyzed in ...

There is significant cross-country variation in Covid-19 fatalities worldwide. In this study, we analyze the relationship between political trust and of pandemic. By performing a analysis controlling for other determinants, find that government negatively associated with cases deaths. Additionally, our findings suggest risk communication, form public information campaigns, only decreased deaths...

The main focus of the presented paper is to investigate whether the concept of bonding and bridging social capital can be reasonably specified by categorizing voluntary associations according to their constitutive goods, i.e. purposes, and whether this conceptualization will also hold for empirical analysis in the realm of political participation. The empirical findings both for East and West G...

This paper presents an integrative theoretical model of public trust in government by distinguishing the factors directly related to government activities and contextual factors. Especially, new variables that reflect the current discussions on trusting-relationships with government are introduced – such as process-oriented performance, bureaucratic politics in citizens’ perspective, and consta...

This paper addresses the question of whether incumbents can buy political support through targeted public spending. Using a regression discontinuity approach which takes advantage of the quasi-experimental design of a recent Romanian government program that distributed coupons worth 200 Euros to poor families towards the purchase of a computer, we find that program beneficiaries were significan...

Over the last decade, and culminating in the 2008 global financial meltdown, there has been an erosion of trust and a concomitant rise of distrust in domestic companies, multinational enterprises, and political economies. In response to this attrition, this article presents three arguments. First, we suggest that trust is the “glue” of any viable political economy, and we propose that the stake...

The concept of crises is currently in vogue. There is a broad discussion about the impact of crisis that is often associated with effects of social disintegration but the concept of crisis is even broader. Various social areas such as ecology, economics, and migration are considered as being crisis-ridden. There is also a gender crisis. And the EU, which suffers from a lack of political trust, ...

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...