Political Parties and Confidence in Government: A Comparison of Norway, Sweden and the United States
Arthur H. Miller,Ola Listhaug +1 more
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In this paper, the authors used survey data from Norway, Sweden and the United States to examine trends in political trust for the period 1964-86 and found that during the early part of that period trust declined in all three countries; later it recovered for Norway but continued to plummet in Sweden and United States.Abstract:
Comparable survey data from Norway, Sweden and the United States are used to examine trends in political trust for the period 1964–86. During the early part of that period trust declined in all three countries; later it recovered for Norway but continued to plummet in Sweden and the United States. Three major features of the party system are hypothesized to explain the difference in these trends for the three countries. These features are: the structural aspects of the party system; the public's cognitive judgements of the parties as representatives of the policy interests; and the possibility that a negative rejection of political parties as undesirable institutions may spill over to citizen evaluations of government more generally.read more
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