The Effect of Media and Political Beliefs and Attitudes on Trust in Political Institutions : A Multilevel Analysis on Data from 21 European Countries

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.communicationtoday.sk/the-effect-of-media-and-political-beliefs-and-attitudes-on-trust-in-political-institutions-a-multilevel-analysis-on-data-from-21-european-countries/" target="_blank" >https://www.communicationtoday.sk/the-effect-of-media-and-political-beliefs-and-attitudes-on-trust-in-political-institutions-a-multilevel-analysis-on-data-from-21-european-countries/</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Effect of Media and Political Beliefs and Attitudes on Trust in Political Institutions : A Multilevel Analysis on Data from 21 European Countries

Original language description

While trust in political institutions is a necessary condition for the working of democracy, its level is constantly in decline in Western democracies. Therefore, in this study, we examine factors that are associated with the perceived trust in political institutions. In this investigation, we centred on the role of media, specifically news consumption, internet usage, and cross-country differences concerning the relationship between media and politics. Using data from the 2016 European Social Survey (N = 37,159 respondents, 52% males, age M = 49.47), we tested a multilevel model predicting trust in political institutions by media factors, political beliefs and attitudes, and demographics. We also tested the moderation effects between news consumption and political beliefs and attitudes, as well as for the effect of the media system on a national level. The findings show that news consumption had no single direct effect on trust, but it moderated the effect of political interest. The effect of Internet usage on trust was only negligible and not significant after the inclusion of political beliefs and attitudes in the model. There were also differences between media models. Countries belonging to the Democratic Corporatist Model (but also Ireland and the United Kingdom) were characterised by overall higher trust than countries in the Polarized Pluralist Model and Central and Eastern European Model.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50800 - Media and communications

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA18-19883S" target="_blank" >GA18-19883S: Psychological determinants of perceived democratic legitimacy</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Communication Today

ISSN

1338-130X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

11

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

64-83

UT code for WoS article

000593125500006

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85121909958