Outcomes, Politicians, or the Institution Itself? Using a Czech Case to Explain Trust Formation in Different Political Institutions and the Implications for Voter Turnout
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F25%3A00140211" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/25:00140211 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08883254241229730" target="_blank" >https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08883254241229730</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/08883254241229730" target="_blank" >10.1177/08883254241229730</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Outcomes, Politicians, or the Institution Itself? Using a Czech Case to Explain Trust Formation in Different Political Institutions and the Implications for Voter Turnout
Original language description
Compared to the scholarship on general political trust, relatively little attention has been paid to institutional trust. Research on the subject tends to treat political institutions as single entities, ignoring the fact that different institutions can enjoy, in the long term, very different levels of trust. This paper builds on the assumption that institutional trust may be formed differently depending on the institution type, and thus aims to explain how trust is formed in different types of democratic institutions. Moreover, it explains how the relationship between trust in a political institution and voter turnout can change depending on how trust is formed. The study is based on the content analysis of 30 semi-structured interviews from the Czech Republic. The study shows that respondents tend to develop trust in a political institution based on their assessment of the institution’s current performance and outcomes rather than their assessment of the institution itself. The study argues that an integral part of the concept of trust in a political institution is the popularity of the politicians who represent the institution. However, how trust is formed depends on the type of institution, which has important implications for measuring this concept. The relationship between institutional trust and turnout may also vary depending on how trust in an institution is formed. Thus, a potential correlation between trust in an institution and electoral participation may exist depending on the type of an institution.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EF19_073%2F0016943" target="_blank" >EF19_073/0016943: Internal grant agency of Masaryk University</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
East European Politics and Societies: and Culture
ISSN
0888-3254
e-ISSN
1533-8371
Volume of the periodical
39
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
23
Pages from-to
239-261
UT code for WoS article
001185071500001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85187895626