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Blakelock, Paul.

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Changing trust: Individual-level assessments of political legitimacy.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Changing trust: Individual-level assessments of political legitimacy./
Author:	Blakelock, Paul.
Description:	168 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-03, Section: A, page: 1072.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-03A.
Subject:	Education, Social Sciences. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3212128
ISBN:	9780542606755

Changing trust: Individual-level assessments of political legitimacy.
Blakelock, Paul.

Changing trust: Individual-level assessments of political legitimacy. - 168 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-03, Section: A, page: 1072.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Houston, 2006.

Central to legitimate governance is the concept of political trust. With growing concern, social scientists watched as political trust began to decline in the mid-1960's and, despite sporadic periods of improvement, remained significantly below its previous levels. Current explanations for this decline are widespread and include falling real wages, political scandals, war, increasing ideological polarization in Congress and negative media coverage of both incumbent politicians and the political process. I argue that these explanations are inadequate because they focus upon macro-level and aggregate phenomena while ignoring the multi-dimensional and individual component of political trust. Moreover, while there is widespread agreement that political trust is important to good government, extant literature fails to find clear linkage between individual-level changes in trust and specific political consequences.

ISBN: 9780542606755Subjects--Topical Terms:

1019148
Education, Social Sciences.

Changing trust: Individual-level assessments of political legitimacy.
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520 $a This dissertation demonstrates that political trust is influenced by expectations of what government can and should accomplish and that these expectations are modified by political education, distinct from general education. I employ a quasi-experimental, two panel survey to measure the effects of political education that has a partisan "edge" to it. I find that individual-level assessments of political trust change as people experiencing cognitive dissonance modify their assessments of political trust and bring their previous worldview into congruence with new political information.
520 $a Nominal independents realign with the "correct" political party, while partisans modify their personal assessments of trust to accommodate new information. Democratic instructors instill greater confidence in government among their Republican students while Republican instructors cause their Democratic students to become less trusting of the federal government. Finally, this dissertation demonstrates that political trust is important for the political system because low trust individuals are more supportive of illegal and unconventional forms of political participation.
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