Understanding the Causes of Political Trust through Survey Experiments

该项目旨在提高我们对政治信任驱动因素的理解，并指出可以改善政治信任的方法。尽管政治信任对民主制度的运作很重要，但我们没有关于政治信任原因的实验数据，据说在许多民主国家，政治信任已经达到了危机水平。通过将现有调查数据与五个成熟民主国家的实验相结合，该项目旨在确定政治信任的原因，以及这些原因在不同国家之间的差异。了解政治信任以及如何改善政治信任，可能有助于制定成功的政策，以应对人口老龄化和环境变化等挑战。

This project intends to improve our understanding of the drivers of political trust and point to ways that political trust could be improved. Despite the importance of political trust to the functioning of democratic systems, we have no experimental data on what the causes of political trust are, and political trust has been said to have reached crisis levels in many democracies. By integrating existing survey data with experiments in five established democracies, this project aims to identify the causes of political trust and how these differ by country. Understanding political trust and how it can be improved may provide input to successful policies to deal with challenges such as ageing populations and environmental change.