Trust across political conflicts: evidence from a survey experiment in divided societies

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• dc.contributor.author Martini, Sergio
• dc.contributor.author Torcal, Mariano
• dc.date.accessioned 2024-06-14T07:01:54Z
• dc.date.available 2024-06-14T07:01:54Z
• dc.date.issued 2019
• dc.description Includes supplementary materials for the online appendix.
• dc.description.abstract The implications of intergroup political conflicts for social cooperation are still an understudied topic. We report on two online survey experiments in which we implement multiple trust games to assess the impact of different political conflicts on trust behaviour in two national samples in Spain and Portugal. The results suggest that citizens’ social trust is heavily affected by partisanship, favouring in-group party members over out-group party identifiers. This finding is robust in both countries, although the partisanship overall effect seems to be stronger in Spain, which has a more polarized party system. Moreover, the effect involves all parties despite their size and ideology. However, trust among different partisans mirrors interparty positioning. A second study for the Spanish case shows that the partisanship treatment is the one affecting trust the most, followed by the ideological and regional conflicts, which are usually considered long-standing divides with a greater impact in European democracies.
• dc.description.sponsorship This research was funded by the projects ‘Ciudadanía Europea en España: Comportamiento Político y actitudes Políticas hacia el Proceso de Integración Europea’, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Gobierno de España, Plan Nacional de I+D+I, code: CSO2009-14434 (2010-2012), and ‘Crisis y Reto en la Ciudadanía en España: Actitudes y Comportamiento Político de los Españoles Ante la Crisis Económica y de Representación Política’, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Gobierno de España, code: CSO2013-47071-R (2014-2016); both directed by Prof. Mariano Torcal who also acknowledges support from the ICREA Academia (award 2014). Sergio Martini acknowledges support from the Generalitat de Catalunya through the FI-DGR programme (2015FI_B2 00015).
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• dc.identifier.citation Martini S, Torcal M. Trust across political conflicts: evidence from a survey experiment in divided societies. Party Politics. 2019 Mar;26(2):126-39. DOI: 10.1177/1354068816685933
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354068816685933
• dc.identifier.issn 1354-0688
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/60471
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher SAGE Publications
• dc.relation.ispartof Party Politics. 2019 Mar;26(2):126-39
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PN/CSO2009-14434
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/CSO2013-47071-R
• dc.rights Martini S, Torcal M. Trust across political conflicts: evidence from a survey experiment in divided societies. Party Politics. 2019 Mar;26(2):126-39. Copyright © The Author(s) 2016. DOI: 10.1177/1354068816685933
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• dc.subject.keyword Group identity
• dc.subject.keyword Partisanship
• dc.subject.keyword Social trust
• dc.subject.keyword Survey experiment
• dc.subject.keyword Trust game
• dc.title Trust across political conflicts: evidence from a survey experiment in divided societies
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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