Political Trust and Disenchantment with Politics : International Perspectives.

Intro -- Political Trust and Disenchantment with Politics: International Perspectives -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Contributors -- Editors' Introduction: Political Trust and Political Disenchantment in a Comparative Perspective -- 1 Trust and Political Disenchantment: An Overview -- 2 Trends in Conventional and Unconventional Political: Participation in Europe, 1981-2008 -- 3 Rethinking the Meaning and Measurement of Political Trust -- 4 When Citizens Lose Faith: Political Trust and Political Participation -- 5 The Role of Electoral Systems for the Translation of Political: Trust into Electoral Participation -- 6 Social Risk, Political Detachment and Welfare State: De-Commodification -- 7 Contextual Income Inequality and Political Behavior -- 8 Thinking Outside the Democratic Box: Political Values, Performance and Political Support in Authoritarian Regimes: A Comparative Analysis -- Index.

Political Trust and Disenchantment with Politics contributes fresh empirical findings to research on the relationship between trust and participation. The results indicate that the citizens of European societies and beyond are far from an universal retreat from the political sphere.

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