Crisis de confianza institucional en las democracias contemporáneas

  1. García Rivero, Carlos
  2. Kotzè, Hennie
Revista:
Dilemata

ISSN: 1989-7022

Año de publicación: 2018

Título del ejemplar: El buen gobierno y la transparencia, a caballo entre la Ética y el Derecho

Número: 27

Páginas: 17-36

Tipo: Artículo

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Resumen

There is a broad consensus regarding the need for confidence in public institutions, both by citizens and by the elites who direct them, in order to obtain a minimum political stability in democracies. Departing from this basic idea, this paper analyses, with quantitative methods, the levels of institutional trust in 7 chosen countries between 2006 and 2013. This work aims to determine whether confidence levels are more dependent on political factors or, on the contrary, driven by economic ones. The selection of cases includes countries from different continents, such as South Africa (Africa); Chile (Latin America); Germany and Sweden (Western Europe); South Korea (Asia); Poland (Eastern Europe); and Turkey (Eurasia). Results indicate that political factors tend to explain population confidence in state institutions better than the economic ones. The capacity of the State to manage the economy seems to concern the elites more than the average citizen. Elites also showed a high level of trust in civil society.

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