Browsing by Author "Kumlin, Staffan"
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Blaming Europe? Exploring the Variable Impact of National Public Service Dissatisfaction on EU Trust
Kumlin, Staffan (2009-06)European Social Survey data suggest that dissatisfaction with national public services has direct negative effects on EU trust in most EU15 countries, but also that there is significant country variation in their actual ... -
Dissatisfied Democrats, Policy Feedback, and European Welfare States, 1976-2001
Kumlin, Staffan (2010-03)Are citizens’ level of satisfaction with the functioning of democracy affected by welfare state-related policies and outcomes? Three-level analyses of Eurobarometer surveys from three decades suggest that generosity in ... -
Informed Electoral Accountability and the Welfare State: A Conceptual Reorientation with Experimental and Real-World Findings
Kumlin, Staffan (2010-03)Retrospective electoral accountability was conceived as a mechanism that makes democracy work without highly informed citizens. However, recent theory suggests accountability in modern societies can be overwhelmingly ... -
Minorities and Mistrust: The Cushioning Impact of Social Contacts and Institutional Fairness
Kumlin, Staffan; Rothstein, Bo (2008-08)Previous research concludes that immigrants and minority members, as well as all residents of more diverse contexts, display less generalized trust. Such findings suggest a harsh trade-off between diversity on the one hand ... -
The personal and the political : how personal welfare state experiences affect political trust and ideology
Kumlin, Staffan (2002)Citizens in advanced industrial democracies frequently have personal experiences with public services and welfare state arrangements. They may have regular contact with public health care services, schools, public ... -
Scandal Fatigue: Scandal Elections and Satisfaction with Democracy in Western Europe 1977-2007
Kumlin, Staffan; Esaiasson, Peter (2009-07)We combine Eurobarometer surveys with contextual data from 19 countries and three decades, and find that elections are increasingly associated with major scandals. In the late 1970s few elections were associated with ...