Trust is considered to be a crucial element of social cohesion. At the same time, as research
has shown, education can be understood as an important precondition of trust. Furthermore …

We examine the cultural context for individual's trust in public institutions. To shed some light
on possible cultural explanations from a more comparative perspective and cover a wider …

The development of political engagement in early life is significant given its impact on
political knowledge and participation. Analyses reveal a large influence of parents on their …

Are political attitudes a stable feature of individuals or a rational response to changing
circumstances and contexts? This question has long been a feature of political science and …

To assess potential public concerns, this paper examines theory and evidence surrounding
graduate educational underemployment (overeducation) in this era of mass higher …

Cross-national differences in levels of political trust in Europe are rather consistent and
stable over time (Dogan, 2005a, 2005b; Van der Meer, 2010; Marien, 2011; Norris, 2011) …

Citizens' tax compliance should not only respond to the quality of formal institutions, but
might also be culturally driven. We contribute to this literature by investigating whether tax …

While in the older literature, low levels of political trust were routinely interpreted as a lack of
support for democracy, more recently authors have claimed that the value pattern of critical …

Extant research demonstrates that citizens' evaluations of national economic performance
play an important role in determining trust in politicians and political institutions, whereas …

Developmental theory posits that youth are civically engaged in different ways, patterns of
civic development vary across individuals, and both stability and change in youth civic …