Terrorist attacks rarely increase trust in political leaders


Research suggests that institutional trust increases in times of political crises. Christof Nägel, Amy Nivette and Christian Czymara test this notion for jihadist terror attacks in Europe. Their results imply that political leaders should not take these dynamics for granted
This is a blog post I wrote for “the loop”, a research blog from the European Consortium for Political Research
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