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Trust in government: What's news media got to do with it?
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Abstract In modern democracies, trust in government is a key indicator of political legitimacy and stability. Drawing from theories of media effects, we investigated whether using traditional media has a negative (media malaise hypothesis) or a positive (virtuous circle hypothesis) impact on trust in the nat... mehr
In modern democracies, trust in government is a key indicator of political legitimacy and stability. Drawing from theories of media effects, we investigated whether using traditional media has a negative (media malaise hypothesis) or a positive (virtuous circle hypothesis) impact on trust in the national government. We used a serial mediation model involving evaluations of politicians and evaluations of the political process as mediators of how political communications influence trust in government. To test the model empirically, we conducted an online survey among 1 115 respondents in Germany. Results suggest that the use of traditional media to access political information has a direct positive impact on trust in government mediated by people’s evaluations of politicians and of the political process. We also found a positive serial mediation effect of using traditional media on trust in government mediated first by evaluations of politicians and second by evaluations of the political process.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Vertrauen; Regierung; Medien; politischer Prozess; quantitative Methode; Befragung; Online-Befragung; Umfrageforschung; Bundesrepublik Deutschland; Politiker; Politikerin; Nachrichten; Zeitung; Fernsehen; Rundfunk; Hörfunk; Fragebogen; Mediation
Klassifikation
Wirkungsforschung, Rezipientenforschung
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Freie Schlagwörter
Trust in government; media effects; politicians; political Processes; quantitative survey; mediation effects
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2018
Seitenangabe
S. 87-102
Zeitschriftentitel
Studies in Communication Sciences, 18 (2018) 1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.24434/j.scoms.2018.01.006
ISSN
1424-4896
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht kommerz., Keine Bearbeitung 4.0