Protests and trust in the state: Evidence from African countries

Autor: Yanos Zylberberg, Marc Sangnier
Přispěvatelé: Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM), École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-École Centrale de Marseille (ECM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Bristol [Bristol], École Centrale de Marseille (ECM)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
Předmět:
Economics and Econometrics
ACL-1
media_common.quotation_subject
Leaders
JEL: D - Microeconomics/D.D8 - Information
Knowledge
and Uncertainty/D.D8.D83 - Search • Learning • Information and Knowledge • Communication • Belief • Unawareness
Trust
Institutions
[SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences
Politics
JEL: D - Microeconomics/D.D7 - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making/D.D7.D74 - Conflict • Conflict Resolution • Alliances • Revolutions
State (polity)
0502 economics and business
050602 political science & public administration
Economics
Social conflict
ECON Applied Economics
institutions
050207 economics
Empirical evidence
media_common
Government
Distrust
business.industry
05 social sciences
JEL: H - Public Economics/H.H4 - Publicly Provided Goods/H.H4.H41 - Public Goods
trust
Public relations
16. Peace & justice
Individual level
Protests
[SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance
0506 political science
leaders
Political economy
JEL: O - Economic Development
Innovation
Technological Change
and Growth/O.O1 - Economic Development/O.O1.O17 - Formal and Informal Sectors • Shadow Economy • Institutional Arrangements
business
Finance
Zdroj: Journal of Public Economics
Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 152 (C), pp.55-67. ⟨10.1016/j.jpubeco.2017.05.005⟩
Sangnier, M & Zylberberg, Y 2017, ' Protests and trust in the state : Evidence from African countries ', Journal of Public Economics, vol. 152, pp. 55-67 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2017.05.005
Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, 2017, ⟨10.1016/j.jpubeco.2017.05⟩
Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, 2017, 152 (C), pp.55-67. ⟨10.1016/j.jpubeco.2017.05.005⟩
ISSN: 0047-2727
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2017.05.005⟩
Popis: International audience; This paper provides empirical evidence that, after protests, citizens substantially revise their views on the current leader, but also their trust in the country's institutions. The empirical strategy exploits variation in the timing of an individual level survey and the proximity to social protests in 13 African countries. First, we find that trust in political leaders strongly and abruptly decreases after protests. Second, trust in the country monitoring institutions plunges as well. Both effects are much stronger when protests are repressed by the government. As no signs of distrust are recorded even a couple of days before the social conflicts, protests can be interpreted as sudden signals sent on a leaders' actions from which citizens extract information on their country fundamentals.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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