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Pavel Yakovlev and David Gilson |
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''Public Trust and Press Freedom'' |
( 2015, Vol. 35 No.1 ) |
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According to World Public Opinion poll, no country leader enjoyed worldwide trust in 2008. Only the leaders of China, Iran, and Russia received consistently higher trust ratings domestically than abroad. Not incidentally, these countries also score low in political and press freedoms. We build a parsimonious regression model that seeks to explain differences in trust ratings using country and leader characteristics. We find that just nine variables can explain over 60% of the variation in leader trust ratings. One of the strongest associative determinants of leader trust is press freedom. |
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Keywords: public trust, press freedom, media, bias, nationalism, democracy |
JEL: C5 - Econometric Modeling: General D8 - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty: General |
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Manuscript Received : Aug 21 2014 | | Manuscript Accepted : Mar 11 2015 |
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