Trust in action: Cooperation, information, and social policy preferences

Francesco Colombo; Ari Ray

doi:10.1111/pops.12944

Trust in action: Cooperation, information, and social policy preferences

Francesco Colombo, Ari Ray^*

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Institut for Statskundskab

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What happens to peoples' social-policy preferences when their expectations concerning collective behavior are met, or even exceeded? And what conversely occurs when these expectations are unmet, and trust is thereby breached? Drawing on the first Italian COVID-19 lockdown as a massive exercise in collective action, this study tests how information on lockdown-compliance rates causally affects the social-policy preferences of Italian voters, conditional on their pretreatment levels of trust. Examining social-policy preferences across multiple dimensions, we find that trust is most closely linked to attitudes towards transfer generosity, as opposed to preferences on policy universalism and conditionality. Results highlight that neutral, fact-based information on cooperation levels can affect social-policy preferences—and that the direction of attitude change depends on whether one's trust has been met or breached.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Tidsskrift	Political Psychology
Vol/bind	45
Nummer	4
Sider (fra-til)	709-726
Antal sider	18
ISSN	0162-895X
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12944
Status	Udgivet - aug. 2024

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