The Educational Gradient in Trust in Politicians in the Netherlands: A Status-Based Cultural Conflict
2019
textabstractMuch of the educational gradient in trust in politicians remains
unexplained by prevailing theories on material resources and institutional knowledge. Our novel explanation theorizes that: in its relationship with trust in politicians, education is a status indicator; and
the lower trust in politicians among the less educated reflects the
latter’s opposition to the former’s status signaling. Analyses of representative Dutch survey data (n = 1,296) demonstrate that indicators
of affinity with elite culture do indeed largely underlie the association
between the level of education and trust in politicians. We discuss
the relevance of our findings for debates on “culture wars.”
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