Diverse Faces, Stronger Trust? An empirical study to determine the importance of quality of representation for the political trust of citizens with an ethnic and racially diverse background in the Netherlands after the Dutch Parliamentary elections of 2023
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2024-08-28
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Political trust is a known and thoroughly researched phenomenon, because of the importance
of political trust in order to have efficient participation from citizens and trust in the legitimacy
of the democratic system. However, the last Dutch elections of 2023 showed a surprising
election result, which made people with an ethnic and racially diverse background scared of
their future in that country. This election also resulted in a decline of people with an ethnic and
racially diverse background in the House of Representatives. In this thesis, the effect of
descriptive and substantive representation on political trust of people with an ethnic and racially
diverse background is analyzed with a multivariant regression analysis using the data of the
Dutch Parliamentary Election Study of 2023. The findings suggest that the effect of both
descriptive and substantive representation on political trust is generally limited, with a few
exeptions. While sympathy for VVD leader Dilan Yeşilgöz positively impacted political trust
among ethnically and racially diverse respondents, when substantive representation of people
with a migration background was perceived as "too much," it was linked to a decrease in
political trust.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen