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2025
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[Journal:] Journal of Population Economics [ISSN:] 1432-1475 [Volume:] 38 [Issue:] 3 [Article No.:] 65 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Berlin, Heidelberg [Year:] 2025
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Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Zusammenfassung: 
Using Chinese panel data, we examine whether citizen well-being impacts the formation of political trust, which is key to regime stability. Through a quasi-experimental method, we demonstrate how an improvement in subjective well-being directly leads to increased political trust. In a supplementary analysis, we also demonstrate how low political trust is predictive of actions that undermine regime stability. These findings suggest that any government, even an authoritarian one, has an incentive to foster the happiness of its citizens.
Schlagwörter: 
Political trust
Life satisfaction
Social contract
Regime stability
Accountability
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D72
D78
H11
I31
P35
P48
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