The Differential Impact of Traditional and Social Media on Public Confidence: The Case of Kazakhstan
- Authors
- "Koh, Hoyoun; Baek, Kyungmin
- Issue Date
- Dec-2023
- Publisher
- "Institute for European Russian and Eurasian Studies, The George Washington University
- Citation
- Demokratizatsiya, v.31, no.1, pp 91 - 112
- Pages
- 22
- Journal Title
- Demokratizatsiya
- Volume
- 31
- Number
- 1
- Start Page
- 91
- End Page
- 112
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/ssu/handle/2018.sw.ssu/49074
- ISSN
- 1074-6846
- Abstract
- "This study explores the changing nature of public confidence and its formation in non-democratic societies. The existing literature suggests that public confidence in democratic societies is understood as citizens' support for democratic values, while in a non-democratic context citizens' confidence is often equated to an assessment of government competence. However, heavy use of social media weakens the link between government competence and public confidence in non-democracies. Using World Values Survey data for Kazakhstan, we find that performance-based confidence no longer holds in a non-democratic state when social media become the main source of information. These findings suggest that social media promote the diffusion of global standards among citizens of authoritarian societies. © 2023 Heldref Publications. All rights reserved.
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