+ abstract = {Political trust is crucial for state legitimacy, and yet its dynamics remain understudied. We present time series of political trust among European societies between 1989 and 2019. Relying on Bayesian non-linear multilevel models for ordinal responses, we estimated levels of trust in 27 European countries with data from 12 cross-national survey projects. To improve the quality of estimates and correct for the differences in survey sample representativeness, we applied poststratification by sex, age, and education. We describe trajectories of political trust in Europe finding support for the thesis about trendless fluctuations in trust rather than any clear long-term tendency, with substantial differences between countries and European regions. In line with prior research, we find larger differences in political trust by education level than by sex or age. In discussing the results, we outline opportunities for further research enabled by our methods and the dataset obtained through our models' predictions.},
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