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10/11/2025

From Politics and Contemporary History: Political Trust in Times of Crisis

Political trust is an important resource in democracies because it enables acceptance of rules, cooperation, and conflict resolution. In times of crisis, this trust usually increases at the beginning, but threatens to erode as the crisis progresses.

LIfBi researchers Prof. Dr. Gundula Zoch and Dr. Steffen Wamsler have published a guest article on this topic in the series “Politics and Contemporary History” published by the Federal Agency for Civic Education. 

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