TY  - GEN
AU  - Vasiljevic, Jelena
AU  - Prelec, Tena
AU  - Džihić, Vedran
AU  - Kmezić, Marko
PY  - 2021
UR  - https://biepag.eu/publication/outta-trust-post-pandemic-trust-and-democratic-resilience-in-the-western-balkans/
UR  - http://rifdt.instifdt.bg.ac.rs/123456789/2796
AB  - In the Western Balkans, issues linking trust and democracy acquire particular
importance and urgency in the wake of the Covid crisis. Based on a large-scale
public opinion poll carried out in the six countries of the Western Balkans,
this brief shows that the pandemic has exacerbated the region’s issues with
trust in public institutions even further. The study finds that the reticence of
publics to undergo vaccination is directly linked with mistrust in governments,
corroborating earlier research by BiEPAG that warned about the wide diffusion
of coronavirus-related conspiracy theories in the region and their relation with
vaccine scepticism. The brief also points to the profiling of a trend termed
‘authoritarian production of trust’ in the largest country of the region, Serbia.
Yet, it also identifies a ‘constituency of change’ with similar characteristics
across the region: a picture that opens space to invest trust in new actors able to
advance genuine progressive causes in South East Europe, beyond and instead
of captured institutions and the respective party establishments.
PB  - The Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group
T2  - https://biepag.eu/publication/outta-trust-post-pandemic-trust-and-democratic-resilience-in-the-western-balkans/
T1  - Policy brief: Outta Trust? (Post)-Pandemic Trust and Democratic Resilience in the Western Balkans
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_2796
ER  - 

@misc{
author = "Vasiljevic, Jelena and Prelec, Tena and Džihić, Vedran and Kmezić, Marko",
year = "2021",
abstract = "In the Western Balkans, issues linking trust and democracy acquire particular
importance and urgency in the wake of the Covid crisis. Based on a large-scale
public opinion poll carried out in the six countries of the Western Balkans,
this brief shows that the pandemic has exacerbated the region’s issues with
trust in public institutions even further. The study finds that the reticence of
publics to undergo vaccination is directly linked with mistrust in governments,
corroborating earlier research by BiEPAG that warned about the wide diffusion
of coronavirus-related conspiracy theories in the region and their relation with
vaccine scepticism. The brief also points to the profiling of a trend termed
‘authoritarian production of trust’ in the largest country of the region, Serbia.
Yet, it also identifies a ‘constituency of change’ with similar characteristics
across the region: a picture that opens space to invest trust in new actors able to
advance genuine progressive causes in South East Europe, beyond and instead
of captured institutions and the respective party establishments.",
publisher = "The Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group",
journal = "https://biepag.eu/publication/outta-trust-post-pandemic-trust-and-democratic-resilience-in-the-western-balkans/",
title = "Policy brief: Outta Trust? (Post)-Pandemic Trust and Democratic Resilience in the Western Balkans",
url = "https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_2796"
}

Vasiljevic, J., Prelec, T., Džihić, V.,& Kmezić, M.. (2021). Policy brief: Outta Trust? (Post)-Pandemic Trust and Democratic Resilience in the Western Balkans. in https://biepag.eu/publication/outta-trust-post-pandemic-trust-and-democratic-resilience-in-the-western-balkans/
The Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group..
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_2796

Vasiljevic J, Prelec T, Džihić V, Kmezić M. Policy brief: Outta Trust? (Post)-Pandemic Trust and Democratic Resilience in the Western Balkans. in https://biepag.eu/publication/outta-trust-post-pandemic-trust-and-democratic-resilience-in-the-western-balkans/. 2021;.
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_2796 .

Vasiljevic, Jelena, Prelec, Tena, Džihić, Vedran, Kmezić, Marko, "Policy brief: Outta Trust? (Post)-Pandemic Trust and Democratic Resilience in the Western Balkans" in https://biepag.eu/publication/outta-trust-post-pandemic-trust-and-democratic-resilience-in-the-western-balkans/ (2021),
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_2796 .