caa a22 4500 388081716 CHVBK 20180307125218.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199906 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/2585398 doi S0003055400217358 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/2585398 Hetherington Marc J. Bowdoin College The Effect of Political Trust on the Presidential Vote, 1968-96 [Elektronische Daten] [Marc J. Hetherington] Scholars have consistently demonstrated that no link exists between declining political trust and declining turnout, but they have paid less attention to the effect of trust on vote choice. In an era characterized by declining trust, the incumbent party has lost, and third parties have strongly contested, four of the last eight presidential elections. Such outcomes are historically anomalous. This study demonstrates that declining political trust affects vote choice, but the electoral beneficiary differs according to electoral context. In two-candidate races, politically distrustful voters support candidates from the nonincumbent major party. In races with three viable candidates, third-party alternatives benefit from declining political trust at the expense of both major parties. Copyright © American Political Science Association 1999 American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 93/2(1999-06), 311-326 0003-0554 93:2<311 1999 93 PSR https://doi.org/10.2307/2585398 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/2585398 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Hetherington Marc J. Bowdoin College NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 93/2(1999-06), 311-326 0003-0554 93:2<311 1999 93 PSR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge