Abstract
Abstract In recent decades, scholars and commentators have raised concerns about increasing citizen disengagement from politics, in particular from formal participation in liberal democracies. This trend is generally seen as indicative of declining public support for these regimes, but empirical analyses of the implications of disengagement are rare. This chapter looks at the relationship between disengagement and political trust across different types of engagement and regime. Disengagement from formal politics (voting) and cognitive engagement (political interest) are significantly related to lower levels of political trust in all regimes. Disengagement from extra-institutional politics (demonstrations) is associated with higher levels of trust, however, except at the aggregate level among liberal democracies. These results clarify the interaction of disengagement with political trust and potentially regime support, but a final interpretation must wait for a better understanding of change over time and to what extent younger generations of citizens engage and trust in different ways.
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