the Capitol. Trust, but also mistrust, is constitutive for democratic regimes: Trust makes democracies exist, and mistrust … makes them survive. Recent studies have pointed out that institutionalized mistrust has long been ignored as relevant for … mistrust, namely the vote of no confidence or the early removal of the head of government from office. In parliamentary systems …

the Capitol. Trust, but also mistrust, is constitutive for democratic regimes: Trust makes democracies exist, and mistrust … makes them survive. Recent studies have pointed out that institutionalized mistrust has long been ignored as relevant for … mistrust, namely the vote of no confidence or the early removal of the head of government from office. In parliamentary systems …

I present a novel experimental design to measure lying and mistrust as continuous variables on an individual level. My … deciding about the sizes of their lies. However, I find that the size of the lie and the size of mistrust do not only matter …