The impact of implementing Article 155 on confidence in institutions

This article has been based on a number of studies published by the Government of Catalonia’s Centre d’Estudis d’Opinió pollsters and the Baròmetre d’Opinió Política (BOP, Political Opinion Barometer) survey. Our purpose is to gauge the impact of the imposition of Article 155 of the Spanish Constitution in Catalonia on confidence in institutions. To do so, the first section examines the state of play of the different variables, to permit contextualisation of the data presented in the second part, which measures confidence at three different points in time. The last section offers a summary of the data and the study’s conclusions.