🇺🇦What traits do citizens value in leaders during war? ➡L Laustsen, @honoratam.bsky.social @fvanleeuwen.bsky.social H Bartusevičius & M Vugt show war increases desire for dominant leaders, reducing warmth & competence. Anger amplifies all traits www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

Our newly published paper with @honoratam.bsky.social focuses on the problem of trust in societies in transition and the role of public service reforms for increasing trust and support for government. It is based on a new dataset from Ukraine before the war 1/2

What drives populists to accept expert advice? Cross-country study by A Peresman, @thoruplars.bsky.social, @honoratam.bsky.social & @m-b-petersen.bsky.social compares how populists & non-populists evaluate expertise: buff.ly/sLAQvkY @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com

@dtoshkov.bsky.social, @honoratam.bsky.social, Nikoleta Yordanova and Darinka Piqani assess how citizens perceive the legitimacy of EU sanctions

Enforcement and public opinion: the perceived legitimacy of rule of law sanctions

The EU has powerful enforcement mechanisms to curb democratic backsliding and support the rule of law in its member states. While (the threat of) enforcement is necessary, sanctions might be diffic...

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What drives populists to accept expert advice? Cross-country study by A Peresman, @thoruplars.bsky.social, @honoratam.bsky.social & @m-b-petersen.bsky.social compares how populists & non-populists evaluate expertise: buff.ly/vMx6O28 @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com

New findings on *populism & trust in science* The study we conducted with Adam Peresman @thoruplars.bsky.social & @m-b-petersen.bsky.social shows: -> Citizens with populist views trust scientists more than they trust politicians, government, regulatory agencies & society 🧵(1/4)

🚨NEW ARTICLE 🚨 with Adam Peresman, @honoratam.bsky.social & @thoruplars.bsky.social We show that those often seen as most critical of research - populists! - have relatively *high* trust in scientists across 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇨🇿 🇩🇰 & are willing to follow their advice: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 🧵(1/4)

⭐Motivated causal reasoning⭐: in a new pre-print with @honoratam.bsky.social we introduce the idea that ingroup favouritism affects formal causal judgements, and we provide experimental evidence in support of this hypothesis osf.io/preprints/os...

Big thanks to our wonderful speakers @dovilerimkute.bsky.social @boralexander.bsky.social @PascalBoyerUSA & Magnus Feldmann + great workshop participants @hotpoliticslab.bsky.social This was an inspiring autumn "season finale" @gijsschumacher.bsky.social @mrooduijn.bsky.social @bnbakker.bsky.social

Great discussion by @mrooduijn.bsky.social of our research on the views of Dutch voters about democratic rules. Dutch citizens agree on many principles, but we see large disagreements between voters of different parties about constraining protests, leaders, suffrage rights, and the government.

Armen Hakhverdian@hakhverdian.bsky.social · 3y ago

Alweer een podcast met @mrooduijn.bsky.social! Deze keer over hoe opvattingen over democratie en rechtsstaat zelf onderdeel zijn van politiek. Vrij zorgwekkend allemaal… stukroodvlees.nl/aflevering-1...

Are you interested in democratic backsliding? With @honoratam.bsky.social and Joep van Lit we are organizing a workshop on "Early Signs of Democratic Recession in Established and Backsliding Democracies" Join us at the @ecpr.bsky.social joint sessions polisky ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to work on political trust and skepticism in my ERC-funded research project CRITICALTRUST. vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Post... Please contact me if you have any questions!