🆕 Navigating the Blueprint 🧭
@lindestals.bsky.social & @cvalebeek.bsky.social look into the origins of #InstitutionalTrust in young adults using data from the Dutch Adolescent Panel on Democratic Values to see how important early political sophistication is
📈 We often assume citizens only grant institutions their trust when they perform well.
📘 However, based on @ejprjournal.bsky.social research, @lindestals.bsky.social & @cvalebeek.bsky.social reveal that much of this institutional trust is learned, rather than earned.
👉️ bit.ly/47njlnw
Two map graphs show the state of liberal democracy according to the V-Dem Liberal Democracy index for 2025 and 2024. The higher the score (or darker blue), the more democratic the country. Lower scores (or dark red) mean less democratic. While North and South America, Western Europe and Oceania are mostly in the blue, most parts of Asia and Africa are in the red in 2025. In comparison to the map for 2024, the map graph for 2025 shows democratic backsliding in some traditionally stable democracies in Western Europe and North America, in particular the USA, United Kingdom and Italy.
📢 Out Now! V-Dem Dataset v16 & the V-Dem Institute Democracy Report 2026
💾 The V-Dem Dataset: v-dem.net/data/the-v-d...
📰 The Report "Unraveling The Democratic Era?”: v-dem.net/publications...
📈 Explore the new data with the V-Dem Graphing tools: v-dem.net/graphing/gra...
#PoliSky #PoliSciSky
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Nieuw van het Nationaal Kiezersonderzoek: een kennisnotitie met eerste analyses van de Tweede Kamerverkiezingen van 2025 🗳️
Zie: www.dpes.nl/wp-content/u...
Begin juni volgt het volledige NKO-rapport, met een bredere en diepere analyse van de verkiezingen. Hieronder alvast wat eerste inzichten 👇
🔥 POSTDOC POSITIONS ON CHILDREN'S POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION 🔥
Wanna understand young people's beliefs about political leadership, politics, and power? Then this is your chance! I'm looking for two 2-year postdocs to join my ERC-funded research project @au.dk
international.au.dk/about/profil...
Ik blijf hier wonen denk ik
🚨 Job alert! 🚨
We are looking for a PhD candidate for my Vidi project on factual belief polarization and its attitudinal consequences.
The position will be at the Department of Political Science of Radboud University (Netherlands). Check out the full job profile below!
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
Afsplitsers verplicht een liedje laten zingen voor de hele Kamer zou best effectief kunnen zijn?
IN NEW ISSUE: How do UK political elites reconcile with a low trust environment? @chrisbutlerpol.bsky.social, @drjennings.bsky.social & Gerry Stoker examine this question in @polstudies.bsky.social: buff.ly/3E6DkuS (OPEN ACCESS)
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social #polsky
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@cvalebeek.bsky.social @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social & @hakhverdian.bsky.social use survery data from the Netherlands to find that #Trust variability may be just as strong a predictor as #Trust levels in #VotingBehaviour 🗳️
Political Trust Network: Call for papers (Barcelona, October 2026)
The young and fast growing academic 'Political Trust Network' organizes yearly workshops, where scholars of trust can meet up, present papers, and exchange ideas. These workshop have been brilliant, socially and professionally!
Do negative encounters with immigrants activate personality effects in PRR support? @cvalebeek.bsky.social, Daniel Komáromy, @delaneypeterson.bsky.social & @mrooduijn.bsky.social find it's not generally the case but initial exposure & out-group framing may matter: buff.ly/D5C50zO (OPEN ACCESS)
Thank you, Matthijs! It’s been a real pleasure working on this project with everyone, and it's great to continue the collaboration as colleagues.
The paper is available as Open Access in @polstudies.bsky.social. Read the full paper here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
How can stable personality traits explain less stable PRR voting? Daniel Komaromy, @delaneypeterson.bsky.social, @mrooduijn.bsky.social and I test whether negative contact with immigrants 'activates' these traits. Mostly, it doesn't. But: initial exposure and out-group definition may matter.
Congratulations, Jens!
What happens when #Trust becomes volatile? 💥
@cvalebeek.bsky.social @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social & @hakhverdian.bsky.social use survey data from the Netherlands 🇳🇱 to analyse how #VotingBehaviour is impacted by three key components of #PoliticalTrust.
Find out what they are 👉 📖
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A positive end to the first week back is that the book is now fully available. It's not on their website yet, but it is on mine.
I'm really happy with how it turned out and grateful to all the authors.
Hope it's useful.
🙌 djdevineorg.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
Very proud of the publication of this article, led by the brilliant @cvalebeek.bsky.social. We comprehensively test the causal effect of political trust on turnout and party choice, by breaking down these effects by trust levels, trust variability, and trust change events.
Plus: cool visualisations.
Dankjewel, Martin! Het was een ontzettend tof paper om te schrijven.
3️⃣ Although trust levels remain a more important predictor of electoral behavior than variability, our typology still identifies empirically meaningful and demographically distinct groups based on long-term trust patterns.
2️⃣ Declining trust does increase the likelihood of both abstention and anti-establishment voting, without pushing citizens towards one over the other.
We ask why distrust is linked to both abstention and anti-establishment voting by unpacking the temporal dimension of distrust. Key points:
1️⃣ There is no substantial difference in electoral behavior between long-term, stable distrusters and more variable distrusters. Stable distrust ≠ abstention.
New paper out w/ @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social & @hakhverdian.bsky.social in @epsrjournal.bsky.social. We show that political trust dynamics matter for electoral behavior. While stable and variable distrusters behave similarly, declining trust boosts both abstention and anti-establishment voting. 🧵
Wat goed, Matthijs! Gefeliciteerd! Ik blijf dit project zeker in de gaten houden 🙂
Thrilled to share my new article in Political Psychology: “The psychology of political attitudinal volatility.” In it, I attempt to answer why do some people change their political views more than others? Open access at: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
@ispp-pops.bsky.social
Voelde mijn handen hier niet meer, maar dit uitzicht was het waard
Net de eerste aflevering gezien, heel tof!