🚨New article🚨 What do people want from political leaders in times of crisis, and are those preferences gendered? Interested? Then check out our new Electoral Studies paper @jess-smith.bsky.social @viktorv.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social @hannahbunting.bsky.social @carolineleicht.bsky.social

🌅📙 64.3 #GovernmentTrust These authors (🧵⬇️) use experiments in 🇬🇧🇭🇷🇪🇸🇦🇷 & 🇫🇷 to determine what has the most influence on citizen's trust. They also looked at how different trust-related qualities interact and how people's own traits change the effects. 🔗 buff.ly/H5wjxBl

IN NEW ISSUE: What makes a politician trusted by citizens? @viktorv.bsky.social, @drjennings.bsky.social, G Stoker, @lawrencemckay.bsky.social, @danjdevine.bsky.social & @nickclarkegeo.bsky.social find attributes of authenticity are as important as competence & integrity: buff.ly/41DzrXI OPEN ACCESS

IN NEW ISSUE: What makes a politician trusted by citizens? @viktorv.bsky.social, @drjennings.bsky.social, G Stoker, @lawrencemckay.bsky.social, @danjdevine.bsky.social & @nickclarkegeo.bsky.social find attributes of authenticity are as important as competence & integrity: buff.ly/41DzrXI OPEN ACCESS

Way to dispel the allegations...

From February 2025 - A Crisis of Political Trust? Global Trends in Institutional Trust from 1958 to 2019 - cup.org/4gCcLuT - @viktorv.bsky.social, @drjennings.bsky.social, Gerry Stoker, @hannahbunting.bsky.social, @danjdevine.bsky.social, @lawrencemckay.bsky.social & Andrew Klassen #OpenAccess

I am really proud about this publication on trust, with Chaïm la Roi and @cvalebeek.bsky.social . Using unique panel data, we show (1) that trust has a dispositional element among adults, and (2) that these trust attitudes are socialized during adolescence. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Að hugsa sér að maður sé bara hluti af þeirri kynslóð sem komst í gegnum það að Vikan með Gísla Marteini var seinna á dagskrá en venjulega vegna afmælistónleika Sinfó

People's trust in politics is in long-term decline, says our political expert Dr @viktorv.bsky.social. He and his colleague’s latest study shows trust in democratic governments has been falling around the world since the 1990s. Full @uk.theconversation.com article 👇 brnw.ch/21wQPx5

Wrote a piece for the @uk.theconversation.com about our study just published in @bjpols.bsky.social: "If it’s something about the way politics is practised that citizens distrust, perhaps those politics need to change." Some more nuggets from our study below! 👇 theconversation.com/trust-in-pol...

Nice coverage of our paper in @bjpols.bsky.social led by @viktorv.bsky.social by @unisouthampton.bsky.social media team Paper: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Coverage: www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2025/02...

Our article 'A Crisis of Political Trust?' led by @viktorv.bsky.social is now out in @bjpols.bsky.social! We use >3,000 surveys in 143 countries between 1958 and 2019, finding that trust in representative institutions has generally been declining in recent decades. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Our paper on global trends in trust is online! Led by @viktorv.bsky.social we use >3k surveys from ~50 projects in 143 countries, the paper provides a framework for understanding changes in trust and: (1) Trust in representative institutions is in decline (2) but stable in implementing institutions

The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.

Óháð því hvað okkur finnst um loforðið (mér finnst það galið), þá er alveg rétt hjá Singa og Simma að það er óheiðarlegt að segja fyrir kosningar að eitthvað sé ófrávíkjanlegt skilyrði fyrir stjórnarmyndun og segja svo bara eftir kosningar að það hefði þurft hreinan meirihluta... #kryddsíld

What makes a politician trusted by citizens? @viktorv.bsky.social , @drjennings.bsky.social, G Stoker, @lawrencemckay.bsky.social, @danjdevine.bsky.social & @nickclarkegeo.bsky.social find attributes of authenticity are as important as competence & integrity: https://buff.ly/41DzrXI (OPEN ACCESS)

Are you interested in political trust but think 'actually, it's a bit more complicated than that'? You'd be right! In a draft paper, we use original data from 13 surveys across 11 countries & 52 focus groups w/ 311 participants in 8 countries, arguing that trust, mistrust, & distrust are distinct:

New article in Journal of Communication looking at changes to trust in news across 46 countries in the last 10 years. Trust in news declined in just over half of countries. It decreased more in countries where TV news use has declined, and/or where social media news use has grown. A thread:

What attributes of a government lead citizens to view it as trustworthy? Our article - led by @danjdevine.bsky.social - is out in EJPR today... Competence, benevolence and integrity all matter - but perceived benevolence matters most. ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Glad to be at the @emppolitikwiss.bsky.social workshop on political support, where Matthijs Gilissen presented our ongoing work on if citizens make a distinction between political #trust, mistrust and distrust 🧐 @viktorv.bsky.social @stevenvdwalle.bsky.social involve-democracy.eu

The use of the term "populist" is perhaps irresponsible here, at least for a European readership: in the US, economic populism tends to refer to (perhaps simplistic) policies "for people", but "populism" generally refers more to us vs. them rhetoric, demagoguery and nativism (esp. in Europe).

Our new paper about authenticity and political trust is out in Political Studies today! 🥳 In it, @drjennings.bsky.social, Gerry Stoker, Lawrence McKay, @danjdevine.bsky.social, @nickclarkegeo.bsky.social and I use conjoint experiments from 7 countries...🧵 See: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

"Stay signed in" may be the biggest lie ever told.

Delighted that the paper I'm proudest of has just been accepted for publication at @bjpols.bsky.social 🥳 In it, we investigate global trends in political trust, using data from 50 different survey projects! Check out the pre-print here: osf.io/preprints/os... And some results below 👇

Niðurstöður úr netkosningunni okkar Indriða H. Indriðasonar eru ljósar! Þær benda til þess að Halla T. hafi grætt um 8 prósentustig á taktískri kosningu en hefði þó unnið í öllum kosningakerfunum. Baldur Þ. tapaði hins vegar mest á taktískri kosningu. Sjá nánar hér: www.ruv.is/frettir/innl...

Hvernig ætli þessar forsetakosningar færu ef við værum að nota eitthvað annað kosningakerfi? Við Indriði H. Indriðason viljum komast að því, þannig að við efnum til opinna netkosninga til forseta Íslands eftir ólíkum kosningakerfum! Endilega takið þátt og kjósið hér! 🥳✅ forseti2024.politicaldata.org

🏆 Huge congratulations to @turnbulldugarte.bsky.social of @sotonpolitics.bsky.social on winning our 🌟 2023 Rising Star Award! bit.ly/4a6aSnF 🌠 Our jury commends Stuart's exemplary academic achievements, highlighting his contributions to publishing and teaching 👏 polisky

Every generation aging into crankery means you have people who grew up with Grace Jones and Prince going “wasn’t none of this gender stuff in my day”

Íslenskasta stjórnsýsla í heimi að ráðherra sé bara persónulega í því að setja inn tilkynningar á heimasíðu dómsmálaráðuneytisins... (af mbl.is)

This is so evil I once again don’t have the words - but please don’t look away and please don’t stop speaking out 💜

Me saying let’s circle back after the holidays: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me after the holidays: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

Að axla ábyrgð á meintri frændhygli með því að færa sig yfir í utanríkisráðuneytið til að skipa vini sína sendiherra er náttúrulega bara👌

N: Rauðinúpur IS (Melrakkasléttu) S: Tasmanía AU (2. sæti: Góðrarvonarhöfði SA) V: San Francisco US A: Sydney AU

Verð á Rás 2 í Síðdegisútvarpinu klukkan 16:40 í dag og í Morgunútvarpinu í fyrramálið kl. 7:30 að tala um pólitískt traust og rannsóknir mínar á því! Svo flyt ég líka fyrirlestur um það í Odda í HÍ á morgun kl. 12 og aftur þar á fimmtudaginn eftir viku kl. 16:30 🤓 - allt opið öllum sem hafa áhuga 😇

<3 www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9jb...

Tilboðsvika? More like svikatilboð...! Meeehhehehehehehehe...

My 'not an authoritarian' shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt. Also, we will crush the existence of those people when we regain power. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

"yeah surprised to get the call from the chairman but delighted to be back, it's a triffic little department, we'll add a bit of quality in January and hopefully be back in Europe next season"

'Institutions, parties and the evolution of electoral preferences' by Chris Wlezien and me is published in the November volume of the European Journal of Political Research. I think it's the most important yet of our work on how voters' choices come into focus over the electoral cycle.

Ahh Bjarni ætlar að axla ábyrgð með því að halda áfram að sitja í ríkisstjórninni sem hann myndaði... ég skil. Þannig ábyrgð.

How are these displays of solidarity going to look in a months' time? Israel seems to be gearing up to exterminate civilian life on a scale far worse than what was inflicted on it and a whole bunch of our governments seem be issuing them a licence to do it or helping them. This is so scary.

Genocides in the 20th century often happened in secrecy or the truth came out in trickles, to the point it was too late for a meaningful global response (if they cared). Now we have a genocide unfolding in real-time and the global north governments know this and are cheering it on. #Palestine

Mér finnst þetta síðasta reyndar bara mjög sanngjörn spurning! Ef ég væri að æfa íþrótt veit ég ekki hvað ég ætti að gera með það ef þjálfarinn bæði mig um "meiri gæði"...

Rétt upp hönd sem efast um að Bjarni hafi ekki haft hugmynd um að pabbi hans hafi ætlað að gera tilboð í hlut í Íslandsbanka 🙋‍♂️

Nýr leikmaður bætist í hóp fólks sem heitir það sem það fæst við:

With all the academics joining us here in the past week or so, this has officially become the new Twitter for me. Happy to see you all here! Meanwhile, X is fine for football coverage...