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

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

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

More in our article in Political Studies: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

@aissr.bsky.social @hotpoliticslab.bsky.social

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-> Stronger arguments increase acceptance of expert advice for both populist and non-populist citizens
-> But populists are more likely to judge advice as poorly reasoned and perceive it as politically biased

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-> However, on average, populist trust scientists less than non-populists
-> Among citizens surveyed in six countries (NL, DK, UK, USA & CZ), populists in the Netherlands trust scientists the least

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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

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🚨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/...

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⭐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
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Would be great to be added!

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.

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

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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!