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... - ThreadSky

drjennings.bsky.social • 10 days ago

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. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-political-science/article/crisis-of-political-trust-global-trends-in-institutional-trust-from-1958-to-2019/7EF4EDA709F27C691380CFC1BCECF6B8

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henryjmiller.bsky.social•10 days ago

Very interesting as always Will. Is there any differentiation in trust in representative institutions at different levels? E.g. do citizens trust local govt/ cllrs more than national parliaments/ MPs, or is the trend across all forms of representative institution?

danjdevine.bsky.social•10 days ago

I don't think we looked at local but typically local is more trusted than national @viktorv.bsky.social

drjennings.bsky.social•10 days ago

Some of our coauthors - @lawrencemckay.bsky.social @hannahbunting.bsky.social @profstoker looked at trust in local vs national governance in this handbook chapter... https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/book/9781800371200/book-part-9781800371200-13.xml

henryjmiller.bsky.social•10 days ago

Thanks, will check this out!

lawrencemckay.bsky.social•10 days ago

Yep - paywalled, but the key finding is that local govt is basically always trusted more in W Europe and elsewhere it's much more varied. (We haven't looked at trends for local govt, though).

henryjmiller.bsky.social•9 days ago

Thanks for this! Interesting as I'm trying to develop a project about how UK citizens have interacted with local govt over the last 200 years, esp. non-electoral methods

tpo-asd.bsky.social•10 days ago

📌

drjennings.bsky.social•10 days ago

There has been a lot of debate over whether long-term trends of political trust reveal decline or 'trendless fluctuation'. We find while there are important differences between countries and global regions, trust in representative institutions (government, legislatures, parties) has been falling.

drjennings.bsky.social•10 days ago

By contrast, trust in 'implementing institutions' (civil service, courts, police) have been rising over this same period.

drjennings.bsky.social•10 days ago

Read the article for a more comprehensive exploration of the findings and discussion of the Bayesian dynamic latent trends methods (inspired by @chrisclaassen.bsky.social) used to estimate the trend in political trust. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-political-science/article/crisis-of-political-trust-global-trends-in-institutional-trust-from-1958-to-2019/7EF4EDA709F27C691380CFC1BCECF6B8

drjennings.bsky.social•10 days ago

If you are a complete nerd you can read the 142 page (I'm not even joking) supplementary materials document prepared by @viktorv.bsky.social the complete psychopath :)

drjennings.bsky.social•10 days ago

Those supplementary materials don't even include my favourite figures/tables from our original analysis. Should have been longer!

faithfinder.bsky.social•10 days ago

Wait, growing trust in Police? What? That doesn't sound right

thegreatermarin.bsky.social•10 days ago

The global rise of the far right seems like it'd be correlated with that.

resd9.bsky.social•10 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/resd9.bsky.social/post/3li2nz4mky22v

smart-casual.bsky.social•10 days ago

This is fantastic, and just when I'm starting an essay on political trust! Thank you. Perfect timing for a nice big meta-analysis :)

eliothiggins.bsky.social•10 days ago

Thanks for sharing that, it's really interest in the context of the work we're doing at Bellingcat on education and creating investigative hubs at universities, and showing students how to have impact from their investigations.

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