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gdagostino.bsky.social
PhD candidate researching political trust at the University of Amsterdam
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I feel so fortunate to work with an multidisciplinary team of smart, driven, and passionate colleagues in the ERC-funded project CRITICALTRUST (on the nature, measurement, development, roots, and democratic consequences of political trust). Such collaborations are a true highlight of academic life.

New working paper! In this research note, @bogatyrev.bsky.social, @tabouchadi.bsky.social, @heikekluever.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social, and I present the first systematic test that causally identifies the electoral consequences of state-sponsored homophobia: osf.io/preprints/os... 🧵Thread

Nieuwe blog: Episode 132 – The 2025 German elections, with Tarik Abou-Chadi https://stukroodvlees.nl/?p=17668

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...

To what extent do citizens' attitudes toward democracy, its institutions, and values safeguard or weaken democratic stability? Join us in Groningen to discuss these and related questions!

📢 Call for Papers 📢 We welcome papers for our panel "Citizens’ attitudes towards democracy" at Poletmaal 2025 (June 12-13, Groningen) 🪑Chairs: @lindestals.bsky.social, Carmen van Alebeek and @gdagostino.bsky.social 📩 Submit here: politicologenetmaal.eu/call-for-pap... ⏳Deadline: March 31, 2025