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Honorata Mazepus

@honoratam.bsky.social
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Political scientist @University of Amsterdam | Checks and balances, democratic backsliding, perceived legitimacy of political authorities.

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Political Science Research and Methods @psrm.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
🇺🇦What traits do citizens value in leaders during war? ➡L Laustsen, @honoratam.bsky.social @fvanleeuwen.bsky.social H Bartusevičius & M Vugt show war increases desire for dominant leaders, reducing warmth & competence. Anger amplifies all traits www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
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Antoaneta Dimitrova @antoanetadl.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Our newly published paper with @honoratam.bsky.social focuses on the problem of trust in societies in transition and the role of public service reforms for increasing trust and support for government. It is based on a new dataset from Ukraine before the war 1/2
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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
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 @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com
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JEPP Journal @jeppjournal.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
@dtoshkov.bsky.social, @honoratam.bsky.social, Nikoleta Yordanova and Darinka Piqani assess how citizens perceive the legitimacy of EU sanctions
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Enforcement and public opinion: the perceived legitimacy of rule of law sanctions
The EU has powerful enforcement mechanisms to curb democratic backsliding and support the rule of law in its member states. While (the threat of) enforcement is necessary, sanctions might be diffic...
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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
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
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Honorata Mazepus @honoratam.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
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 🧵(1/4)
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Michael Bang Petersen @m-b-petersen.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
🚨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/... 🧵(1/4)
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Dimiter Toshkov @dtoshkov.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
⭐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 osf.io/preprints/os...
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Honorata Mazepus @honoratam.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
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
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Honorata Mazepus @honoratam.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
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.
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Enrique Hernández @ehernandez.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
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 polisky ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
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Tom van der Meer @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
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!
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