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The Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations (CAST) @cast-centre.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Join the Tyndall Centre for a thought-provoking discussion on public and political gaps of the necessary speed for climate action in the wider context of diverging views. 💭 CAST affiliate Dr Lucas Geese (@lucasgeese.bsky.social) will be speaking at this event. 👇 When: Weds, 15 July, 13:00-13:50 📆
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Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research @tyndallcentre.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Do the public and politicians support deep and rapid decarbonisation? And are views becoming more polarised? Join @lucasgeese.bsky.social (Tyndall Centre) & @susiewang.bsky.social @climatebarometer.bsky.social, with Sam Chetan-Welsh @green-alliance.org.uk ⬇️ 🔗 tyndall.ac.uk/events/publi...
Social media graphic on forthcoming Tyndall Centre Public Seminar (Online) on 15 July, that discusses gaps between public and political perceptions of the necessary speed for climate action, in the wider context of diverging views. Includes portrait photos of Dr Lucas Geese from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and Dr Susie Wang from Climate Barometer, plus discussant Sam Chetan-Welsh from Green Alliance, with QR code that links to registration page.
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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
65.2 🫐 Are MP's putting their best foot(print) forward? 👣 @lucasgeese.bsky.social and @chantal-st.bsky.social use rare data to understand the impact carbon footprint of voters has on an MPs #Decarbonisation focus asking whether politician's prioritise #NetZero, or electoral gains🌍️
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High emissions, low engagement? How members of parliament represent the carbon footprint of their constituents | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
High emissions, low engagement? How members of parliament represent the carbon footprint of their constituents - Volume 65 Issue 2
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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
📣 New #BJPIR article out now! 'Conspiracy beliefs and populist radical right attitudes: A comparative European analysis' by @andres-bernstein.bsky.social & @johnkenny.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/4SV4qwu @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
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The Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations (CAST) @cast-centre.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
We are proud to see our CAST paper on "Politicians and climate change: A systematic review of the literature" among the top 10 cited papers for the Wiley WIREs Climate Change journal in 2024. 👏 Read the paper: wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Politicians and climate change: A systematic review of the literature
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Malte Kreutzfeldt @mkreutzfeldt.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
In ihrem aktuellen FAZ-Gastbeitrag beklagt Katherina Reiche eine "Selbsttäuschunug" in der Energiepolitik. Tatsächlich fällt der Täuschungsvorwurf aber teilweise auf sie selbst zurück, denn der Text enthält diverse falsche oder irreführende Zahlen. Ein Thread. (1/17) www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
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Ralph Scott @ralphscott.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
🚨 NEW REPORT! 🚨 What is the state of the UK academic job market in politics, and what does this mean for the field and #highered? In a new @psaecn.bsky.social report, @lawrencemckay.bsky.social @williamlallen.bsky.social and I find worrying trends in job adverts and HESA data from 2012-25 #PSA26
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Academic Job Market Trends in Politics and International Relations - Political Studies Association
Academic Job Market Trends in Politics and International Relations: Evidence from the UK, 2012-25 Authored by: Dr Ralph Scott, Dr Lawrence McKay, and Dr William Allen Read the full report here   Execu...
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lucasgeese.bsky.social @lucasgeese.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Excited to have registered for the 2026 @comptext.bsky.social annual conference in Bham. Workshops and conference programme look amazing. Hope to meet many new and familiar faces.
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lucasgeese.bsky.social @lucasgeese.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
📚 End-of-week highlight: the Festschrift for @thomas-saalfeld.bsky.social, my PhD supervisor, arrived. Delighted to have contributed to this wonderful volume. It brings back many happy Bamberg memories. Huge thanks to @jmfernandes86.bsky.social and @javiermcanto.bsky.social, and congrats to Thomas 🎉
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
What a result!! Huge congratulations to the amazing Hannah Spencer - everyone in Gorton and Denton has just made history. This result shows @greenparty.org.uk can win anywhere, that the politics of hope can win over the politics of hate & there is no longer any such thing as a Labour safe seat 💚
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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
High emissions and low admission? 🏭️ @lucasgeese.bsky.social and @chantal-st.bsky.social use rare data to understand what impact the carbon footprint of voters has on the decarbonisation focus of MPS, asking whether politician's prioritize #NetZero, or short-term electoral gains 🌍️
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High emissions, low engagement? How members of parliament represent the carbon footprint of their constituents | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
High emissions, low engagement? How members of parliament represent the carbon footprint of their constituents
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The Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations (CAST) @cast-centre.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
New research from CAST's Dr Lucas Geese (@lucasgeese.bsky.social) & Dr Chantal Sullivan-Thomsett (@chantal-st.bsky.social) shows that UK MPs give less attention to decarbonisation in more carbon-intensive constituencies, especially Conservatives and marginal seats. 📣 Read the open access paper 👇
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High emissions, low engagement? How members of parliament represent the carbon footprint of their constituents | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
High emissions, low engagement? How members of parliament represent the carbon footprint of their constituents
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lucasgeese.bsky.social @lucasgeese.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
📌New in EJPR (OA): We ask whether MPs prioritise decarbonisation most where consumption emissions are highest. Answer (UK): No — MPs give less attention to decarbonisation in more carbon-intensive constituencies, especially Conservatives + marginal seats (speech analysis + elite interviews).
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Chantal Sullivan-Thomsett @chantal-st.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Really delighted to see this article with @lucasgeese.bsky.social finally out. Using speech analysis + elite interviews, we show that UK MPs give less attention to decarbonisation when they represent more carbon-intensive constituencies — especially among Conservative MPs and in marginal seats.
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Environmental Politics @environmentalpol.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
New article! Europeans’ climate consciousness: Increased yet more politicised by John Kenny @_johnkenny & Stephen D. Fisher. doi.org/10.1080/0964...
As climate change became more important to voters and political parties in the late 2010s in Europe, this paper asks whether aspects of public opinion on the issue also became more politicised, in the sense of being more closely linked to either party-family vote choice or left–right identity. We consider change from Wave 8 (2016–17) to Wave 10 (2020–22) of the European Social Survey (ESS). Climate consciousness increased overall, especially in Central and Eastern Europe. Politicisation of climate change increased mostly in Western Europe, where climate consciousness increased more on the left, and for left-wing party voters, than on the right. The Populist-Right party family, as a group, was distinctive in the relative stability of climate consciousness among their voters. Our results show increased politicisation of climate change attitudes within Western European countries, but also convergence between polities of the East and West at higher levels of climate consciousness.
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John Kenny @johnkenny.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
New paper out with @stevefisher.bsky.social at @environmentalpol.bsky.social. We use @ess-survey.bsky.social from 2016-17 and 2020-22 to show how climate worry rose across Europe, and in Western Europe especially so for left individuals and voters of left parties. doi.org/10.1080/0964...
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Europeans’ climate consciousness: increased yet more politicised
As climate change became more important to voters and political parties in the late 2010s in Europe, this paper asks whether aspects of public opinion on the issue also became more politicised, in ...
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Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research @tyndallcentre.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Knowledge Gap on Climate Urgency ⏰ A new study reveals a critical disconnect: UK MPs & public significantly overestimate how much time we have to act on #ClimateChange. Only a small fraction knew global emissions must peak by 2025 to to realistically limit temp rise to 1.5˚C ➡️ buff.ly/7TJcypB
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MPs and public overestimate time left for climate action, study finds - Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
A new study has found that UK Members of Parliament (MPs) and the public overestimated the time left to meet a critical deadline for limiting global warming.
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The Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations (CAST) @cast-centre.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
A new CAST study has found that UK MPs and the public in the UK, Canada, Chile & Germany underestimated the urgency of peaking global GHG emissions. 📣 Read the paper in @commsearth.nature.com, co-authored by Dr John Kenny (@johnkenny.bsky.social) & Dr Lucas Geese (@lucasgeese.bsky.social) 👇
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Publics and UK parliamentarians underestimate the urgency of peaking global greenhouse gas emissions
Communications Earth & Environment - UK members of parliament overestimate the time available to mitigate climate change, with notable partisan differences, and a similar lack of knowledge is...
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 06/10/2025
New study finds both MPs and the public underestimate how quickly global emissions must be cut.
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We surveyed British MPs – most don’t know how urgent climate action is
New study finds both MPs and the public underestimate how quickly global emissions must be cut.
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Climate Outreach @climateoutreach.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
📢 This is a threat we won’t accept: abolishing the Climate Change Act (CCA) would harm our natural world, damage a thriving net zero economy, reverse significant progress, and be out of step with public and political opinion. We’ve written an open letter to Badenoch to express our profound concern.
Climate Outreach are one of many major climate and nature organisations to express our grave and collective concern at Badenoch's threat to scrap the Climate Change Act.
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Communications Earth & Environment @commsearth.nature.com · 02/10/2025
UK members of parliament overestimate the time available to mitigate climate change, with notable partisan differences, and a similar lack of knowledge is evident among the public in Britain, Canada, Chile, and Germany.
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University of East Anglia (UEA) @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
A new UEA study has found that UK Members of Parliament (MPs) and the public overestimated the time left to meet a critical deadline for limiting global warming.  Read more 👉 bit.ly/3KAs1y2 #UKParliament #MPs #ClimateChange @ukri.org @climateuea.bsky.social
View of the Palace of Westminster and Big Ben next to the River Thames under a partly cloudy sky.
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lucasgeese.bsky.social @lucasgeese.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Bit of an awkward coincidence that our paper comes out on the day Kemi Badenoch pledges to scrap the UK Climate Change Act, but perhaps provides also a bit of an explanation: Many UK politicians, and Tories especially, still don't fully grasp the urgency of cutting greenhouse gas emissions! 👇👇👇👇👇👇
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PSA German Politics Specialist Group @psagermanpol.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
🔁Please share 🔁 Are you an undergraduate or masters student in the UK 💂‍♂️working on German Politics⚫🔴🟡? We award up to three Essay Prizes 🥇 Submit your essays or dissertations now 📫 Contact us, if you have any question 🙋 More information: psagermany.wordpress.com/events-2/psa...
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PSA75 Essay Prize
To mark the 75th anniversary of the UK’s Political Studies Association, the German Politics Specialist Group (GPSG) has created a one-off essay prize for undergraduate and masters students to celeb…
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Alfie Gaffney @alfiegaffney.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Really pleased that some research from my PhD has been published today in npj Climate Action ⬇️
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Polity, Journal of Political Science @polityalsberuf.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Check out the Guest Editors' Note from our April Issue, written by @johnkenny.bsky.social , @sofiabrei.bsky.social , and Michael S. Lewis-Beck. It is available here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/pol/curr...
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Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research @tyndallcentre.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
New journal article 📢 A review of National Citizens’ Climate Assemblies: learning from deliberative events This article reviews the rapidly emerging literature on citizens’ assemblies and assesses their significance for understanding climate policy and governance. buff.ly/KCSUFgl 🤝
Scrabble tiles on a table that spell out CLIMATE. Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash
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Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research @tyndallcentre.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
A review of National Citizens’ Climate Assemblies, said to improve legitimacy and efficacy of #ClimatePolicy 🤝 Key insights: 🟢 There are disagreements on roles + purposes 🟢 How evidence is presented can provide opps for value-based debate + challenging status quo Read in full: buff.ly/KCSUFgl
Photo of woman raising her hand in blurry room with other people sitting down  looking towards some others at the front. Photo by Jacob Sangster on Unsplash
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Climate Policy Journal @climate-policy.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
🔓 : Advocates of national citizens' #climate assemblies (NCCAs) maintain that they improve the quality & legitimacy of policymaking. Lorenzoni et al. (@lucasgeese.bsky.social @chantal-st.bsky.social @cast-centre.bsky.social) find substantial variation in character, impact & perceived legitimacy⬇️
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A review of National Citizens’ Climate Assemblies: learning from deliberative events
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lucasgeese.bsky.social @lucasgeese.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
New publication in Climate Policy—open access! We reviewed national citizens’ climate assemblies and found substantial variation in process, impact, and perceived legitimacy. Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Co-authored with Irene Lorenzoni, Andrew Jordan & @chantal-st.bsky.social
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A review of National Citizens’ Climate Assemblies: learning from deliberative events
Citizen’s Climate Assemblies (CCA) have been hailed by academics and non-academics as initiatives to improve the legitimacy and efficacy of climate policy governance. Yet it is only recently that s...
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lucasgeese.bsky.social @lucasgeese.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
New OA article now in @govandopp.bsky.social issue! Tougher immigration stances by centre-right govts boost political distrust—esp. among pro-immigration citizens—without hurting far-right support. Democratic costs? Quite possibly. Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #polsci #FarRight
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Tough Positions, Trustful Voters? How Mainstream Party Position-Taking on Immigration Shapes Political Trust and its Impact on Far-Right Voting | Government and Opposition | Cambridge Core
Tough Positions, Trustful Voters? How Mainstream Party Position-Taking on Immigration Shapes Political Trust and its Impact on Far-Right Voting - Volume 60 Issue 2
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John Kenny @johnkenny.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
New paper out at @electoralstudies.bsky.social with Michael Lewis-Beck. We show that political economy models - based on inflation rate, government/prime minister approval, and the number of terms in office - performed well in forecasting CON vote share ahead of the 2024 GE doi.org/10.1016/j.el...
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lucasgeese.bsky.social @lucasgeese.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
What can we learn from the 2024 General Election for the UK climate politics of the future? Very happy to see @johnkenny.bsky.social and my report published in collaboration with @green-alliance.org.uk and @cast-centre.bsky.social. See 👇 for the details.
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The Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations (CAST) @cast-centre.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Great to see CAST 2024 polling be the focus of @green-alliance.org.uk's latest report on public opinion on climate policy during the 2024 general election. 🗳️ The report was written by CAST's @johnkenny.bsky.social & @lucasgeese.bsky.social and examines climate policy support. Read the report 👇
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Opinion on climate change policy during the 2024 general election » Green Alliance
Green Alliance is an independent think tank and charity focused on ambitious leadership for the environment
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John Kenny @johnkenny.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
In this report with @lucasgeese.bsky.social, we present findings from polling we carried out just before last year's UK general election in which we examined support for climate policies among the British public. @cast-centre.bsky.social @climateuea.bsky.social @tyndallcentre.bsky.social
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Gabriela Greilinger @gabrielagreilinger.com · 05/03/2025
🇦🇹's new government seeks to "temporarily" halt family reunifications, citing the "burden" on the education system. Most experts agree this violates human rights & EU law and is unlikely to hold. It's also problematic insofar as it legitimises a core programmatic point of the far-right FPÖ. 1/
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Erstes Interview in Schwarz-Rot-Pink: Stopp des Familiennachzugs kommt "sofort"
Die neue Bundesregierung will nicht nur härtere Maßnahmen bei der Migration, sondern auch das Bundesheer aufrüsten und höhere Steuern vermeiden
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lucasgeese.bsky.social @lucasgeese.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
When politicians have strongly held views which conflict however with those of their voters, parties or independent experts , should they stay true to themselves or give in to the views of those stakeholders? John Kenny and I have surveyed British and German citizens and politicians on that. 👇👇👇
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John Kenny @johnkenny.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Together with @lucasgeese.bsky.social , we show (doi.org/10.1086/734680open) that there are differences in preferences for politicians being true to themselves among publics and MPs in Germany and GB. MPs may be more constrained in their ability to be true to themselves under certain conditions 9/12
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John Kenny @johnkenny.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
The articles from the forthcoming SI on Political Authenticity - edited by myself, @sofiabrei.bsky.social & Michael Lewis-Beck - at @polityalsberuf.bsky.social are now online. In the introduction (doi.org/10.1086/734784) we set out its contribution and summarise each article 1/12
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Karl Doemens @karldoemens.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Aus. Vorbei. Zum ersten Mal in meinem Leben werde ich meine Stimme bei einer Bundestagswahl nicht abgeben können. Tausenden Auslandsdeutschen geht es genauso. Warum ich stocksauer bin. 👇👇👇 www.rnd.de/politik/bund...
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Warum ich erstmals in meinem Leben keine Wahl habe
Unser US-Korrespondent hat wie Tausende andere Auslandsdeutsche in den Vereinigten Staaten bis heute seine Briefwahlunterlagen nicht erhalten. Deshalb kann er seine Stimme bei der Bundestagswahl nicht...
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Jorge M. Fernandes @jmfernandes86.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
‼️ Hiring‼️ -- 10 days to deadline! Two postdoctoral positions in my ERC Consolidator in Madrid. Application deadline: February 28 Job ad & details: tinyurl.com/3dwm96kb Come and join me and my team in sunny Madrid for 5 years of intensive research and lots of publications, traveling, and fun!
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Environmental Politics @environmentalpol.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
New article from John Kenny , Lucas Geese , Andrew Jordan and Irene Lorenzoni reviews the usage of climate change questions in public opinion surveys & provides an overview of the types of concepts that can be elicited from these. doi.org/10.1080/0964...
screenshot of article abstract, reads: Climate change is a significant site of political contestation, with public opinion frequently invoked to support claims for more (or less) action. Yet, ‘climate change public opinion’ is an umbrella term encompassing many different components. Empirical research has recently burgeoned, but an up-to-date and globally comprehensive guide to navigating the interconnected concepts currently measured is still lacking. In this review, we develop an original classification framework based on questions fielded in over 315 surveys across different parts of the world. We reflect on what aspects the questions elicit, relate them to patterns in the existing empirical literature, and identify and reflect on important implications for future research...
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Chantal Sullivan-Thomsett @chantal-st.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
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