There remains a lack of clarity about what low political trust precisely entails. Based on long-standing discussions, recent works have sought to verify the existence of distinct political trust at...

Anton Jäger is historicus van het politieke denken en doceert aan de Universiteit van Oxford. Zijn column verschijnt tweewekelijks.

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In many advanced democracies, newer generations and younger citizens are less likely to vote than earlier generations and older individuals. However, despite this being an established empirical matte...

Religion has long been regarded as a hindrance to women’s emancipation and gender equality. However, empirical research on how individual religiosity shapes gender egalitarian attitudes among adolesce...

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De roep om ‘de rijken’ meer te belasten klinkt luid in de Belgische politiek....

477 medewerkers van Fedasil schrijven een open brief aan hun minister, Anneleen Van Bossuyt (N-VA).

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...

Democratic legitimacy runs on citizens’ trust in public institutions. We often assume citizens critically monitor their institutions, only granting trust when they perform well. However, Linde Stals a...

By Alexander Horn, University of Konstanz, Martin Haselmayer, University of Applied Sciences Campus Vienna and University of Vienna, and K. Jonathan Klüser, University of Zurich Do parties respond to inequality? Despite the relevance of inequality and its consequences, existing studies fail to capture parties’ emphasis on economic equality and redistribution or to differentiate between existing levels of inequality and increases in inequality.

Several studies have documented ‘something for nothing’ (SFN) attitudes among citizens: preferences for increased government spending and lower taxes. Such a demand for unfunded public spending may g....

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