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Lars Thorup Larsen

@thoruplars.bsky.social

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Political Scientist, researches health policy and resistance to knowledge authorities

Lars Thorup Larsen @thoruplars.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

The article is part of the mixed-methods REACTOR project funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark analyzing citizens' resistance to (or acceptance of) expertise across 5 countries (US, UK, Netherlands, Czech Republic and Denmark) in both surveys and in-depth qualitative interviews 5/5

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Lars Thorup Larsen @thoruplars.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

We also found that populists are more likely to judge expert advice as poorly reasoned and as politically biased, which seems to be what drives their judgements about when to listen to expertise 4/5

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Lars Thorup Larsen @thoruplars.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Populists are generally less willing to accept expert advice, but importantly, they do respond to good arguments just as much as non-populists even if starting from a lower baseline of trust in science and expertise 3/5

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Lars Thorup Larsen @thoruplars.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

We seek to understand what persuades populist and non-populist voters to accept expert advice when confronted with policy problems (immigration, climate) or personal life decisions (home birth, transgender child) 2/5

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Lars Thorup Larsen @thoruplars.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Have populists turned against reason and stopped listening to science and expertise? New article out in @polstudies.bsky.social with Adam Peresman, @honoratam.bsky.social and @m-b-petersen.bsky.social investigates this question in a 5-country experimental study doi.org/10.1177/0032... 1/5

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