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Viktor Valgarðsson

@viktorv.bsky.social
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Political scientist at the University of Southampton. Studying political trust and democracy and other weird things. Einnig til í glens.

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Lotte Hargrave @lottehargrave.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
🚨New article🚨 What do people want from political leaders in times of crisis, and are those preferences gendered? Interested? Then check out our new Electoral Studies paper @jess-smith.bsky.social @viktorv.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social @hannahbunting.bsky.social @carolineleicht.bsky.social
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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
🌅📙 64.3 #GovernmentTrust These authors (🧵⬇️) use experiments in 🇬🇧🇭🇷🇪🇸🇦🇷 & 🇫🇷 to determine what has the most influence on citizen's trust. They also looked at how different trust-related qualities interact and how people's own traits change the effects. 🔗 buff.ly/H5wjxBl
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The causes of perceived government trustworthiness
DANIEL DEVINE, VIKTOR VALGARÐSSON, WILL JENNINGS, GERRY STOKER, HANNAH BUNTING
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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
IN NEW ISSUE: What makes a politician trusted by citizens? @viktorv.bsky.social, @drjennings.bsky.social, G Stoker, @lawrencemckay.bsky.social, @danjdevine.bsky.social & @nickclarkegeo.bsky.social find attributes of authenticity are as important as competence & integrity: buff.ly/41DzrXI OPEN ACCESS
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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
IN NEW ISSUE: What makes a politician trusted by citizens? @viktorv.bsky.social, @drjennings.bsky.social, G Stoker, @lawrencemckay.bsky.social, @danjdevine.bsky.social & @nickclarkegeo.bsky.social find attributes of authenticity are as important as competence & integrity: buff.ly/41DzrXI OPEN ACCESS
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Viktor Valgarðsson @viktorv.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Way to dispel the allegations...
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British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
From February 2025 - A Crisis of Political Trust? Global Trends in Institutional Trust from 1958 to 2019 - cup.org/4gCcLuT - @viktorv.bsky.social, @drjennings.bsky.social, Gerry Stoker, @hannahbunting.bsky.social, @danjdevine.bsky.social, @lawrencemckay.bsky.social & Andrew Klassen #OpenAccess
BJPolS abstract discussing theoretical fluctuations and empirical studies in political trust, mentioning data collection from 143 countries between 1958 and 2019, and highlighting differences in trust levels at institutions, with a focus on democratic declines.
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Tom van der Meer @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I am really proud about this publication on trust, with Chaïm la Roi and @cvalebeek.bsky.social . Using unique panel data, we show (1) that trust has a dispositional element among adults, and (2) that these trust attitudes are socialized during adolescence. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Socialized to (Dis)trust? A Panel Study into the Origins of Dispositional Institutional Trust - Social Indicators Research
A longstanding argument in the field of institutional trust reads that trust is the outcome of a process of socialization. This approach suggests that institutional trust may be understood as a set di...
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Viktor Valgarðsson @viktorv.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Að hugsa sér að maður sé bara hluti af þeirri kynslóð sem komst í gegnum það að Vikan með Gísla Marteini var seinna á dagskrá en venjulega vegna afmælistónleika Sinfó
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Viktor Valgarðsson @viktorv.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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University of Southampton @unisouthampton.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
People's trust in politics is in long-term decline, says our political expert Dr @viktorv.bsky.social. He and his colleague’s latest study shows trust in democratic governments has been falling around the world since the 1990s. Full @uk.theconversation.com article 👇 brnw.ch/21wQPx5
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Trust in politics is in long-term decline around the world – new research
Since 1990, trust in government has been declining in democratic countries across the world.
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Viktor Valgarðsson @viktorv.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
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...
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Trust in politics is in long-term decline around the world – new research
Since 1990, trust in government has been declining in democratic countries across the world.
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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Nice coverage of our paper in @bjpols.bsky.social led by @viktorv.bsky.social by @unisouthampton.bsky.social media team Paper: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Coverage: www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2025/02...
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Our article 'A Crisis of Political Trust?' led by @viktorv.bsky.social is now out in @bjpols.bsky.social! We use >3,000 surveys in 143 countries between 1958 and 2019, finding that trust in representative institutions has generally been declining in recent decades. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Our paper on global trends in trust is online! Led by @viktorv.bsky.social we use >3k surveys from ~50 projects in 143 countries, the paper provides a framework for understanding changes in trust and: (1) Trust in representative institutions is in decline (2) but stable in implementing institutions
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.
Screenshot from "Letter from our correspondent" in "Papua New Guinea Courier"
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Calum Weir @cwp-weir.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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Viktor Valgarðsson @viktorv.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Óháð því hvað okkur finnst um loforðið (mér finnst það galið), þá er alveg rétt hjá Singa og Simma að það er óheiðarlegt að segja fyrir kosningar að eitthvað sé ófrávíkjanlegt skilyrði fyrir stjórnarmyndun og segja svo bara eftir kosningar að það hefði þurft hreinan meirihluta... #kryddsíld
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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
What makes a politician trusted by citizens? @viktorv.bsky.social , @drjennings.bsky.social, G Stoker, @lawrencemckay.bsky.social, @danjdevine.bsky.social & @nickclarkegeo.bsky.social find attributes of authenticity are as important as competence & integrity: buff.ly/41DzrXI (OPEN ACCESS)
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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Are you interested in political trust but think 'actually, it's a bit more complicated than that'? You'd be right! In a draft paper, we use original data from 13 surveys across 11 countries & 52 focus groups w/ 311 participants in 8 countries, arguing that trust, mistrust, & distrust are distinct:
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Richard Fletcher @richardfletcher.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
New article in Journal of Communication looking at changes to trust in news across 46 countries in the last 10 years. Trust in news declined in just over half of countries. It decreased more in countries where TV news use has declined, and/or where social media news use has grown. A thread:
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The link between changing news use and trust: longitudinal analysis of 46 countries
Abstract . Changing levels of public trust in the news are of deep concern to both researchers and practitioners. We use data from 2015 to 2023 in 46 count
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
What attributes of a government lead citizens to view it as trustworthy? Our article - led by @danjdevine.bsky.social - is out in EJPR today... Competence, benevolence and integrity all matter - but perceived benevolence matters most. ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Dr. Silke Goubin @silkegoubin.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Glad to be at the @emppolitikwiss.bsky.social workshop on political support, where Matthijs Gilissen presented our ongoing work on if citizens make a distinction between political #trust, mistrust and distrust 🧐 @viktorv.bsky.social @stevenvdwalle.bsky.social involve-democracy.eu
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Viktor Valgarðsson @viktorv.bsky.social · 16/08/2024
The use of the term "populist" is perhaps irresponsible here, at least for a European readership: in the US, economic populism tends to refer to (perhaps simplistic) policies "for people", but "populism" generally refers more to us vs. them rhetoric, demagoguery and nativism (esp. in Europe).
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Viktor Valgarðsson @viktorv.bsky.social · 08/08/2024
Our new paper about authenticity and political trust is out in Political Studies today! 🥳 In it, @drjennings.bsky.social, Gerry Stoker, Lawrence McKay, @danjdevine.bsky.social, @nickclarkegeo.bsky.social and I use conjoint experiments from 7 countries...🧵 See: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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The Good Politician: Competence, Integrity and Authenticity in Seven Democracies - Viktor Valgarðsson, Will Jennings, Gerry Stoker, Lawrence McKay, Daniel Devine, Nick Clarke, 2024
We explore the characteristics of politicians that make them trusted by citizens, fielding conjoint survey experiments in seven democracies. Studies regularly i...
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Viktor Valgarðsson @viktorv.bsky.social · 04/07/2024
"Stay signed in" may be the biggest lie ever told.
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Viktor Valgarðsson @viktorv.bsky.social · 25/06/2024
Delighted that the paper I'm proudest of has just been accepted for publication at @bjpols.bsky.social 🥳 In it, we investigate global trends in political trust, using data from 50 different survey projects! Check out the pre-print here: osf.io/preprints/os... And some results below 👇
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Viktor Valgarðsson @viktorv.bsky.social · 04/06/2024
Niðurstöður úr netkosningunni okkar Indriða H. Indriðasonar eru ljósar! Þær benda til þess að Halla T. hafi grætt um 8 prósentustig á taktískri kosningu en hefði þó unnið í öllum kosningakerfunum. Baldur Þ. tapaði hins vegar mest á taktískri kosningu. Sjá nánar hér: www.ruv.is/frettir/innl...
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Halla græddi mikið á taktískri kosningu en hefði sigrað í öllum kosningakerfum - RÚV.is
Niðurstöður netkönnunar, sem var gerð 27. maí til 1. júní, sýna að Halla Tómasdóttir græddi talsvert á taktískri kosningu en hefði unnið kosningarnar í öllum kosningakerfum.
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Viktor Valgarðsson @viktorv.bsky.social · 27/05/2024
Hvernig ætli þessar forsetakosningar færu ef við værum að nota eitthvað annað kosningakerfi? Við Indriði H. Indriðason viljum komast að því, þannig að við efnum til opinna netkosninga til forseta Íslands eftir ólíkum kosningakerfum! Endilega takið þátt og kjósið hér! 🥳✅ forseti2024.politicaldata.org
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European Consortium for Political Research @ecpr.bsky.social · 26/02/2024
🏆 Huge congratulations to @turnbulldugarte.bsky.social of @sotonpolitics.bsky.social on winning our 🌟 2023 Rising Star Award! bit.ly/4a6aSnF 🌠 Our jury commends Stuart's exemplary academic achievements, highlighting his contributions to publishing and teaching 👏 polisky
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ECPR 2023 Rising Star Award
We are delighted to honour Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte with our 2023 Rising Star Award. Stuart is our fourth 'rising star' since the award was established to:- ...
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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 14/02/2024
Every generation aging into crankery means you have people who grew up with Grace Jones and Prince going “wasn’t none of this gender stuff in my day”
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Viktor Valgarðsson @viktorv.bsky.social · 03/02/2024
Íslenskasta stjórnsýsla í heimi að ráðherra sé bara persónulega í því að setja inn tilkynningar á heimasíðu dómsmálaráðuneytisins... (af mbl.is)
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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 24/01/2024
This is so evil I once again don’t have the words - but please don’t look away and please don’t stop speaking out 💜
Quds news network tweet The UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Palestine, Jamie McGoldrick, says Israel added insulin pens for children to the list of prohibited items that are not allowed into Gaza. 

"In terms of the reasons and rationale for it, I really can't explain what that is because I don't know", he added.
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 02/01/2024
Me saying let’s circle back after the holidays: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me after the holidays: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
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Viktor Valgarðsson @viktorv.bsky.social · 20/12/2023
Að axla ábyrgð á meintri frændhygli með því að færa sig yfir í utanríkisráðuneytið til að skipa vini sína sendiherra er náttúrulega bara👌
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Viktor Valgarðsson @viktorv.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
N: Rauðinúpur IS (Melrakkasléttu) S: Tasmanía AU (2. sæti: Góðrarvonarhöfði SA) V: San Francisco US A: Sydney AU
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Viktor Valgarðsson @viktorv.bsky.social · 07/12/2023
Verð á Rás 2 í Síðdegisútvarpinu klukkan 16:40 í dag og í Morgunútvarpinu í fyrramálið kl. 7:30 að tala um pólitískt traust og rannsóknir mínar á því! Svo flyt ég líka fyrirlestur um það í Odda í HÍ á morgun kl. 12 og aftur þar á fimmtudaginn eftir viku kl. 16:30 🤓 - allt opið öllum sem hafa áhuga 😇
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Viktor Valgarðsson @viktorv.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
<3 www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9jb...
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Viktor Valgarðsson @viktorv.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
Tilboðsvika? More like svikatilboð...! Meeehhehehehehehehe...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
My 'not an authoritarian' shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt. Also, we will crush the existence of those people when we regain power. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Steven Cheung, a Trump campaign spokesman, told The Post “those who try to make that ridiculous assertion are clearly snowflakes grasping for anything because they are suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome and their entire existence will be crushed when President Trump returns to the White House.”
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
"yeah surprised to get the call from the chairman but delighted to be back, it's a triffic little department, we'll add a bit of quality in January and hopefully be back in Europe next season"
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
'Institutions, parties and the evolution of electoral preferences' by Chris Wlezien and me is published in the November volume of the European Journal of Political Research. I think it's the most important yet of our work on how voters' choices come into focus over the electoral cycle.
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Viktor Valgarðsson @viktorv.bsky.social · 14/10/2023
Ahh Bjarni ætlar að axla ábyrgð með því að halda áfram að sitja í ríkisstjórninni sem hann myndaði... ég skil. Þannig ábyrgð.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 13/10/2023
How are these displays of solidarity going to look in a months' time? Israel seems to be gearing up to exterminate civilian life on a scale far worse than what was inflicted on it and a whole bunch of our governments seem be issuing them a licence to do it or helping them. This is so scary.
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Amro Ali @amroali.bsky.social · 13/10/2023
Genocides in the 20th century often happened in secrecy or the truth came out in trickles, to the point it was too late for a meaningful global response (if they cared). Now we have a genocide unfolding in real-time and the global north governments know this and are cheering it on. #Palestine
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Viktor Valgarðsson @viktorv.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
Mér finnst þetta síðasta reyndar bara mjög sanngjörn spurning! Ef ég væri að æfa íþrótt veit ég ekki hvað ég ætti að gera með það ef þjálfarinn bæði mig um "meiri gæði"...
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Viktor Valgarðsson @viktorv.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
Rétt upp hönd sem efast um að Bjarni hafi ekki haft hugmynd um að pabbi hans hafi ætlað að gera tilboð í hlut í Íslandsbanka 🙋‍♂️
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Bergþóra Jóns @bergthora.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
Nýr leikmaður bætist í hóp fólks sem heitir það sem það fæst við:
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Viktor Valgarðsson @viktorv.bsky.social · 29/09/2023
With all the academics joining us here in the past week or so, this has officially become the new Twitter for me. Happy to see you all here! Meanwhile, X is fine for football coverage...
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