Alison Smith
@dralisonfsmith.bsky.social
Comparative Politics Lecturer.
Democratisation | Populism | GAL-TAN | Polarisation
DPhil University of Oxford
Environmental science
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Medicine
16%
Will Jennings📉🗳️
@drjennings.bsky.social
· Feb 12
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...
Reposted by Pieter Vanhuysse, Alison Smith, Jessica Fortin‐Rittberger
Cullen Hendrix
@cullenhendrix.bsky.social
· Feb 12
If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall.
tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.
tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.
Alison Smith
@dralisonfsmith.bsky.social
· Feb 12
The article suggests a few:
- loss of faith in political system (approval of congress was 13% at the time).
- feeling that ordinary people cannot influence policy anyway.
- WW2 recedes => cultural memory of the potential horrors of dictatorship fades.
- loss of faith in political system (approval of congress was 13% at the time).
- feeling that ordinary people cannot influence policy anyway.
- WW2 recedes => cultural memory of the potential horrors of dictatorship fades.
Reposted by Alison Smith
Will Jennings📉🗳️
@drjennings.bsky.social
· Feb 11
Whose Economic Growth Is it Anyway?
How To Make A Growing Economy Benefit All
jeevunsandher.substack.com
This is an excellent piece by @jeevunsandher.bsky.social - it is worth highlighting too that lower levels of formal political engagement of younger people reduces the incentives for politicians to address the growing generational economic divide. jeevunsandher.substack.com/p/whose-econ...
Alison Smith
@dralisonfsmith.bsky.social
· Feb 10
Very concerning
The article is from 2016.
✅ Full citation: The Democratic Disconnect, Roberto Stefan Foa, Yascha Mounk, Journal of Democracy, Volume 27, Number 3, July 2016, pp. 5-17 (Article)
✅ Full citation: The Democratic Disconnect, Roberto Stefan Foa, Yascha Mounk, Journal of Democracy, Volume 27, Number 3, July 2016, pp. 5-17 (Article)
I've been teaching this Fao and Mounk article for years, along with the debate that it generated. It is time to accept that the unpalatable truth that WVS data has long contained serious red flags about societal support for democratic values, and discuss what can be done about this.