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Anthony Kevins
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Political scientist studying how public opinion and policy interact.
• Senior Lecturer at Loughborough University
• UK Young Academy Member
• Loughborough UCU Branch Secretary
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🚨Now officially in print!🚨

Do the (partisan) origins of climate assemblies affect public support for these assemblies?

Using original UK survey data, Joshua Robison and I explore this question in a new EJPR article.

Check it out open access here: doi.org/10.1111/1475...
July 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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On Friday, I had the pleasure of hosting an event on “Life in Politics,” sponsored by the @lborocrcc.bsky.social and the @lborouniversity.bsky.social Department of International Relations, Politics and History.
May 12, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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🚨New #OpenAccess study 🚨

What types of people are more or less satisfied with social care in the UK - and how might age and ideology interact to shape satisfaction levels?

Naomi Lightman and I explore these questions in a new, open-access IJSW article: doi.org/10.1111/ijsw...
December 17, 2024 at 12:08 PM
avkevins.bsky.social
🚨New #OpenAccess study🚨

Do the (partisan) origins of climate assemblies affect public support for these assemblies?

Using original UK survey data, Joshua Robison and I explore this question in a new EJPR article.

Check it out open access here: doi.org/10.1111/1475...
Governments around the world are experimenting with deliberative mini-publics as a means of integrating public input into policymaking processes, including as a method for directly creating policy. This raises the important question of when ordinary people will judge the outputs of mini-publics to be legitimate and support their use. We investigate how public support for mini-publics is shaped by: (1) whether the mini-public is held in response to calls from politicians or from the general public; (2) which political party sets up the mini-public; and (3) whether there is partisan conflict surrounding the mini-public’s creation. To do so, we use two pre-registered survey experiments fielded in the United Kingdom that focus on climate assemblies, a prominent form of deliberative mini-public. Results are three-fold. First, we find some evidence that assemblies are more positively evaluated when they stem from the demands of local residents rather than partisan actors, but this effect is relatively modest and does not emerge consistently across our analyses. Similar findings are noted with regard to partisanship. Partisan conflict, by contrast, has a more robust effect – leading respondents to adopt more ideologically stereotypical views of the assembly, with left-wing (right-wing) respondents being more supportive of Labour-sponsored (Conservative-sponsored) assemblies.
November 26, 2024 at 1:04 PM