Dr James Weinberg
@jamesweinberg1.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Political Science, University of Sheffield • Author of 'Who Enters Politics and Why?' & 'Governing in an Age of Distrust' • Visiting Fellow, University of New South Wales
Website: www.jamesweinberg.co.uk
Website: www.jamesweinberg.co.uk
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Hello BlueSky!
If you'd like to know a bit more about what I do, then this talk in the Australian Parliament gives a good overview of some of my recent research on trust and political leadership (👇).
www.aph.gov.au/About_Parlia...
Thanks for connecting!
If you'd like to know a bit more about what I do, then this talk in the Australian Parliament gives a good overview of some of my recent research on trust and political leadership (👇).
www.aph.gov.au/About_Parlia...
Thanks for connecting!
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Just got this in the mail today. Congratulations, Jane Sumner! Can’t wait to this with my students. It looks awesome! The discipline needed this book. 🥳📕
April 18, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Just got this in the mail today. Congratulations, Jane Sumner! Can’t wait to this with my students. It looks awesome! The discipline needed this book. 🥳📕
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So, so proud of this book! It was an honour to be asked by @estrangeirada.bsky.social & @louisevthompson.bsky.social to join the editing team and work with 70+ incredible practitioners & academics who shared their expertise for the benefit of students of Parliament: global.oup.com/ukhe/product... 🧵
March 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM
So, so proud of this book! It was an honour to be asked by @estrangeirada.bsky.social & @louisevthompson.bsky.social to join the editing team and work with 70+ incredible practitioners & academics who shared their expertise for the benefit of students of Parliament: global.oup.com/ukhe/product... 🧵
I'm advertising a fully funded PhD to work with me and Prof Kate Dommett on our PODTrust project. Interested in trust, politicians, and the opportunity to study within an international team spread across 4 countries? Check out the ad 👇 Happy to answer any qus
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLU746/p...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLU746/p...
PhD Studentship: Trust, Digital Contact, and Democratic Representation. at University of Sheffield
Recruiting now: PhD Studentship: Trust, Digital Contact, and Democratic Representation. on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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February 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I'm advertising a fully funded PhD to work with me and Prof Kate Dommett on our PODTrust project. Interested in trust, politicians, and the opportunity to study within an international team spread across 4 countries? Check out the ad 👇 Happy to answer any qus
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLU746/p...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLU746/p...
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Politics Live just referring to this poll claiming alarming decline in support for democracy among the young. Except there isn’t. This has now been debunked several times (Mark Pack’s linked post is the most thorough) but the only thing remembered and cited in debate is the original headline.
Channel 4 and its Chief Exec got a lot of publicity for research into Gen Z and democracy. But what happens when you check the polling data and the footnotes? https://theweekinpolls.substack.com/p/gen-z-democracy-and-a-problem-with
Gen Z, democracy and a problem with the speech from Channel 4's Chief Exec
Welcome to the 146th edition of The Week in Polls (TWIP) which cannot quite tear itself away from looking at how The Times reports polls, but this time at least it is a report from that paper about a…
theweekinpolls.substack.com
February 3, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Politics Live just referring to this poll claiming alarming decline in support for democracy among the young. Except there isn’t. This has now been debunked several times (Mark Pack’s linked post is the most thorough) but the only thing remembered and cited in debate is the original headline.
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Our analysis of the geography of GE2024 is now out in
@politicalquarterly.bsky.social. This offers an important update of The Changing Electoral Map of England and Wales by @jwfurlong.bsky.social and me, published by OUP just ahead of the election. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@politicalquarterly.bsky.social. This offers an important update of The Changing Electoral Map of England and Wales by @jwfurlong.bsky.social and me, published by OUP just ahead of the election. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
January 7, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Our analysis of the geography of GE2024 is now out in
@politicalquarterly.bsky.social. This offers an important update of The Changing Electoral Map of England and Wales by @jwfurlong.bsky.social and me, published by OUP just ahead of the election. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@politicalquarterly.bsky.social. This offers an important update of The Changing Electoral Map of England and Wales by @jwfurlong.bsky.social and me, published by OUP just ahead of the election. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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This matters for many reasons, not least because there is a bunch of evidence that the social class (of which education is a proxy) of politicians and the cabinet matters for actual outcomes 🧵
A remarkable stat: Heidi Alexander’s appointment as Transport Secretary means the cabinet is now 100% state-educated for the first time in history.
November 29, 2024 at 3:35 PM
This matters for many reasons, not least because there is a bunch of evidence that the social class (of which education is a proxy) of politicians and the cabinet matters for actual outcomes 🧵
Interested in political trust, politicians, digital politics and/or experiments? Come work with me, Kate Dommett and a great team of international collaborators on our three-year Trans-Atlantic Partnership grant 👇
Happy to chat with anyone who's interested.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKT576/r...
Happy to chat with anyone who's interested.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKT576/r...
Research Associate: Digital Technology, Trust and Electoral Regulation at University of Sheffield
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November 24, 2024 at 2:06 AM
Interested in political trust, politicians, digital politics and/or experiments? Come work with me, Kate Dommett and a great team of international collaborators on our three-year Trans-Atlantic Partnership grant 👇
Happy to chat with anyone who's interested.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKT576/r...
Happy to chat with anyone who's interested.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKT576/r...
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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:
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:
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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November 23, 2024 at 7:50 AM
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:
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:
Hello BlueSky!
If you'd like to know a bit more about what I do, then this talk in the Australian Parliament gives a good overview of some of my recent research on trust and political leadership (👇).
www.aph.gov.au/About_Parlia...
Thanks for connecting!
If you'd like to know a bit more about what I do, then this talk in the Australian Parliament gives a good overview of some of my recent research on trust and political leadership (👇).
www.aph.gov.au/About_Parlia...
Thanks for connecting!
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November 23, 2024 at 1:10 AM
Hello BlueSky!
If you'd like to know a bit more about what I do, then this talk in the Australian Parliament gives a good overview of some of my recent research on trust and political leadership (👇).
www.aph.gov.au/About_Parlia...
Thanks for connecting!
If you'd like to know a bit more about what I do, then this talk in the Australian Parliament gives a good overview of some of my recent research on trust and political leadership (👇).
www.aph.gov.au/About_Parlia...
Thanks for connecting!