This report shows the design of the focus groups, as part of the exploratory sequential design of the ActEU project. Initial findings on the patterns relating to political participation, emotional and rational aspects, representation and attitudes are presented. It also provides insights into how the focus group data was used to further develop the survey and web scraping.
Designing the experimental survey based on insights from focus group discussions and former research to explore the interrelationship between each of the components reflecting the concept of political trust and legitimacy, and contextual factors.
The script includes all relevant information taught within a series of online methods workshops organized on a regularly basis (M25-35). The workshop should be addressed to all 4 doctoral and 7 postdoctoral researchers of the project (but is also open to researchers and stakeholders all over Europe).
The ActEU project („Activating European Citizens‘ Trust in Times of Crises and Polarisation“) has as one of its main missions to map and investigate persistent problems of declining political trust, legitimacy and representation in Europe. Within the overall project, work package 2 focuses on achieving a better understanding of the nature of these problems by examining citizens‘ political attitudes. This report provides a comprehensive and systematic overview of the nature, extent and evolution of the crisis of political trust throughout the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom (UK) since the
early 2000s.
Designing the experimental survey based on insights from focus group discussions and former research to explore the interrelationship between each of the components reflecting the concept of political trust and legitimacy, and contextual factors.
This report gathers chapters that engage with three specific research questions on variations in political trust related to the three policy issues of interest in the ActEU project: climate change, gender, and migration. A key objective of the ActEU project is precisely to investigate the nuances in variations of political trust, and how trust may be shaped differently within specific policy areas that have been characterised by exceptional polarisation in recent years. In line with this view of policy areas or themes as uniquely constructed and perceived, each chapter takes a distinct approach to answer different research questions.
In this report, we examine how deceitful behaviours affect evaluations of political leaders. We do so with a conjoint experiment embedded in the ActEU survey. We are therefore able to report causal evidence from 10 European democracies on how politicians’ deceitful behaviours affect how
citizens evaluate them.
Discover the latest insights and research from our ActEU community – explore our Zenodo page here: https://zenodo.org/communities/acteu/records?q=&l=list&p=1&s=10&sort=newest