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Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries

Publication . Cologna, Viktoria; Mede, Niels G.; Berger, Sebastian; Besley, John; Brick, Cameron; Joubert, Marina; Maibach, Edward W.; Mihelj, Sabina; Oreskes, Naomi; Schäfer, Mike S.; van der Linden, Sander; Ibadildin, Nygmet; Ishibashi, Maho; Islam, Mohammad Tarikul; Jeddi, Younes; Jin, Tao; Jones, Charlotte A.; Jungkunz, Sebastian; Jurgiel, Dominika; Kabdulkair, Zhangir; Kao, Jo-Ju; Abdul Aziz, Nor Izzatina; Kavassalis, Sarah; Kerr, John R.; Kitsa, Mariana; Klabíková Rábová, Tereza; Klein, Olivier; Koh, Hoyoun; Koivula, Aki; Kojan, Lilian; Komyaginskaya, Elizaveta; König, Laura; Abdulsalam, Suleiman; Koppel, Lina; Koren Nobre Cavalcante, Kochav; Kosachenko, Alexandra; Kotcher, John; Kranz, Laura S.; Krishnan, Pradeep; Kristiansen, Silje; Krouwel, André; Kuppens, Toon; Kyza, Eleni A.; Shamsi, Nurulaini Abu; Lamm, Claus; Lantian, Anthony; Lazić, Aleksandra; Lecuona, Oscar; Légal, Jean-Baptiste; Leviston, Zoe; Levy, Neil; Lindkvist, Amanda M.; Lits, Grégoire; Löschel, Andreas; Aczel, Balazs; López Ortega, Alberto; Lopez-Villavicencio, Carlos; Lou, Nigel Mantou; Lucas, Chloe H.; Lunz-Trujillo, Kristin; Marques, Mathew D.; Mayer, Sabrina J.; McKay, Ryan; Mercier, Hugo; Metag, Julia; Adinugroho, Indro; Milfont, Taciano L.; Miller, Joanne M.; Mitkidis, Panagiotis; Monge-Rodríguez, Fredy; Motta, Matt; Mudra, Iryna; Muršič, Zarja; Namutebi, Jennifer; Newman, Eryn J.; Nitschke, Jonas P.; Alabrese, Eleonora; Ntui, Ntui-Njock Vincent; Nwogwugwu, Daniel; Ostermann, Thomas; Otterbring, Tobias; Palmer-Hague, Jaime; Pantazi, Myrto; Pärnamets, Philip; Parra Saiani, Paolo; Paruzel-Czachura, Mariola; Parzuchowski, Michal; Aldoh, Alaa; Pavlov, Yuri G.; Pearson, Adam R.; Penner, Myron A.; Pennington, Charlotte R.; Petkanopoulou, Katerina; Petrović, Marija B.; Pfänder, Jan; Pisareva, Dinara; Ploszaj, Adam; Poliaková, Karolína; Alfano, Mark; Pronizius, Ekaterina; Pypno-Blajda, Katarzyna; Quiñones, Diwa Malaya A.; Räsänen, Pekka; Rauchfleisch, Adrian; Rebitschek, Felix G.; Refojo Seronero, Cintia; Rêgo, Gabriel; Reynolds, James P.; Roche, Joseph; Ali, Innocent Mbulli; Rödder, Simone; Röer, Jan Philipp; Ross, Robert M.; Ruin, Isabelle; Santos, Osvaldo; Santos, Ricardo; Schmid, Philipp; Schulreich, Stefan; Scoggins, Bermond; Sharaf, Amena; Alsobay, Mohammed; Sheria Nfundiko, Justin; Shuckburgh, Emily; Six, Johan; Solak, Nevin; Späth, Leonhard; Spruyt, Bram; Standaert, Olivier; Stanley, Samantha K.; Storms, Gert; Strahm, Noel; Altenmüller, Marlene; Syropoulos, Stylianos; Szaszi, Barnabas; Szumowska, Ewa; Tanaka, Mikihito; Teran-Escobar, Claudia; Todorova, Boryana; Toko, Abdoul Kafid; Tokrri, Renata; Toribio-Florez, Daniel; Tsakiris, Manos; Alvarez, R. Michael; Tyrala, Michael; Uluğ, Özden Melis; Uzoma, Ijeoma Chinwe; van Noord, Jochem; Varda, Christiana; Verheyen, Steven; Vilares, Iris; Vlasceanu, Madalina; von Bubnoff, Andreas; Walker, Iain; Amoako, Richard; Warwas, Izabela; Weber, Marcel; Weninger, Tim; Westfal, Mareike; Wintterlin, Florian; Wojcik, Adrian Dominik; Xia, Ziqian; Xie, Jinliang; Zegler-Poleska, Ewa; Zenklusen, Amber; Amollo, Tabitha; Zwaan, Rolf A.; Ansah, Patrick; Apriliawati, Denisa; Azevedo, Flavio; Bajrami, Ani; Bardhan, Ronita; Bati, Keagile; Bertsou, Eri; Betsch, Cornelia; Bhatiya, Apurav Yash; Bhui, Rahul; Białobrzeska, Olga; Bilewicz, Michał; Bouguettaya, Ayoub; Breeden, Katherine; Bret, Amélie; Buchel, Ondrej; Cabrera-Álvarez, Pablo; Cagnoli, Federica; Calero Valdez, André; Callaghan, Timothy; Cases, Rizza Kaye; Çoksan, Sami; Czarnek, Gabriela; De Peuter, Steven; Debnath, Ramit; Delouvée, Sylvain; Di Stefano, Lucia; Díaz-Catalán, Celia; Doell, Kimberly C.; Dohle, Simone; Douglas, Karen M.; Dries, Charlotte; Dubrov, Dmitrii; Dzimińska, Małgorzata; Ecker, Ullrich K. H.; Elbaek, Christian T.; Elsherif, Mahmoud; Enke, Benjamin; Etienne, Tom W.; Facciani, Matthew; Fage-Butler, Antoinette; Faisal, Md. Zaki; Fan, Xiaoli; Farhart, Christina; Feldhaus, Christoph; Ferreira, Marinus; Feuerriegel, Stefan; Fischer, Helen; Freundt, Jana; Friese, Malte; Fuglsang, Simon; Gallyamova, Albina; Garrido-Vásquez, Patricia; Garrido Vásquez, Mauricio E.; Gatua, Winfred; Genschow, Oliver; Ghasemi, Omid; Gkinopoulos, Theofilos; Gloor, Jamie L.; Goddard, Ellen; Gollwitzer, Mario; González-Brambila, Claudia; Gordon, Hazel; Grigoryev, Dmitry; Grimshaw, Gina M.; Guenther, Lars; Haarstad, Håvard; Harari, Dana; Hawkins, Lelia N.; Hensel, Przemysław; Hernández-Mondragón, Alma Cristal; Herziger, Atar; Huang, Guanxiong; Huff, Markus; Hurley, Mairéad

Science is crucial for evidence-based decision-making. Public trust in scientists can help decision makers act on the basis of the best available evidence, especially during crises. However, in recent years the epistemic authority of science has been challenged, causing concerns about low public trust in scientists. We interrogated these concerns with a preregistered 68-country survey of 71,922 respondents and found that in most countries, most people trust scientists and agree that scientists should engage more in society and policymaking. We found variations between and within countries, which we explain with individual- and country-level variables, including political orientation. While there is no widespread lack of trust in scientists, we cannot discount the concern that lack of trust in scientists by even a small minority may affect considerations of scientific evidence in policymaking. These findings have implications for scientists and policymakers seeking to maintain and increase trust in scientists.

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Conceptualizing and measuring support for democracy: a new approach

Publication . Claassen, Christopher; Ackermann, Kathrin; Bertsou, Eri; Borba, Lucas; Carlin, Ryan E.; Cavari, Amnon; Dahlum, Sirianne; Gherghina, Sergiu; Hawkins, Darren; Lelkes, Yphtach; Magalhães, Pedro C.; Mattes, Robert; Meijers, Maurits J.; Neundorf, Anja; Oross, Dániel; Öztürk, Aykut; Sarsfield, Rodolfo; Self, Darin; Stanley, Ben; Tsai, Tsung-han; Zaslove, Andrej; Zechmeister, Elizabeth J.

Much of what we know about public support for democracy is based on survey questions about “democracy,” a term that varies in meaning across countries and likely prompts uncritically supportive responses. This paper proposes a new approach to measuring support for democracy. We develop a battery of 17 survey questions that cover all eight components of liberal democracy as defined by the V-Dem project. We then ask respondents from 19 national samples to evaluate these rights and institutions. We find considerable heterogeneity across countries in how our items cohere, especially in less developed contexts. Yet, those items that are more weakly connected with general support for liberal democracy tend to reveal the influence of political events and actors, arguably indicating weaknesses in political cultures. We further identify a concise subset of seven items that provide a reliable and valid measure of support for liberal democracy across our different samples.

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European Commission

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H2020

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822166