Eri Bertsou
Title
Prof. PhD
Last Name
Bertsou
First name
Eri
Email
eri.bertsou@unisg.ch
Phone
+41 71 224 2600
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Item type:Publication, Perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries – the TISP dataset(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2025-01-20)Scopus© Citations 19 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2025-01-20)Scopus© Citations 257 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Extreme weather event attribution predicts climate policy support across the world(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2025-07-01)Scopus© Citations 48 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, How scientists' collective climate advocacy affects public trust in scientists and voting behavior(IOP Publishing, 2024-12-20)Scopus© Citations 6 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, The ideological profile of the technocratic citizenA certain type of citizen holds technocratic views. They favour pragmatic problem solving through scientific and technical expertise, and reject party politics for being harmful to the common good. Yet, empirical evidence on the ideological profile of these citizens is fragmented and inconclusive. Using an original survey in Western Europe, Australia and the United States, we test predictions about the left−right alignment of citizens with technocratic attitudes on the economic and cultural dimensions of politics. We argue that technocracy is not antithetical to ideology and that citizens holding technocratic attitudes are not immune to ideological positions. Findings show that technocratic citizens are more economically left-wing than mainstream voters, contrary to common associations of technocracy with neoliberal economic principles. However, they are more centrist than populists. This highlights that, in addition to a representational challenge, technocracy mounts an ideological challenge to party-based representative democracy. In times of cumulative crises, which put democracies under stress with demands for competence and effectiveness, these findings offer insights about the appeal of alternative forms of representation.Type:journal articleJournal:European Journal of Political ResearchScopus© Citations 9 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Conceptualizing and Measuring Support for Democracy: A New Approach(SAGE Publications, 2024-07-23); Scopus© Citations 42 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Bring in the experts? Citizen preferences for independent experts in political decision-making processesDo citizens welcome the involvement of independent experts in politics? Theoretical and empirical work so far provides conflicting answers to this question. On the one hand, citizens may demand expert involvement in political decision-making processes in order to ensure efficient and effective governance solutions. On the other hand, citizens can be distrustful of experts and reject the unaccountable and non-transparent nature of expertbased governance. This note investigates citizen preferences for the involvement of experts in different stages of political processes and across 'hard' and 'easy' political issues. Results show that, in the absence of explicit output information, respondents prefer independent experts over national elected representatives in the policy design and implementation stages, across political issues. For the crucial stage of decision making, respondents show no difference in their evaluation of processes that delegate decisions to experts or to elected representatives, with the exception of environmental policy, where expert decision making is preferred. These findings are relevant for ongoing discussions on how to incorporate independent experts in political decision making in a way that citizens find legitimate and on how to address increased citizen dissatisfaction with the representative democratic functions performed by political parties, governments and politicians.Type:journal articleJournal:European Journal of Political ResearchVolume:61Issue:1Scopus© Citations 63 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, People Haven't Had Enough of Experts: Technocratic Attitudes among Citizens in Nine European DemocraciesPolitical representation theory postulates that technocracy and populism mount a twofold challenge to party democracy, while also standing at odds with each other in the vision of representation they advocate. Can these relationships be observed empirically at the level of citizen preferences, and what does this mean for alternative forms of representation? The article investigates technocratic attitudes among citizens following three dimensions-expertise, elitism, and antipolitics-and, using latent class analysis, identifies citizen groups that follow a technocratic, populist, and party-democratic profile in nine European democracies. Results show that technocratic attitudes are pervasive and can be meaningfully distinguished from populist attitudes, though important overlaps remain. We investigate differences in demographics and political attitudes among citizen profiles that are relevant to political behavior and conclude by highlighting the role that citizens' increasing demands for expertise play in driving preferences for alternative types of governance Verification Materials: The data and materials required to verify the computational reproducibility of the results, procedures, and analyses in this article are available on the AmericanType:journal articleJournal:American Journal of Political ScienceVolume:66Issue:1Scopus© Citations 162 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
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Item type:Publication, Winners’ Restraint in Established Democracies: How far do winners’ have to go before rejecting political outcomes when democratic norm violations accumulate?(2023-06-24);