Carmen van Alebeek

PhD Position: Factual Belief Polarisation and its Attitudinal Consequences | Radboud University Do you want to work as a PhD at the Nijmegen School of Management? Check our vacancy!

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We are looking for a PhD candidate for my Vidi project on factual belief polarization and its attitudinal consequences.

The position will be at the Department of Political Science of Radboud University (Netherlands). Check out the full job profile below!

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Afsplitsers verplicht een liedje laten zingen voor de hele Kamer zou best effectief kunnen zijn?

How Do UK Political Elites Reconcile With a Low Trust Environment? - Chris Butler, Will Jennings, Gerry Stoker, 2026 Evidence indicates that citizens widely regard politicians as untrustworthy. But do low levels of trust affect politicians’ behaviour? In this article, we draw ...

IN NEW ISSUE: How do UK political elites reconcile with a low trust environment? @chrisbutlerpol.bsky.social, @drjennings.bsky.social & Gerry Stoker examine this question in @polstudies.bsky.social: buff.ly/3E6DkuS (OPEN ACCESS)

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social #polsky

Stable or variable distrust? Disentangling the relationship between political trust and electoral behavior | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core Stable or variable distrust? Disentangling the relationship between political trust and electoral behavior - Volume 18 Issue 1

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@cvalebeek.bsky.social @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social & @hakhverdian.bsky.social use survery data from the Netherlands to find that #Trust variability may be just as strong a predictor as #Trust levels in #VotingBehaviour 🗳️

Political Trust - RECSM Research and Expertise Centre for Survey Methodology - UPF

Political Trust Network: Call for papers (Barcelona, October 2026)

The young and fast growing academic 'Political Trust Network' organizes yearly workshops, where scholars of trust can meet up, present papers, and exchange ideas. These workshop have been brilliant, socially and professionally!

Do negative encounters with immigrants activate personality effects in PRR support? @cvalebeek.bsky.social, Daniel Komáromy, @delaneypeterson.bsky.social & @mrooduijn.bsky.social find it's not generally the case but initial exposure & out-group framing may matter: buff.ly/D5C50zO (OPEN ACCESS)

Thank you, Matthijs! It’s been a real pleasure working on this project with everyone, and it's great to continue the collaboration as colleagues.

Stable Personalities, Shifting Loyalties: The Activating Role of Cultural Threats in Populist Radical Right Support - Carmen van Alebeek, Daniel Komáromy, Delaney Peterson, Matthijs Rooduijn, 2026 Who supports populist radical right parties? And under what circumstances? A longstanding argument in political psychology suggests that populist radical right ...

The paper is available as Open Access in @polstudies.bsky.social. Read the full paper here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

How can stable personality traits explain less stable PRR voting? Daniel Komaromy, @delaneypeterson.bsky.social, @mrooduijn.bsky.social and I test whether negative contact with immigrants 'activates' these traits. Mostly, it doesn't. But: initial exposure and out-group definition may matter.

Congratulations, Jens!

Stable or variable distrust? Disentangling the relationship between political trust and electoral behavior | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core Stable or variable distrust? Disentangling the relationship between political trust and electoral behavior

What happens when #Trust becomes volatile? 💥

@cvalebeek.bsky.social @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social & @hakhverdian.bsky.social use survey data from the Netherlands 🇳🇱 to analyse how #VotingBehaviour is impacted by three key components of #PoliticalTrust.

Find out what they are 👉 📖

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A positive end to the first week back is that the book is now fully available. It's not on their website yet, but it is on mine.

I'm really happy with how it turned out and grateful to all the authors.

Hope it's useful.

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Very proud of the publication of this article, led by the brilliant @cvalebeek.bsky.social. We comprehensively test the causal effect of political trust on turnout and party choice, by breaking down these effects by trust levels, trust variability, and trust change events.
Plus: cool visualisations.

Dankjewel, Martin! Het was een ontzettend tof paper om te schrijven.

Read the full paper here (Open Access): www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

3️⃣ Although trust levels remain a more important predictor of electoral behavior than variability, our typology still identifies empirically meaningful and demographically distinct groups based on long-term trust patterns.

2️⃣ Declining trust does increase the likelihood of both abstention and anti-establishment voting, without pushing citizens towards one over the other.

We ask why distrust is linked to both abstention and anti-establishment voting by unpacking the temporal dimension of distrust. Key points:

1️⃣ There is no substantial difference in electoral behavior between long-term, stable distrusters and more variable distrusters. Stable distrust ≠ abstention.

New paper out w/ @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social & @hakhverdian.bsky.social in @epsrjournal.bsky.social. We show that political trust dynamics matter for electoral behavior. While stable and variable distrusters behave similarly, declining trust boosts both abstention and anti-establishment voting. 🧵

Wat goed, Matthijs! Gefeliciteerd! Ik blijf dit project zeker in de gaten houden 🙂

Thrilled to share my new article in Political Psychology: “The psychology of political attitudinal volatility.” In it, I attempt to answer why do some people change their political views more than others? Open access at: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Voelde mijn handen hier niet meer, maar dit uitzicht was het waard

Net de eerste aflevering gezien, heel tof!

Dit jaar mee begonnen! Echt prachtige bloemen. Ik hoop ze volgend voorjaar te kunnen vermeerderen.

Brilliant talk by @drjennings.bsky.social about his book project today at our CRITICALTRUST research group in Amsterdam. Really appreciated the engaging discussions. Thank you for visiting us, Will!

In tijden niet meer zo'n boeiend boek gelezen als deze van @rensbod.bsky.social. Absoluut een aanrader. In een parallel universum ben ik biopoliticoloog.

Don't forget to submit your abstracts for our political trust panels at the 2026 EPSS conference in Belfast.

⏰️ Submission deadline closes tomorrow!

Shout-out to all #PoliticalTrust researchers interested in attending the first @epssnet.bsky.social conference in #Belfast

@annakern.bsky.social, @danjdevine.bsky.social, @cvalebeek.bsky.social, @hannesbey.bsky.social and I are coordinating 3 trust panels!

Gefeliciteerd Emily!