News and Announcements
Join us for a TRUEDEM webinar on Who Cares? Issue Salience as a Key Explanation for Heterogeneity in Citizens’ Approaches to Political Trust (April 07, 2025)
Join us for a TRUEDEM webinar on Building Trust in Political Office: Testing the Efficacy of Political Contact and Authentic Communication (April 22, 2025)
Join us for a TRUEDEM webinar on Immigration Policy Congruence and Political Trust: A Cross-National Analysis among 23 European Countries (April 25, 2025)
Join us for a TRUEDEM webinar on Speaker Trustworthiness: Shall Confidence Match Evidence? will take place on March 26, 2025
TRUEDEM Webinar on Conceptual Analysis of Trust took place on October 03, 2024
TRUEDEM Blog on Political Trust: 2024 Competition of Blog Posts. Submissions are due by December 01, 2024.
The TRUEDEM panel at the 2024 ECPR General Conference examined long-term trends in parliamentary trust, low trust in the EU, the role of media in shaping political confidence, and the religious and political determinants of institutional trust, contributing to discussions on strengthening democratic resilience.
The TRUEDEM Conference on September 11, 2024 brought together scholars and policymakers to explore challenges to political trust, democratic innovations, and the role of media and disinformation in shaping trust in institutions.
Acta Politologica Call for Abstracts: Political Trust, New Cleavages, and Political Polarization. Abstracts are due by September 15, 2024.
Call for Abstracts: Political Trust, Challenges of Democracies, and Democratic Innovations. Abstracts are due by September 30, 2024.
At ESOF 2024 in Katowice, TRUEDEM scholars contributed to discussions on trust in science, institutional credibility, and academic career development, with panels led by Natalia Galica, Agnieszka Turska-Kawa, and Kornelia Batko, addressing misinformation, governance, and the future of research careers.
(De)polarisation in values, attitudes and beliefs: comparative perspectives. Pippa Norris (Harvard University, USA) presented a keynote address "Things fall apart, the center cannot hold”: Fractionalized and polarized party systems in Western democracies".
(De)polarisation in values, attitudes and beliefs: comparative perspectives. Christian Welzel (Leuphana University, Germany) presented the key findings of the working paper "Cultural background of European democracies: examining the role of values and social inequalities" prepared within WP4.
Call for Tenders: TRUEDEM online survey
TRUEDEM project is seeking proposals for data collection services for its online survey.
TRUEDEM Panel at the IPSA Congress of Political Science. Panel on Trust and Social Capital in Cross-Cultural Perspective was organized by TREUDEM.
TRUEDEM Panel at 2023 ECPR General Conference. Topics addressed in the panel included confidence in political parties, parliaments, international organizations, and democratic innovations.
Democratic Horizons: What Value Change Reveals About the Future of Democracy
Prof. Christian Welzel (Leuphana University Luneburg, Germany & WP4 leader in TRUEDEM) presented a seminar for Master's students.
Webinar: Measuring Public Trust and Trustworthiness in Public Opinion Research. Video and materials from the webinar are available HERE.
TRUEDEM kick off meeting took place on March 27-28, 2023. Videos from the kick off meeting are available HERE.
In Praise of Skepticism: Trust but Verify
Key-note online lecture by Prof. Pippa Norris (Harvard University, USA) at the WAPOR 75th annual conference on November 11, 2022 in Dubai, UAE.