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Jun 27, 2023 · Policymakers must pay close attention to the methods, content, and channel through which information is shared with other crisis actors during the acute crisis phase (Coombs 2009). As the primary goal of crisis communication is to support meaning-making and decision-making processes, policymakers must make every effort to provide stakeholders with quick (timely), accurate, and consistent ...
Jan 3, 2024 · This study shows that social and political trust may diverge in the face of shared threats, and that this pattern is driven by negative information about crisis management. Leveraging a three-wave ...
- Arnstein Aassve
The narrative of a political trust crisis that leads into or signals a crisis of representative democracy is rooted in decades of scholarly debate (see Thomassen, 2015). Understood to be integral to the functioning of democracy, low and declining trust presumably has direct and severe consequences for the quality and stability of representative democracy, its institutions, and its actors.
Oct 26, 2020 · Alfred Moore and Michael K MacKenzie argue that greater openness about disagreement among diverse types of experts makes it harder for political leaders to politicise expertise Whenever scientists provide advice to political leaders they risk their expert authority being used in ways they cannot control in order to serve political ends. At one extreme, when they give unwelcome advice they risk ...
- Alfred James Moore, Michael MacKenzie
- 2020
Jul 14, 2023 · Political trust is routinely invoked by social scientists and pundits, usually in a crisis narrative that sees a danger to democracy in declining or low levels of political trust. However, the concept remains fuzzy and elusive. Although non-exhaustive, this review traces strands of consensus and disputes on the conceptualisations, determinants, and consequences of political trust. It ...
- Jens Carstens
- jens.carstens@sciencespo.fr
Nov 28, 2017 · To communicate effectively in policymaking systems, actors need to understand how policymakers process evidence and the environment in which they operate. Therefore, we combine psychology and ...
For these reasons, the absence of political infighting has been depicted as a condition for effective crisis response networks (Boin & ‘tHart, Citation 2010) and why when problems do arise there is a need for some actors to take on leadership roles to resolve or mitigate conflicts between other actors (Sullivan, Williams, & Jeffares, Citation 2012).
