Caro Flores on Nostr: This study finds that a large number of citizens in 🇩🇪, 🇳🇱, 🇬🇧, ...

This study finds that a large number of citizens in 🇩🇪, 🇳🇱, 🇬🇧, 🇵🇱 and 🇪🇸 think that public institutions are ideologically biased - and pretty much always against their own views.

Maybe what comes first is a lack of trust in institutions - and then we rationalize this distrust by thinking they represent “the other side”. If that is right, it's more evidence for the importance of trust in democracy.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-journal-of-political-research/article/citizen-perceptions-of-ideological-bias-in-public-service-institutions-a-crossinstitutional-analysis-in-five-countries/9783F56E6C68D255A7FC2CB829F54EDE

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