{"id":8023,"date":"2016-06-21T08:34:59","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T11:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alacip.org\/?p=8023"},"modified":"2016-06-21T08:34:59","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T11:34:59","slug":"wapor-regional-conference-barcelona-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alacip.org\/?p=8023","title":{"rendered":"WAPOR Regional Conference Barcelona, Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"

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WAPOR Regional Conference<\/strong>
\nBarcelona, Spain
\nNovember 24-25, 2016<\/h3>\n

The World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR), in collaboration with the Research and\u00a0<\/a>Expertise Center in Survey Methodology<\/a>\u00a0(RECSM) and the\u00a0Universitat Pompeu Fabra<\/a>,\u00a0will hold a regional conference on\u00a0November 24-25,\u00a02016 in Barcelona<\/strong>, Spain<\/strong>. The theme of the conference is Political Trust in Contemporary Representative Democracies<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Democratic representation seems to be in a crisis, at least from the citizen perspective. This is most notoriously observed in the low and still decreasing levels of political trust in the main institutions of democratic representation (parliaments, governments), social and political institutions of aggregation of interest (political parties and unions), and even international and supranational political and economic institutions. Citizens seem to be more and more critical towards these institutions essential for the political, economic and social order of contemporary representative democracies.\u00a0 This is a particularly notable problem in today\u2019s world, given the already visible consequences. Citizen distrust can lead to significant threats to representative democracy such as political populism, increased levels of political protest and decreased levels of citizen involvement in electoral politics, the emergence of radical, non-systemic parties\u00a0and even increased political violence.<\/p>\n

This topic has enjoyed considerable research attention, but the extant literature on political trust suffers from several problems.\u00a0 First, most of the studies are centered in a limited number of the world\u2019s regions, mostly in Western postindustrial societies and more concretely in Europe and the United States, creating a case-selection bias in the literature that limits the generalizability of its findings.\u00a0 Second, the existing data are also fragmented and incomplete, especially aggregate data, limiting our ability to notice trends both over time and cross-nationally. Third, data analyses are not properly done or are based on a reduced number of case studies (countries), diminishing the statistical efficiency of the estimators at the aggregate level. Finally, most of the evidence on political trust is based on cross-sectional surveys (national and comparative) using the traditional institutional trust scale.<\/p>\n

The aim of this congress will be to\u00a0facilitate better research on the topic by increasing scholarly discourse on political trust and by calling for interregional comparative studies with individual or aggregate data on political trust, or for case\u00a0studies based on innovative measures of political trust and for using innovative survey designs or survey experiments. Papers based on big data from internet and social media sources will be also welcome.<\/p>\n

We welcome research that deals with the conference theme as well as other traditional WAPOR\u00a0 research topics, but especially those dealing with the following topics:<\/p>\n