People Haven’t Had Enough of Experts: Technocratic Attitudes among Citizens in Nine European Democracies

• In Event: Party Competition and Representation in Europe

Brief Overview

The paper presents a novel battery of survey items that measure technocratic attitudes among citizens and uses latent class analysis to identify groups that follow a technocratic, populist and partisan citizen profile.

Authors

• Eri E. Bertsou, University of Zurich

• Daniele Caramani, University of Zurich