How can we measure political trust and legitimacy beyond the usual survey question “how much trust do you have in the parliament?”.
Measuring political trust is no easy task, and answers based on surveys do not show us the complete picture. If we further consider that political trust is multilayered – at the local, national, and EU level – making a clear investigation becomes even more complicated.
This Animated Video, created in collaboration with the ActEU project, explores how researchers have explored political trust and legitimacy in Europe, creating one of the largest ever collections of European political communications through web-scraping.
The video is based on the “Codebook and datasets on the ActEU web-scraped data”, written by Daniel Gayo-Avello, Alex Hartland, Daniela Braun, Cristian Gonzalez Garcia, Benjamin Lopez Perez, Laura Morales, Max-Valentin Robert, Giulia Sandri, Camille Kelbel, Felix-Christopher von Nostitz, Emanuele Massetti, Oscar Barbera Areste, Ramon Villaplana Jimenez, and Carles Pamies.
Find out more about the web-scraping here.
