Tag: Ben Seyd
Expectation management: can politicians win back political trust by limiting what the public expects of them?
Politicians may be feverishly campaigning for votes, but fewer and fewer citizens say they trust them and the institutions they inhabit. In this post, Ben Seyd considers what politicians can do to strengthen the public’s confidence in their work. He suggests that trust may not be responsive to the expectations that people have of politicians; […]
There are no quick fixes to Britain’s discontent with politics and politicians
A recent conference at the LSE on the topic of Citizens and Politics brought together 70 policy makers and researchers to discuss the nature and causes of public discontent with politics in Britain today. Ben Seyd talks us through some of the impressive research presented, and concludes that the problem of citizens discontentment with politics does […]
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