Political trust among British first-time voters: a mixed methods investigation

英国首次选民的政治信任：混合方法调查

• 批准号: 2606337
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Southampton
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2606337
• 关键词: Political; trust; among; British; first

Recent evidence from extensive, cross-national survey data has shown a significant decline in publictrust around the world, with serious implications for the future of governance and democracy. Focusingon the UK, my proposed research is a mixed-method investigation into public trust amongst British youngpeople who will be eligible to vote for the first time in the 2024 General Election (first-time voters). Thisfocus has been chosen due to the centrality of this demographic to debates over public trust both acrossthe world and in the UK. Access into sixth forms for the recruitment of my purposive sample will beenabled by collaboration with the prominent citizenship education charity Young Citizens [letter ofsupport upon request].My proposed research aligns the aims of the ESRC-funded TrustGov project, co-led by my proposedsupervisor Professor Will Jennings. Using analysis of questionnaire data and exploratory focus groups, theresearch will investigate quantitative and qualitative aspects of trust, mistrust and distrust. Stage I of theresearch will utilise measures from the World Values Survey 7th to quantitatively measure trust, mistrustand distrust within the sample. This stage will generate novel data on the dimensions of political trustamong British young people and enable direct comparisons between first-time voters and the dimensionsof trust amongst the other age groups in the UK. Stage II will involve a series of 6-10 exploratory focusgroups with the same sample, giving a deeper insight into the trust attitudes of the participants thangained through survey methods alone.

最近来自广泛的跨国调查数据的证据表明，世界各地的公众信任显著下降，对治理和民主的未来产生了严重影响。我的研究重点是英国，我提出的研究是一项混合方法的调查，目的是调查英国年轻人对公众的信任，这些年轻人将首次有资格在2024年的大选中投票(首次投票)。之所以选择这一焦点，是因为这一群体在世界各地和英国关于公众信任的辩论中处于中心地位。通过与著名的公民教育慈善机构青年公民[应要求的支持函]合作，我将能够进入六年级来招募我的有目的的样本。我提议的研究与ESRC资助的TrustGov项目的目标一致，该项目由我的未来导师威尔·詹宁斯教授共同领导。通过对问卷数据和探索性焦点小组的分析，本研究将对信任、不信任和不信任的定量和定性方面进行调查。研究的第一阶段将利用第七次世界价值观调查中的测量方法来定量衡量样本中的信任、不信任和不信任。这一阶段将产生关于英国年轻人政治信任度的新数据，并使首次投票的选民与英国其他年龄段的信任度进行直接比较。第二阶段将包括6-10个相同样本的探索性焦点小组，让他们更深入地了解仅通过调查方法获得的参与者的信任态度。