Events

(De)polarisation in values, attitudes and beliefs: comparative perspectives

Thursday 11 April 2024

Mass polarization, institutional distrust and the breakdown of democracy? Debunking a commonplace dystopia

Keynote address by Prof Christian Welzel, Professor of Political Culture at Leuphana University and Vice President of World Values Survey Association

“Things fall apart, the center cannot hold”: fractionalized and polarized party systems in Western democracies

Keynote address by Prof Pippa Norris, Paul F. McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at Harvard University and Vice President of the World Values Survey Association. With responses from panel: Prof Bobby Duffy, Professor of Public Policy, Director of the Policy Institute, King’s College London; David Halpern, President of the Behavioural Insights Team; Anand Menon, Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs, King’s College London; and Paula Surridge, Professor of Political Sociology, University of Bristol

A public polarised? Values, attitudes and beliefs in post-Brexit Britain

Thursday 8 June 2023

Panel discussion

  • Mark Easton, Home Editor, BBC News (chair)

  • Maria Sobolewska, Professor of Political Science, University of Manchester and co-author of Brexitland

  • David Halpern, Chief Executive, the Behavioural Insights Team

  • Gaby Hinsliff, Guardian columnist and writer

  • Bobby Duffy, Director, the Policy Institute at King’s College London