Publications and Work in Progress

Publications

Bertsou, Eri and Daniele Caramani (2022). “People Haven’t Had Enough of Experts: Technocratic Attitudes among European Citizens.” American Journal of Political Science. Paper available here or at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ajps.12554  

Bertsou, Eri (2021). “Bring in the Experts? Citizen Preferences for Independent Experts in Political Decision-Making Processes.” European Journal of Political Research. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12448. Paper available here: Accepted version

Bertsou, Eri and Daniele Caramani Eds. (2020).  The Technocratic Challenge to Democracy. Routledge. Table of Contents available here

  • Bertsou, Eri. “Technocracy and Democracy: Friends or Foes.” Chapter available here
  • Bertsou, Eri and Daniele Caramani. “Measuring Technocracy.” Chapter available here

Bertsou, Eri (2019). “Rethinking Political Distrust.” European Political Science Review, 11(2): 213-230. doi:10.1017/S1755773919000080

Bertsou, Eri (2019). “Political Distrust and its Discontents: Exploring the Meaning, Expression and Significance of Political Distrust.” Societies, 9(4): 72. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc9040072

Bertsou, Eri and Giulia Pastorella (2017). “Technocratic Attitudes: A Citizens’ Perspective of Expert Decision-Making.” West European Politics, 40(2): 430-58. doi:10.1080/01402382.2016.1242046

Working Papers

Claassen, Christopher et al. Conceptualizing and Measuring Support for Democracy: A New Approach. Preprint available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4622645

Bertsou Eri, Daniele Caramani and Jelle Koedam. “The Ideological Profile of the Technocratic Citizen.” Paper manuscript under review. Early version available here.

Werner, Hannah, Eri Bertsou and Sofie Marien. “Winners’ Restraint: Do winners ever reject political process that violate democratic norms?” Paper manuscript under review. Early version available here.

Bertsou Eri. “Experts, not Politicians: The Persistence of Technocratic Attitudes during the COVID19 Pandemic.” Paper manuscript under review. Early version available here.

Bertsou, Eri. “The Electoral Implications of Technocratic Attitudes.” Paper Manuscript Under Review.

Bertsou, Eri, Michael Bruter and Sarah Harrison. “Distrusting Citizens: Revisiting the Concept and Measurement of Political Distrust and its Consequences.” Early version available here

Bertsou, Eri. “Representation at Any Cost? Changing Modes of Party Support and Implications for Political Behaviour.” Working paper.

Bertsou, Eri.  “Anything But Politics: The Overlap Between Populist and Technocratic Citizen Preferences.” Working paper to be presented at the European University Institute in Spring 2023

Bertsou, Eri and Daniele Caramani. “Technocratic Attitudes in Comparative Perspective”. 


Datasets 

Daniele Caramani, Eri Bertsou and Jelle Koedam (2020). “Citizens’ Technocratic Attitudes: A Survey of 15 Democracies.” European University Institute.

Bertsou, Eri and Daniele Caramani (2017). “Citizens’ Technocratic Attitudes: A Survey of Nine European Countries.” University of Zurich.