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The chapter introduces the ActEU Citizens’ Emotions & Trust Focus Group Dataset (Weissenbach & Berkowitz, Reporting on Deliverable D1.1—Report on Focus Group Discussions, 2023), derived from 16 focus group interviews conducted in the Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, and France. Lasting 120 min each and involving 93 participants, the focus groups explored citizens’ attitudinal, participatory, and representational connections to representative democracy, targeting different groups of citizens. In ActEU’s exploratory mixed-methods design, the dataset helped to prepare the items of the ActEU survey, to design the ActEU survey experiment and to train the dictionaries and inform the ActEU webscraping exercise for the study of online political participation and communication about words in context in policy fields like migration, gender, and climate. The chapter provides illustrative findings about citizens’ views and attitudes on politicians and governance, using innovative methods like Chinese Portraits to explore traits of trustworthy leaders. The dataset is a valuable resource for researchers, policymakers, and civil society, offering a foundation for understanding political trust and participation dynamics in Europe.

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Citizens’ Emotions and Trust: Exploring Attitudinal, Participatory, and Representative Trust Through Focus Group Data

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    2026年

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  • Ruth Berkowitz,
  • Kristina Weissenbach

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The chapter introduces the ActEU Citizens’ Emotions & Trust Focus Group Dataset (Weissenbach & Berkowitz, Reporting on Deliverable D1.1—Report on Focus Group Discussions, 2023), derived from 16 focus group interviews conducted in the Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, and France. Lasting 120 min each and involving 93 participants, the focus groups explored citizens’ attitudinal, participatory, and representational connections to representative democracy, targeting different groups of citizens. In ActEU’s exploratory mixed-methods design, the dataset helped to prepare the items of the ActEU survey, to design the ActEU survey experiment and to train the dictionaries and inform the ActEU webscraping exercise for the study of online political participation and communication about words in context in policy fields like migration, gender, and climate. The chapter provides illustrative findings about citizens’ views and attitudes on politicians and governance, using innovative methods like Chinese Portraits to explore traits of trustworthy leaders. The dataset is a valuable resource for researchers, policymakers, and civil society, offering a foundation for understanding political trust and participation dynamics in Europe.