London School of Economics / British Council: Going beyond face value – understanding how citizens can support international cooperation

The British Council, Opinium, EPO and LSE collaborated to offer new methodological tools to understand values that shape the conditions for international cooperation in the UK.

Summary

People like the idea of international cooperation to take on the big issues facing the world. But as soon as the details emerge, they fragment, with democratic governments reluctant to ask citizens to concede or make sacrifices for fear of electoral backlash.

The Big Conversation is an attempt by the British Council, Opinium, and the Electoral Psychology Observatory at the LSE to go beyond the easy, reassuring but insufficient answers people give, and to understand deeper, more complex and subconscious values that shape the conditions for international cooperation.

Using a unique quantitative and qualitative approach covering 7 countries, we...

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