From Procedures to Performance: Public Perceptions of Political Representation in Lebanon.

ARK’s Head of Research, Taylor Long, presented at the #AUB Research in Crisis Settings Conference on September 25, discussing the shifting salience of inter-communal relations as a perceived tension factor in Lebanon. This study introduced Item Response Theory (IRT) models to explore how Lebanon’s experience of multiple, overlapping crises (‘polycrisis’) has influenced both the perceived quality of relations between different communities and the interpretation respondents give to Likert-type survey items used to rate these relations.

ARK’s Head of Research, Taylor Long, speaking at the AUB Research in Crisis Settings Conference (Source: ARK).

Drawing on data from all waves of the UNDP/ARK Regular Perception Surveys on Social Tensions throughout Lebanon, this new report from UNDP Lebanon’s Tensions Monitoring System (TMS) explores the present gap between perceptions of procedural democracy and performance-based legitimacy. Read the full report here: https://tms-lebanon.com/product/report/222.