“…Research has demonstrated the importance of partisanship in voting choice (Achen and Bartels, 2016;Campbell et al, 1960). In this regard, a recent study on the Swiss case highlights that partisanship affects the way Swiss citizens perceive experts (Hanimann, 2023). At the same time, over the last decades, citizens have also become increasingly critical of parties (Dalton, 2000;Ignazi, 2014, Van der Meer andOuattara, 2019), loosening traditional partisan ties (Önnudóttir and Harðarson, 2020).…”