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Funding Entity: European Commission

Call: HORIZON-CL2-2022-DEMOCRACY-01

Coordinator: UNIVERSITA’ DI SIENA (IT)

UNISI Principal Investigator: Luca Verzichelli

Department: SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Start date: 1 February 2023 – End date: 31 January 2027

 

Description

The current transformation of democratic politics in Europe is associated with the crisis of representation, which includes declining trust in institutions and political representatives, political individualism, mass-elite imbalance, as well as social and social-media discontent. It is a multidimensional phenomenon of regression of the demos-kratos linkage, known as “representative disconnect.” The EU-funded REDIRECT project will address these challenges and produce sustainable ideas and viable instruments to face the problem of a “democracy in flux.” The project will apply an interdisciplinary and multi-level approach across a wide range of empirical dimensions of representative disconnect. Moreover, it will provide recommendations for institutional reforms and ways to tighten links with citizens.

Source: Cordis

 

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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under GA No 101095142