Project data

Funding Entity: European Commission

Call: HORIZON-CL2-2022-DEMOCRACY-01

Coordinator: Università di Siena (Italy)

UNISI Principal Investigator: Prof. Luca Verzichelli

Department: Department of Social, Political and Cognitive Sciences (DISPOC)

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

 

Project website: https://redirect.unisi.it/

 

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