The Rural-Urban Divide in Europe

欧洲的城乡差距

• 批准号: 440473521
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Sigrid Roßteutscher
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Departemento de Ciencia Politica i Dret. Public
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/440473521?language=en
• 关键词: Rural; Urban; Divide; Europe

Rising populism and polarization, coupled with declining democratic legitimacy, all point toward a crisis in European democracies. This crisis has a regional dimension: a political and perhaps cultural divide between rural and urban areas. The project examines whether and how urban-rural residency is related to divides in legitimacy beliefs, social identities, perceptions of injustice and threat, political and social attitudes and political behavior of European citizens. It explores “Democratic governance in a turbulent age” from different thematic angles. First, it deals with shifting identities and their consequences for democratic governance and political representation (theme 4). Stable cleavages only emerge when struggles for identity are accompanied by perceptions of social inequality and unfair resource distribution (theme 1). Second, it examines the role played by globalization: increasing rural-urban economic divides create social status threats which exacerbate rural-urban political divides (theme 2). The project will combine a broad comparative study of all European countries with an in-depth analysis of five established European democracies. The project will result in the provision of significant new evidence on rural-urban disparities in European politics, which will allow us to examine the consequences of – and cures for – the current crisis of democracy, thereby engaging both academic and policymaking audiences.The coordination of the project, setting of the agenda, and the timely delivery of work packages will be the responsibility of the Frankfurt team. In particular, the project will be coordinated by holding five internal workshops and using a shared cloud server.

民粹主义和两极分化的上升，加上民主合法性的下降，都指向欧洲民主国家的危机。这场危机具有区域层面：农村和城市地区之间的政治、或许还有文化鸿沟。该项目研究了城乡居住是否以及如何与合法性信仰，社会身份，不公正和威胁的看法，政治和社会态度以及欧洲公民的政治行为有关。它从不同的主题角度探讨了“动荡时代的民主治理”。第一，它涉及身份的转变及其对民主治理和政治代表性的影响（主题4）。只有在为争取身份而斗争的同时，还伴随着对社会不平等和资源分配不公平的看法时，才会出现稳定的分裂（主题1）。第二，它审查了全球化所起的作用：城乡经济差距的扩大造成了社会地位威胁，从而加剧了城乡政治差距（主题2）。该项目将联合收割机结合对所有欧洲国家的广泛比较研究和对五个已建立的欧洲民主国家的深入分析。该项目将为欧洲政治中的城乡差异提供重要的新证据，这将使我们能够研究当前民主危机的后果和对策，从而吸引学术界和政策制定者的参与。该项目的协调，议程的设定和工作包的及时交付将是法兰克福团队的责任。特别是，该项目将通过举办五次内部研讨会和使用共享云服务器来协调。