REDIRECT: The REpresentative DIsconnect: diagnosis and strategies for RECTification

重定向：代表性的断开：诊断和纠正策略

• 批准号: 10066330
• 金额: $ 43.55万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: EU-Funded
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10066330
• 关键词: REDIRECT; REpresentative; DIsconnect; diagnosis; strategies

The focus of REDIRECT is to study the current transformation of democratic polities in Europe, to realise whether and how their centres of gravity are shifting, and to improve our understanding of the “representative disconnect” – a multidimensional phenomenon of regression of the demos-kratos linkage involving institutional, behavioural and affective components. REDIRECT moves from the idea to study representative democracy in a comprehensive manner, connecting several relevant dimensions of analysis, in order to extract sustainable ideas and viable instruments to cope with the current problems of “democracy in flux”. These, in turn, will allow a parsimonious formulation of remedies, to be activated both at the institutional level (i.e. assuring a future to crucial “mediating bodies” of representatives democracy like parties, leaders, parliamentary institutions), and at the level of civil society. In parallel to a critical review of the theoretical reflection on representative democracy, an interdisciplinary and multi-level approach to several empirical dimensions of the phenomenon of representative disconnect will be offered, focusing on several topics: the crisis of representation, trust in institutions and political representatives, political personalization, political individualism, mass-élite congruence, social and social-media discontent. The long-term outcomes expected from the project mark the passage from the diagnosis to the strategies for rectification. Indeed, REDIRECT aims at providing a number of pragmatical recommendations to rearrange the demos-kratos relationship along a two way street intervention: the top-down way of institutional reforms (i.e., legislative and procedural innovation to ensure transparency and full information to citizens) and the bottom-up way of a stronger liaison between citizens and mediating bodies (i.e., remobilizing citizens via digitalization, diffusion of shared values such as social sustainability and civic education).

REDIRECT的重点是研究欧洲民主政体的当前转型，以实现其重心是否以及如何转移，并提高我们对“代表断开”的理解-一种涉及制度，行为和情感成分的demos-kratos联系回归的多维现象。REDIRECT从这一理念出发，全面研究代议制民主，将几个相关的分析维度联系起来，以提取可持续的理念和可行的工具，来科普当前“民主不断变化”的问题。这反过来又将允许在体制一级（即确保政党、领导人、议会机构等代表民主的关键“调解机构”的未来）和民间社会一级采取精简的补救措施。在对代议制民主的理论反思进行批判性审查的同时，将提供一种跨学科和多层次的方法来研究代议制脱节现象的几个经验层面，重点关注几个主题：代表危机，对机构和政治代表的信任，政治个性化，政治个人主义，大众精英一致性，社会和社交媒体不满。该项目预期的长期成果标志着从诊断到纠正战略的转变。事实上，REDIRECT旨在提供一些务实的建议，以沿着双向干预重新安排demos-kratos关系：自上而下的制度改革方式（即，立法和程序创新，以确保透明度和向公民提供充分信息）以及自下而上加强公民与调解机构之间的联系（即，通过数字化、传播社会可持续性和公民教育等共同价值观，重新动员公民）。