Democratic Resilience: The Public Sphere and Extremist Attacks

该项目旨在解释对旨在播下分裂种子的极端主义袭击的反应，以及为什么一些民主国家变得脆弱，屈服于两极分化或排斥关键群体，而另一些民主国家则通过保持融合、宽容的话语证明了弹性。该项目通过创新地综合文化社会学和协商民主来开发新知识，以分析公共领域对袭击的九个反应案例。预期的结果包括对民主公共领域的新解释，并确定如何保持有意义的民间交流，其健康对民主至关重要，特别是在多元文化社会中。好处包括确定打击极端主义政治破坏的措施。

The project aims to explain responses to extremist attacks intended to sow division, and why some democracies prove fragile, succumbing to polarisation or exclusion of key groups, while others prove resilient by sustaining integrative, tolerant discourse. The project develops new knowledge through an innovative synthesis of cultural sociology and deliberative democracy to analyse nine cases of responses in the public realm to attacks. Expected outcomes include a new account of the democratic public sphere, and identification of how meaningful, civil communication whose health is vital to democracy, especially in a multicultural society, can be maintained. Benefits include identification of measures to counter extremist political disruption.