PROTEMO: Emotional Dynamics Of Protective Policies In An Age Of Insecurity

PROTEMO研究的是国家和个人之间的情感联系。重点是保护政策及其对个人、公民和非公民群体以及民主、政治参与和动员的影响。这样的政策，以及与之相关的情感动力，在当前这个不安全的时代日益主导着政治。恐惧、愤怒、骄傲和希望只是政治互动中经常涉及的一些情绪，有时会产生重要后果，正如黄背心抗议等事件所说明的那样。PROTEMO提出的问题是：(1)政治行为者如何感知和影响公民（和非公民）的情感需求，以及这在政策过程中如何发挥作用？(2)什么样的情绪反应、判断和行为引发了社会中个人和公众的保护政策？(3)公民的情绪反应如何反馈到政策过程中？回答这些问题使我们能够研究情绪反应——代议制民主的一个至关重要但却被忽视的方面。为此，我们将对11个国家进行有代表性的调查，设计实验，对较小范围的具体政策（如流行病应对、气候变化）进行重点比较，并进行几次“深入研究”，调查贫困公民、有色人种移民妇女和乌克兰难民如何形成对保护的情感需求，并建立话语空间，在公共领域表达这些需求。将政治行为者的情感感知和公民和非公民对保护性政策的情感反应结合起来，分析政策过程中对保护性政策的情感，使我们能够对代议制民主和情感公民的未来进行更广泛的辩论。PROTEMO的成果将改善欧盟的决策并加强基于证据的政策的沟通。

PROTEMO investigates the emotional connection between the state and individuals. The focus is on protective policies and their consequences for individuals, groups of citizens and non-citizens as well as for democracy, political participation, and mobilisation. Such policies, and the emotional dynamicsrelated to them, increasingly dominate politicsin the current age of insecurity. Fear, anger, pride and hope are only some of the emotions that are often involved in political interactions and sometimes with important consequences, as events such as the Yellow Vest protests illustrate. PROTEMO asks: (1) How do political actors perceive and influence the emotional needs of citizens (and non-citizens) and how does this play out in the policy process? (2) What emotional reactions, judgements and actions elicit protective policies among individuals and publics in society? (3) How do citizens’ emotional reactions feed back on the policy process? Answering these questions allows us to study emotional responsiveness - a crucial yet neglected aspect of representative democracy. To do so, we will field a representative survey of 11 countries, design experiments, make focused comparisons of a smaller range of specific policies (e.g. pandemic responses, climate change) and conduct several “deep dives” where, we investigate how underprivileged citizens, migrant women of color, and refugees from Ukraine form emotional needs towards protection and build discursive spaces to articulate them in the public sphere. Bringing together perceptions of emotions by political actors and emotional reactions of citizens and non citizens to protective policies with an analysis of the emotionality of the policy process toward protective policies allows us to contribute to a broader debate on the future of representative democracy and affective citizenship. PROTEMO’s results will lead to improved EU policy-making and enhanced communication of evidence-based policies.