ESRC Seminar Series Exploring Civil Society Strategies for Democratic Renewal

ESRC 研讨会系列探讨民间社会民主复兴策略

• 批准号: ES/N00874X/1
• 负责人: Matthew Flinders
• 金额: $ 3.87万
• 依托单位: University of Sheffield
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2015 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FN00874X%2F1
• 关键词: ESRC; Seminar; Series; Exploring; Civil

The state of democracy has emerged as a global concern in recent decades. In established multi-party systems, levels of electoral turnout and party membership seem to be in terminal decline (Norris 1999; Pharr & Putnam 2000). Additionally, since the popular democratic uprisings which spread across areas of the Middle East and North Africa from 2011, a rising tide of violence and oppression has been witnessed across states that were at the very heart of the "Arab Spring" (Davies 2014). Recent governmental and non-governmental initiatives exhibit a strong drive to improve the strength and vitality of democracy at the local, national, global and virtual levels. From public space occupations and the emergence of 'e-citizenship' to the UK Design Commission's recent research exercise in "Designing Democracy", there is a prevailing sense that participation in democratic processes can and should be improved. Many scholars have placed their hopes for democratic renewal on a civil society that is ever more vocal; and that today articulates its claims across multiple spaces, in multiple ways. One key obstacle however is that governmental bodies have not developed the tools to understand or 'listen' effectively to the myriad forms of political expression that take place across the 'porous' political spaces of the C21st. Additionally, whilst a wide variety of theoretical approaches have been developed to address the strategic dimensions of civil society activities, these literatures have rarely engaged with one another, and there remain crucial oversights in terms of theorising when it comes to political expressions that go beyond 'speech'. Literature linking civil society strategies to the prospects for democratic reinvigoration has been limited in scope, usually resting on traditional assumptions of a world of territorially bounded sovereign nation states - a model that is increasingly contested.By attending to various gaps in existing research; and by facilitating learning encounters between civil society representatives, public officials and academics, our seminar series will: i) cast a critical scholarly lens on the current 'crisis of democracy' experienced the world over, and ii) explore the ways that civil contentious strategies of the C21st can and do contribute to improving, strengthening or renewing democratic vitality. A key aim of our seminar series is to build public and institutional capacity to effectively understand and engage with new and newly transformed modes of political expression and claim making; a crucial step in strengthening democracy.

近几十年来，民主状况已成为全球关注的问题。在已建立的多党制度中，选举投票率和党员人数似乎处于最终下降状态（Norris 1999；Pharr & Putnam 2000）。此外，自2011年中东和北非地区爆发民众民主起义以来，“阿拉伯之春”核心国家的暴力和压迫浪潮不断升级（Davies 2014）。最近的政府和非政府举措显示出增强地方、国家、全球和虚拟层面民主力量和活力的强大动力。从公共空间的占用和“电子公民”的出现，到英国设计委员会最近的“设计民主”研究活动，人们普遍认为民主进程的参与可以而且应该得到改善。许多学者将民主复兴的希望寄托在一个更加敢于发声的公民社会上。今天，它以多种方式在多个空间中阐明了它的主张。然而，一个主要障碍是政府机构尚未开发出有效理解或“倾听”二十一世纪“多孔”政治空间中各种形式的政治表达的工具。此外，虽然已经开发出各种各样的理论方法来解决公民社会活动的战略层面，但这些文献很少相互接触，而且当涉及到超越“言论”的政治表达时，在理论化方面仍然存在重要的疏忽。将公民社会战略与民主复兴前景联系起来的文献范围有限，通常基于主权民族国家世界的传统假设——这一模式受到越来越多的争议。通过促进民间社会代表、公职人员和学者之间的学习交流，我们的研讨会系列将：i）以批判性的学术视角审视世界各地当前经历的“民主危机”，ii）探索二十一世纪的公民争议策略能够并确实有助于改善、加强或更新民主活力的方式。我们研讨会系列的一个主要目标是建设公共和机构能力，以有效理解和参与新的和新转变的政治表达和主张模式；加强民主的关键一步。

项目成果

Reclaiming the National Will: Resilience of Turkish Authoritarian Neoliberalism after Gezi

• DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2018.1477422
• 发表时间: 2018-01-01
• 期刊: SOUTH EUROPEAN SOCIETY AND POLITICS
• 影响因子: 3.3
• 作者: Bilgic, Ali

Fifty Years of Representative and Responsible Government: Contemporary Relevance, Theoretical Revisions and Conceptual Reflection

代议制和负责任政府五十年：当代意义、理论修正和概念反思

• DOI: 10.1080/00344893.2017.1341078
• 发表时间: 2017
• 期刊: Representation
• 作者: Flinders M

The politics of co-production: risks, limits and pollution

• DOI: 10.1332/174426415x14412037949967
• 发表时间: 2016-05-01
• 期刊: EVIDENCE & POLICY
• 影响因子: 2.1
• 作者: Flinders, Matthew;Wood, Matthew;Cunningham, Malaika
• 通讯作者: Cunningham, Malaika

Governing under Pressure? The Mental Wellbeing of Politicians

• DOI: 10.1093/pa/gsy046
• 发表时间: 2020-04-01
• 期刊: PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS
• 影响因子: 1.2
• 作者: Flinders, Matthew;Weinberg, Ashley;Kwiatkowski, Richard
• 通讯作者: Kwiatkowski, Richard

State of the field: What can political ethnography tell us about anti-politics and democratic disaffection?

现状：关于反政治和民主不满，政治民族志可以告诉我们什么？

• DOI: 10.1111/1475-6765.12270
• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: European Journal of Political Research
• 影响因子: 5.3
• 作者: BOSWELL J