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Democratic dissatisfaction in Southern Europe: the political consequences of the crisis

南欧民主的不满：危机的政治后果

基本信息

批准号：
ES/N01734X/1
负责人：
Ignacio Jurado
金额：
$ 19.15万
依托单位：
University of York
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2016
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2016 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FN01734X%2F1
关键词：
Democratic dissatisfaction Southern Europe political

项目摘要

This project wants to contribute to a better understanding of the political consequences of the crisis in Southern Europe and is motivated by the unprecedented decrease in levels of satisfaction with democracy. The main hypothesis of this project is that Southern European countries are undergoing a crisis of legitimation. Citizens' democratic dissatisfaction is the consequence of a responsiveness gap: that is, citizens' perception that governments are not responding to their demands anymore. The project will study how this crisis of representation and legitimation is taking place and its consequences. More specifically, the project answers to three main questions:1. What explains democratic dissatisfaction in Southern Europe? This part of the project will test the core argument: the crisis of legitimation stems from national governments not being responsive to citizens' mandate given the institutional constraints of euro membership. One of the key principles of democratic systems is to provide an alternative to voters if they believe that the government has not performed well enough. The argument put forward here is that the crisis has undermined this essential function of voting in Southern Europe: elections are not able to generate governments in which political parties become a real alternative to each other. 2. What is the impact of democratic dissatisfaction on attitudes towards national democracy? The project will argue that the increase in democratic dissatisfaction and the breakup of the representation link has a strong impact on attitudes in several dimensions of national-level politics: 1) austerity policies have an impact in the expectations that citizens have from a democratic system and make citizens depart from a liberal and minimal view on democracy to conceive democracies more as a result, placing more weight on the social rights of citizens 2) the project will also test whether the crisis of legitimation increases the demand for institutions of direct democracy; 3) the project will account for whether, as a result of this representation breakup, some citizens have become less engaged with politics and others have become more mobilised. In doing this, differences between the countries of analysis will also be explored. 3. How does democratic dissatisfaction shape attitudes towards the European Union and the euro in Southern Europe? The project will assess the implications of the crisis in terms of the support and views about the European Union project and also the conditions under which citizens of Southern Europe would support a breakup of the Eurozone. This last stream of the project will fill two main gaps in the discipline: to provide an updated account of citizens' motivations to support the euro and open a new avenue of research on the support for debt repayment and the conditions of bailout agreements.

该项目旨在促进更好地了解南欧危机的政治后果，其动机是对民主的满意度空前下降。该项目的主要假设是，南欧国家正在经历一场合法化危机。公民对民主的不满是回应差距的结果：也就是说，公民认为政府不再回应他们的要求。该项目将研究这种代表性和合法性危机是如何发生的及其后果。更具体地说，该项目回答了三个主要问题：1。如何解释南欧的民主不满？本项目的这一部分将检验核心论点：合法性危机源于国家政府在欧元成员国制度约束下对公民授权的不响应。民主制度的一个关键原则是，如果选民认为政府表现不够好，就为他们提供另一种选择。这里提出的论点是，危机破坏了南欧投票的这一基本功能：选举无法产生政党成为彼此真实的替代品的政府。2.民主不满对国家民主的态度有何影响？该项目将认为，民主不满的增加和代表联系的破裂对国家一级政治的几个方面的态度产生了强烈的影响：1）紧缩政策影响了公民对民主制度的期望，使公民偏离自由和最低限度的民主观，从而更多地构想民主，2）该项目还将测试合法化危机是否增加了对直接民主制度的需求; 3）该项目将说明，由于这种代表制的分裂，一些公民是否变得不那么参与政治，而另一些公民是否变得更加积极。在此过程中，还将探讨分析国家之间的差异。3.民主不满如何塑造南欧对欧盟和欧元的态度？该项目将评估危机对欧洲联盟项目的支持和看法的影响，以及南欧公民支持欧元区解体的条件。该项目的最后一项工作将填补该学科的两个主要空白：提供公民支持欧元动机的最新说明，并开辟一条关于债务偿还支持和救助协议条件的新研究途径。