POPBACK: Populist Backlash, Democratic Backsliding, and the Crisis of the Rule of Law in the European Union

POPBACK：民粹主义的强烈反对、民主的倒退以及欧盟的法治危机

• 批准号: ES/XX00054/1
• 负责人: Gerhard Schnyder
• 金额: $ 109.01万
• 依托单位: Loughborough University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FXX00054%2F1
• 关键词: POPBACK; Populist; Backlash; Democratic; Backsliding

This project aims to inform strategies to increase democratic resilience bystudying the mechanisms “exclusionary populists” use to increase their power byundermining the Rule of Law in the areas of law, the economy, and the media.The project also seeks to identify the “coping strategies” societal actors use whenfaced with exclusionary populism. This topic is highly relevant to the call themesby investigating the politics and economics of threat (Theme 2 – work packages1 and 2); the democratisation of information (Theme 3 – WP3); and thechanging authority of and trust in institutions (Theme 5 – all WPs).Adopting an interdisciplinary approach spanning political economy, legal-,management-, and media studies, we compare Austria, Croatia, Germany,Hungary, Poland, Slovenia, the United Kingdom, and Turkey, all of which haveexperienced varying degrees of populist success.Besides high-impact publications, the findings of the project will inform concretesolutions for challenges to democratic governance. We collaborate with theCambridge Centre for Science and Policy, which will create five InternationalPolicy Fellowships for key stakeholders from the countries studied. These willconstitute channels for evidence-based input from world-leading academics toinform coping strategies and stimulate cross-country knowledge exchange.Furthermore, we seek to reach a broader non-academic audience bycollaborating with artists to stage a participatory performance in four cities toengage a dialogue with citizens from the countries we study. This project will beorganised into four WPs, focussing on legal changes (WP1), business andeconomics (WP2), media and communications (WP3), and impact (WP4).

该项目旨在通过研究“排外民粹主义者”通过破坏法律、经济和媒体领域的法治来增加其权力的机制，为提高民主弹性提供信息。该项目还试图确定社会行为者在面对排外民粹主义时使用的“应对策略”。通过调查威胁的政治学和经济学，（主题2 -工作包1和2）;信息民主化（主题3 -WP 3）;以及机构权威和信任的变化（主题5 -所有WP）.采用跨学科的方法，跨越政治经济学，法律的-，管理-，和媒体研究，我们比较奥地利，克罗地亚，德国，匈牙利，波兰、斯洛文尼亚、英国和土耳其都经历了不同程度的民粹主义成功。除了高影响力的出版物，该项目的研究结果还将为民主治理挑战提供具体的解决方案。我们与剑桥科学与政策中心合作，该中心将为来自所研究国家的关键利益相关者设立五个国际政策奖学金。这些将构成世界领先学者基于证据的输入渠道，为应对策略提供信息，并促进跨国知识交流。此外，我们寻求通过与艺术家合作，在四个城市举办参与式表演，与我们研究的国家的公民进行对话，以接触更广泛的非学术观众。该项目将分为四个工作方案，分别侧重于法律的变化（工作方案1）、商业和经济（工作方案2）、媒体和通信（工作方案3）以及影响（工作方案4）。