The Interchange Between Democratic Institutions and the Globalisation of the Economy

第二次世界大战后，全球化和市场自由化引发了一段前所未有的增长期。最近，这些趋势似乎发生了逆转，全球化和企业开始对自由民主、社会凝聚力和环境可持续性构成挑战。Demo Trans是一个以影响为导向的研究项目，它将就如何通过改善问责制、透明度、影响自由民主和代议制民主处于某种形式的危机的概念来重振民主治理提供理论和经验上的有力建议？甚至是终极衰退？已经被许多学者提出(最近的评论，见Bickerton&Accetti，2021)。而市场的全球化和自由化引发了一段前所未有的增长期？以及生活水平的提高和自由民主的巩固？在第二次世界大战后的几十年里，我们最近目睹了这些趋势的重大逆转。如今，全球化和全球企业似乎给自由民主、社会凝聚力和环境带来了挑战。研究这些发展的学术文献往往侧重于描述和解释正在发生的事情？不对?然而，关键的挑战是勾勒和理解取而代之的新型政治，以及设想和制定重新嵌入民主和资本主义的有希望的新方法的轮廓。这一关键挑战是Demo Trans项目的核心，我们通过召集来自四所欧洲研究型大学和一个有着良好记录的非政府组织的六个经验丰富和领先的研究小组组成的多学科联盟来解决这一问题。在其广泛专业知识的基础上，Demo Trans将开发新的理论和实证学术研究，旨在提出强有力的建议，鼓励加强民主问责和将其纳入经济进程。

Following World War II, globalisation and market liberalisation triggered a period of unprecedented growth. Recently, these trends appear to reverse, whereby globalisation and corporations started to pose challenges for liberal democracy, social cohesion, and environmental sustainability. Demo Trans is an impact-driven research project that will provide theoretically and empirically robust recommendations on how to reinvigorate democratic governance by improving the accountability, transparency, effect the notion that liberal, representative democracy is in some form of crisis? or even a terminal decline? has been brought forward by numerous scholars (for a recent review, see Bickerton & Accetti, 2021). While the globalisation and liberalisation of markets triggered a period of unprecedented growth? as well as improvements in standards of living and consolidation of liberal democracies? in the decades following the Second World War, we have recently witnessed a substantial reversal in these trends. Today, globalisation and global corporations rather appear to bring challenges to liberal democracy, social cohesion as well as the environment. The academic literature studying these developments often focuses on describing and interpreting what is going? Wrong? However, the key challenge is to outline and understand the new type of politics that is emerging in its place as well as to envisage and develop the contours of new promising approaches to re-embed democracy and capitalism. This key challenge lies at the heart of the Demo Trans project, and we address it by bringing together a multidisciplinary consortium of six experienced and leading research groups from four European research universities and an NGO with a strong track record. Building on their wide-ranging expertise, Demo Trans will develop novel theoretical and empirical academic research aimed at robust recommendations that encouraging stronger democratic accountability and inclusion in economic processes.