PLEDGE: Politics of Grievance and Democratic Governance

当代政治充满愤怒和不安，情感上的两极分化和不妥协的对抗对欧洲民主国家及其治理构成了重大挑战。PLEDGE将政治不满解释为不满、沮丧和不安全感的情绪信号，这些情绪信号可能发展成反民主或亲民主的结果。通过参与学术界、决策者、民间社会行为者和公民的合作研究设计和实施，PLEDGE项目旨在提供对政治不满的反民主和亲民主轨迹的新理解，并共同创建情感智能和响应民主治理和政策沟通的工具和实践，促进公民参与的亲民主形式。该项目将提供一个反民主和亲民主的申诉政治的情感机制框架，解释公民和群体的情感、价值观和身份之间的动态相互关系，并以经验为基础，将这些情感机制的心理、社会文化和政治驱动因素解码为可操作的措施和指标，重点关注11个国家和3个主要危机。（大流行病、乌克兰战争、气候/能源危机）。PLEDGE将通过一个涉及15个合作伙伴的跨国跨学科研究项目实现这些目标，其政策产出将在设计联盟中共同创建和试点，为民主创新的过程和实践提供信息，并将情感纳入设计的结果，从而提高其效率

Contemporary politicsis angry and vengeful, with affective polarization and uncompromising antagonisms posing a significant challenge for European democracies and their governance. PLEDGE interprets political grievances as emotional signals of disaffection, frustration and insecurities that can develop into either anti- or prodemocratic outcomes. By engaging in collaborative research design and implementation involving academics, policy-makers, civil society actors, and citizens, the PLEDGE project intends to offer new understanding of anti- and pro-democratic trajectories of political grievances, and to co-create tools and practices of emotionally intelligent and responsive democratic governance and policy communication that promote prodemocratic forms of civic engagement. The project will provide a framework of the emotional mechanisms of anti- and prodemocratic grievance politics that explain dynamic interrelations between the emotions, values, and identities of citizens and groups, and empirically decode the psychological, sociocultural, and political drivers of these emotional mechanisms into operationalizable measures and indicators, focusing on 11 countries and 3 major crises (pandemic, war in Ukraine, climate/energy crisis). PLEDGE will achieve these objectives through a cross-national interdisciplinary research project involving 15 partners and its policy outputs, co-created and piloted in design coalitions, will inform democratic innovation of processes and practices and incorporate emotionsin the designed-for outcomes, thusimproving their efficiency