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

这个项目旨在通过研究“排他性民粹主义者”通过破坏法律、经济和媒体领域的法治来增加他们的权力的机制，为提高民主韧性的战略提供信息。该项目还试图确定社会参与者在面对排他性民粹主义时使用的“应对策略”。通过调查威胁的政治和经济(主题2-工作包1和2)；信息的民主化(主题3-WP3)；以及机构的权威和信任的变化(主题5-所有WPS)，这个主题与呼叫主题高度相关。采用跨越政治经济学、法律、管理和媒体研究的跨学科方法，我们比较了奥地利、克罗地亚、德国、匈牙利、波兰、斯洛文尼亚、英国和土耳其，所有这些国家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，该项目的结果将为应对民主治理挑战的具体解决方案提供参考。我们与剑桥科学与政策中心合作，该中心将为研究国家的关键利益攸关方创建五个国际政策奖学金。这些将构成来自世界领先学者的循证意见的渠道，为应对战略提供信息，并刺激跨国知识交流。此外，我们通过与艺术家合作，在四个城市举办参与性表演，与我们研究的国家的公民进行对话，寻求接触到更广泛的非学术受众。该项目将被组织成四个工作计划，重点是法律改革(WP1)、商业和经济(WP2)、媒体和传播(WP3)和影响(WP4)。

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).