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Non-elected politics. Cure or Curse for the Crisis of Representative Democracy?

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Project "CUREORCURSE" data sheet

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Coordinator	UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES Organization address address: AVENUE FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT 50 city: BRUXELLES postcode: 1050 website: www.ulb.ac.be contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.
Coordinator Country	Belgium [BE]
Total cost	1˙981˙589 €
EC max contribution	1˙981˙589 € (100%)
Programme	1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC))
Code Call	ERC-2017-COG
Funding Scheme	ERC-COG
Starting year	2018
Duration (year-month-day)	from 2018-09-01 to 2023-08-31

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#	participants	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES Organization address address: AVENUE FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT 50 city: BRUXELLES postcode: 1050 website: www.ulb.ac.be contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	BE (BRUXELLES)	coordinator	1˙981˙589.00

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Project objective

Evidence of a growing disengagement of citizens from politics is multiplying. Electoral turnout reaches historically low levels. Anti-establishment and populist parties are on the rise. Fewer and fewer Europeans trust their representative institutions. In response, we have observed a multiplication of institutional reforms aimed at revitalizing representative democracy. Two in particular stand out: the delegation of some political decision-making powers to (1) selected citizens and to (2) selected experts. But there is a paradox in attempting to cure the crisis of representative democracy by introducing such reforms. In representative democracy, control over political decision-making is vested in elected representatives. Delegating political decision-making to selected experts/citizens is at odds with this definition. It empowers the non-elected. If these reforms show that politics could work without elected officials, could we really expect that citizens’ support for representative democracy would be boosted and that citizens would re-engage with representative politics? In that sense, would it be a cure for the crisis of representative democracy, or rather a curse? Our central hypothesis is that there is no universal and univocal healing (or harming) effect of non-elected politics on support for representative democracy. In order to verify it, I propose to collect data across Europe on three elements: (1) a detailed study of the preferences of Europeans on how democracy should work and on institutional reforms towards non-elected politics, (2) a comprehensive inventory of all actual cases of empowerment of citizens and experts implemented across Europe since 2000, and (3) an analysis of the impact of exposure to non-elected politics on citizens’ attitudes towards representative democracy. An innovative combination of online survey experiments and of panel surveys will be used to answer this topical research question with far-reaching societal implication.

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year	authors and title	journal	last update
2020	Camille Bedock, Jean-Benoit Pilet Who Supports Citizens Selected by Lot to be the Main Policymakers? A Study of French Citizens published pages: 1-20, ISSN: 0017-257X, DOI: 10.1017/gov.2020.1	Government and Opposition	2020-04-07

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