Projektbeschreibung
Abbau parteipolitischer Vorurteile durch Verständnis
Parteipolitische Vorurteile sind auf Stereotype zurückzuführen und bezeichnen die Feindseligkeit, die manche Menschen gegenüber den Unterstützenden bestimmter politischer Parteien in Mehrparteiensystemen empfinden. Sie führen zu weit verbreitetem Misstrauen, sozialer Spaltung und Ausgrenzung. Obwohl sie eine Bedrohung für liberale Demokratien darstellen, gibt es nur wenige Studien zum Thema. Das EU-finanzierte Projekt PARTISAN wird einen einzigartigen Ansatz verfolgen, um Einblicke in die Ursachen, die Verbreitung und die politischen und sozialen Auswirkungen in zwölf europäischen Ländern zu gewinnen. Dadurch entsteht eine Möglichkeit, Lösungen zu finden und die Auswirkungen zu minimieren.
Ziel
Partisan prejudice exists when citizens hold negative attitudes towards party supporters. Such prejudice is widespread: many people have stereotypical views of and dislike the supporters of certain parties, sometimes amounting to outright partisan hostility.
Partisan prejudice is a challenge for liberal democracy. It deepens societal rifts, lowers social trust, weakens the acceptance of elite compromise and leads to discrimination and social ostracism. This challenge is urgent at a time of political division and democratic backsliding. Yet, partisan prejudice is barely studied, particularly in Europe.
PARTISAN will provide a novel theoretical framework and rigorous empirical evidence for understanding partisan prejudice, with the ambition of fundamentally altering how voters and parties are studied in multiparty systems. The theoretical framework posits that objective characteristics of party supporters form the basis of partisan stereotypes, but that these linkages are filtered through individual perceptions and moderated by party- and country-level characteristics.
Based on this framework, this project will provide ground-breaking evidence on the prevalence and origins of partisan prejudice and assess its political and societal consequences, including for political participation, discrimination and social cohesion. PARTISAN will also provide political and societal actors with evidence on three ways to reduce partisan prejudice: interparty contact, recategorization and social norms.
PARTISAN will implement new measurement tools in a new twelve-country survey and in experiments conducted in population-based surveys and in the field. Innovative experimental designs will be used to rigorously assess the origins and consequences of partisan prejudice, as well as potential remedies.
Studying a little-studied phenomenon using diverse methods, PARTISAN will significantly extend our knowledge of partisan prejudice, what effects it has and how its impact can be minimized.
Wissenschaftliches Gebiet
Programm/Programme
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Thema/Themen
Finanzierungsplan
ERC - Support for frontier research (ERC)Gastgebende Einrichtung
1010 Wien
Österreich