Towards a new era of representative democracy - Activating European citizens’ trust in times of crises and polarization

Project Information

ActEU

Grant agreement ID: 101094190

DOI

10.3030/101094190

Project closed

EC signature date 6 December 2022

Start date 1 March 2023

End date 28 February 2026

Funded under

• Culture, creativity and inclusive society

Total cost

€ 3 044 120,00

EU contribution

€ 2 999 870,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITAET DUISBURG-ESSEN
Germany

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (3)

Report on focus group discussions

This report summarizes the coding manual and the outcome (e.g., transcripts) of focus groups.

Communication, dissemination and exploitation plan

Communication, dissemination and exploitation plan.

Report on the general dynamics of trust based on secondary data analysis

Data Management Plan (1)

ActEU Data Management Plan

ActEU Data Management Plan (1st version)

Other (1)

ActEU Management Handbook

ActEU Management Handbook including quality assurance, risk assessment and contingency plan

Data sets, microdata, etc (1)

Codebook and data set of the experimental survey

Designing the experimental survey based on insights from focus group discussions and former research to explore the interrelationship between each of the components reflecting the concept of political trust and legitimacy, and contextual factors; and feeding the insights in WP 2, WP 3, and WP 4.

Publications

Other (13)

ActEU Management Handbook including quality assurance, risk assessment and contingency plan (D7.1, V3)

Author(s): Kaeding, Michael
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.17513570

Deliverable D4.4 - Report (including policy recommendations) on the Pirate innovations and the link between responsiveness and political trust and legitimacy of these party movements

Author(s): Kovar, J. Kratochvíl, P. Morales, L. et al.
Published in: 2026
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.18760980

Central European Populism: Is there a convergence around climate change, gender- and immigration-related policies?

Author(s): Kochlöffel, Katarzyna; Kratochvíl, Petr; Kovář, Jan; Ayan Musil, Pelin; Sychra, Zdeněk
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15168434

ActEU Data Management Plan

Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.13834203

Report on the general dynamics of trust based on secondary data analysis

Author(s): Christensen, Henrik Serup; Huttunen, Janette; Hubert, Wit; Cześnik, Mikołaj; Gkotinakos, Alexandros-Christos; Teperoglou, Eftichia; Carstens, Jens; Morales, Laura; Pamies, Carles; Li, Chiao
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.13836872

The Populist Far Right In the EU: A convergence in immigration, climate change, and gender-related policies?

Author(s): Kratochvíl, Petr; Kochlöffel, Katarzyna; Kovář, Jan; Morales, Laura; Musil, Pelin; Ramiro, Luis; Sychra, Zdeněk
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14039196

Report on ActEU Deliverable 1.4: Teaching script to the online methods workshop

Author(s): Braun, Daniela; Gayo-Avello, Daniel; Hartland, Alexander; Reinl, Ann-Kathrin; Weissenbach, Kristina
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.17584478

Deliverable 3.2 – Report on changing patterns of citizens' political participation

Author(s): Pamies, Carles; Morales, Laura; Li, Chiao; Gkotinakos, Alexandros-Christos; Teperoglou, Eftichia; Hubert, Wit; Cześnik, Mikołaj
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14529990

Deliverable 3.1 Report on voting behavior in Europe

Author(s): Pamies, Carles; Morales, Laura; Ramiro, Luis; Gotinakos, Alexandros-Christos; Teperoglou, Eftichia; Hubert, Wit; Czesnik, Mikolaj
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14230138

Reporting on Deliverable D1.1 – Report on Focus Group Discussions

Author(s): Weissenbach, Kristina; Berkowitz, Ruth
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15057865

Report on how trends in trust among specific social and political groups, including ethnic and territorial identities, territorial attachment and regime types at subnational level impact on varying levels of trust across European subnational units

Author(s): Christensen, Henrik Serup; Huttunen, Janette; Pamies, Carles; Morales, Laura; Robert, Max-Valentin; Sandri, Giulia; von Nostitz, Felix-Christopher
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15095904

Codebook and data set of the experimental survey

Attitudes Towards Immigration: Proposal for the Questions to Include in the ActEU Survey

Author(s): López-Yagüe, Alberto; Morales, Laura
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14936931

Monographic books (1)

Activating European Citizens’ Trust in Times of Crisis and Polarization Towards a New Era of Representative Democracy

Author(s): Daniela Braun, Alexander Hartland, Michael Kaeding, Zoe Lefkofridi, Kristina Weissenbach
Published in: 2026, ISSN 2731-3379
Publisher: Springer Nature

Peer reviewed articles (3)

Western European Politics

Author(s): Hartland, A., Braun, D., Carteny, G., Navarrete, R. M., & Reinl, A. K.
Published in: West European Politics, Issue 49, 2025, ISSN 0140-2382
Publisher: Frank Cass Publishers
DOI: 10.1080/01402382.2025.2498838

The role of key European issues in the 2024 election campaign

Author(s): Alex Hartland, Daniela Braun, Giuseppe Carteny, Rosa M. Navarrete, Ann-Kathrin Reinl
Published in: West European Politics, Issue 49, 2025, ISSN 0140-2382
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/01402382.2025.2498838

“Citizen’s trust and societal polarization in times of transformation”

Author(s): Djamila Jabra, Katja Stempel, Alexander Hartland, Martin Ulrich, Phillip König, Rosa Maria Navarrete, Giuseppe Carteny
Published in: Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft, Issue 19, 2025, ISSN 1865-2654
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/S12286-025-00643-0