Description du projet
Améliorer la confiance dans les institutions démocratiques européennes
La confiance politique est considérée comme un facteur de stabilité de l’État et est associée aux démocraties représentatives. Cependant, l’avenir de la démocratie soulève de plus en plus de préoccupations. Le projet TRUEDEM, financé par l’UE, surveillera les facteurs structurels (à long terme) de la confiance politique et mettra en exergue les stratégies que différents acteurs et agences peuvent employer pour favoriser des jugements précis et éclairés de la fiabilité des institutions. Le projet concevra et mettra en œuvre une recherche complexe qui vise à collecter des données inclusives sur le jugement de la confiance dans plusieurs États européens. Par ailleurs, TRUEDEM mettra au point une boîte à outils complète et transparente d’interventions politiques à court et long termes comprenant des recommandations et des méthodologies destinées à accroître la confiance dans les institutions politiques. Enfin, il promouvra la transparence et l’inclusivité des systèmes représentatifs.
Objectif
Political trust has long been regarded as an important element of regime support and factor of regime stability; it is widely associated with a number of positive outcomes in representative democracies. Political trust drives citizens’ interest and engagement in politics, increases voting turnout and makes law-abiding behavior more common. Political trust is frequently equated to diffuse regime support and thus linked to the effective functioning and stability of the political system. The proposed research effort will monitor the structural (long-term) drivers of political trust but also emphasize the strategies which can be employed by diverse actors and agencies to strengthen accurate and informed judgments of agency trustworthiness. The objective of this ambitious project is twofold. First, we aim to design and implement a complex research effort to collect comprehensive evidence on the judgments of trustworthiness in a range of European states. Second, the project will develop a comprehensive and transparent toolbox of short-term and long-term policy interventions including recommendations, and methodologies for enhancing trust in political institutions, boosting transparency, and inclusiveness of representative systems in Europe. While there is a growing concern about the crisis of democracy and democratic backsliding, this research effort will provide an innovative theoretical perspective on the sources of regime support and strategies for trust building in the public domain. The project looks at the different drivers of 'positive high trust in democracy' and 'negative high trust in autocracy'. The project will facilitate development of a new paradigm of political trust and trust-building and will inspire emergence of new insights on the multi-facet origins of political trust and multi-factor nature of trustworthiness. The project has partners in Austria, Czechia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, and Ukraine.
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinateur
1040 Wien
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