Project description
Integrating emotions into policymaking
Emotions significantly influence political choices and participation, yet building democratically meaningful emotional narratives remains unexplored. This gap often leads to political depolarisation and a lack of trust in governance. Traditional policymaking fails to account for the emotional dimensions of public engagement, undermining effective communication. Addressing this issue is crucial for enhancing democratic processes. In this context, the EU-funded ENCODE project aims to decode emotional meanings and incorporate them into policy-making, promoting positive emotional engagement. Its ‘affective pluralisation’ framework guides research in eight European countries using diverse methods like sentiment analysis and biometric research. The findings will produce practical outputs, including best practice catalogues for tackling social media disinformation, handbook of emotional politics of the future narratives and policy recommendations.
Objective
Despite emotions being a driver of political choices, building democratically meaningful emotional narratives in politics remains an uncharted territory. Hence the main venture of ENCODE is to decode the meanings of emotions and encode them to policy-making strategies aiming for a positive emotional turn, breaking the cycle of depolarisation.
To meet this ambitious goal, ENCODE builds its conceptual frameworks arising from a novel concept of affective pluralisation, as opposed to affective polarisation. This term serves to frame empirical research carried out in 6 geographically diverse European countries, representing both EU member states and candidates. This study will span desk research, sentiment analysis, biometric research, in-depth interviews, experiments and panel survey. Such triangulation of research techniques ensures the accuracy and validity of the findings. These are further encoded into main outputs: catalogue of best practice to tackle disinformation in social media, emotional gap maps, validated survey questions and democratic resilience heatmaps.
These outputs are not expected only to enhance current scientific framework, but also are planned to underpin the future emotional narratives co-designed by diverse groups of citizens in innovations labs and further validated by Delphi expert panels and vignette experiments. This bottom-up approach anchored in citizen science ensures that policy-making strategy are in first place created by citizens and only in the next step discussed by expert teams who will elaborate policy-making strategies, the roadmap for their implementation, alongside future foresight scenarios which will be disseminated widely across EU and EU wide community of 1000+ members. This strategy creates emotional bonds between ordinary citizens, increases trust in governance and supports better informed political decision-making and communication.
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HORIZON.2.2 - Culture, creativity and inclusive society
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HORIZON.2.2.1 - Democracy and Governance
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL2-2023-DEMOCRACY-01
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99-301 KUTNO
Poland
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