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

Project Information

CUREORCURSE

Grant agreement ID: 772695

DOI

10.3030/772695

Project closed

EC signature date 12 April 2018

Start date 1 September 2018

End date 28 February 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 981 589,00

EU contribution

€ 1 981 589,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES
Belgium

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (28)

Populism and alternative models to representative democracy

Author(s): Jean-Benoit Pilet, Sergiu Gherghina
Published in: Contemporary Politics, Issue 30, 2024, Page(s) 405-415, ISSN 1356-9775
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/13569775.2024.2307092

Technocracy above partisanship? Comparing the appeal of non-partisan andpartisan experts as ministers – A survey in 14 countries

Author(s): Davide Vittori, Sebastien Rojon, Emilien Paulis, Jean-Benoit Pilet
Published in: British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 2023, ISSN 1369-1481
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1177/13691481231178244

Exploring the Causes of Technocratic Minister Appointments in Europe

Author(s): Jean-Benoit Pilet, Leonardo Puleo, Davide Vittori
Published in: Political Studies, 2024, ISSN 0032-3217
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1177/00323217231210129

Public support for deliberative citizens’ assemblies selected through sortition:Evidence from 15 countries

Author(s): Pilet Jean-Benoit, Bol Damien, Vittori Davide, Paulis Emilien
Published in: European Journal of Political Research, 2022, ISSN 0304-4130
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1475-6765.12541

Do technocrats boost the acceptance of policy proposals among the citizenry? Evidence from a survey experiment in Italy

Author(s): Vittori Davide, Paulis Emilien, Pilet Jean-Benoît, Rojon Sébastien
Published in: Electoral Studies, 2023, ISSN 0261-3794
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.electstud.2022.102566

Populist Attitudes and Direct Democracy: A Questionable Relationship

Author(s): Sergiu Gherghina, Jean-Benoit Pilet
Published in: Swiss Political Science Review, Issue published online, 2021, ISSN 1662-6370
Publisher: Wiley Online Library
DOI: 10.1111/spsr.12451

Big ideas, little detail: how populist parties talk about referendums in Europe

Author(s): Sergiu Gherghina, Jean-Benoit Pilet, Bettina Mitru
Published in: Contemporary Politics, Issue 30, 2024, Page(s) 437-455, ISSN 1356-9775
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/13569775.2023.2296734

Technocratic Ministers in Office in European Countries (2000–2020): What’s New?

Author(s): Vittori Davide, Pilet Jean-Benoît, Rojon Sébastien, Paulis Emilien
Published in: Policy Studies Review, 2022, ISSN 1478-9299
Publisher: Blackwell
DOI: 10.1177/14789299221140036

The Preferred Governing Actors of Populist Supporters: Survey Evidence From Eight European Countries

Author(s): Jean-Benoit Pilet, Davide Vittori, Emilien Paulis, Sebastien Rojon
Published in: Politics and Governance, Issue 12, 2024, ISSN 2183-2463
Publisher: Cogitatio
DOI: 10.17645/pag.8731

Beyond parliamentarism: How do citizens want to decide on divisive policies?

Author(s): Davide Vittori, Sebastien Rojon, Jean-Benoit Pilet
Published in: Comparative European Politics, Issue 22, 2024, Page(s) 685-715, ISSN 1472-4790
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
DOI: 10.1057/s41295-024-00379-3

Comparing political participation profiles in four Western European countries

Author(s): SEBASTIEN ROJON, PAULINA K. PANKOWSKA, DAVIDE VITTORI, EMILIEN PAULIS
Published in: European Journal of Political Research, 2024, ISSN 0304-4130
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1475-6765.12695

Do Citizens Perceive Elected Politicians, Experts and Citizens as Alternative or Complementary Policy-Makers? A Study of Belgian Citizens

Author(s): Jean-Benoit Pilet, David Talukder, Maria Jimena Sanhueza, Sacha Rangoni
Published in: Frontiers in Political Science, Issue 2, 2020, ISSN 2673-3145
Publisher: Frontiers
DOI: 10.3389/fpos.2020.567297

Which political outsiders do Europeans prefer as ministers?

Author(s): Rojon Sebastien, Pilet Jean-Benoit, Vittori Davide, Panel Sophie, Paulis Emilien
Published in: European Political Science Review, 2023, Page(s) 1-21, ISSN 1755-7739
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s1755773923000048

Where you live explains how much you trust local (and national) institutions: A study of the Italian case

Author(s): Davide Angelucci, Davide Vittori
Published in: European Political Science Review, 2023, ISSN 1755-7739
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s1755773923000140

Who do Europeans want to govern? Exploring the multiple dimensions of citizens’ preferences for political actors in nine European countries

Author(s): Jean-Benoit Pilet, Davide Vittori, Sebastien Rojon, Emilien Paulis
Published in: Party Politics, 2023, Page(s) 1-12, ISSN 1460-3683
Publisher: Sage
DOI: 10.1177/13540688231153932

Which organization for which party? An organizational analysis of the five-star movement

Author(s): Davide Vittori
Published in: Contemporary Italian Politics, Issue Online first, 2020, ISSN 2324-8831
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/23248823.2020.1838868

Are radical right and radical left voters direct democrats? Explaining differences in referendum support between radical and moderate voters in Europe

Author(s): Sebastien Rojon, Arieke J. Rijken
Published in: European Societies, Issue 22/5, 2020, Page(s) 581-609, ISSN 1461-6696
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/14616696.2020.1823008

Who Supports Citizens Selected by Lot to be the Main Policymakers? A Study of French Citizens

Author(s): Camille Bedock, Jean-Benoit Pilet
Published in: Government and Opposition, 2020, Page(s) 1-20, ISSN 0017-257X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1017/gov.2020.1

The POLITICIZE dataset: an inventory of deliberative mini-publics (DMPs) in Europe

Author(s): Emilien Paulis, Jean-Benoit Pilet, Sophie Panel, Davide Vittori, Caroline Close
Published in: European Political Science, 2020, ISSN 1680-4333
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
DOI: 10.1057/s41304-020-00284-9

Enraged, Engaged, or Both? A Study of the Determinants of Support for Consultative vs. Binding Mini-Publics

Author(s): Camille Bedock, Jean-Benoit Pilet
Published in: Representation, 2020, Page(s) 1-21, ISSN 0034-4893
Publisher: McDougall Trust
DOI: 10.1080/00344893.2020.1778511

Referendums: increasingly unpopular among the ‘winners’ of modernization? Comparing public support for the use of referendums in Switzerland, the Netherlands, the UK, and Hungary

Author(s): Sebastien Rojon, Arieke Rijken
Published in: Comparative European Politics, Issue 19, 2021, Page(s) 49-76, ISSN 1740-388X
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1057/s41295-020-00222-5

The Lure of Technocrats: A Conjoint Experiment on Preferences for Technocratic Ministers in Six European Countries

Author(s): S. Panel, E. Paulis, J.-B. Pilet, S. Rojon, D. Vittori
Published in: Political Behavior, Issue 46, 2024, Page(s) 1961-1984, ISSN 0190-9320
Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s11109-023-09904-8

‘We are Different': do Anti-establishment Parties Promote Distinctive Elites? An Analysis of the Spanish Case

Author(s): Valeria Tarditi, Davide Vittori
Published in: Representation, 2020, Page(s) 1-19, ISSN 0034-4893
Publisher: McDougall Trust
DOI: 10.1080/00344893.2020.1785535

Experts replacing governments? The socio-cultural and authoritarian roots of citizens’ preferences for experts in government in 58 countries

Author(s): Davide Vittori, Emilien Paulis
Published in: Acta Politica, 2024, ISSN 0001-6810
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
DOI: 10.1057/s41269-024-00357-3

Threat or Corrective? Assessing the Impact of Populist Parties in Government on the Qualities of Democracy: A 19-Country Comparison

Author(s): Davide Vittori
Published in: Government and Opposition, Issue 57, 2022, Page(s) 589-609, ISSN 0017-257X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1017/gov.2021.21

Engaged, Indifferent, Skeptical or Critical? Disentangling Attitudes towards Local Deliberative Mini-Publics in Four Western European Democracies

Author(s): Sebastien Rojon; Jean-Benoit Pilet
Published in: Volume 13, Issue 1, 2021, Page(s) 1-19, ISSN 2071-1050
Publisher: MDPI Open Access Publishing
DOI: 10.3390/su131910518

Support for Deliberative mini-Publics among the Losers of Representative Democracy

Author(s): Jean-Benoit Pilet, Camille Bedock, David Talukder, Sacha Rangoni
Published in: British Journal of Political Science, Issue 54, 2025, Page(s) 295-312, ISSN 0007-1234
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0007123423000479

Fair Enough? Mini-Public Composition and Outcome Acceptance from the Maxi Public

Author(s): Emilien Paulis, Jean-Benoit Pilet, Sebastien Rojon, Davide Vittori
Published in: Journal of Deliberative Democracy, Issue 20, 2024, ISSN 2634-0488
Publisher: New Democracy Foundation
DOI: 10.16997/jdd.1535

Other (1)

Public Support for Citizens’ Assemblies Selected through Sortition: Survey and Experimental Evidence from 15 Countries

Author(s): Jean-Benoit Pilet, Damien Bol, Emilien Paulis, Davide Vittori, Sophie Panel
Published in: Working Paper in SoxArxiv Papers, Issue 2020, 2020
Publisher: SoxArxiv
DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/dmv7x