Politics of Grievance and Democratic Governancecore
PLEDGE · Horizon Europe grant · 2024-02-01–2027-01-31
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About the data
Source: CORDIS (official EU open data), Horizon Europe. Framework HORIZON · call HORIZON-CL2-2023-DEMOCRACY-01 · scheme HORIZON-RIA · topic HORIZON-CL2-2023-DEMOCRACY-01-04. CORDIS record →
Objective
Contemporary politics is angry and vengeful, with affective polarization and uncompromising antagonisms posing a significant challenge for European democracies and their governance. PLEDGE interprets political grievances as emotional signals of disaffection, frustration and insecurities that can develop into either anti- or prodemocratic outcomes. By engaging in collaborative research design and implementation involving academics, policy-makers, civil society actors, and citizens, the PLEDGE project intends to offer new understanding of anti- and pro-democratic trajectories of political grievances, and to co-create tools and practices of emotionally intelligent and responsive democratic governance and policy communication that promote prodemocratic forms of civic engagement. The project will provide a framework of the emotional mechanisms of anti- and prodemocratic grievance politics that explain dynamic interrelations between the emotions, values, and identities of citizens and groups, and empirically decode the psychological, sociocultural, and political drivers of these emotional mechanisms into operationalizable measures and indicators, focusing on 11 countries and 3 major crises (pandemic, war in Ukraine, climate/energy crisis). PLEDGE will achieve these objectives through a cross-national interdisciplinary research project involving 15 partners and its policy outputs, co-created and piloted in design coalitions, will inform democratic innovation of processes and practices and incorporate emotions in the designed-for outcomes, thus improving their efficiency.
Beneficiaries (14)
| Organisation | Country | Role | EC contribution | SME |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO | FI | coordinator | €689,028 | |
| VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL | BE | participant | €371,610 | |
| UNIWERSYTET WARSZAWSKI | PL | participant | €315,320 | |
| INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOANALYTIC UNIVERSITY BERLIN GGMBH | DE | participant | €256,280 | Yes |
| LUNDS UNIVERSITET | SE | participant | €235,375 | |
| FREIE UNIVERSITAET BERLIN | DE | participant | €215,218 | |
| ETHNIKO KAI KAPODISTRIAKO PANEPISTIMIO ATHINON | EL | participant | €155,092 | |
| STIMMULI FOR SOCIAL CHANGE | EL | participant | €130,000 | Yes |
| ISTANBUL BILGI UNIVERSITESI | TR | participant | €130,000 | |
| UNIVERSITAT DE VALENCIA | ES | participant | €122,600 | |
| ELTE TARSADALOMTUDOMANYI KUTATOKOZPONT | HU | participant | €99,500 | |
| PETRO MOHYLA BLACK SEA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY | UA | participant | €51,250 | |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON | UK | associatedPartner | — | |
| KING'S COLLEGE LONDON | UK | associatedPartner | — |
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