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Populism And Civic Engagement – a fine-grained, dynamic, context-sensitive and forward-looking response to negative populist tendencies

Descripción del proyecto

Nuevas herramientas para hacer frente a tendencias populistas

Los movimientos populistas que han surgido por toda Europa, que afirman cuestionar a las élites liberales y que representan a la «gente corriente», incluyen tendencias que amenazan a la Unión Europea (UE). El proyecto PaCE, financiado con fondos europeos, pretende hacer frente a esas tendencias negativas de los movimientos populistas, realizar intervenciones específicas y contribuir a la creación de unas bases democráticas e institucionales sólidas para los ciudadanos de la UE. El proyecto analizará las causas, el aumento, los retos específicos para la democracia liberal, las transiciones relacionadas con los cambios en el liderazgo y las consecuencias de estos movimientos. PaCE propondrá respuestas y desarrollará análisis de riesgos para cada tipo de movimiento y transición, utilizando una simulación basada en agentes de los procesos y comportamientos políticos. El equipo del proyecto desarrollará herramientas nuevas basadas en algoritmos de aprendizaje automático.

Objetivo

Across Europe there is a rise of political movements that claim to challenge liberal elites and speak for the 'ordinary person' - movements that can be loosely categorised as 'populist'. Many of these movements have undesirable tendencies. The Populism and Civic Engagement project (PACE), with others, aims to combat the negative tendencies of populist movements, to build upon the lessons of positive examples (such as Reykjavik), and hence play a part in constructing a firmer democratic and institutional foundation for the citizens of Europe.

PACE will analyse, in detail, the type, growth and consequences of such movements in terms of their particular characteristics and context. From this, it will analyse the causes of these movements and their specific challenges to liberal democracy a possibilistic analysis to complement survey/statistical approaches. In particular, it will focus on transitions in these movements (especially changes in leadership) as well as how they relate to other kinds of movements and the liberal reaction. PACE will propose responses to these challenges, developing risk-analyses for each kind of response, each kind of movement and the type of transition. For this, it will employ the agent-based simulation of political processes and attitudes to allow for thorough risk analyses to be made. Throughout the project, it will engage with citizens and policy actors, especially groups under-represented in public affairs, face-face and via new forms of democratic participation appropriate to our digital age to help guide the project and to comment on its outputs.

It will develop new tools, based on machine-learning algorithms for identifying and tracking populist narratives and to aid online consultation. It will result in specific interventions aimed at: the public, politicians, activists and educators. It will look further into the future, developing new visions concerning how we could respond to populism and it will warn about longer-term trends.

Convocatoria de propuestas

H2020-SC6-GOVERNANCE-2018-2019-2020

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Convocatoria de subcontratación

H2020-SC6-GOVERNANCE-2018

Régimen de financiación

RIA - Research and Innovation action

Coordinador

THE MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY
Aportación neta de la UEn
€ 431 681,25
Dirección
OXFORD ROAD ALL SAINTS BUILDING
M15 6BH Manchester
Reino Unido

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Región
North West (England) Greater Manchester Manchester
Tipo de actividad
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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Coste total
€ 431 681,25

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