REDIRECT - The REpresentative DIsconnect: diagnosis and strategies for RECTification
REDIRECT is a 4-year project funded by the EU’s Horizon-Europe programme (Call: HORIZON-CL2-2022-DEMOCRACY-01 – Democracy in Flux. Grant Number: 101095142)
REDIRECT focuses on addressing the challenges associated with the current transformation of democratic politics in Europe. This transformation is characterized by a crisis of representation, including declining trust in institutions and political representatives, political individualism, mass-elite imbalances, and social and media discontent. This multidimensional phenomenon, known as the “representative disconnect”, refers to the regression of the connection between the demos (people) and the kratos (power).
The project takes an interdisciplinary and multi-level approach, examining different empirical dimensions of representative disconnect. REDIRECT also conducts a critical review of the theoretical reflection on representative democracy while offering practical recommendations aimed to remedy the representative disconnect.
The ultimate goal of the REDIRECT project is to contribute to the formulation of strategies for improving the democratic process by addressing the challenges of representative distance and promoting a stronger connection between citizens and their representatives.
Official website: https://redirect.unisi.it/
Italy: University of Siena & University of Salento
Belgium: Free University of Brussels
Hungary: Centre for Social Sciences
Norway: University of Oslo
Poland: Jagiellonian University
United Kingdom: University of Exeter
