Institute of European Studies of the Faculty of International and Political Studies at the Jagiellonian University conducts the research project REDIRECT (The REpresentative DIsconnect: diagnosis and strategies for RECTification) funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme.
The head of the group carrying out the project at the Jagiellonian University is Dr hab. Magdalena Góra, Prof. UJ (IES), and the team includes Dr hab. Marta Smagacz-Poziemska, Prof. UJ and Dr hab. Katarzyna Zielińska, Prof. UJ from the Institute of Sociology, Dr Natasza Styczyńska (IES), Marcin Baumann (IES) and Elodie Thevenin (IES).
The focus of REDIRECT is to study the current transformation of democratic polities in Europe, to realise whether and how their centres of gravity are shifting, and to improve our understanding of the “representative disconnect” – a multidimensional phenomenon of regression of the demos-kratos linkage involving institutional, behavioral and affective components. REDIRECT moves from the idea to study representative democracy in a comprehensive manner, connecting several relevant dimensions of analysis, in order to extract sustainable ideas and viable instruments to cope with the current problems of “democracy in flux”. These, in turn, will allow a parsimonious formulation of remedies, to be activated both at the institutional level (i.e. assuring a future to crucial “mediating bodies” of representatives democracy like parties, leaders, parliamentary institutions) and at the level of civil society.
More information can be found at: https://redirect.unisi.it
