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| Title | Providing an Infrastructure for Research on Electoral Democracy in the European Union |
| Grant Agreement Number | 211810 |
| Funding Programmes | FP7 |
| Dates | 01/02/2008 - 31/01/2011 |
| Project URL | http://www.piredeu.eu |
| Scientific Domain |
Social Sciences and Humanities |
| Action Line | Design Study |
| Type Of Project | CP |
| Abstract | This three-year design study will assess the feasibility of providing an infrastructure for research into citizenship, political participation, and electoral democracy in the European Union (EU). Such an infrastructure would endow the social science community with the most essential information required for a recurrent audit of the most important aspects of the electoral process in the European Union. Since elections are crucial instruments of popular control, elite accountability, and popular representation, auditing these processes is seen as good practice in a number of democracies. Such audits empirically assess the nature of electoral processes and detect challenges and threats to the quality of these processes. The infrastructure project that we propose to design focuses on data which, if not collected at the time of an election, will either be lost or will be recorded in a manner incompatible with the way in which other relevant data have been recorded, making the complete picture unavailable for future research. At the EU s supra-national level, democratic rules and procedures are not yet well established and the institutions of multi-level governance are repeatedly renegotiated and adapted. Auditing the quality of the electoral process at the EU-level is therefore essential. |
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Coordinator
(Organisation name and Country) |
EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE, Italy |
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Partners
(Organisation name and Country) |
UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM, Netherlands THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM, United Kingdom THE PROVOST, FELLOWS, FOUNDATION SCHOLARS & THE OTHER MEMBERS OF BOARD OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY & UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH NEAR DUBLIN, Ireland UNIVERSITAET MANNHEIM, Germany GESIS - LEIBNIZ INSTITUT FUR SOZIALWISSENSCHAFTEN e.V., Germany UNIVERSITAT WIEN, Austria INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS, Slovakia WISSENSCHAFTSZENTRUM BERLIN FUR SOZIALFORSCHUNG, Germany KOZEP-EUROPAI EGYETEM, Hungary UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA (INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS SOCIAIS), Portugal THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER, United Kingdom SZKOLA WYZSZA PSYCHOLOGII SPOLECZNEJ, Poland THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, United Kingdom |
