| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,770,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥870,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This project concerns the ‘developmental potential’ of representative democracy at the EU-level and the role of the European Parliament/European Parliamentary Groups (EPGs) and the Europarties. Rather than treating the Europarties and EPGs solely as cohesive entities, engaged in politicking at an inter-party level, this project argues that by also recognizing ‘intra-party differentiation’ within these entities we can garner a better understanding of the reasons why that‘developmental potential’ is presently facing severe challenges. Such an approach led to the identification of three cross-cutting tendencies that I labelled: realists, idealists, and sceptics.
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