2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Consolidating or Dismantling Representative Democracy at the EU-level: An analysis of the activites of the Europarties and European Parliamentary Groups before and after the 2014 European elections
| Project/Area Number |
26380174
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Politics
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| Research Institution | Oita University |
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Principal Investigator |
Day Stephen 大分大学, 経済学部, 教授 (60404357)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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| Keywords | Europarties / European Parliament / Representative democracy / Transnational democracy / Spitzenkandidaten / Transnational lists / European elections |
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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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| Free Research Field |
比較政治
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