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Objectives and activities

The purpose of this Core Activity consists in evaluating both theoretically and practically the way in which deliberative democracy can contribute to bringing out a common identity liable to create a plural and inclusive European people in a double context of a “democratic deficit” in the European Union and a ramp up of ethnonationalism amid the community space. The main issue is to establish to what extent the opening of a transnational public sphere based on dialogue and cooperation between citizens, political leaders and actors of the European civil society and embodied in deliberative mini-publics could help democratise community governance and strengthen the civic identity of a European people within a variety of political diversity in terms of history and culture.
Three investigation lines will be used within the common experimental design:
To what extent would a deliberative and bottom-up management of community affairs strengthen a European political identity based upon the people’s constituent power at a continental scale?
To what extent could the setting up of deliberative procedures favour the emergence of a shared cultural identity in which permanent and institutionalised dialogue between the actors of various national history and ways of life could limit the risk of essentialist antagonisms thanks to the coproduction of a common future?
By which deliberative and participatory means could a European public sphere be liable to develop in order to couple the institutionalised decision-making in Brussels with a public and media European identity and an inclusive horizontal and decentralised process?

  • Task 6.4
    25 June 2021, by Teddy

    Pragmatic proposal for new protocols. [Months 22-36] - UP8, USTUTT, UNISI
    The last task will be to compare the results of the first three phases and to propose accordingly some scenarios for developing new deliberative protocols fostering shared European identities.

  • Task 6.3
    25 June 2021, by Teddy

    Analysis of deliberation and identity construction in the experimental devices of the EUComMeet research. [Months 20-36] - UP8, USTUTT, UNISI
    The third task will be to study the relation between deliberation and identity construction and the identity dynamics at stake in the EUComMeet experimental device in WP3, with a special focus on the multilingual dimension. We will include the quantitative analysis of a specific set of questions related to deliberation and identity in the (…)

  • Task 6.2
    25 June 2021, by Teddy

    Comparative analysis of deliberation and identity construction in 4 European social networks at EU level. [Months 8-26] - UP8, USTUTT, UNISI
    A second task will consist in selecting during the first 24 months of the research 4 social networks active at EU level linked to different political tendencies: one national-populist, one liberal, one from the radical left and one linked to the ecology. We will study the relation between deliberation and identity construction in each case, with a (…)

  • Task 6.1
    25 June 2021, by Teddy

    Literature analysis of deliberation and identity construction in the past deliberative experiments at EU levels [Months 8-16] - UP8, USTUTT
    The first task will rest upon a qualitative analysis of the literature concerning deliberation and European identity, relying upon the inventory of WP1. It will imply a discussion of the theoretical discussion on the one hand, and we will assess from the point of view of identity the literature related to experiences of past deliberative experiments at (…)