🚀 Welcome to the DEMOPE-REDIRECT Joint Workshop at the University of Siena! A day of insightful discussions on democracy and representation ahead. Stay tuned—we’ll be sharing highlights throughout the day! 🎙️📊 #DEMOPE #REDIRECT #PoliticalScience

📢 Insightful debates at today's DEMOPE-REDIRECT Joint Workshop! Prof. Elena Irrera (Università di Bologna) delved into epistemic solidarity & public policy, while Prof. Giuseppe Ieraci & Gaia Matilde Ripamonti (Università di Trieste) examined crisis-driven power centralization in Italy’s NRRP. 🏛️🔎

How do parties balance responsibility & responsiveness in their manifestos? 🇪🇺📜 Prof. Andrea Ceron & Alessio Scopelliti (Università degli Studi di Milano) answer this by analyzing 40+ years of party rhetoric (1980-2021). Stay tuned for more from the DEMOPE-REDIRECT Joint Workshop project! 🔎📊

At DEMOPE-REDIRECT Joint Workshop in Siena, Prof. Sabrina sabrina cavatorto (Università di Siena) presented her analysison how Meloni's government is shaping parliamentary debates on EU affairs. Is Meloni deepening EU politicization beyond electoral rhetoric? #Italy #EUPolitics #Research

🌍 REDIRECT goes to NeSDe🌍 🚨Join us for the Network for the Study of Democracies Initatives 🗣️ Prof. Luca Verzichelli (Università di Siena ) 📢 Discussing the representative disconnect and how to fix it 🖥️ Online event – 19 March 2025 | 16:30 – 18:00 CET Stay updated for more updates!

📢 Job Opportunity! Uniwersytet Jagielloński is hiring a part-time research assistant (50%) for 12 months for #REDIRECT 📊 Focus: political discourse & parliamentary debates. 📍 Based in Kraków 📅 Deadline: 30 March 2025 🗓️ Start: May 2025 🔗 More info: europeistyka.uj.edu.pl/en_GB/aktualno…

📢 Job Opportunity/2 Uniwersytet Jagielloński is hiring a part-time research assistant (50%) for 12 months for #REDIRECT 📍 Base: Kraków 📅 Start: May 2025 ⏳ Apply by: 30 March 🔎 Tasks: Conducting interviews, data analysis, reports 🔗 Info: europeistyka.uj.edu.pl/en_GB/aktualno…

Citizens feel disconnected from institutions seen as ineffective or corrupt. Voter turnout is dropping. Social media fuels polarization & disinformation. How can we restore trust, legitimacy, and participation?

🔎 Can lowering the voting age to 16 boost youth engagement in politics? Our own #REDIRECT Kevin Meyvaert from VUB examines the potential effects in Belgium & the Netherlands. 📖 Read more here: plc-journal.eu/article/view/2… #VotingAge16 #Democracy #YouthEngagement

#OpenAccess from RISP Ita PolSc Rev - Italy, the EU-9, and the double-sided gap: a longitudinal analysis of mass-elite congruence on European integration (1979–2016) - cup.org/4jcRolh - Paolo Marzi & Andrea Pareschi (Università di Bologna) #FirstView

Congratulations to #REDIRECT’s Paolo Marzi on his new article in Italian Political Science Review! The paper reveals a double-sided mass-elite gap on EU integration in the EU-9—and shows how Italy appears to diverge from this pattern. Read it OA here 👉 doi.org/10.1017/ipo.20…

📍Closing remarks: Diagnosing the Disconnect, Strategizing the Redirect. The final session featured closing remarks on the future of democracy, with a spotlight on the #REDIRECT project's vision for 2040. 👋Thank you to all participants! #SoulSearchingDemocracy #DemocracyInFlux

📍SISP Standing Group Political Theory Conference, University of Campania, Caserta Marco Improta and Elisabetta Mannoni, #Redirect researchers, presented their work on citizens’ preferences for technocracy in government. #PoliticalTheory #Technocracy #ClimatePolitics

My new article "The political functions of the constructive vote of no-confidence: A mixed-method approach" has just been accepted by The Journal of Legislative Studies. In it, I explore the mechanisms behind the stabilizing effects of the constructive vote through mixed-method

💡Researchers from the REDIRECT project presented ongoing work on democracy and representation at the IPSA World Congress of Political Science in Seoul, South Korea 🇰🇷 #IPSA2025 #PoliticalScience #Democracy