Dr hab. Aleksandra Maatsch from the University of Wrocław, together with researchers from Austria and Germany, will carry out a research project on democratic backsliding in EU member states.
The Domestic Politics of EU Action against Democratic Backsliding is the title of a project performed by Polish researchers under the leadership of Dr hab. Aleksandra Maatsch, together with the research team of Prof. Michael Blauberger from the University in Salzburg, Austria and researchers from the University of Bremen, Germany, headed by Prof. Arndt Wonka, will perform the project entitled: “Domestic Politics of EU Action against Democratic Backsliding”. The total Weave – UNISONO funding for the Polish part of the project is nearly 890 thousand zlotys.
Research on countering democratic backsliding is growing quickly, but mostly focused on either domestic causes of backsliding or EU-level accounts of counter-measures. The basic aim is to demonstrate whether or not the EU’s ability to act and to have an impact against member state backsliding crucially depends on domestic political support.
The proposal has been evaluated by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), whereas the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and the National Science Centre approved the evaluation results under the Weave collaboration.
List no. 9, Weave-UNISONO 2024
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