Lacey Lab

National University of Ireland - University College Dublin

Ireland (IE0) · Ireland

ERC-funded
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ERC Starting Grant · 2022

Moral Agency in Election Campaigns

ELECT falls within the methodological framework of “grounded normative theory”. It combines normative democratic theory with a mixed-methods and comparative research design to investigate the moral agency of key stakeholders involved in contemporary election campaigns: candidates, campaign professionals, political journalists and citizens. The moral agency of electoral stakeholders becomes a subject of concern when they are confronted with normatively charged situations involving motivations to behave in ways that undermine democratic norms or political trust. The context in which electoral stakeholders exercise their moral agency has been changing, presenting them with new normative…

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