ULB - Free University of Brussels
Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest (BE1) · Belgium
ERC Consolidator Grant · 2017
Non-elected politics. Cure or Curse for the Crisis of Representative Democracy?
Evidence of a growing disengagement of citizens from politics is multiplying. Electoral turnout reaches historically low levels. Anti-establishment and populist parties are on the rise. Fewer and fewer Europeans trust their representative institutions. In response, we have observed a multiplication of institutional reforms aimed at revitalizing representative democracy. Two in particular stand out: the delegation of some political decision-making powers to (1) selected citizens and to (2) selected experts. But there is a paradox in attempting to cure the crisis of representative democracy by introducing such reforms. In representative democracy, control over political decision-making is…
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