Auditing democracy in times of crisis

Work package 5 – Evaluation

Work package 5 will develop and conduct a democratic audit using an approach beyond the state of the art, which examines special requirements to be included in times of crisis and emergency. The democratic audit will be structured on input-throughput-output lines and applied to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Lead

John Erik Fossum, Professor of Political Science at ARENA Centre for European Studies at the University of Oslo

Timeline

Running from January 2023 to October 2024

Deliverables

Research paper: A democratic audit for Europe in times of emergency

Research paper: Power and legitimacy during emergency politics: a democratic audit or responses to the Covid-19 crisis

Research paper: Perceptions of EU and member state legitimacy in times of crisis: a citizens’ perspective