What are traditional ways of participating in politics? How are new forms of participation changing politics? Why do some people feel their vote doesn’t make a difference? What impact can individual action have on the system?
In this TEPSA Explainer in collaboration with the ActEU project, Alexander Hoppe from the University of Duisburg-Essen explains all the different ways you can get involved in politics today – it’s not just about voting every few years!
The ActEU Project has two main ambitions. First, it seeks to map and investigate persistent problems of declining trust, legitimacy and representation in Europe with a particular attention to the polarisation of societies and the EU’s multi-level structure. Second, it aims to craft tailor-made toolkits for political and civil society actors, school teachers and university lecturers to deal with issues of declining political trust in representative democracies in flux and counteract a further decrease.
