Why are people losing faith in the democratic system? How does scepticism impact democracy? And how can we recover people’s trust?
In this TEPSA Explainer in collaboration with the ActEU project, Laura Morales, Research Professor at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IPP-CSIC), explores whether people are losing faith in the democratic system and looks at potential solutions to recover our political trust.
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.
