Has voting behaviour changed in recent years? What factors affect how people vote today? How do major events or crises influence voting decisions? What impact do political campaigns have on voters?
In this TEPSA Explainer in collaboration with the ActEU Project, Max-Valentin Robert, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Université Catholique de Lille, explains the factors influencing Europeans’ voting decisions and the impact of (online) political campaigns.
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.
