Why is polarisation becoming a key issue in our society? How does it impact democracy? And what can we do to bridge divides?
In this TEPSA Explainer in collaboration with the ActEU project, Pelin Musil, Associate Researcher at the Institute of International Relations in Prague, explores the reasons why our societies are becoming so divided.
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.
