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Publisher:  Pragma Publishing
Online publication date:  December 2023
Chapter DOI:  https://doi.org/10.62483/17138710

The Circumstances of Democracy in Europe

Corrado Fumagalli and Valeria Ottonelli

ABSTRACT

This chapter, which draws upon a thorough review of academic articles, reports, policy briefs, books, and media articles, secondary data, annual reviews and datasets compiled by think tanks and international organizations (such as the Economist Intelligence Unit, Freedom House, and Transparency International), the Eurobarometer, OECD country profiles, studies by international organization and government agencies, and the European Social Survey, with a particular focus on outputs published between 2019 and 2021, aims to provide policymakers, politicians, activists, and the general public with an accessible guide to the specific conditions facing European democracies individually and collectively. Against this backdrop, the chapter identifies nine main challenges to democracy in Europe: the democratic deficit in the EU, economic insecurity, the increasing polarization of European public spheres, the rural/urban divide, democratic backsliding in the EU, the pervasiveness of money in democratic campaigning, emergency politics and the COVID-19 pandemic, electoral security and the COVID-19 pandemic, and aging and the generational divide.

Citation
Fumagalli, Corrado, and Valeria Ottonelli. 2023. ‘The Circumstances of Democracy in Europe’. In Reconstructing Democracy in Times of Crisis - A Voter-Centred Perspective, ed. Annabelle Lever. Paris: Pragma Publishing, 111–49. https://doi.org/10.62483/17138710.
Fumagalli, C., & Ottonelli, V. (2023). The Circumstances of Democracy in Europe. In A. Lever (Ed.), Reconstructing Democracy in Times of Crisis—A Voter-Centred Perspective (pp. 111–149). Pragma Publishing. https://doi.org/10.62483/17138710
Fumagalli, Corrado, and Valeria Ottonelli. 2023. ‘The Circumstances of Democracy in Europe’. In Reconstructing Democracy in Times of Crisis - A Voter-Centred Perspective, edited by Annabelle Lever, 111–49. Paris: Pragma Publishing. https://doi.org/10.62483/17138710.
Fumagalli, C. and Ottonelli, V. (2023) ‘The Circumstances of Democracy in Europe’, in A. Lever (ed.) Reconstructing Democracy in Times of Crisis - A Voter-Centred Perspective. Paris: Pragma Publishing, pp. 111–149. Available at: https://doi.org/10.62483/17138710.
Fumagalli, Corrado, and Valeria Ottonelli, ‘The Circumstances of Democracy in Europe’, in Reconstructing Democracy in Times of Crisis - A Voter-Centred Perspective, ed. by Annabelle Lever (Paris: Pragma Publishing, 2023), pp. 111–49 <https://doi.org/10.62483/17138710>
Fumagalli, Corrado, and Valeria Ottonelli. ‘The Circumstances of Democracy in Europe’. Reconstructing Democracy in Times of Crisis - A Voter-Centred Perspective, edited by Annabelle Lever, Pragma Publishing, 2023, pp. 111–49, https://doi.org/10.62483/17138710.
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