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Dr Dorottya Sallai and a team of investigators have been awarded funding from the European NORFACE network as part of their Governance programme.
A total of 14 projects received funding as part of the programme, which will focus on a variety of subjects including disruptive changes in the political landscape, polarisation and populism, European identities and the legitimacy of the administrative state.
The three-year project that Dr Sallai and her colleagues will be working on isled by Dr Gerhard Schnyder of Loughborough University and is entitled ‘Populist Backlash, Democratic Backsliding, and the Crisis of the Rule of Law in the European Union’ (POPBACK).
The project aims to inform strategies to increase democratic resilience by studying the mechanisms that ‘exclusionary populists’ use to increase their power by undermining the rule of law in the areas of law, the economy, and the media. The project also seeks to identify the coping strategies societal actors use when faced with exclusionary populism.
Dr Sallai will co-lead the work package on the political economy with colleagues from Germany and Poland - studying the impact of exclusionary populists on businesses and national business systems.
“I look forward to working with this amazing multi-disciplinary team” said Dr Sallai, Assistant Professorial Lecturer at LSE’s Department of Management.
Find out more about the Governance programme and the other research projects here.
The full project team are:
- Project Leader: Dr Gerhard Schnyder, Loughborough University (UK);
- Principal Investigator: Dr Dorottya Sallai, London School of Economics (UK);
- Principal Investigator: Professor Barbara Blaszczyk, Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland);
- Principal Investigator: Professor Birgit Sauer, University of Vienna (Austria);
- Principal Investigator: Dr Mojca Pajnik, Peace Institute (Slovenia);
- Principal Investigator: Professor Simon Deakin, University of Cambridge (UK);
- Principal Investigator: Professor Andreas Nölke, Goethe Universität Frankfurt (Germany).
Wednesday 6 May 2020