Politics, the art of the possible - but who chooses party politics and who chooses protest, and why?

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Politics, the art

of the possible – but who

chooses party politics

and who chooses protest,

and why?

One would not be mistaken to assume that traditional party politics has become

side-lined by the rise of an angrier, more direct form of protest politics, supercharged

byyears of austerity following the nancial crash of 2008-2009. One ERC-funded

project, POLPART, has been dedicated to understanding how and why people become

engaged in politics and what this means for ongoing eorts to strengthen and preserve

ourdemocracies for the future.

CORDIS Results Pack on elections and democratic participation

Understanding turbulent political times through innovative EU-funded research