Projektdetails
Beschreibung
SAFEGUARD is an innovative interdisciplinary project that integrates
theoretical and methodological approaches from political science,
sociology, developmental psychology, and history. The project aims at
understanding how people develop supportive and opposing attitudes
towards pluralist liberal democracies in democratic, authoritarian, and
post-authoritarian contexts. The project’s primary focus is on
overlooked, ostensibly non-political, every-day practices of families over
three generations and their role in the political attitude formation in EU
established and post-communist democracies as well as in post-Soviet
autocracies, which, along with the study of family practices and
generational histories, remain underexplored. Once modifiable family
practices that shape neative attitudes towards pluralist democracies
have been identified, the project will locate interventions that address
these modifiable factors and test them in the randomized controlled
trials. As a result, the project will not only offer a diagnosis of the
problem but also develop evidence-based solutions. The pilot will be
run in the Czech Republic. It will include oral family histories that,
together with the findings from the Push*Back*Lash project, will lay the
foundation for a survey questionnaire development and validation and a
pilot of a retrospective survey. The findings from the seed pilot study will
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be used to inform an intervention selection to be tested in randomized
controlled trials and scaling of the analysis to a major early career grant
application to be implemented at PLUS in 2026-2030.
theoretical and methodological approaches from political science,
sociology, developmental psychology, and history. The project aims at
understanding how people develop supportive and opposing attitudes
towards pluralist liberal democracies in democratic, authoritarian, and
post-authoritarian contexts. The project’s primary focus is on
overlooked, ostensibly non-political, every-day practices of families over
three generations and their role in the political attitude formation in EU
established and post-communist democracies as well as in post-Soviet
autocracies, which, along with the study of family practices and
generational histories, remain underexplored. Once modifiable family
practices that shape neative attitudes towards pluralist democracies
have been identified, the project will locate interventions that address
these modifiable factors and test them in the randomized controlled
trials. As a result, the project will not only offer a diagnosis of the
problem but also develop evidence-based solutions. The pilot will be
run in the Czech Republic. It will include oral family histories that,
together with the findings from the Push*Back*Lash project, will lay the
foundation for a survey questionnaire development and validation and a
pilot of a retrospective survey. The findings from the seed pilot study will
2
be used to inform an intervention selection to be tested in randomized
controlled trials and scaling of the analysis to a major early career grant
application to be implemented at PLUS in 2026-2030.
| Kurztitel | Families as guardians of democracy |
|---|---|
| Akronym | SAFEGUARD |
| Status | Laufend |
| Tatsächlicher Beginn/ -es Ende | 1/04/24 → 31/12/25 |
UN-Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung
2015 einigten sich UN-Mitgliedstaaten auf 17 globale Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung (Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs) zur Beendigung der Armut, zum Schutz des Planeten und zur Förderung des allgemeinen Wohlstands. Die Arbeit dieses Projekts leistet einen Beitrag zu folgendem(n) SDG(s):
