Project cooperationUpdated on 28 April 2026
Political Trust, Technology and Innovative Governance
Associate Professor of Politics and Public Policy at Swansea University
Swansea, United Kingdom
About
The project aims to examine the role of technology (blockchain, AI) in creating or affecting political trust in governance mechanisms. It aims to explore this in bottom-up, local governance arrangements and how technologies can be used to improve trust. It will build on existing work on political trust and governance, building on theoretical literature on good governance and examining what aspects of 'good' governance matter to individuals at different levels (local, regional, national) and what mechanisms (or technologies) can work to facilitate that. It further develops several interrelated strands of research on 1) blockchain's effect on political trust and legitimacy; and 2) local perceptions of effective governance in Wales, along with looking to develop new research on 3) comparative perspectives on innovative governance mechanisms across Europe. The aim is to build a consortium to develop a Horizon bid (potentially for HORIZON-CL2-2027-01-DEMOCRACY-03: Student and family engagement for developing a culture of democratic/civic participation), or similar national-level funding opportunities.
Stage
- Design - setting the project scope
- Completing the consortia
Call
- Destination: Innovative Research on Democracy and Governance
Type
- Partners for an existing consortium
- A consortium to join as partner
Organisation
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Ad Astra Fellow at University College Dublin
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- Design - setting the project scope
- Partners for an existing consortium
- Drafting - writing the project proposal
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julien moriceau
Research engineer at Université Paris 1 Sorbonne, Institut des Sciences Juridique et Philosophique de la Sorbonne
Geneva, Switzerland