DemoTrans
DemoTrans has the ambition to push the knowledge frontier on the interaction of corporations and governments, and to bring robust recommendations on how to shift away from the bad governance outcome and move towards or hold on to the good governance outcome. We develop and communicate the necessary knowledge within four interrelated objectives.
About the research project
Following World War II, globalisation and market liberalisation triggered a period of unprecedented growth. Recently, these trends appear to reverse, whereby globalisation and corporations started to pose challenges for liberal democracy, social cohesion and environmental sustainability. The EU-funded DemoTrans project will provide theoretically and empirically robust recommendations on how to reinvigorate democratic governance by improving the accountability, transparency, effectiveness and trustworthiness of rule-of-law based institutions and policies. Moreover, it will provide robust recommendations on strengthening democratic governance through the expansion of active and inclusive citizenship empowered by the safeguarding of fundamental rights, thus showing pathways to a secure, open and democratic European society.
The DemoTrans consortium integrates key scholars and experts from KU Leuven (Belgium), Utrecht University (The Netherlands), Charles University (Prague), University of Bergen (Norway) and the Tax Justice Network.
DemoTrans has posed questions in the Panel of Public Administrators.
Read more about the project by clicking on this link. (external link)
People
Research Group 'Administration and Organisation Theory'
Zuzana Murdoch Coordinator UiB
Benny Geys Norwegian Business School
Vibeke Kroken PhD Candidate (UiB)