Participate in RECLAIM’s Student Paper Contest “Future-proofing liberal democracy: Strategies for resilience in an era of post-truth politics”

✍ Write a paper or policy brief with recommendations for EU policy-makers on how to counter the challenges of post-truth politics

🏆 Win a chance to publish on RECLAIM and TEPSA - Trans European Policy Studies Association's website and attend RECLAIM’s final conference in June!

🗓️ Deadline: 18 May 2025

Visit the TEPSA website for more information

How can the EU combat disinformation while preserving democratic values?

Check out this infographic by Tepsa on the journal article "Regulating Disinformation and Big Tech in the EU" by RECLAIM researchers Luis Bouza Garcia and Alvaro Oleart.

See Infographic here

Post-Truth Populism: A New Political Paradigm

This open access book analyses the convergence between ‘post-truth’ political culture and the politics of populism. The premise is that there is an intrinsic link between post-truth discourse (referring to mis/disinformation, ‘alternative facts’, ‘fake news’, conspiracy theories and the general distrust of expert knowledge and official sources of information) and the central narrative of populism, which opposes the ‘common sense’ wisdom of ordinary honest people to the ‘expert knowledge’ of duplicitous technocratic elites.

See Infographich here

Join an exhibition inspired by the question: ‘What does democracy mean to you?’

What is democracy? How does art help it strive? How do we reclaim democracy despite growing threats and lack of trust?

The exhibition, held on 13-14 April at Talk C.E.C in Brussels, will showcase the art of several artists. Their art shows the resilience, inventiveness and humour of people facing crises, demonstrating they have the skills necessary to face multiple contradictory narratives and reclaim liberal democracy in the post-factual age. 

Wednesday 13 March 2024, Worklounge Prikopy in Prague

This conference marks the mid-point of the RECLAIM project. The conference draws attention to two key aspects of the post-truth challenge: the need for high-quality journalism in liberal democracy and the role that regulation can play in ameliorating the post-truth challenge. Key researchers from the project will give an overview of their work in these areas and present the first findings from their empirical analyses.

One full-time postdoctoral researcher position at the Institute of International Affairs, University of Iceland is open for applications. The researcher will join the team of the RECLAIM project, specifically the project´s work package on borders and identities in post-truth politics.

What is democracy? Why is it important? And how does it affect our lives? We want to explore these questions and more, and we want to hear from you! But don’t just tell us – SHOW US – by submitting your art to “Democracy in Frames”.

In this video, Prof. Maximilian Conrad explains the new RECLAIM project. Recent years have witnessed the emergence of a set of processes and phenomena that are frequently referred to as post-truth politics and which constitute a fundamental challenge, potentially even an existential threat, to liberal democracy as we have come to understand it. Under the title “Reclaiming Liberal Democracy in the Postfactual Age” (RECLAIM).

The Reclaim Project had its Kick off conference in Reykjavík on Friday 14 October 2022 in Veröld - House of Vigdís. The conference focused on the challenges caused by external factors and disruptive technologies while also examining the role that citizenship education and media literacy can play in mitigating the challenges to liberal democracy.