The article reports that political emotions are not only mental states but are embodied experiences that vary in the body and can predict civic actions, with political context reshaping how emotions are felt physically. It also highlights how bodily sensations relate to political engagement and differences across political affiliations.

The piece is of interest to psychology readers because it explores interoception and somatosensory mapping in the context of emotions, illustrating how context alters emotional embodiment and influences behavior in real-world democratic participation.

Article Title: You don’t just think about politics, you physically feel it in your body

Link to PsyPost Article: https://nolinkpreview.com/www.psypost.org/you-dont-think-about-politics-you-physically-feel-it-in-your-body/

#politicalemotion #bodilyexperience #interoception #emBody #emotionembodiment #politicalpsychology #democraticparticipation #affectivepolitics #somatosensorymapping #psychologyresearch

On 27 March we are hosting an online panel within the #INTERFACED project on how trust in public institutions is built, challenged, and sustained across Europe today.

The discussion brings together researchers and practitioners working on democratic participation, governance, and civic engagement.

Registration link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/online-panel-building-trust-in-public-institutions-tickets-1983958732977?aff=oddtdtcreator

#InstitutionalTrust #DemocraticParticipation #Governance #CivicEngagement #PoliticalParticipation #HorizonEurope

"We are ardent believers in the power of government to improve people’s lives, and appreciate the frustration with unnecessary delays. In some cases, especially exclusionary zoning and other land use rules in wealthy suburbs, the current legal restrictions are in fact excessive. However, the proper answer to government dysfunction and the authoritarian threat at home and abroad is largely the same today as it was during the New Deal: Rather than railroad the public with top-down directives or megaprojects imposed by Washington and state capitols, we must renew our national commitment to democracy and public participation with ambitious acts of bold economic governance.

The Trump Administration’s ability to move with lightning speed to impose unwanted infrastructure like Alligator Alcatraz on unwilling host communities, militarize cities with masked police and troops, and increase surveillance of Americans makes clear the urgency of balancing the state’s capacity to act decisively with the need for democratic legitimacy. “State capacity” is not inherently good: The what and how of state action matter.

Moreover, in the medium and long term, the tradeoff between state capacity and democratic participation disappears—and even reverses. Public input into government decisions, including in environmental review procedures, not only restrains the worst tendencies of unaccountable state power but also enhances the capacity of the state itself, by providing valuable feedback to state technocrats about what is working and what isn’t. While turning off these feedback channels may generate a sugar high of quick results, doing so, as state capacity liberals propose, dooms effective governance further down the road. Top-down technocracy is brittle, and availing ourselves of shortcuts around the public is ultimately self-defeating."

https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/79/rethinking-state-capacity/

#StateCapacity #Bureaucracy #Abundance #DemocraticParticipation #ParticipatoryDemocracy #Democracy

You might have heard of #DonaldTrump's executive order to prevent Democrats from raising money #ActBlue—but how bad is it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEpJ8FDk6u0

https://piped.video/watch?v=aEpJ8FDk6u0

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=aEpJ8FDk6u0

#uspol #politics #Trump #DonaldTrump #PresidentTrump #TrumpAdministration #TrumpAdministration2025 #SecondTrumpAdministration #Project2025 #BrianTylerCohen #ActBlue #VoterSuppression #DemocraticParticipation #DemocracyWatch #MarcElias

https://apnews.com/article/trump-actblue-democratic-fundraising-9f990e668572709ce0e3260bbdb6f61b

#uspol #politics #Project2025 #Trump #DonaldTrump #ActBlue #TrumpAdministration2025 #SecondTrumpAdministration #DemocraticParticipation #VoterSuppression

Learn more about wahl. chat, a #student-created #AItool that can provide well-founded answers to complex questions about the policies of various parties running in the German #elections – and thus strengthen #democraticparticipation: http://go.tum.de/357125

📷H.S. Vagedes