Blog
Date: February 26, 2025
n a recent publication, TakePart team members Matthias Hoffmann, Felipe G. Santos, and Dan Mercea have explored how individuals’ decisions to participate in protest events link these episodes of protest into events in broader fields of contention.
Date: November 24, 2024
In November, Dan presented the TakePart team’s ongoing work on emotional cues in protest images at the monthly ‘Research in Progress’ Seminar of the Department of Sociology & Criminology, City St George’s, University of London.
Date: November 24, 2024
In late October, Dan led a doctoral seminar titled ‘The Publication Journey’ in the Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences (FSPAC) at Babeș-Bolyai University.
Date: August 27-30. 2024
TakePart researchers Sorana Constantinescu, Matthias Hoffmann, Dan Mercea, and Felipe G. Santos
presented their research at the 16 th Conference of the European Sociological Association on “Tension,
Trust, and Transformation”, hosted by the University of Porto, Portugal, from August 27 to 30.
Date: September 5, 2024
We are pleased to share that Felipe G. Santos, a member of the Take Part Project, has been featured in El País, Spain’s most widely read newspaper, for his incisive analysis on the growing influence of far-right ideologies in Spain and their broader implications for Europe.
Date: September 5, 2024
This year, our colleague, Claudiu Vlasie, had the honor of participating in the prestigious General Conference organized by the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR)
Date: June 14, 2024
On June 14, 2024, Dan Mercea delivered an insightful presentation on youth civic participation at an event organized
Date: July 10, 2024
Triggered by plans to water down legislation on misconduct in public office, the #rezist demonstrations were a set of rolling protests in Romania,
Date: July 10, 2024
The rise and electoral success of so-called ‘populist’, ‘challenger’, or ‘movement’ parties has shed new light on the intersection of institutional and extra institutional politics.
Date: July 10, 2024
Using a vignette experiment embedded in a nationally representative survey of the Romanianpopulation, we test how different ways of framing the energy
Date: July 10, 2024
In this paper, we take the long view to examine the use of the #rezist protest hashtag on Twitter from 2017 to 2022.
Date: July 10, 2024
Who has the power to decide for us? When a leader is not a member of the Roma community, how can he deal with a problem?
Date: April 15, 2024
The article “Protesting the Lockdown: Geo-indexing a Movement Publicly Opposing Covid-19 Policies on Facebook” by Dan Mercea, Michael Saker, and Felipe G. Santos
Date: April 15, 2024
The article “Young democrats, critical citizens and protest voters: studying the profiles of movement party supporters”
Date: November 6, 2023
In a recent edition of the popular podcast “Un Tema Al Dia”, moderated by Juan Luis Sánchez, we had the unique opportunity to listen to a captivating dialogue with Felipe González Santos
Date: October 23, 2023
On October 23, 2023, within the Department of Political Science at the Faculty of Political, Administrative, and Communication Sciences (FSPAC), an important moment
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