#ProDem is an interdisciplinary project funded by the Volkswagen-Stiftung on how Movement Parties, Social Movements and Active Citizens are reshaping Europe.

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27 May 2024
Read the latest ProDem research on how Spanish far-right party Vox uses top-down civil society organizations, led by its party members, in an attempt to redefine progressive politics 👇
📢NEW PUBLICATION ‼️ My latest research on how the far-right party Vox in Spain uses top-down civil society organizations to co-opt progressive politics is now published in @SocMovStudies! You can read this, open-access, Profile here: doi.org/10.1080/14742837.202… 🧵1/8
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📢NEW PUBLICATION ‼️ My latest research on how the far-right party Vox in Spain uses top-down civil society organizations to co-opt progressive politics is now published in @SocMovStudies! You can read this, open-access, Profile here: doi.org/10.1080/14742837.202… 🧵1/8
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Vox has created organizations like Solidaridad, Mi Barrio Seguro, Nostra Terra, and Asociación Mujeres por la Igualdad (AMPI) to redefine labor rights, urban policies, environmentalism, and women’s rights from a far-right perspective.
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📢NEW PUBLICATION!📝 Our paper (with @DanMercea) "Young democrats, critical citizens and protest voters: studying the profiles of movement party supporters" is out at @ActaPolitica. You can read it open-access here: doi.org/10.1057/s41269-023-0… A short 🧵 with the main takeaways👇
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22 Jan 2024
Check out this new ProDem publication from our members @feligsantos and @DanMercea!
📢NEW PUBLICATION!📝 Our paper (with @DanMercea) "Young democrats, critical citizens and protest voters: studying the profiles of movement party supporters" is out at @ActaPolitica. You can read it open-access here: doi.org/10.1057/s41269-023-0… A short 🧵 with the main takeaways👇
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🌐 Exciting discussions at yesterday's #ProDem meeting! 🤝 Presented the insightful findings of a 3-year research project funded by #VolkswagenStiftung, on protest and democracy in today’s Europe. Honored to have European Commission VP Dubravka Šuica, MEP Gabriele Bischoff, and
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I am thrilled that @DanMercea and my paper: "Young Democrats, Critical Citizens, and Protest Voters: Studying the Profiles of Movement Party Supporters," has been accepted by @ActaPolitica! It will feature in the special issue edited by @eborbath and @fredpaxton 🥳
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9 Jun 2023
This week, our project members @DanMercea, @feligsantos and Matthias Hoffmann are participating at the Europe's changing protest landscape workshop at @WZB_Berlin. Thanks to @swenhutter and @SophiaHunger for the great programme and organization!
Insightful authors` workshop @WZB_Berlin about Europe`s changing protest landscape! Thanks to all the participants onsite and online :-)
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24 May 2023
Take a look at ProDem postdoc @feligsantos' latest publication on #empowerment 💪 strategies in social movement organisations 👇
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📢📜 Really glad that, after many years of work, my paper "How activists build power: passive beneficiary involvement and empowerment in the platform of those affected by mortgages" is out at @EuroSocieties1 Read it at: doi.org/10.1080/14616696.202… Short 🧵with some takeaways 👇
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📢📜@GomerNuez and my article "The configuration of social movement studies in Spain (1980-2020)" is now available in English at @RES_revista. We map how the social movement studies field has evolved in Spain You can read it here: doi.org/10.22325/fes/res.202… 👇🧵
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Absolutely thrilled that my paper "How Activists Build Power: Passive Beneficiary Involvement and Empowerment in The Platform of Those Affected by Mortgages" has been accepted for publication at @EuroSocieties1 🥳 The open-access published version will be available soon!
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5 May 2023
Now on at the Activism conference @FspacCluj @ubbcluj, roundtable on protest with Romanian stakeholders with @lumif9 (declic.ro), Istvan Szakats, Diana Mitrofan (Reset), Ruth Borgfjord (Queer Sisterhood). The event is hosted by @ProDemProject.
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4 May 2023
📣📣📣ProDem's @feligsantos now keynoting on 'Care and empowerment among the urban poor' @ the Activism conference @FspacCluj, @UnivBabesBolyai @CitySociology
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This week, @ProDemProject held an event at the @Europarl_EN, where we presented our evidence-based policy recommendations to strengthen democracy in Europe and launched a stakeholder network to continue pushing for reforms to advance democracy in the EU and its member states.
Yesterday, two academics from City’s School of Policy & Global Affairs, Dr @DanMercea and and Dr Felipe Gonzalez Santos @feligsantos, took part in the European Parliament’s ProDem conference focusing on European social movements, protest and democracy 👏
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Great #ProDem Stakeholder Conference at the #EP in Brussels bringing Academia, Policy Makers and NGOs to the table. Thank you to @VolkswagenSt for funding this ongoing project.
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1 Dec 2022
Yesterday’s @ProDemProject Stakeholder Conference at the #EuropeanParliament in Brussels - launching our new report ‘Strengthening Democracy in Europe:How movement parties, social movements and active citizens are reshaping Europe’. Special thanks to the support of @VolkswagenSt
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