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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A nice surprise this morning: Google Scholar let me know that my work has now passed 1,000 citations. It means a lot to know that the work has been read, discussed, used, and built upon. Thank you to everyone who has engaged with it, especially my collaborators, mentors, and students! :)

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Turkey keeps creating fascinating party names. The Good Party (İYİ Parti) was already a great example. The new CHP splinter takes newness "as a winning formula" to another level: it's literally called the New Party. Check out our recent paper on party names and branding 👉 doi.org/10.1017/S153...

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Off to a conference marathon: first @ces-europe.bsky.social in Dublin, then @epssnet.bsky.social in Belfast. At CES, @dnwildi.bsky.social and I present papers on the climate divide and LLM claims analysis. In Belfast, @dasalgon.bsky.social presents our Chile/Spain movement parties paper. ☕/🍻? DM me!

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

❓What structures competition? Economic and cultural conflicts matter across the region, but cultural conflicts gain importance, especially where democratic backsliding intensifies (notably 🇭🇺🇵🇱). Romania looks different: cultural issues are least salient there, and its overall structuration is weaker

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Main finding: programmatic competition is substantial and (mostly) stable over time, but it varies across countries. Latvia comes out as the most programmatic system, Hungary and Poland remain fairly programmatic even under erosion, while Romania is the clear laggard.

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

🚨New publication on cleavages in party competition in Central and Eastern Europe 🚨 CEE party systems are famously volatile, but does that mean that they are unstructured? ❓I ask whether competition has become programmatically organized around enduring cleavages 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1354... Thread 👇

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

The paradox: name changes don’t buy much. In the experiments, party-name labels have tiny effects (a “movement” label is only ~+1pp vs no label). Voters react more to signals about how parties organize (e.g., ties to civil society) and they tend to punish established parties that rebrand.

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Who drives this change? Mostly newer parties, parties on the right, and often parties in opposition, with the radical right especially prone to adopting “movement”-like branding. The shift is also stronger where party systems are more unstable (higher electoral volatility).

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Big supply-side takeaway: since the 1960s, parties increasingly drop “party” and classic ideology words. By the early 2020s, nearly 2/3 of parties no longer identify as “parties” in their official name; “movement” references rise in waves (e.g., post-2008).

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Demand side: we ran two conjoint survey experiments (2023) in Austria, Germany, Italy, and Hungary, one on branding of a new party, one on rebranding an existing party, to see whether “nonclassical” labels actually help.

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Supply side: we built a ballot-paper party-name dataset by manually coding name changes across 616 parties, 28 European countries, between 1945-2023 (or from the first competitive election). This lets us track how party labels evolve across decades and party systems.

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

🔔 New paper on party brands with @swenhutter.bsky.social in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social We study the supply (how parties call themselves) and demand (what voters reward) sides. We pair a new European dataset of party names with conjoint experiments on voter reactions OA 👉 doi.org/10.1017/S153...

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Why? 🤔 🔎 We examine this question with a causal mediation model. ⛔ It is not because people feel much riskier joining. ➡️ The demobilizing path runs mainly through lower perceived efficacy, especially identity-building/solidarity efficacy, and lower expected public support.

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

We find that more politicization 𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐬 the willingness to protest. 👉 In the “highly politicized” condition, 48.0% were above the participation midpoint vs 57.8% under moderate politicization (−9.8 pp). So, ramping up party cues and conflict can demobilize.

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Who gets asked? Mostly the “usual suspects”: men, highly educated, better-off. Even during a crisis, CSO outreach often reinforced inequalities rather than reducing them. Spontaneous, informal help grew, but formal volunteering stayed tied to social advantage.

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Our findings: Outreach by CSOs matters a lot. People who were contacted were far more likely to volunteer, both formally and informally. But only ~1/3 of the population was ever asked, highlighting missed opportunities to engage willing citizens.

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

🚨 New article out in Journal of Civil Society with Swen Hutter! We explore how civil society organizations (CSOs) mobilized volunteers during the COVID-19 pandemic, a moment of both rising need and shrinking organizational capacity. 📖 Open access link: doi.org/10.1080/1744...

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Off to Madrid for #EPSA2025 Assuming I survive the heat, I'll be presenting two papers and joining a roundtable on protests and social movements in Central and Eastern Europe. Looking forward to catching up with many of you there!

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

These are the latest polls, aggregated by Mircea Comșa, presented here: doarungraficsatimaispun.wordpress.com/2024/11/22/a...

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

📢 I’m over the moon to share that my Emmy Noether project, The New Climate Divide will be supported by @dfgpublic.bsky.social !✨ It includes a 6-year postdoc position and two 4-year PhD positions, which I’ll be advertising soon. If ClimateDivide sounds intriguing, stay tuned! 👀 Short 🧵👇

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

3) The over-time analysis shows that resources are crucial for explaining the absolute number of environmental issues and their relative share in the protest arena. In contrast, political opportunities are associated with a higher protest turnout.

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

2) Compared to other protests, environmental events are better attended, more associated with NGOs (as opposed to parties and unions). They are both less contentious (e.g., petitions and symbolic forms ) and more confrontational (blockades and civil disobedience), but not violent.

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

1) 2019 represents a peak, particularly in terms of the number of protesters and the relative importance of environmental issues in the protest arena. This is observed not only in Northwestern Europe but also in Central and Eastern Europe.

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

❓How widespread is the new wave of environmental protests, and how do the profile and drivers of these events differ from others? 🔥 New paper with Swen Hutter in the @jeppjournal.bsky.social on Environmental Protests in Europe See the paper 👉 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Three key findings 🧵

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 25/01/2024

I am grateful to all my wonderful colleagues at @wzb.bsky.social and @socfub.bsky.social for making the last five years in Berlin such a great experience! I am happy to remain a guest at @wzb.bsky.social and to continue our ongoing work with Swen Hutter. Stay tuned! :)

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 25/01/2024

I am happy to share that I will be joining the University of Heidelberg as Junior Professor for Political Participation Research from February. 👨‍🎓🧐 I am really looking forward to meeting my new colleagues, new students, and being in such a green city surrounded by mountains!

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

📣 If you are studying in Berlin at the MA level, come and join us as a student assistant at the FU Berlin! 📣 We are excited to work together with you! 👋 🔎 We expect interest in social movements & parties, quant skills (R and/or Stata), English (German is not a must) 👉 Link shorturl.at/sALQ1

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