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Felipe G. Santos @feligsantos.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Great timing for our new publication on how the Hungarian opposition reacts to democratic backsliding, after this weekend's huge #BudapestPride2025 march! We study the strategic choices of the United for Hungary coalition in the 2022 elections. 🧵with link and takeaways👇

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Daniel Kovarek @kovarek.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

this looks like a great read!

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Felipe G. Santos @feligsantos.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Ultimately, democratic backsliding creates incentives for both party elites and voters to unite around fundamental democratic values and finding other (non-electoral) venues to challenge an increasing authoritarian government. Dive into the details here: doi.org/10.1080/1351...

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Opposition electoral strategies against democratic backsliding: the United for Hungary coalition and its 2022 primaries

How do opposition actors react to democratic backsliding? Using interviews with party elites and nationally representative survey data, this article explores the motivations behind the formation of...

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Felipe G. Santos @feligsantos.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Opposition voters' characteristics mirror these features, as two of the main drivers of participation in the primaries to select the leader of the opposition ticket, and voting for the opposition were dissatisfaction with democracy and involvement in non-electoral activities.

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Felipe G. Santos @feligsantos.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

2️⃣ They adopt social movement-like characteristics, such as less strict membership requirements to participate in their organizational activities and a greater importance of non-electoral tactics in their repertoires.

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Felipe G. Santos @feligsantos.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

We argue that, when faced with democratic erosion, opposition parties are pushed in two key directions: 1️⃣ They form ideologically diverse coalitions (from left-liberal to far-right, all under one banner), prioritizing a democratic frame over other ideological policy issues.

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Felipe G. Santos @feligsantos.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

You can find our full paper "Opposition electoral strategies against democratic backsliding: the United for Hungary coalition and its 2022 primaries," coauthored with Bálint Mikola, in ‪@democratization.bsky.social‬ The paper is available here: doi.org/10.1080/1351...

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Opposition electoral strategies against democratic backsliding: the United for Hungary coalition and its 2022 primaries

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Felipe G. Santos @feligsantos.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Hoy a las 6 de la tarde. Conéctate!

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Comité MMSS - SSMM Committee @mmssfes.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Repensando la solidaridad contra la represión en Chile y España 🚨 Frente a la criminalización de la protesta pensamos formas de autodefensa, autocuidado y organización de base. 👥 Movimiento Antirrepresivo de Madrid, Javiera Mena, Felipe G. Santos, Lidia Yáñez Lagos 📍Online

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Felipe G. Santos @feligsantos.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Muchas ganas de participar este martes 6 de mayo en este evento sobre autodefensa y cuidados en el contexto actual de infiltraciones policiales y criminalización de la protesta en España y el mundo. Si te interesa el tema, regístrate a través del QR que aparece en el póster. 👇

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Christina Neumayer @nechri.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Our co-edited volume (with Claudius Wagemann, Toma Burean, @danmercea.bsky.social and Lorenzo Mosca) ‘Protest and Democracy: How Movement Parties, Social Movements and Active Citizens Are Reshaping Europe’ Routledge 2025 arrived in print doi.org/10.4324/9781... @feligsantos.bsky.social

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Felipe G. Santos @feligsantos.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Muchas gracias, Andrés! Me alegra de que estos podcast lleguen incluso hasta CEU! Un abrazo!

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Dan Mercea @danmercea.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

📣 our new Horizon Europe project on political participation since the onset of Covid-19 is now live. PR at link 👇. Watch this space for updates. @feligsantos.bsky.social @nechri.bsky.social www.city.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

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Felipe G. Santos @feligsantos.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

🚨New publication! In our latest paper in the International Journal of Sociology, Matthias Hoffmann, @danmercea.bsky.social and I study brokerage in protest networks. We explore how individuals connect protest episodes and the characteristics of those occupying brokerage positions. A 🧵

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Dan Mercea @danmercea.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Our latest paper is an attempt to understand how individuals might connect protest episodes and who those people might be who find themselves in that position. @feligsantos.bsky.social wrote a great overview of our findings in the 🧵👇

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Felipe G. Santos @feligsantos.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Altogether, this paper emphasizes the role that individuals play in creating the relations that connect otherwise seemingly separate contentious episodes. These links may facilitate the diffusion of protest repertoires or become sites of struggle among competing ideologies.

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Felipe G. Santos @feligsantos.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Our findings highlight that individual agency, organizational, and interpersonal embeddedness are strongly associated with specific positions in relational fields, and particularly to the potential to overcome issue boundaries.

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Felipe G. Santos @feligsantos.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Focusing on the differences in their network embeddedness, membership in an organization decreases the odds of being a coordinator, as opposed to a boundary spanner position, by a quarter. While having activist friends does not significantly distinguish the two groups.

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Felipe G. Santos @feligsantos.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Interest in politics, as well as writing online about protests, increase the odds of being a coordinator as opposed to a boundary spanner.

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Felipe G. Santos @feligsantos.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Focusing on how coordinators and boundary spanners differ from each other, caring for a dependent significantly increases the odds of being in a coordinator rather than a boundary spanner position.

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Felipe G. Santos @feligsantos.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Having written online about protests increases the odds of occupying a brokerage position by a factor of 2.

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Felipe G. Santos @feligsantos.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Membership to an organization increases the odds of being a potential broker by a factor of 1.4 while having friends who have either participated in a protest or are involved in a social or activist organization increase the odds of occupying a broker position by a factor of 5.7.

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Felipe G. Santos @feligsantos.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Moving to the characteristics of those people who occupy brokerage positions, poorer individuals are more likely to occupy a brokerage position. Also, being a man increases the odds of occupying such a position by about a third.

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Felipe G. Santos @feligsantos.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

At least 40% of the protesters in each country have participated in more than one protest in the 2 years before our survey fieldwork. Moreover, except for Denmark, in the rest of the countries, at least one in five protesters joined three or more demonstrations.

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Felipe G. Santos @feligsantos.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Using survey data from Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Romania and the UK, we mapped protest networks in the 6 countries and identified two distinct brokerage roles: - Coordinators: Connect within same-issue contentious episodes. - Boundary Spanners: Connect across different-issue episodes.

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Felipe G. Santos @feligsantos.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Brokers can connect actors who are not communicating because of some specific barrier. They are essential for attracting new protesters as they possess the bridging capital to hold the social ties through which individuals learn about movement events and issues.

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Emanuela Lombardo @elombardo.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

💫 Anti-gender regimes, feminist politics and the challenge of societal democratization is out! In Mobilization: An International Quarterly 29(4): 469-486 doi.org/10.17813/108... A preprint is available on Researchgate

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ANTI-GENDER REGIMES, FEMINIST POLITICS, AND THE CHALLENGE OF SOCIETAL DEMOCRATIZATION*

Democracy is an ongoing process that involves society as a whole, not merely politics. Anti-gender politics challenges democratization in all areas of society. Therefore, a gendered theory of society ...

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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Analysing protest participation - @danmercea.bsky.social, @felipegsantos.bsky.social & Matthias Hoffmann argue it's a gradient, beyond the binary of participation and non-participation & suggest practical mobilisation pathways: buff.ly/4flPug1 (OPEN ACCESS) @uoypolitics.bsky.social

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Felipe G. Santos @feligsantos.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Over the moon 'Social Movements that Care: Empathy, Solidarity, and Empowerment in the Fight Against Evictions' is finally out! Interested? 🔁Repost so it reaches more people 📖Order a copy of the book at your library 🗣️Invite me to give a talk at your institution Link👇

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Olga Onuch @oonuch.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I take great pride when ECR folks who I was lucky to mentor publish outstanding independent work & achieve great things! This book by @felipegsantos.bsky.social is one such piece of important research. The whole MOBILISE crew are proud! Order your copy today. books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&...

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Felipe G. Santos @feligsantos.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Thanks, Maxime! I have just answered your email. I am looking forward to talking to you and your team!

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Felipe G. Santos @feligsantos.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Many thanks, Cameron! There is a whole chapter dedicated to the topic of participatory care. I hope it will be useful!

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Felipe G. Santos @feligsantos.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

There are many! I just wrote you a PM to follow up from there 🙂

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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

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Felipe G. Santos @feligsantos.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Thrilled to share our latest work, with @DanMercea and Matthias Hoffmann, published at @PolStudies. Using nat. rep. survey data from 6 European countries, we explore what differentiates actual and potential protesters between themselves and in relation to non-protesters. A short 🧵

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Dan Mercea @danmercea.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

📢 new #openaccess article w/ @felipegsantos.bsky.social & Matthias Hoffmann. We describe protest participation as a gradient. We distinguish between non-, potential & actual protesters. We then pinpoint key factors increasing the likelihood of moving from non- to potential & actual participation.

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Andrea Pirro @andreapirro.it · 19/11/2024

‼️ I am looking for a ECR/postdoc working at the intersection of protest event and social network analysis. This is a 2-year position part of the Horizon EU ProTest project. The successful candidate will work with me (mostly) on the Italian case. Deadline: 11 December. bandi.unibo.it/ricerca/asse...

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