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Vlad Surdea-Hernea @vladsurdea.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

The persistence literature treats historical legacies as something close to a stylized fact. My new paper with amazing @letitiaroman.bsky.social challenges this view, theorising conditions under which legacies break and testing our framework on Ottoman corruption in Romanian healthcare. 1/

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Vlad Surdea-Hernea @vladsurdea.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Can a Catholic institution produce a Protestant-style development outcome? Yes, if the comparison group is Eastern Orthodoxy. My new paper in Studies in Comparative International Development uses an 18th-century Habsburg natural experiment in Transylvania to show exactly that. 📜🧵⬇️

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Vlad Surdea-Hernea @vladsurdea.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

1/18 🚨 Why do some far-right candidates succeed by openly praising fascist movements? In my (very new) working paper, I look at Romania’s 2024 presidential election, where Călin Georgescu won the first round. I argue that historical "consensual mobilization" creates persistent local memories. 🗳️👇

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Vlad Surdea-Hernea @vladsurdea.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

🚨 Why do people protest against authoritarian regimes even when facing extreme danger? 🚨 In our new paper on Romania's 1989 Revolution, we find that communities exposed to the communist Gulag showed 5x higher dissent levels. doi.org/10.1177/0010... 1/🧵

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Vlad Surdea-Hernea @vladsurdea.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

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