Great #ProDem Stakeholder Conference at the #EP in Brussels bringing Academia, Policy Makers and NGOs to the table. Thank you to VolkswagenStiftung for funding this ongoing project.

Yesterday’s PRODEM 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 VolkswagenStiftung

This week, PRODEM held an event at the European Parliament, 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.

📣📣📣ProDem's Felipe G. Santos now keynoting on 'Care and empowerment among the urban poor' @ the Activism conference FSPAC Cluj-Napoca, Babeș-Bolyai University (UBB) City Uni Sociology & Criminology

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 European Societies 🥳 The open-access published version will be available soon!

📢📜Gomer Nuez and my article "The configuration of social movement studies in Spain (1980-2020)" is now available in English at Revista Española de Sociología. We map how the social movement studies field has evolved in Spain You can read it here: doi.org/10.22325/fes/r… 👇🧵

📢📜 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 European Societies Read it at: doi.org/10.1080/146166… Short 🧵with some takeaways 👇

Take a look at ProDem postdoc Felipe G. Santos' latest publication on #empowerment 💪 strategies in social movement organisations 👇

This week, our project members Dan Mercea, Felipe G. Santos and Matthias Hoffmann are participating at the Europe's changing protest landscape workshop at WZB. Thanks to Swen Hutter and Sophia Hunger @[email protected] for the great programme and organization!

I am thrilled that Dan Mercea and my paper: "Young Democrats, Critical Citizens, and Protest Voters: Studying the Profiles of Movement Party Supporters," has been accepted by Acta Politica! It will feature in the special issue edited by Endre Borbáth and Fred Paxton 🥳

🌐 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

📢NEW PUBLICATION!📝 Our paper (with Dan Mercea) "Young democrats, critical citizens and protest voters: studying the profiles of movement party supporters" is out at Acta Politica. You can read it open-access here: doi.org/10.1057/s41269… A short 🧵 with the main takeaways👇

Check out this new ProDem publication from our members Felipe G. Santos and Dan Mercea!

📢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 Social Movement Studies Journal (SPECIAL ISSUE 📌)! You can read this, open-access, Profile here: doi.org/10.1080/147428… 🧵1/8

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.

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 👇