Protest and Democracy: How Movement Parties, Social Movements and Active Citizens Are Reshaping Europe

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Claudius Wagemann is a Full Professor of political science methods at the Goethe University Frankfurt since 2012. He also regularly teaches at the School of Transnational Governance of the European University Institute (EUI) Florence where he also had graduated. Before going to Frankfurt he has worked at various universities and institutes in Florence. His substantial research interest is on forms of protest and questions related to democracy as well as on questions of political engagement and political participation above all of young people. Methodologically he is an expert of comparative methodology above all Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and fuzzy sets.Toma Burean is a political scientist at the Political Science Department College of Political Science Public Administration and Communication Babe-Bolyai University. His research interests are political participation migration multiculturalism and the politics of gender. He is currently the director of the Center for the Comparative Studies of Migration.Dan Mercea is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at City University of London (UK) and Principal Investigator on the project Social Learning to Take Part in Social Movements: Understanding the Social Transformation of Civic Participation (2023-2026) hosted by Babe-Bolyai University (Romania) and funded by the European Union NextgenerationEU and the Romanian Government under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan for Romania.Lorenzo Mosca is full Professor of Sociology of Communication at the Department of Economics and Management Parma University. He is a member of the teaching staff of the PhD in Sociology and Methodology of Social Research (SOMET) and has worked in several European research projects (Europub.com Demos Younex) and won national (FIRB PRIN) and international (Volkswagen Foundation Horizon Europe) competitive grants as PI or co-PI. He has collaborated on several occasions with the Istituto Cattaneo in Bologna and the V-Dem Institute (Varieties of Democracy) at the University of Gothenburg as a national expert. His research interests include the sociology of digital media and political communication the sociology of participatory processes civil society political parties and social movements and populism.Christina Neumayer is associate professor at the Center for Tracking & Society at the Department of Communication at University of Copenhagen. Much of her research revolves around the role of digital media technologies artificial intelligence and data for political contention protest activism racism civic engagement social movements and more broadly political communication. Her recent publications include the edited volume The Playful Politics of Memes (with Mette Mortensen Routledge 2023).