Claes spoke at the opening plenary of the EuroPCom conference held in Brussels on November 8-9, 2018. More than 1000 communication professionals joined the conference discussing the theme ‘campaigning for Europe’. Claes offered an analysis of the upcoming campaign leading up to the EP elections in May 2019, and made use of results from the ongoing ERC project EUROPINIONS.
New publication by Ruud Wouters in Social Forces, titled “The Persuasive Power of Protest. How Protest wins Public Support”. Click here for article. Abstract: How do protest actions succeed in winning public support? In this paper, I theorize how features of protest can persuade citizens to support demonstrators. In particular, I argue that broadcasting an attractive collective identity by…
A busy week for CPC-members: Claes was part of a panel hosted at Facebook to discuss electoral integrity ahead of the European Parliament elections Andreas (Goldberg) will participate in the “Domestic Contestation of the European Union” conference at the LSE. Alyt will be attending the workshop “Media, Crisis, and Bubbles” at the University of Navarra, Spain. New research on…
Andreas was re-elected last week in in Lugano. Political Communication is the largest section at ECREA.