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PLEDGE focuses on the emotional dynamics of political grievances and their implications for democratic politics.
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📢 Are you a CSO or NGO representative interested in strengthening democratic innovation?

Secure your position by registering, via www.pledgeproject.eu/pledge-invit...

#PLEDGEproject #Workshop #Democracy #EU
November 21, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Across Europe, young people are searching for belonging in divided societies. Some turn to nationalism, others to religion — but both paths reveal a deeper crisis of meaning and connection.
Read PLEDGE Blog post #9
👉 www.pledgeproject.eu/pledge-blog-...

#PLEDGE #democracy #radicalisation
November 13, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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🌀 PLEDGE Blog #8
When crisis hits, emotions become the jet fuel of our information ecosystem.
📖 Read more: www.pledgeproject.eu/fear-anger-a...

#PLEDGE #Disinformation #ClimateCrisis #MediaLiteracy #EmotionsInPolitics
November 7, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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📣 Join us for two keynote lectures as part of the symposium
“Historicizing Populism: From the Classics to the Contemporary”,
hosted by the University of Helsinki within the PLEDGE Project.

💻 Watch live: video.helsinki.fi/unitube/live...

#PLEDGE #Populism #Democracy #PoliticalScience #PublicTalks
October 31, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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🌍 When was the last time you were trained by three top-notch EU projects simultaneously?

👉 Learn more: www.pledgeproject.eu/joint-worksh...
🎟 Register now via the link or QR code and be part of this collaborative discussion!

#PolicyMaking #ResearchToPolicy #PLEDGE #PolicyInnovation
October 29, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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🎧 “Life is Crap” — Hungary’s viral anthem — turns youth frustration into protest. When music meets grievance politics, pain becomes power and despair becomes solidarity.
💥🇭🇺 Listen here 👉https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS2xr9mxD0s

#PLEDGEProject #GrievancePolitics #YouthVoices #CulturalResistance
October 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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In the latest PLEDGE blog from the UNIWARSAW team, we explore how debates around gender justice often devolve into zero-sum battles over who has more suffering — fueling resentment and polarization.

🔗 Read more: www.pledgeproject.eu/pledge-blog-...

#democracy #EU #grievance #Politics
October 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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🌍PLEDGE’s work is more relevant than ever, as Starmer condemns Farage’s “politics of grievance”.

➡️Read the full article and see the relevant video here: www.bbc.com/news/article...

#PLEDGE #Democracy
October 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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In today’s hyper-competitive world, people dismiss what they couldn’t achieve as “undesirable” while recasting themselves as righteous victims.

👉 Discover more here: www.pledgeproject.eu/the-sour-gra...

#GrievancePolitics #SourGrapesEffect #Democracy #EU
October 2, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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📢 Call for Papers is now open!

📝 Submit your paper or panel proposal by 31 October 2025!

👉 Visit our website for more information: www.pledgeproject.eu/call-for-pap...

#democracy #EU #PLEDGE #grievances #politics #governance #CallForPapers
September 11, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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How can collective emotions -and cardboard- fuel democracy under the strain of war?

👉 Read the full blogpost here: www.pledgeproject.eu/pledge-blog-...

#Ukraine #CardboardRevolution #Democracy #PoliticalEmotions #CivicEngagement #PLEDGE #EU
September 3, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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🌍🤝 PLEDGE consortium members were present at the #ECPR conference in Thessaloniki 🇬🇷 (26 – 29 August 2025), engaging in key debates on democracy, governance & grievance politics.
💬✨ Stay tuned — more posts & insights coming soon!!!

#democracy #EU
August 29, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Georgia, on the Eastern flank of Europe, shows how deeply grievance politics can shift a nation’s trajectory.
🔗 This New York Times article takes an in-depth & personal look at this dramatic transformation: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/m...

#Democracy #EU #Autocracy #Europe #grievance
August 27, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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🔎 How is resentment marketed in today’s political landscape—and what does it mean for democracy?

Our -own- Steering Committee Chair, Mikko Salmela, joins the discussion alongside other experts.

📖 Read the Eurozine article and watch the attached video: www.eurozine.com/marketing-re...
August 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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🌍 Emotions drive action—but not always equally.
💡 PLEDGE shows: shared feelings fuel 🌱 climate protests, but not 🛂 immigration ones.
✨ Context matters for civic engagement!
👉 Read more: www.pledgeproject.eu/pledge-blog-...

#Democracy #CivicEngagement #EU
August 20, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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😤Is this what democracy should feel like?
💔Is our modern Idemocracy shaped more by emotions than by ideals.

🔗Find out more by following the link: www.pledgeproject.eu/an-overview-...

#democracyincrisis #affectivepolitics #PLEDGEproject #populism #polarization #democracy
August 1, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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📢 New Blog Alert!
How is the far-right thriving in today’s social media age?
📝 Read PLEDGE Blog Post #4
🔗https://www.pledgeproject.eu/pledge-blog-post-4-by-ulund-team-far-right-politics-in-the-age-of-social-media-where-grievance-meets-entertainment/
#PLEDGEproject #FarRight #SocialMediaPolitics
July 30, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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🧠How can we design democratic processes that truly feel public?

📘 Read the full report here:
🔗https://www.pledgeproject.eu/report-on-design-principles-for-emotion-sensitive-policy-making-wp6-pledge-project-on-zenodo/

#PLEDGEproject #PolicyDesign #democracy
July 25, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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🗣️On Ressentiment, Victimhood, and Revanchism
How is populism in Turkey shaped?
(📌This endeavor, delivered by Ayhan Kaya, Senior Researcher from the Istanbul Bilgi University and member of our Steering Committee, is available only in Turkish.)
👉Read more: www.yeniarayis.com/yazi/ressent...
July 23, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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🔍 The PLEDGE Codebook v.1 unpacks the emotional logic behind protests, polarization, and civic engagement—with real-world examples, emotional mechanisms, and research-ready tools.

📥 Interested in exploring more?
Download the full document here: www.pledgeproject.eu/research-rep...
July 18, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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PLEDGE Blog Post #3
📰 Why are citizens across Europe feeling alienated from democratic processes? What fuels the growing sense of disconnection from institutions meant to represent them?
📍Read it here: www.pledgeproject.eu/pledge-blog-...
July 16, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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📢 NEW RELEASE: PLEDGE Conceptual Framework v1
At the heart of the framework are two emotional engines:
💢 EMRes: Resentment, hostility, polarization;
💞 EMSoS: Empathy, solidarity, action.
📘 Download the full report here: www.pledgeproject.eu/research-rep....
🔗 Visit our website: www.pledgeproject.eu.
July 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Across Europe, anti-immigrant rhetoric by right-wing populists is fueling real violence.
🎙️Prof. Bilewicz: When hate is normalized, attacks follow—as in Poland, 2015. This isn’t an isolated phenomenon.
🧠 #PLEDGE studies this shift.
📚[PL] Read more: pap.pl/aktualnosci/...
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July 9, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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When people feel unheard, humiliated, excluded… They don’t compromise. They withdraw. Or retaliate.
🧠 PLEDGE maps the reasons behind that. You can’t fix what you don’t feel.
📘 This and many more to come at Grievance Politics Briefings.
🔗 Read more: www.pledgeproject.eu/1-what-is-gr...
Stay tuned.
July 4, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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🗣️ Politics making you miserable? You’re not imagining it. Is it all just toxic rhetoric, or a deeper emotional divide?
Read More 👇
🔗https://www.pledgeproject.eu/pledge-blog-post-2-by-css-team-are-political-discussions-making-us-unhappy/
#PLEDGEproject #PoliticalCommunication #EmotionsInPolitics
July 2, 2025 at 8:59 AM