Dani Sandu

• Researcher at European University Institute

Although affective polarization threatens democracies, little is known about how to reduce it among one of polarization’s main agents: party activists. The challenge stems from the difficulty of studying activists longitudinally and in a real-world setting. To address these issues, we study whether contact between activists acting as party delegate...

It is commonly viewed that violence against politicians increases support for the victim’s party. We revisit this conjecture drawing on evidence from an assassination of an opposition politician in Poland. First, we analyze engagement with Twitter content posted by opposition and government politicians using a difference-in-differences framework. S...

It is commonly viewed that violence against politicians increases support for the victim's party. We revisit this conjecture drawing on evidence from an assassination of an opposition politician in Poland. First, we analyze engagement with Twitter content posted by opposition and government politicians using a difference-indifferences framework. Se...

This study is based on survey data on a sample that is representative for 15-to-29-year-old residents of Romania, and is part of a broad comparative research that includes nine other countries from southeast Europe, an under-researched and overlooked region with only scarce systematic data and analyses: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cr...

Although the persistence of adolescents’ political attitudes and behaviors into adulthood is a perennial concern in research on developmental psychology only a very small proportion of youth studies include non-Western societies. This study is based on survey data on a sample that is representative for 15-to-29- year-old residents of Romania, and...

Methodology of the Propaganda Permeability Index.

Marginalization of sex workers in Romania.

This study tests through an experiment the hypothesis that heavy emphasis on conflicts in the news undermines political trust and has an impact on citizens’ cynicism and political participation. Findings do not support a uniform negative impact of the conflicts covered in the news but demonstrate a cumulative effect of their levels of intrusiveness...

Studiu despre sexul comercial in Romania

Practicarea sexului comercial în România este un subiect puţin discutat, dar oricum unul controversat. În anul 2003, Organizaţia Mondială a Sănătăţii estima între 23.000 şi 47.000 de persoane, femei și bărbaţi, care practică sexul comercial în România (Buzducea, 2009). Cercetările realizate până la acest moment în România arată că sexul comercial e...