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PLEDGE focuses on the emotional dynamics of political grievances and their implications for democratic politics.
Joined April 2024
📢 NEW RELEASE: PLEDGE Conceptual Framework v1.How do emotions shape politics?.📘 Download the full report here: 🔗 Visit our website:
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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. 🧠#PLEDGE studies this shift. 📚[PL] Read more: .🌍
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When people feel unheard, humiliated, excluded… They don’t compromise. They withdraw. Or retaliate. 🧠 PLEDGE maps the reasons behind the shift. 📘 This and many more to come at Grievance Politics Briefings. 🔗 Read more: Stay tuned.
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🗣️ Politics making you miserable? Is it all just toxic rhetoric, or an emotional divide?.New PLEDGE Blog Post #2 dives into why political talk often leaves us angry, sad—or worse. 💥.👇Read more & rethink political talk.🔗#PLEDGEproject #EmotionsInPolitics
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Why do we fear the poor?.This TED Talk unpacks aporophobia—the rejection of poverty—and how it fuels grievance politics. At PLEDGE, we explore these emotional drivers of exclusion & how to build an inclusive democracy. 🎥🔗
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📢 Save the Date: June 26 | Brussels.Smarter Together Workshop:. Emotions in Policy Making—How to Master Emotions to Better Solve Public Problems.With Dr. Thomas Legein & Prof. Dr. Karen Celis (PLEDGE, VUB).🔗👉 Don’t miss it!
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💭Climate change isn’t just technical—it’s emotional. Our new blog post looks at how frustration, fear, and hope can shape how people respond to green policies—and how those emotions can be a force for democratic connection. 👉Read the full piece here:
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🚨 The 2nd #PLEDGEProject Newsletter is out!. Discover our scientific progress so far + where we’ve presented the project at key meetings & conferences. 🧪🌍. 📰 Read it here: #Newsletter #Research #ScienceInAction #EUprojects #collaborations.
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🧠💙 Today on @emotionawarenessday, we highlight the power of emotions in shaping democracy. 👉 With PLEDGE, we explore how emotions drive grievance politics and how emotional intelligence can strengthen policymaking. @MORES_HORIZON .#EmotionsInDemocracy
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👉Kirsten Xanthippe, supporting PLEDGE’s research at the University of Southampton, shared insights into how social media fuels polarisation and how real or perceived injustices are shaping today’s political grievances.
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🔥 Can the arts heal divides?. At the Arts Festival Summit in Edinburgh, the PLEDGE Horizon Project tackled polarisation, free speech & grievance politics. 💡 Kirsten Xanthippe (Univ. of Southampton) shared how social media fuels polarisation & grievance politics. #FreeSpeech
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For readers wanting to delve deeper in ressentiment and its relationship to the political psychology of grievance politics, please check the link above:.
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📢How do political grievances and ressentiment shape freedom of expression in polarized societies?. 👉Join Tereza Capelos at the 69th Pearl* Conference in Athens on May 23 as she explores grievance politics, ressentiment, and artistic freedom. 🔗
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🔊How do EU policies make you feel?.The @MORES_HORIZON is seeking your opinion on how these key EU policies affect you:.- Climate Action.- War in Ukraine.- Food Safety.- Migration.- Fiscal Policy.Engage in crowdsourcing and ensure your voice is heard:
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Updates!.On the final day of the #PLEDGEproject Budapest meeting, we hosted a dynamic Meet & Greet with local policymakers, NGOs, & think tanks. Real dialogue on emotional governance & democratic resilience. Grateful to all who joined us! 🤝.#DemocraticInnovation #PolicyMaking
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📢 The pledge work is as relevant as ever!. 📰 Read the article by Francis Fukuyama reflecting on the Trump administration’s first 100 days. 🔗
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🚨The #PLEDGEproject met in Budapest (Apr 23–25) for 3 days of collaboration, research sharing & strategic planning!.🔹 Policy design workshop.🔹 Impact & ethics updates.🔹 Roundtable w/ sibling projects.🔹 Stakeholder meet & greet..#HorizonEU #Democracy
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📢New Policy Brief Alert!.Grievance politics is on the rise, posing challenges for democracy in the EU. But what if we could turn grievances into opportunities for positive change? . 📷 Read more:. #PledgeProject #EUPolicy #GrievancePolitics
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The EU-funded PROTEMO project has been launched! .It will analyze the emotional dynamics of protective policies—such as climate change mitigation, migration, housing policies, and pandemic responses—across eleven countries. Check out the clip below! .🔗
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✨The PLEDGE family wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year filled with love, joy, and peace. May this year be creative and fruitful!.🎄 Merry Christmas! 🎄.#MerryChristmas #HorizonEurope #pledgehorizon
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