Sergiu Mișcoiu
Biographic Data
| ID | 127071 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sergiu Mișcoiu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sergiu |
| FAMILY NAME | Mișcoiu |
| SIGNATURE | MIȘCOIU S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Babeș-Bolyai University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3148-8817 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 98 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Consensus About the European Union? Understanding the Views of Citizens and Political Parties
This thematic issue provides evidence that reflects some recent developments in the study of consensus toward the EU. It analyses to what extent citizens and political parties share a consensus about the EU and how this consensus is manifested, constituted, and mobilized. The thematic issue makes two contributions to the literature: it maps the contours of consensus and disagreement across EU member states and candidate countries and explains the…
Political parties and dissensus over liberal democracy in the European Parliament
Standing apart: Party positions towards the European Union
Religious identity, national sovereignty, and sexual minority rights in the 2024 and 2025 Romanian presidential elections: A qualitative study of candidate discourses and voter alignments
Domestic actors of dissensus in the EU neighborhood. An analytical typology based on four case studies
International audience
Ever distant union: The EU (In)action during Covid-19 as a source of disruptive dissensus
This article provides a new perspective on EU exit as an exemplary form of disruptive dissensus or extreme Euroscepticism by examining how it is shaped by people’s attitudes towards the Union’s actions during the COVID-19 pandemic. We test how the dissatisfaction about how the EU handled the pandemic limited the trust in how it would manage it in the future, and influences a preference to exit the EU. We use a multi-level statistical model which …
Population Dynamic and Brokers’ Credibility: Explaining the Limited Use of Electoral Clientelism in Poor Roma Communities
Unravelling a new romance: Why emigrants support radical right populists
There is mixed evidence regarding the extent to which emigrants support radical right populists in their home countries, and we also know very little about why that support happens. The present article seeks to address this puzzle and aims to explain why emigrants vote for radical right populist candidates and parties. Using semi-structured interviews with Romanian emigrants after the 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections, it reveals that…
Varieties of dissensus over liberal democracy in the EU. National and transnational actors
International audience
The non-participation of ethnic minorities and migrants in representative and deliberative democracy
International audience
Migrants away from the polls: Explaining the absenteeism of people with sub-Saharan African origins in the 2022 French presidential elections
International audience
Presidents, Prime Ministers and Majorities: The Complex Dynamics of the French Fifth Republic
Candidate withdrawal in the French 2024 national legislative elections
In France’s 2024 legislative elections, two-thirds of the candidates who qualified for the runoff withdrew from the competition. The media argued that this was a deliberate strategy to reduce the radical right’s chances of winning an absolute majority of seats. This kind of strategic behavior is based on rationality and collective action that hardly covers the full range of possibilities. This article seeks to identify the reasons why candidates …
Using the Pandemic as a Pretext
One of the most visible effects of the COVID-19 pandemic is on voter turnout. Earlier research concludes that the pandemic depresses turnout by looking at statistical patterns and testing the explanatory power of pandemic casualties against alternative causes. Based on the existing results, we only assume that the pandemic was related to depressing turnout but we do not know if that happened. In this sense, there is limited attention paid to peop…
Faith in a New Party: The Involvement of the Romanian Orthodox Church in the 2020 Election Campaign
The intensity and nature of ties between the Church and political parties was covered by a rich literature. However, we know relatively little about why the Church would support a newly emerged political party formed in a competitive space, in which other parties had in the past enjoyed the Church’s support. This article aims to explain why many members of the Romanian Orthodox Church campaigned for the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) i…
Résoudre les conflits à l'ancienne ? La pratique du droit coutumier rom en Roumanie
Dans cet article, nous faisons une incursion dans la manière dont le droit coutumier rom résout les conflits intra- et intercommunautaires liés aux mariages précoces en Roumanie. D'abord, nous analysons ici l'importance de cette pratique au sein des communautés rom. Puis, nous nous penchons sur les rapports de coordination et de subordination qui s'établissent entre les pratiques traditionnelles communautaires et les exigences des autorités natio…
Poorly designed deliberation: Explaining the banlieue s’ non-involvement in the Great Debate
In 2019, the French Government organized a wide public consultation named the Great Debate. Promoted as a deliberative practice that could bring together various segments of society, it was characterized by feeble involvement of the people living in the banlieues – densely populated, economically marginalized, socially deprived and ethno-culturally different peripheral areas of large cities. This article aims to explain the reasons for which peop…
Deliberative Democracy, Under-Represented Groups and Inclusiveness in Europe
In representative democracies, large segments of society are often under-represented in politics. In theory, deliberative procedures enhance the chances for such groups to be heard, understood, and taken into consideration in political decisions. So far, research has mostly focused on the recruitment stage and found random selection of participants as the best way to prevent exclusion. Less attention has been paid to the two following stages of d…
Authoritarian clientelism: The case of the president’s ‘creatures’ in Cameroon
Within this article, we aim at exploring the topic of clientelism in Cameroon as a species of a wider phenomenon affecting Central and Western Francophone Africa. Our argument is that, in spite of the repeated efforts of reinforcing the local power structures, we have witnessed a process of centralisation of clientelism: the new networks are shaped around the ‘Creatures’, who are the President Paul Biya’s formal or informal appointees and play th…
Caroline Guibet Lafaye & Alexandra FRÉNOD (dir.), S’émanciper par les armes ? Sur la violence politique des femmes
Dans la panoplie de recherches portant sur la violence politique, les études qui traitent de l’engagement politico-militaire des femmes, peu nombreuses à l’origine, occupent une place de plus en plus importante. Par la variété des perspectives et par la profondeur des contributions, l’ouvrage codirigé par Caroline Guibet Lafaye et Alexandra Frénod, qui réunit les communications présentées dans le cadre d’un atelier du Laboratoire d’excellence Tep…
Communication de crise et résolution des conflits en Afrique francophone
Introduction: Democratic Deliberation and Under-Represented Groups
The key principles of democratic deliberation are the considered judgement and inclusion. However, research shows that not all categories are involved in this process. In particular, the groups that are under-represented in day-to-day politics are also less likely to make their voice heard in deliberation. So far, we know little about if and how deliberation fosters the involvement of under-represented groups. This symposium aims to address this …
Retroactes Du Conflit Congolais (Rdc) Et Regard Sur Ses Causes
Retroacts of the Congolese Conflict (DRC) and a Perspective on Its Causes. The conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo and their consequences remain a major source of concern, as they constitute a multidimensional challenge to economic and human development in the country and the region. There is a need to address the issue at the highest level, both regionally and globally, and to support the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo …
Never just a local war: Explaining the Failure of a Mayor’s Recall Referendum
The November 2017 referendum for the recall of Dorin Chirtoacă, Mayor of Chișinău (Moldova), largely failed because of the citizens' low turnout. Why do recall referendums fail and, in particular, why was this boycott strategy successful? My assumption is that the referendum was perceived not only as a tool to eliminate a major political competitor and thus weaken the anti-presidential opposition, but also as a wider attempt to gain extensive pol…
Crowd-Sourced Legislation and Politics: The Legitimacy of Constitutional Deliberation in Romania
Constitutional reform is a tedious process that requires long periods of time, a relatively broad consensus among political actors, and, often, popular approval. In spite of these, Romania has changed its constitution once (2003) and witnessed several unsuccessful revisions. The most recent attempt, in 2013, introduced a deliberative dimension in the form of a constitutional forum. This article investigates the legitimacy of this deliberative pra…
The Failure of Cohabitation: Explaining the 2007 and 2012 Institutional Crises in Romania
Built on concurrent claims of legitimacy, the semi-presidential constitutional framework is prone to conflicts between the office holders. Cohabitation is a particular instance in which the president’s party is not represented in government and he has to share executive power with a prime minister. Instead of producing a flexible dual-authority structure within the executive, cohabitation has always tended to generate institutional crises in Roma…
A Rising Populist Star: The Emergence and Development of the PPDD in Romania
International audience
Faith in a New Party: The Involvement of the Romanian Orthodox Church in the 2020 Election Campaign
The intensity and nature of ties between the Church and political parties was covered by a rich literature. However, we know relatively little about why the Church would support a newly emerged political party formed in a competitive space, in which other parties had in the past enjoyed the Church’s support. This article aims to explain why many members of the Romanian Orthodox Church campaigned for the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) i…
Introduction: Democratic Deliberation and Under-Represented Groups
The key principles of democratic deliberation are the considered judgement and inclusion. However, research shows that not all categories are involved in this process. In particular, the groups that are under-represented in day-to-day politics are also less likely to make their voice heard in deliberation. So far, we know little about if and how deliberation fosters the involvement of under-represented groups. This symposium aims to address this …
Authoritarian clientelism: The case of the president’s ‘creatures’ in Cameroon
Within this article, we aim at exploring the topic of clientelism in Cameroon as a species of a wider phenomenon affecting Central and Western Francophone Africa. Our argument is that, in spite of the repeated efforts of reinforcing the local power structures, we have witnessed a process of centralisation of clientelism: the new networks are shaped around the ‘Creatures’, who are the President Paul Biya’s formal or informal appointees and play th…
Ever distant union: The EU (In)action during Covid-19 as a source of disruptive dissensus
This article provides a new perspective on EU exit as an exemplary form of disruptive dissensus or extreme Euroscepticism by examining how it is shaped by people’s attitudes towards the Union’s actions during the COVID-19 pandemic. We test how the dissatisfaction about how the EU handled the pandemic limited the trust in how it would manage it in the future, and influences a preference to exit the EU. We use a multi-level statistical model which …
Never just a local war: Explaining the Failure of a Mayor’s Recall Referendum
The November 2017 referendum for the recall of Dorin Chirtoacă, Mayor of Chișinău (Moldova), largely failed because of the citizens' low turnout. Why do recall referendums fail and, in particular, why was this boycott strategy successful? My assumption is that the referendum was perceived not only as a tool to eliminate a major political competitor and thus weaken the anti-presidential opposition, but also as a wider attempt to gain extensive pol…
Poorly designed deliberation: Explaining the banlieue s’ non-involvement in the Great Debate
In 2019, the French Government organized a wide public consultation named the Great Debate. Promoted as a deliberative practice that could bring together various segments of society, it was characterized by feeble involvement of the people living in the banlieues – densely populated, economically marginalized, socially deprived and ethno-culturally different peripheral areas of large cities. This article aims to explain the reasons for which peop…
Crowd-Sourced Legislation and Politics: The Legitimacy of Constitutional Deliberation in Romania
Constitutional reform is a tedious process that requires long periods of time, a relatively broad consensus among political actors, and, often, popular approval. In spite of these, Romania has changed its constitution once (2003) and witnessed several unsuccessful revisions. The most recent attempt, in 2013, introduced a deliberative dimension in the form of a constitutional forum. This article investigates the legitimacy of this deliberative pra…
Migrants away from the polls: Explaining the absenteeism of people with sub-Saharan African origins in the 2022 French presidential elections
International audience
Deliberative Democracy, Under-Represented Groups and Inclusiveness in Europe
In representative democracies, large segments of society are often under-represented in politics. In theory, deliberative procedures enhance the chances for such groups to be heard, understood, and taken into consideration in political decisions. So far, research has mostly focused on the recruitment stage and found random selection of participants as the best way to prevent exclusion. Less attention has been paid to the two following stages of d…
Balkan Populisms: The Cases of Bulgaria and Romania
International audience
Varieties of dissensus over liberal democracy in the EU. National and transnational actors
International audience
Reinventing the international approaches to globalization: The Helsinki Process
In the last ten years we have been witnessing an essential change within what we might call the ‘international approaches towards globalization’. This change is not to be considered only as being incremental but rather fundamental as it consists not merely in a strategy-oriented shift but in one of principle. From the ‘worst enemy of the poor’, globalization turned into a ‘phenomenon that we all have to take profit of’. This essay will analyze th…
Identités politiques et dynamiques partisanes en France
The Failure of Cohabitation: Explaining the 2007 and 2012 Institutional Crises in Romania
Built on concurrent claims of legitimacy, the semi-presidential constitutional framework is prone to conflicts between the office holders. Cohabitation is a particular instance in which the president’s party is not represented in government and he has to share executive power with a prime minister. Instead of producing a flexible dual-authority structure within the executive, cohabitation has always tended to generate institutional crises in Roma…
A Rising Populist Star: The Emergence and Development of the PPDD in Romania
International audience
Balkan Populisms: The Cases of Bulgaria and Romania
International audience
Crowd-Sourced Legislation and Politics: The Legitimacy of Constitutional Deliberation in Romania
Constitutional reform is a tedious process that requires long periods of time, a relatively broad consensus among political actors, and, often, popular approval. In spite of these, Romania has changed its constitution once (2003) and witnessed several unsuccessful revisions. The most recent attempt, in 2013, introduced a deliberative dimension in the form of a constitutional forum. This article investigates the legitimacy of this deliberative pra…
Recul démocratique et néo-présidentialisme en Afrique Centrale et Occidentale
What Grounds for Representing the People? An Analysis of Post-Communist Romania through the Lens of Discourse Theory
Article What Grounds for Representing the People? An Analysis of Post-Communist Romania through the Lens of Discourse Theory was published on January 1, 2015 in the journal Comparative Southeast European Studies (volume 63, issue 1)
Never just a local war: Explaining the Failure of a Mayor’s Recall Referendum
The November 2017 referendum for the recall of Dorin Chirtoacă, Mayor of Chișinău (Moldova), largely failed because of the citizens' low turnout. Why do recall referendums fail and, in particular, why was this boycott strategy successful? My assumption is that the referendum was perceived not only as a tool to eliminate a major political competitor and thus weaken the anti-presidential opposition, but also as a wider attempt to gain extensive pol…
Retroactes Du Conflit Congolais (Rdc) Et Regard Sur Ses Causes
Retroacts of the Congolese Conflict (DRC) and a Perspective on Its Causes. The conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo and their consequences remain a major source of concern, as they constitute a multidimensional challenge to economic and human development in the country and the region. There is a need to address the issue at the highest level, both regionally and globally, and to support the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo …
Résoudre les conflits à l'ancienne ? La pratique du droit coutumier rom en Roumanie
Dans cet article, nous faisons une incursion dans la manière dont le droit coutumier rom résout les conflits intra- et intercommunautaires liés aux mariages précoces en Roumanie. D'abord, nous analysons ici l'importance de cette pratique au sein des communautés rom. Puis, nous nous penchons sur les rapports de coordination et de subordination qui s'établissent entre les pratiques traditionnelles communautaires et les exigences des autorités natio…
Poorly designed deliberation: Explaining the banlieue s’ non-involvement in the Great Debate
In 2019, the French Government organized a wide public consultation named the Great Debate. Promoted as a deliberative practice that could bring together various segments of society, it was characterized by feeble involvement of the people living in the banlieues – densely populated, economically marginalized, socially deprived and ethno-culturally different peripheral areas of large cities. This article aims to explain the reasons for which peop…
Deliberative Democracy, Under-Represented Groups and Inclusiveness in Europe
In representative democracies, large segments of society are often under-represented in politics. In theory, deliberative procedures enhance the chances for such groups to be heard, understood, and taken into consideration in political decisions. So far, research has mostly focused on the recruitment stage and found random selection of participants as the best way to prevent exclusion. Less attention has been paid to the two following stages of d…
Authoritarian clientelism: The case of the president’s ‘creatures’ in Cameroon
Within this article, we aim at exploring the topic of clientelism in Cameroon as a species of a wider phenomenon affecting Central and Western Francophone Africa. Our argument is that, in spite of the repeated efforts of reinforcing the local power structures, we have witnessed a process of centralisation of clientelism: the new networks are shaped around the ‘Creatures’, who are the President Paul Biya’s formal or informal appointees and play th…
Caroline Guibet Lafaye & Alexandra FRÉNOD (dir.), S’émanciper par les armes ? Sur la violence politique des femmes
Dans la panoplie de recherches portant sur la violence politique, les études qui traitent de l’engagement politico-militaire des femmes, peu nombreuses à l’origine, occupent une place de plus en plus importante. Par la variété des perspectives et par la profondeur des contributions, l’ouvrage codirigé par Caroline Guibet Lafaye et Alexandra Frénod, qui réunit les communications présentées dans le cadre d’un atelier du Laboratoire d’excellence Tep…
Communication de crise et résolution des conflits en Afrique francophone
Introduction: Democratic Deliberation and Under-Represented Groups
The key principles of democratic deliberation are the considered judgement and inclusion. However, research shows that not all categories are involved in this process. In particular, the groups that are under-represented in day-to-day politics are also less likely to make their voice heard in deliberation. So far, we know little about if and how deliberation fosters the involvement of under-represented groups. This symposium aims to address this …
Faith in a New Party: The Involvement of the Romanian Orthodox Church in the 2020 Election Campaign
The intensity and nature of ties between the Church and political parties was covered by a rich literature. However, we know relatively little about why the Church would support a newly emerged political party formed in a competitive space, in which other parties had in the past enjoyed the Church’s support. This article aims to explain why many members of the Romanian Orthodox Church campaigned for the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) i…
Using the Pandemic as a Pretext
One of the most visible effects of the COVID-19 pandemic is on voter turnout. Earlier research concludes that the pandemic depresses turnout by looking at statistical patterns and testing the explanatory power of pandemic casualties against alternative causes. Based on the existing results, we only assume that the pandemic was related to depressing turnout but we do not know if that happened. In this sense, there is limited attention paid to peop…
Presidents, Prime Ministers and Majorities: The Complex Dynamics of the French Fifth Republic
Candidate withdrawal in the French 2024 national legislative elections
In France’s 2024 legislative elections, two-thirds of the candidates who qualified for the runoff withdrew from the competition. The media argued that this was a deliberate strategy to reduce the radical right’s chances of winning an absolute majority of seats. This kind of strategic behavior is based on rationality and collective action that hardly covers the full range of possibilities. This article seeks to identify the reasons why candidates …
Ever distant union: The EU (In)action during Covid-19 as a source of disruptive dissensus
This article provides a new perspective on EU exit as an exemplary form of disruptive dissensus or extreme Euroscepticism by examining how it is shaped by people’s attitudes towards the Union’s actions during the COVID-19 pandemic. We test how the dissatisfaction about how the EU handled the pandemic limited the trust in how it would manage it in the future, and influences a preference to exit the EU. We use a multi-level statistical model which …
Population Dynamic and Brokers’ Credibility: Explaining the Limited Use of Electoral Clientelism in Poor Roma Communities
Unravelling a new romance: Why emigrants support radical right populists
There is mixed evidence regarding the extent to which emigrants support radical right populists in their home countries, and we also know very little about why that support happens. The present article seeks to address this puzzle and aims to explain why emigrants vote for radical right populist candidates and parties. Using semi-structured interviews with Romanian emigrants after the 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections, it reveals that…
Varieties of dissensus over liberal democracy in the EU. National and transnational actors
International audience
Political science (23 works) · Politics (22 works) · Law (17 works) · Law (17 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Democracy (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (8 works) · Political economy (8 works) · Populism, Right-Wing Movements (8 works)