Vlad Surdea-Hernea
Biographic Data
| ID | 4375293 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vlad Surdea-Hernea |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vlad |
| FAMILY NAME | Surdea-Hernea |
| SIGNATURE | SURDEA-HERNEA V |
| AFFILIATIONS | BOKU University, Vienna, Austria |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0700-6910 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Climate-related hazards and issue attention to climate policy in the European Parliament
The European Parliament is often portrayed as an environmental champion, but we still know little about what drives individual legislators’ attention to climate policy. This article examines whether MEPs are responsive to climate-related hazards in their constituency by matching climatological data from the subnational electoral districts of MEPs from five Member States with their issue attention to climate change during the 2004–2024 terms. It i…
Populist electoral success and party system concentration
Why does the electoral success of anti-establishment populist movements lead to fewer, rather than more, effective political parties? Using panel data from electoral democracies worldwide (1970–2020), we document a robust negative relationship between populist electoral success and subsequent party system fragmentation. We theorize that the electoral validation of populism triggers three mechanisms that concentrate party systems: delegitimation o…
Protestant Ethic Without Protestantism
A large literature documents the developmental advantages of Protestantism over Catholicism, yet comparisons involving Eastern Orthodoxy remain scarce. This paper exploits an eighteenth-century natural experiment: the Habsburg-sponsored union that grafted Roman obedience onto the Romanian Orthodox rite, creating the Greek-Catholic Church. The new denomination rapidly established parishes, built schools, and trained a generation of clergy and lay …
The populist spiral
This paper investigates whether populism, independent of its substantive policy correlates, diffuses within party systems as a rhetorical strategy. Building on theories of political contagion, I argue that populism’s simplicity and flexibility make it an attractive tool for parties seeking to mobilize voters, disrupt competitors, and respond to systemic pressures. Using the V-Party dataset, which provides expert-coded estimates of populist rhetor…
Echoes from the trenches
In this paper, I examine the relationship between community-level exposure to war losses and long-term patterns of electoral behaviour. Using novel data that identifies and geolocates all French soldiers who died during World War I, I show that communities that experienced higher death rates exhibit greater levels of electoral support for the far-right. Subsequently, I provide both theoretical and empirical evidence on how such persistent effects…
Political violence and long‐term tax morale
Do salient episodes of state violence affect citizens' willingness to pay taxes for different social purposes in the long run? In this article, I answer this question using an original dataset that geolocates individuals who were seriously injured during the anti‐communist Romanian revolution of 1989. Using the number of casualties within different regions as a source of quasi‐exogenous variation, I show that the places from which more casualties…
The Repression-Dissent Nexus in High-Threat Environments
This paper investigates how exposure to political repression shapes dissent in high-threat environments in the long term. We develop a theory of repression-induced norm formation, arguing that proximity to repressive institutions fosters anti-regime identities and increases the propensity for dissident behavior, even when the costs of dissent remain high. Using the case of the Romanian Gulag, we demonstrate that localities which hosted labor camp…
The populist spiral
This paper investigates whether populism, independent of its substantive policy correlates, diffuses within party systems as a rhetorical strategy. Building on theories of political contagion, I argue that populism’s simplicity and flexibility make it an attractive tool for parties seeking to mobilize voters, disrupt competitors, and respond to systemic pressures. Using the V-Party dataset, which provides expert-coded estimates of populist rhetor…
Political violence and long‐term tax morale
Do salient episodes of state violence affect citizens' willingness to pay taxes for different social purposes in the long run? In this article, I answer this question using an original dataset that geolocates individuals who were seriously injured during the anti‐communist Romanian revolution of 1989. Using the number of casualties within different regions as a source of quasi‐exogenous variation, I show that the places from which more casualties…
The populist spiral
This paper investigates whether populism, independent of its substantive policy correlates, diffuses within party systems as a rhetorical strategy. Building on theories of political contagion, I argue that populism’s simplicity and flexibility make it an attractive tool for parties seeking to mobilize voters, disrupt competitors, and respond to systemic pressures. Using the V-Party dataset, which provides expert-coded estimates of populist rhetor…
Echoes from the trenches
In this paper, I examine the relationship between community-level exposure to war losses and long-term patterns of electoral behaviour. Using novel data that identifies and geolocates all French soldiers who died during World War I, I show that communities that experienced higher death rates exhibit greater levels of electoral support for the far-right. Subsequently, I provide both theoretical and empirical evidence on how such persistent effects…
Political violence and long‐term tax morale
Do salient episodes of state violence affect citizens' willingness to pay taxes for different social purposes in the long run? In this article, I answer this question using an original dataset that geolocates individuals who were seriously injured during the anti‐communist Romanian revolution of 1989. Using the number of casualties within different regions as a source of quasi‐exogenous variation, I show that the places from which more casualties…
The Repression-Dissent Nexus in High-Threat Environments
This paper investigates how exposure to political repression shapes dissent in high-threat environments in the long term. We develop a theory of repression-induced norm formation, arguing that proximity to repressive institutions fosters anti-regime identities and increases the propensity for dissident behavior, even when the costs of dissent remain high. Using the case of the Romanian Gulag, we demonstrate that localities which hosted labor camp…
Climate-related hazards and issue attention to climate policy in the European Parliament
The European Parliament is often portrayed as an environmental champion, but we still know little about what drives individual legislators’ attention to climate policy. This article examines whether MEPs are responsive to climate-related hazards in their constituency by matching climatological data from the subnational electoral districts of MEPs from five Member States with their issue attention to climate change during the 2004–2024 terms. It i…
Populist electoral success and party system concentration
Why does the electoral success of anti-establishment populist movements lead to fewer, rather than more, effective political parties? Using panel data from electoral democracies worldwide (1970–2020), we document a robust negative relationship between populist electoral success and subsequent party system fragmentation. We theorize that the electoral validation of populism triggers three mechanisms that concentrate party systems: delegitimation o…
Protestant Ethic Without Protestantism
A large literature documents the developmental advantages of Protestantism over Catholicism, yet comparisons involving Eastern Orthodoxy remain scarce. This paper exploits an eighteenth-century natural experiment: the Habsburg-sponsored union that grafted Roman obedience onto the Romanian Orthodox rite, creating the Greek-Catholic Church. The new denomination rapidly established parishes, built schools, and trained a generation of clergy and lay …
Politics (5 works) · Corruption and Economic Development (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political economy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Populism (2 works) · Populism, Right-Wing Movements (2 works) · Ancient history (1 work) · Climate change (1 work)