🎥 New PLEDGE fieldwork insight

🧠Pasko’s video shows how small cracks in daily life turn into polarization, distrust and emotional pressure points. PLEDGE works to decode these mechanisms and turn them into tools for smarter, emotionally aware democratic governance.

#PLEDGE #Grievances #democracy

🎧 “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

🌍🤝 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

🧠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

🔍 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...

📢 NEW RELEASE: PLEDGE Conceptual Framework v1
At the heart of the framework are two emotional engines:
💢 EMRes: Resentment, hostility, polarization;
💞 EMSoS: Empathy, solidarity, action.
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