How to win a Romanian election talk by prof Marius Lazar, December 1st, 2PM Pittsburgh Romanian Studies Center for Russian and East European Studies European Union Center of Excellence and European Studies Center present: Transnational voters and new media, or how to win a Romanian election a talk by Prof. Marius Lazar, Babes Bolyai University, Romania December 1, 2014, 2pm 4217 in Posvar Hall On November 16, 2014 the second round in the Romanian presidential elections ended with the upset victory of an ethnic German candidate from the provinces. These surprising results defied nationalist mobilization and the current government’s administrative control of the electoral process. In spite of pollsters’ and analysts’ predictions, Klaus Iohannis, the candidate with fewer votes in the first round came from behind and succeeded in taking the presidency over the leading candidate, the sitting Social Democratic Prime Minister, Victor Ponta. A new electoral pattern emerged around two related phenomena: the Romanian diaspora mobilized and transformed an ordinary election into a transnational event, while new media and online social networks played an important role in mobilizing these voters. Bio: Marius Lazăr is Fulbright Visiting Scholar at CREES and Associate professor at „Babes Bolyai” University of Cluj, Romania. He is a cultural sociologist and author of Paradoxes of Modernity. Elements for a sociology of cultural elites 2002 (Paradoxuri ale modernizării. Elemente pentru sociologie a elitelor culturale). His current research interest covers also the sociology of literature and sociology of ethnic relations. For more info contact Veronica Szabo at: [email protected]
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