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Claudiu Daniel Tufis

Associate Professor

Associate Professor - UNIVERSITATEA BUCURESTI

Researcher | Teaching staff | Scientific reviewer | Manager | Consultant

Web of Science ResearcherID: F-6680-2010

Curriculum Vitae (21/02/2024)

Expertise & keywords

Remitted Osmosis. Changing social values at origin due to emigration Call name: P 4 - Proiecte de Cercetare Exploratorie
PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2016-0245 2017 - 2019

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: INSTITUTUL DE CERCETARE A CALITATII VIETII

Project partners: INSTITUTUL DE CERCETARE A CALITATII VIETII (RO)

Affiliation: INSTITUTUL DE CERCETARE A CALITATII VIETII (RO)

Project website: http://www.romanianvalues.ro/remosm

Abstract:

If one imagine cultures as liquids, separated by a thin membrane, then migrants from a side of the bowl to another are agents of change, allowed to pass from a culture to another by osmotic actions. Until recently, a destination-driven literature (de Haas & Vezzoli, 2011:2), explored mainly the changes that immigrants experience postmigration, paying little attention to the effects on stayers – those not to migrate from a country of origin. The task was undertaken by scholars on transnationalism and social remittances in the past few decades. This project joins this stream of literature, adding a conceptual explanation derived from sociology of values. in transnational arrangements, emigrees are expected to provide stayers with mediated exposure to institutions and norms in the society of destination. We test the extent to which such influence changes social values, and their manifestations – attitudes and behaviors. The project continues the interest of the team in the changes of immigrants, and switches the perspective to countries of origin. Both stayers and returnees are likely to be influenced by the cultures of civic and political participation, working values, life satisfaction, and solidarity from the countries of destination. The case of Romania is proposed, due to its large migration and to the capacity to collect panel data (partly repeating a survey from 2012), thus avoiding endogeneity and testing stability of the effects over time. This puts us in the privileged position to compare different flows of migration in a quantitative way and to assess changes over time (which is an extremely rare opportunity, if not unique in the existing literature). We also compare return migrants with stayers who have contacts abroad and with the counterfactual group of those that have no contact at all, again a novel endeavor. Finally, we consider the attitudes towards emigration as moderators of remitted osmosis. The survey will be part of EVS/WVS 2017.

New Actors and Mechanisms of Democratic Accountability in International Development: Reputation Building for ODA Emergent Donors Call name: Projects for Young Research Teams - RUTE -2014 call
PN-II-RU-TE-2014-4-2851 2015 - 2017

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA BUCURESTI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA BUCURESTI (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA BUCURESTI (RO)

Project website: http://idc.fspub.unibuc.ro/projects/demoaid

Abstract:

The project aims to contribute to this global academic and policy debate on emergent donors and democratic accountability in international development through the first non-ideological mapping of the donor-recipient space currently covered by emergent donors worldwide and through a pilot study on how reputation affects mechanisms democratic accountability for emergent donors. Through big data mining techniques applied to public databases such as those offered by OECD, UNDP and the World Bank, it will first build a map of all emergent donors and their aid target by country and subject. In this way it can create taxonomies that transcend the usual regional or big power logics and provide the first step towards understanding the entire space of those that can claim external accountability from these donors. Then, based on results from the first world analysis of all EU emergent donors conducted previously by the PI and through field research in the three emergent donors from Latin America (Brazil, Chile, Mexico), it tests through quantitative and qualitative data analysis the hypothesis according to which recent democratic countries are more likely to be perceived as partners in development aid principal-agent relations.

Change and Stability in Romanian Electoral Behaviour: 2009-2014 Call name: Exploratory Research Projects - PCE-2011 call
PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-0669 2012 - 2016

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai din Cluj-Napoca

Project partners: Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai din Cluj-Napoca (RO)

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Project website: http://resproject.wordpress.com/

Abstract:

After 20 years of competitive elections, research on electoral behaviour in Romania remains limited and largely below the state-of-the-art. In addition, Romanian democracy is at a critical point; first, the worldwide economic crisis impacted the attitudes, values and political behaviour of Romanian citizens and second, Romanians are very disillusioned with the current political parties. This project will study these developments in a systematic fashion and gather relevant data that will facilitate this task. The main research questions from the field of voting behaviour will be asked in the context of contemporary Romanian society, but from a theoretically driven comparative perspective. Our main aim is to understand attitudinal and behavioural changes in the Romanian electorate. For this we try to understand and document (A) the differences between various types of elections, (B) how to reconcile different perspectives on turnout and voting behaviour, (C) the effect of economic recession on turnout and voting, (D) the consequences of electoral formula change, and (E) how one can use survey experiments to produce better estimations of self-reported turnout. These issues are important for both scientific and practical reasons and are central to quantitative electoral research across Europe.

Social change under the impact of international migration: value patterns, civic and political participation, life satisfaction Call name: Exploratory Research Projects - PCE-2011 call
PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-0210 2011 - 2016

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: Institutul de Cercetare a Calității Vieții

Project partners: Institutul de Cercetare a Calității Vieții (RO)

Affiliation: Institutul de Cercetare a Calității Vieții (RO)

Project website: http://www.romanianvalues.ro/migvaso

Abstract:

Our project discusses how European societies may change under the impact of increasing international migration. We use two types of approaches.

(SO1) The first one deal with migrants themselves: we analyze how migrants change after migration and how their values and behaviors depend both on the culture and norms of origin country and on the ones of the host society. In other words, we try to find how long migrants may be different from the host society. For this we plan to employ cross-classification models on large-scale datasets (mainly the series of the value survey, but also ESS).

(SO2) The second approach is to see how societies change under the impact of (incoming) migration. We employ for this longitudinal models on an aggregate database that we plan to compile using various sources.

Answering the two above-questions leads to our main goal, (SO0) which is to assess if European societies may become more similar or more different under the impact of international migration and transnationalism.

We focus our analysis on fur main fields: orientations towards modernity, civic participation, political participation, and life satisfaction. For all these fields we propose (SO1) and (SO2) explanations which we test using quantitative data. The results serves for building a comprehensive explanation for how migrants and host societies change, open discussion about the change of sending societies, and leads to at least partially answer (SO0).

MICRO AND MACRO PREDICTORS OF POLITICAL BEHAVIOUR IN POST-COMMUNIST ROMANIA Call name: Projects for Young Research Teams - TE-2010 call
PN-II-RU-TE-2010-0311 2010 - 2013

Role in this project: Key expert

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA BABES-BOLYAI DIN CLUJ-NAPOCA

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA BABES-BOLYAI DIN CLUJ-NAPOCA (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA BABES-BOLYAI DIN CLUJ-NAPOCA (RO)

Project website: http://www.polito.ubbcluj.ro/romanianelectoraldata/

Abstract:

Building on previously gathered data, this project aims at advancing the understanding of opinions, preferences, political culture and social and economic choices of citizens that are of fundamental relevance for the work of the democratic process in Romania. The larger purpose is to propose and justify sound analysis and policy recommendations. For these the project aims at building integrated social, political and electoral datasheets including the data gathered over the past twenty years by various institutions in Romania, and at producing a comprehensive analysis of the fundamental changes undergone by the Romanian society in the process of joining the EU.

We will build upon the work and results of several cross-national comparative data initiatives by using comparable frameworks with the purpose of producing complimentary results which will allow the use of the Romanian data in cross-country comparative studies.

POLITICAL CULTURE CHANGE IN ROMANIA, 1990 - 2010: STILL COMRADES OR ALREADY CITIZENS AFTER TWENTY YEARS? Call name:
PN-II-RU-PD-2009-172 2010 - 2012

Role in this project: Project coordinator

Coordinating institution: INSTITUTUL DE CERCETARE A CALITATII VIETII

Project partners: INSTITUTUL DE CERCETARE A CALITATII VIETII ()

Affiliation: INSTITUTUL DE CERCETARE A CALITATII VIETII ()

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TRUEDEM - Trust in European Democracies Call name: P 5.8 - SP 5.8.1 - Premiere Orizont Europa - Echipe de Cercetare - Competiția 2023
PN-IV-P8-8.1-PRE-HE-ECH-2023-0012 2023 -

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Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA BUCURESTI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA BUCURESTI (RO)

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project title Call name: P 1 - SP 1.1 - Proiecte de mobilitate pentru cercetatori
PN-III-P1-1.1-MC-2018-0279 2018 -

Role in this project: Project coordinator

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA BUCURESTI

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA BUCURESTI (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA BUCURESTI (RO)

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