Henry P. Rammelt

Affiliate Faculty

Political Participation; Social Movements; Civil Society; Corporate Accountability; BHR

Henry Rammelt, PhD, is Senior Researcher at the National School of Political Studies and Administration, Bucharest (Romania) and affiliate faculty of George Mason University, Fairfax (USA). He leads the Romanian team of the EU funded ProTest project (HORIZON-CL2-2024) and researches civil society organizations active in the field of corporate accountability in the framework of the ERC project CORPACCOUNT lead by Raluca Grosescu. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Lyon and he has held research positions and fellowships at Sciences Po (CEVIPOF), the Romanian Academy, and the University of Bucharest.

Selected Publications

Rammelt Henry P. & Kołczyńska, Marta. (2025). Donor Dependency, Embeddedness and Organizational Structure of Civil Society: An Analysis of a Global Sample of Actors Active in the Field of Corporate Accountability, in: Global Networks, Vol. 25, No. 3.

Craciun, Claudiu & Rammelt, Henry P. (2025). Protest and Power in Central and Eastern Europe, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan – Palgrave Series in European Political Sociology.

Dunin-Wasowicz, Roch; Crăciun, Claudiu; Olivas Osuna, Jose Javier; Rammelt, Henry (2024). Bridging the divide between structural and actor-oriented explanations of populism: a research agenda for the study of populist Euroscepticism through a territorial perspective, in: Political Studies Review, online first.

Gubernat, Ruxandra & Rammelt, Henry P. (2021). “Vrem o ţară ca afară!” How contention in Romania redefines statebuilding through a pro-European discourse, in: East European Politics and Societies, Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 247-268.

Margarit, Diana & Rammelt, Henry P. (2020). The Revitalization of Social and Civic Participation in Eastern Europe? Industrial Conflict and Popular Protests in Romania, in: Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 94-110.

Rammelt, Henry P. (2018). Activistes protestataires en Hongrie et en Roumanie, Paris: L’Harmattan – Collection Politique Comparée.

Expanded Publication List

Rammelt, Henry P.: Transnational Advocacy Networks and Corporate Accountability: Visions, Divisions, and Convergences of a Global Cause, in: Grosescu, Raluca & Dale, John (Eds.): Re-Envisioning Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Abuses - Civil Society and Transnational Action, Springer (in press).

Craciun, Claudiu & Rammelt, Henry P. (2025). Contention, Democracy, and Capitalism. A View from Central and Eastern Europe, in: Craciun, Claudiu & Rammelt, Henry P. (Eds.): Protest and Power in Central and Eastern Europe, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan – Palgrave Series in European Political Sociology.

Gubernat, Ruxandra & Rammelt, Henry P. (2023): Romania's Protest Culture Thirty Years After the Regime Change: Hegemonic Discourses and Western Ideals, in: Gheboianu, Matei & Popescu, Daniela (Eds.): Post-communism, Democracy, and Illiberalism in Central and Eastern Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union, Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. pp. 187-198.

Rammelt, Henry P. (2022). Räumliche Dimensionen unkonventioneller politischer Partizipation: Massenproteste in Bukarest 2012-2018, in V. Bopp-Filimonov & M. Jung (Eds.): Kaleidoskop Rumänien: Einblicke in die aktuelle Vielfalt des Interdisziplinären Faches Rumänistik, Berlin: Frank & Timme (Springer), pp. 209-227.

Rammelt, Henry P., Cinalli, Manlio, Chabanet, Didier (2021). Between Indifference and Rejection of Politics: Mobilization of Youth in Post-contentious France, in: Grasso, Maria & Giugni, Marco (Eds.): Youth and Politics in Times of Increasing Inequalities, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 109-126.

Gubernat, Ruxandra & Rammelt, Henry P. (2020). Les canaux de mobilisation du mouvement global Fridays for Future, in: Marinescu, Valentina & Frumusani, Daniela Roventa: Communication, Environnement et Développement Durable. Études de cas, Cluj-Napoca: Presa Universitară Clujeană, pp. 177-192.

Gubernat, Ruxandra & Rammelt, Henry P. (2020). Liminality and Activism. Conceptualizing Non-Conventional Political Participation in Romania, in: Lamond, Ian R. & Moss, Jonathan (Eds.): Critical Event Studies and Liminality, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 247-262.

Recent Presentations

The 2024 Annual Conference of the Global Business and Human Rights Scholars Association and of the Teaching Business and Human Rights Forum. Wageningen [09/ 2024]. Paper: Human Rights, Corporate Accountability, and the Corporation. A comparative study of business reactions to boycotting campaigns.

17th EISA Pan-European Conference on International Relations (PEC). Lille [08/ 2024]. Paper: Mobilising a global cause for a local wrong? A comparative study of boycott and divestment campaigns against states and corporations.

30th International Conference of Europeanists. Radical Europe: Violence, Emancipation, and Reaction. Lyon 2 [07/ 2024]. Paper: Corporate Accountability: European Civil Society between Radicality and Complacency. An analysis of Means, Ends, and Dependencies of organizations in their struggle with firms.

12th edition of the Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy. Bucharest [05/ 2024]. Paper: Independent Civil Society? Funding Dependencies, State Involvement, and Shrinking Spaces.

Analyzing protest in the digital age. Challenges and opportunities in combining text and video sources. Berlin [12/ 2023]. Paper: Studying Anti-Lockdown Protests through Live-Video-Analysis: A New Research Methodology for the Analysis of Social Movements (co-authored with Dana Trif).

16th European International Studies Association’s Pan-European Conference of International Relations. Potsdam [09/ 2023]. Paper: What new normal? Visions and repertoires of TANs active in the field of Corporate Accountability.

29th International Conference of Europeanists. Europe’s Past, Present, and Future. Reykjavik [06/ 2023]. Paper: The struggle to hold corporations accountable: Transnational divisions and European TANs in the field of corporate accountability.

Civil Society and Corporate Accountability: Actors, Visions, Strategies. Bucharest [05/ 2023]. Paper: Transnational Advocacy Networks Active in the Field of Corporate Accountability: Visions, Divisions, Convergence.

In the Media

Rammelt, Henry P. & Petri, Răzvan (2025). Der Aufstieg der Rechtspopulisten in Rumänien. Nationalismus, soziale Ungleichheit und die Gefahr einer neuen Ära rechtspopulistischer Dominanz. Der Standard, 27.01.2025 (first on Eastblog – Universität Wien, 27.01.2025)

Rammelt, Henry P. (2020). Rechtsruck in Rumänien nach der Parlamentswahl? Der Standard, 30.12.2020.

Rammelt, Henry P. (2020). Despre 10 august si impunitatea fortelor de ordine, Ziare.com, 10.08.2020.