Prof. Dr. Yannis Theocharis

Former project director
Phone: 
+49-621-181-2842
 
 

Research Interests

  • political participation
  • internet & politics
  • contentious politics
  • social media
  • social capital

Projects

RP9 B1 Conditions of Democratic Governance: Behaviour and Orientations of Citizens

RP9
Social Capital Oscillations in Times of Economic Crisis: The Case of European Democracies
RP9
Social Media Networks and the Relationships between Citizens and Politics
RP9
Elite–Public Interactions on Social Media: Facilitating or Undermining Democracy?

RP9 B3 Democratic Multilevel Governance and Europeanization

RP9
New Arenas for Youth Engagement in Politics (NAYEP)

Publications

(Note: Generally, the former staff pages only feature publications that have been published at the MZES. Furthermore, the former staff pages feature publications that have been published in co-authorship with current MZES staff.)

Monographs

Theocharis, Yannis, and Jan W. van Deth (2018): Political Participation in a Changing World: Conceptual and Empirical Challenges in the Study of Citizen Engagement. New York: Routledge. [Routledge Focus] more

Journal Articles

Fazekas, Zoltán, Sebastian Adrian Popa, Hermann Schmitt, Pablo Barberá and Yannis Theocharis (2021): Elite‐public interaction on twitter: EU issue expansion in the campaign. European Journal of Political Research, 60, issue 2, pp. 376-396. more
Theocharis, Yannis, and Jan W. van Deth (2018): The continuous expansion of citizen participation: a new taxonomy. European Political Science Review, 10, issue 1, pp. 139-163. more
Jungherr, Andreas, and Yannis Theocharis (2017): The Empiricist’s Challenge: Asking Meaningful Questions in Political Science in the Age of Big Data. Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 14, issue 2, pp. 97-109. more
Theocharis, Yannis, Silia Vitoratou and Javier Sajuria (2017): Civil Society in Times of Crisis: Understanding Collective Action Dynamics in Digitally-Enabled Volunteer Networks. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 22, issue 5, pp. 248–265. more
Tucker, Joshua, Yannis Theocharis, Margaret Roberts and Pablo Barberá (2017): From Liberation to Turmoil: Social Media and Democracy. Journal of Democracy, 28, issue 4, pp. 46-59. more
Nulty, Paul, Yannis Theocharis, Sebastian Adrian Popa, Olivier Parnet and Kenneth Benoit (2016): Social media and political communication in the 2014 elections to the European Parliament. Electoral Studies, 44, issue December, pp. 429–444. more
Popa, Sebastian Adrian, Yannis Theocharis and Christian Schnaudt (2016): From Seeing the Writing on the Wall, to Getting Together for a Bowl: Direct and Compensating Effects of Facebook Use on Offline Associational Membership. Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 13, issue 3, pp. 222-238. more
Theocharis, Yannis, Pablo Barberá, Zoltán Fazekas, Sebastian Adrian Popa and Olivier Parnet (2016): A Bad Workman Blames His Tweets: The Consequences of Citizens' Uncivil Twitter Use When Interacting With Party Candidates. Journal of Communication, 66, issue 6, pp. 1007 - 1031. more
Theocharis, Yannis, and William E. M. Lowe (2016): Does Facebook increase political participation? Evidence from a field experiment. Information, Communication & Society, 19, issue 10, pp. 1465-1486. more
Theocharis, Yannis, and Ellen Quintelier (2016): Stimulating citizenship or expanding entertainment? The effect of Facebook on adolescent participation. New Media & Society, 18, issue 5, pp. 817-836. more
Sajuria, Javier, Jennifer vanHeerde-Hudson, David Hudson, Niheer Dasandi and Yannis Theocharis (2015): Tweeting Alone? An Analysis of Bridging and Bonding Social Capital in Online Networks. American Politics Research, 43, issue 4, pp. 708-738. more
Theocharis, Yannis, and Jan W. van Deth (2015): A Modern Tragedy? Institutional Causes and Democratic Consequences of the Greek Crisis. Representation, 51, issue 1, pp. 63-79. more
Theocharis, Yannis (2015): The Conceptualization of Digitally Networked Participation. Social Media + Society, 1, issue 2, pp. 1-14. more
Theocharis, Yannis, William E. M. Lowe, Jan W. van Deth and Gema García Albacete (2015): Using Twitter to mobilize protest action: Online mobilization patterns and action repertoires in the Occupy Wall Street, Indignados, and Aganaktismenoi movements. Information, Communication & Society, 18, issue 2, pp. 202-220. more
Quintelier, Ellen, and Yannis Theocharis (2013): Online Political Engagement, Facebook and Personality Traits. Social Science Computer Review, 31, issue 3, pp. 280-290. more
Theocharis, Yannis (2013): Social Media Politics en democratie: een reactie op Henry Milner (Social Media Politics and Democracy: A Response to Henry Milner). Res Publica, 55, pp. 116-120. more
Theocharis, Yannis (2013): The Contribution of Websites and Blogs to the Students' Protest Communication Tactics During the 2010 UK University Occupations. Information, Communication & Society, 16, issue 9, pp. 1477-1513. more
Theocharis, Yannis (2013): The Wealth of (Occupation) Networks? Communication Patterns and Information Distribution in a Twitter Protest Network. Journal of Information Technology and Politics, 10, issue 1, pp. 35-56. more
Theocharis, Yannis (2012): Cuts, Tweets, Solidarity and Mobilisation: How the Internet Shaped the Student Occupations. Parliamentary Affairs, 65, issue 1, pp. 162-194. more
Theocharis, Yannis (2011): The influence of Postmaterialist Orientations on Young British People’s Offline and Online Political Participation. Representation, 47, issue 4, pp. 435-455. more
Theocharis, Yannis (2011): Young People, Political Participation and Online Postmaterialism in Greece. New Media & Society, 13, issue 2, pp. 203-223. more

Book Chapters

Theocharis, Yannis, and Stefanie Walter (2018): Solidarity or Antagonism? An Analysis of German News Media Reporting on Anti-Austerity Protests in Greece. Pp. 95-116 in: Tao Papaioannou, Suman Gupta (Eds.) Media Representations of Anti-Austerity Protests in the EU: Grievances, Identities and Agency. London: Routledge. more
Theocharis, Yannis (2016): Every Crisis is a Digital Opportunity: The Aganaktismenoi Movement’s Use of Social Media and the Emergence of Networked Solidarity in Greece. Pp. 184 - 197 in: Axel Bruns, Gunn Enli, Eli Skogerbø, Anders Olof Larsson, Christian Christensen (Eds.) The Routledge Companion to Social Media and Politics. New York: Routledge. more
Theocharis, Yannis (2015): Is digitally networked participation a form of political participation?. Pp. 189-205 in: Thomas Poguntke, Sigrid Roßteutscher, Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck, Sonja Zmerli (Eds.) Citizenship and Democracy in an Era of Crisis. London, New York: Routledge. more
García Albacete, Gema, and Yannis Theocharis (2014): Opportunities and Challenges in Analysing Twitter Content: A Comparison of the Occupy Movements in Spain, Greece and the US. Pp. 119-153 in: Rachel Gibson, Marta Cantijoch, Stephen J. Ward (Eds.) Analysing Social Media Data and Web Networks. London: Palgrave. more
Theocharis, Yannis (2014): The Contribution of Websites and Blogs to the Students’ Protest Communication Tactics during the 2010 UK University Occupations. Pp. 180-206 in: Brian D. Loader, Ariadne Vromen, Michael A. Xenos (Eds.) The Networked Young Citizen: Social Media, Political Participation and Civic Engagement. New York: Routledge. more

Conference Presentations

Fazekas, Zoltán, Sebastian Adrian Popa, Hermann Schmitt, Pablo Barberá and Yannis Theocharis (2015): When to talk about Europe? Selective Europeanization of the 2014 EP Elections. [5th Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Vienna, June 25th to June 27th, 2015] more
Theocharis, Yannis, Pablo Barberá, Zoltán Fazekas and Sebastian Adrian Popa (2015): A Bad Workman Blames his Tweets: The Consequences of Citizens' Uncivil Twitter Use when Interacting with Party Candidates. [111th Annual Conference of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, September 03rd to September 06th, 2015] more
Popa, Sebastian Adrian, and Yannis Theocharis (2014): Direct and Moderating Effects of Facebook Use on Associational Membership. [4th Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, June 19th to June 21st, 2014] more
Sajuria, Javier, Jennifer vanHeerde-Hudson, David Hudson, Niheer Dasandi and Yannis Theocharis (2014): Are We Bowling at All? An Analysis of Social Capital in Online Networks. [4th Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, June 19th to June 21st, 2014] more
Theocharis, Yannis, and William E. M. Lowe (2014): Does Facebook Increase Political Participation? Evidence from a Field Experiment. [110th APSA Annual Meeting, Washington DC, August 28th to August 31st, 2014] more
Theocharis, Yannis, and William E. M. Lowe (2014): Does Facebook Increase Political Participation? Evidence from a Survey Experiment. [4th Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, June 19th to June 21st, 2014] more
Theocharis, Yannis (2014): Is Digitally Networked Participation a Form of Political Participation?. [Conference "Conceptualizing Political Participation", MZES, Mannheim, September 25th to September 26th, 2014] more
García Albacete, Gema, Yannis Theocharis, William E. M. Lowe and Jan W. van Deth (2013): Social Media Mobilisation as a Prompt for Offline Participation? Analysing Occupy Wall Street Twitterers’ Offline Engagement with the Movement. [ECPR Joint Sessions, 'Collective Action Online: Theories and Methods' Workshop, Mainz, March 11th to March 16th, 2013] more
Theocharis, Yannis, William E. M. Lowe, Jan W. van Deth and Gema García Albacete (2013): Using Twitter to Mobilise Protest Action: Transnational Online Mobilisation Patterns and Action Repertoires in the Occupy Wall Street, Indignados and Aganaktismenoi Movements. [ECPR Joint Sessions, 'The Transnational Dimension of Protest: From the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street' Workshop, Mainz, March 11th to March 16th, 2013] more
Theocharis, Yannis (2012): Networks of Action and Social Capital. [TEDxAthens, Athens, November 23rd to November 24th, 2012] more
Theocharis, Yannis, and Ellen Quintelier (2012): Personality and Online Political Participation. [XXII World Congress of International Political Science Association (IPSA), Madrid, July 08th to July 12th, 2012] more
Theocharis, Yannis, and Gema García Albacete (2012): Social Media and Political Mobilisation: A Comparison of the Occupation Movements in Spain, Greece and the US. [XXII World Congress of International Political Science Association (IPSA), Madrid, July 08th to July 12th, 2012] more
Theocharis, Yannis (2010): Cybercultural Values and Extra-institutional Political Engagement in Britain. [Annual Political Studies Association Conference, Edinburgh, March 29th to April 01st, 2010] more
Theocharis, Yannis (2009): Political Activism, Cultural Change and the Internet: Results from Greece. [European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), Lisbon, April 15th to April 19th, 2009] more