Florin Feșnic is a researcher at the Center for the Study of Democracy within the Department of Political Science at Babeș-Bolyai University (UBB) in Cluj. His research interests include civic education, democratization, institutional design, political sociology, electoral behavior, political parties and party systems, the political determinants and consequences of modernization, political paradoxes, and scientometrics. Among his recent publications are “The Democratic-Liberal Party as a Successful Catch-All Party” (2011), in Ronald King and Paul Sum (eds.), Romania under Băsescu, Lexington Books; “Can Civic Education Make a Difference for Democracy? Hungary and Poland Compared” (Political Studies 64(4), 966–978, DOI: 10.1111/1467-9248.12215); and “This Time It’s Different? Effects of the Eurovision Debate on Young Citizens” (with Jürgen Maier, Thorsten Faas, Carmen Greab, et al., Journal of European Public Policy 25(4): 606–629, DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2016.1268643).