Mircea Comșa are peste 25 de ani de experiență în cercetarea socială, în echipe naționale și internaționale din sectorul academic și privat. Interesele de cercetare și predare sunt: metodologia anchetei sociologice, designul cercetării sociale, studiile electorale, analiza statistică și data mining. Este sau a fost membru în echipele de cercetare: Barometrul de Opinie Publică – BOP (Fundația pentru o Societate Deschisă, 1998-2008), Studii Electorale Românești (2009-2016), World / European Values Survey – WVS / EVS (echipa din România, din 1999) și Comparative Study of Electoral Systems – CSES (valurile 3-5).
Programări pe email: mircea.comsa@ubbcluj.ro
Publicații – Articole
Gheorghiță, Andrei & Mircea Comșa (2023) All Rise for the Leaders? Leader Characteristics and the Personalisation of Electoral Politics in Central and Eastern European Democracies. Europe-Asia Studies, 75(1): 47-72, DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2022.2097647. [JCR Impact Factor: 1.180]
Bogdan Voicu, Horatiu Rusu & Mircea Comșa (2022) Embedding attitudes toward immigrants in solidarity contexts: A cross-European study. International Migration Review, DOI: 10.1177/01979183221126460. [JCR Impact Factor: 3.960]
Bogdan Voicu, Edurne Bartolome Peral, Horatiu Rusu, Gergely Rosta, Mircea Comșa, Octavian-Marian Vasile, Lluis Coromina & Claudiu Tufis (2020) COVID-19 and orientations towards solidarity: the cases of Spain, Hungary, and Romania. European Societies, DOI: 10.1080/14616696.2020.1852439. [JCR Impact Factor: 1.051]
Comşa, Mircea (2017) Explaining turnout decline in post-Communist countries: the impact of migration, in Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Sociologia, Vol. 62, No. 2, pp. 29-60, DOI: 10.1515/subbs-2017-0010.
Comșa, Mircea & Gheorghiță, Andrei (2016) ‘Many’, ‘half’ or ‘one out of two’? Assessing the effectiveness of counter-biasing techniques in reducing self-reported turnout. Revista de Cercetare și Intervenție Socială, 55, 80-97. [JCR Impact Factor: 0.424]
Comşa, Mircea (2015) Turnout decline in Romanian national elections: Is it that big?, in Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Sociologia, Vol. 60, No. 2, pp. 59-83, DOI: 10.1515/subbs-2015-0010.
Voicu, Bogdan & Comşa, Mircea (2014) Immigrants’ Participation in Voting: Exposure, Resilience, and Transferability, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 40(10), 1572-1592, doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2013.873712. [JCR Impact Factor: 1.085]
Comşa, Mircea and Camil Postelnicu (2013) Measuring Social Desirability Effects on Self-Reported Turnout Using the Item Count Technique. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 25 (2): 153-172, doi: 10.1093/ijpor/eds019. Impact factor: 1,000.
Comşa, Mircea and Horațiu Rusu (2011) Value Change in Eastern Europe: What is Happening There?, in Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Sociologia, Vol. 56, No. 1, pp. 33-61.
Comşa, Mircea (2010) How to compare means of latent variables across countries and waves: testing for invariance measurement. An application using Eastern European societies, in Sociológia/Slovak Sociological Review, Vol. 42, No. 6, pp. 639-670. Impact factor: 0,140.
Comşa, Mircea (2008) A Typology of Political Participation in Romania: Empirical Findings from a Local Study, in Studia – Sociologia, no. 1, pp. 41-75
Comşa, Mircea (2007) From The „Father State” to „Father Becali”, in Sociological Review, no. 5, pp. 188-214
Comşa, Mircea (2006) A story with an unexpected ending: round two of the 2004’s Presidential Elections. Consistency vs. inconsistency. Mobilization vs. demobilization, in Sociological Review, no. 4, pp. 334-349
Comşa, Mircea (2004) Turnout, overreporting and election forecasting, in Romanian Sociology, no. 3, pp. 50-73
Amelina, Maria, Knack, Steve, Chiribucă, Dan Florentin and Comşa, Mircea (2004) Mapped in or mapped out?, in Sociological Review, no. 2, pp. 147-162
Comşa, Mircea (2003) An analysis of item response rate in national opinion surveys, in Romanian Sociology, no. 3-4, pp. 56-72
Comşa, Mircea (2002) An analysis of response rate in national opinion surveys, in Romanian Sociology, no. 3-4, pp. 1-32
Chiribucă, Dan Florentin, Mircea Comşa, Traian Rotariu and Vasile Dîncu (2000) The social effects of the economic restructuration of mono-industrial areals, in Studia – Sociology, no. 1-2, pp. 23-41
Comşa, Mircea (1995-1996) Society and symbolic consumption, in Studia – Sociology, no. 1-2, pp. 103-130
Comşa, Mircea (1994) Semiotic Analysis of Advertising Images, in Studia – Sociology, no. 1-2, pp. 33-42
Publicații – Cărți
Comșa, Mircea (2022) Data mining pentru științele sociale. Volumul 1: Pregătirea datelor în RapidMiner Studio” [Data mining for social sciences. Volume 1: Data preparation in RapidMiner Studio]. Cluj-Napoca: Presa Universitară Clujeană, ISBN 978-606-37-1497-9, 290 pg.
Comşa, Mircea (2006) Stiluri de viaţă în România după 1989. Cluj-Napoca: Presa Universitară Clujeană, ISBN (10) 973-610-476-1, 253 pg.
Proiecte/Granturi – Director
IDEI „Change and Stability in Romanian Electoral Behaviour: 2009-2014”, 2012-2016
IDEI 16 „Presidential Election Study – Romania, 2009”, 2009-2011
CEEX 12 „Political participation and social accountability for democratic governance in Romania. Citizenship in the perspective of EU integration”, 2006-2008
Proiecte/Granturi – Membru
PCE (PN-III-P4-ID-PCCF-2016-0084) „Înțelegerea și modelarea structurilor spațio-temporale ale inegalităților și polarizării în relație cu caracteristicile psihologice”, director prof. univ. dr. abil. Daniel David, Univ. „Babeş-Bolyai”, 2019-2022
PCE (PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2016-0245) “Remitted Osmosis. Changing social values at origin due to emigration”, director Voicu Bogdan, The Research Institute for Quality of Life, 2017-2019
IDEI „Social change under the impact of international migration: value patterns, civic and political participation, life satisfaction”, The Research Institute for Quality of Life, 2011-2014
IDEI „Changes in contemporary European societies: social transformations, human development and symbolic capital”, The Research Institute for Quality of Life, 2008-2010
CEEX 52 „Familial predictors of language acquisition and emotional behaviors disorders between 18 months and 6 years age”, director Anca Dobrean, Department of Psychology, „Babeş-Bolyai” Univ., 2006-2008
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