‼️Save the dates ‼️ Last lectures of our Gaspar Lecture Series ! 📊 Interested in the compulsory voting, social group appeals, or citizen support for democratic erosion? Keen to discuss these dynamics with top-tier researchers?
➡️Everyone is welcome! Registration link below 👇
📢 New publication: we draw on unique data from 16- and 17-year-old Belgian adolescents who were eligible to vote in the 2024 European elections, and show that low trust in order and representative institutions is linked to protest and radical voting. @dieterstiers.bsky.social @annakern.bsky.social
🚨 We have two vacancies for PhD fellows:
- on ideological stereotypes supervised by me and
@robindevroe.bsky.social www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...
- on losers' consent supervised by @annakern.bsky.social
www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...
Join research group @gasparugent.bsky.social in beautiful Ghent
🚀 Kicked off Day 1 of our #OpenScience Summer School at @gasparugent.bsky.social !
We explored what triggered the replication crisis & how it reshaped research across the social sciences. 🧪🔍
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#PhDlife #OpenScience
#Reproducibility
What a pleasure to direct this amazing @ecpr.bsky.social Joint sessions workshop on citizens democratic commitment with Hannah Werner - thanks to all participants for the exciting papers and stimulating discussions!
To what extent do citizens' attitudes toward democracy, its institutions, and values safeguard or weaken democratic stability?
Join us in Groningen to discuss these and related questions!
❗️Short notice❗️
This Friday, Joep van Lit (Radboud University) will present key insights on democratic decay and the difficulties of democratic defence in our times.
Everyone's welcome - no registration required!
➡️John Vincke room, T1 (Ghent)
🕒 11:00 - 12:00
💭Many thanks to prof. Johan Christensen of Universiteit Leiden, who presented key insights on measuring political influence during today's edition of the Gaspar lectures series!
📢 Stay tuned for the next Gaspar lecture on February 5!
As of Jan 1, 2025 PLC will be a diamond open access journal 💎! This means no costs involved for the reader, nor for the author or their institutions! Instead, PLC is funded by the Francopone-Belgian, Flemish and Dutch #polisci associations and by Radboud Uni Press, our new publisher! #openscience
On my way back from our workshop "Contesting the rules of the game? Political conflict, polarization and procedural consensus" at the beautiful Villa Vigoni with wonderful colleagues! @arminschaefer.bsky.social @pcmagalhaes.bsky.social @saengler.bsky.social @kwalz.bsky.social @damienbol.bsky.social
🚨 New publication in JEPOP with Leen Lingier and @annakern.bsky.social @gasparugent.bsky.social #polisky
🤔 How do party members react when losing an intra-party vote?
And does the inclusiveness of the decision-making procedure moderate this reaction? (1/5)
The NotLikeUs research project just launched its website! 🧑💻
notlikeus.be
This project is a collaboration of Political Science researchers from seven Belgian universities (KULeuven UAntwerpen, UCLouvain, UGhent, ULBruxelles, UNamur, VUBrussel).
We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to work on political trust and skepticism in my ERC-funded research project CRITICALTRUST.
vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Post...
Please contact me if you have any questions!
We are very much looking forward to the talk given by @markuswagner.bsky.social on “Party leaders and partisan stereotypes” next week at Ghent University. You are welcome to join us!
⏰ Tuesday, 17 October 2023, 10 am
➡️ Auditorium D, Technicum 2, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41