On our way to the #ECPR General Conference in Innsbruck, Austria. In the coming days, a delegation of our POLI department will present their top-notch papers. Ain't no mountain high enough. Stay tuned! European Consortium for Political Research

Nino Junius and I are ready to present our paper in which we explore citizenship education’s potential to compensate for the lack of a political home environment on Tuesday at 2 pm at the #ECPRGC22 in the panel Relational approaches for conceptualizing and researching citizenship

Between hope and despair. Presenting our findings on the active student paradox. See our paper on the #ecprgc22 portal of European Consortium for Political Research

🏔️ #ecprgc22 conference collection 🏔️ ⚖️ Petra Ahrens @SilviaErzeel @DrLizJEvans Johanna Kantola Emanuela Lombardo & R Kuhar explore how the #gender & #politics subfield has developed + diversified over the last 2️⃣0️⃣ years Check their article out for FREE 👉 bit.ly/3Asm5hN

Heading back to Brussels! Thanks European Consortium for Political Research for the great conference. See you all in Prague! #ECPR2022

What about the economy? In our paper, that I will present today, we look at how the economic context relates to affective polarisation. Spoiler alert: AP is mostly predicted by how people perceive the economy. #norfacegov22 Joke Matthieu Nino Junius and Didier Caluwaerts

Countries with consensus institutions (in particular PR electoral systems, multiparty coalitions, and federalism) exhibit lower levels of both issue-based and identity-based #polarization, find Kamil_Bernaerts @BenjaminBlanck3 & Didier Caluwaerts. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

About yesterday's workshop: "A multilevel understanding of populist #polarization and its impact on #democracy: Bridging the macro and the micro". Interesting keynote speech by Sam van der Staak International IDEA. Organized by #UNDPOLAR #POPBACK Norface GOVERNANCE POLI

Read the blog post that I wrote with my wonderful co-author Joke Matthieu on our paper in Party Politics en Français: absp.be/Blog/dirige-pa… Thank you ABSP for the pleasant experience!

Happy to see this one out 😊

🎓Congratulations, Dr. Vrydagh! Today, our Julien Vrydagh successfully defended his Ph.D. "Demystifying a Mystery: The Influences of Deliberative Minipublics on Public Decisions". POLI and UCLouvain. Supervisors: Didier Caluwaerts and Min Reuchamps

1️⃣ week left to send in your proposals for the 8th annual international conference on citizenship education in Brussels🇧🇪! See the flyer and call for papers for more details. We especially encourage young researchers to submit a proposal ✍️

🎉Congratulations to Nino Junius on successfully defending his PhD-thesis yesterday. Well done! 👏👏#PhD #PoliticalScience #VUB

🎉Congratulations to Joke Matthieu for obtaining the title of Doctor of Political Science with her thesis on how citizenship education moderates the inequalities in internal political efficacy. The whole POLI department is very proud of your achievement! 👏👏 #PhD #vub

📣I may not tweet often, but when I do, it's to share that our article has been published in the Swiss Political Science Review 🥳 Didier Caluwaerts POLI 👉Get free access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

We asked 900 MPs in five countries how they learn about public opinion and find that direct contact with citizens is considered the number one most useful source, while social media and polls are ranked remarkably low. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

Very excited to see this published, thank you Joke Matthieu for being a brilliant leading author on this piece 🥳!!

Full house for the PhD defense by Zeljko Poljak about #Negativity in Politics throughout the electoral cycle! @uafsw Congrats 🥳

Very happy to see this article with Dr. Straton Papagianneas out. I greatly enjoyed this interdisciplinary collaboration based on his PhD.

Very happy about this publication in Political Behavior under the leadership of my amazing co-author, colleague, old office-mate, and longtime friend Joke Matthieu 🚀🚀🚀🚀