Vandaag reikte het FWO de ‘Vlaamse Nobelprijzen’ uit. Stefaan Walgrave werd als eerste politicoloog ooit bekroond met de Ernest-John Solvayprijs 2025. De prijs werd uitgereikt in BOZAR door koning Filip. Een prachtige erkenning voor Stefaan én voor de politieke wetenschap. Proficiat!

Vandaag stond M²P op de Dag van de Wetenschap met CSI: Critical Source Investigation. Honderden bezoekers doken met ons in deepfakes, games, sociale-mediavalstrikken en echt factcheck-werk. Merci aan iedereen die langskwam én aan ons topteam vrijwilligers! 👊 Een paar sfeerfoto’s hieronder. #dvdw2025

Gisteren, op 20 november, werden de Academische Prijzen 2025 van de @uantwerpen.be uitgereikt en het "Team Jongerenstemtest" (o.l.v. prof. Stefaan Walgrave & op voordracht van prof. @pvanaelst.bsky.social won de Prijs voor Maatschappelijk Engagement 2025. 🎉

Nous sommes ravi·es d’annoncer la parution d'un nouvel ouvrage de référence : « L’extrême droite en Belgique », auquel nous avons eu le plaisir de contribuer @lucaskins.bsky.social, C. Close de @sciencepoulb.bsky.social et @lcjacobs89.bsky.social de @m2p-antwerp.bsky.social. 🧵1/4

💥 Ontmasker fake news! Zondag 23/11 op de Dag van de Wetenschap is onze vakgroep aanwezig 🎯 Ontdek onze stand: “CSI: Critical Source Investigation” 🔎Ontdek deepfakes, test je kennis & word factchecker! 📍 UAntwerpen Stadscampus – Details 👉🏼 www.dagvandewetenschap.be/activiteiten...

📢 Call for papers! The 13th State of the Federation Conference will take place at the University of Antwerp on 6 Feb 2026. 📩 Submission deadline: 31 Oct 2025 more info via: www.uantwerpen.be/nl/overuantw...

📰 Comment le Vlaams Belang se radicalise dans l’ombre Pour @lesoir.be, @lcjacobs89.bsky.social revient sur l’évolution de la stratégie du Vlaams Belang depuis les élections. Pour en savoir plus : 📚 Consulter nos travaux : cevipol.phisoc.ulb.be/fr/projets-d... 🔗 Lire l'article complet ⬇️

How Vlaams Belang Radicalises in the Shadows In an interview for @lesoir.be, I discuss how, after its June 2024 “non-victory”, Vlaams Belang is losing media visibility and radicalising further as mainstream parties adopt stricter asylum policies. 🔗 (FR) www.lesoir.be/692510/artic...

📣 SAVE THE DATE State of the Federation 🗓️ 6 Feb 2026 | 📍UAntwerp ‪@uantwerpenfsw.bsky.social‬ The 13th edition of this annual polsci conference — hosted by ABSP & ‪@vpw-politicologie.bsky.social‬ — brings together scholars from across subfields to explore Belgium’s polity, politics & policy‪

Who deserves representation, and when? August De Mulder, Ine Gevers & @zeljkopoljak.bsky.social unpack the temporal dynamics of politicians’ claims of representation on social media: buff.ly/sTufzit @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com #ECRs

🎓 My PhD is almost done! After 5.5 years of research, my dissertation From Ambition to Admission: The Recruitment of Women in Politics is approved and I’ll defend it on April 30!

🚨 New open-access publication out in the European Journal of Political Research! @markuskollberg.bsky.social and I examine how coalition government performance shapes affective polarization between coalition partners—and find that it matters. 🧵 1/6 ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Marine Le Pen was just convicted and cannot participate in the next French presidential elections. 🇫🇷 But what are the electoral effects of prosecuting anti-immigration politicians? Some prior evidence (specifically on hate speech prosecution, important nuance) 👇

Niet te missen gespreksavond over de opmars van autocraten en het verzet ertegen. Met Dirk Verhofstadt, Laura Jacobs, Wies De Graeve, Björn Soenens, Vinicius Vieira en John Vandaele. Donderdag 13/03 om 20u in Herberg Macharius Gent. Inschrijven via [email protected].

Hoe moeten media berichten over Trump II? De tweede ambtstermijn van Trump is allerminst business as usual en vereist dan ook een aangepaste journalistieke aanpak, stelt @pvanaelst.bsky.social van @m2p-antwerp.bsky.social. www.sampol.be/2025/02/de-m...

Having it and using it are two very different things as plenty examples show us. Great work indeed by @lcjacobs89.bsky.social 👍🏽

📚📣 NEW BOOK ALERT! In a pivotal election year, marked by populist leaders and "post-truth" politics, how can we make sense of it all? How does it influence voters and democracy? My latest book explores these critical questions. Get your copy here: www.routledge.com/Towards-a-Ne... #AcademicSky

Uit experimenteel YouVoice onderzoek van @lcjacobs89.bsky.social, @mvcampenhout.bsky.social, Stefaan Walgrave, en mezelf blijkt dat de Jongerenstemtest erin slaagt om politieke kennis en betrokkenheid te verhogen bij jongeren. Heel blij om de eerste resultaten te delen. 📰 www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...

Closing off 2024 with the best Christmas present, my first publication! 🎉 Darian Harff, Desirée Schmuck, and I investigated if young people accept misinformation claims on the nutritional value of food products made by health content creators on social media. Here's what we found:

The Social Media Lab (Caroline Close, @lucaskins.bsky.social, Awenig Marié & me) @m2p-antwerp.bsky.social & @ulbruxelles.bsky.social analyzed elite discourse of the parties on X during the 2024 campaign: economy was stressed by N-VA & MR, migration & climate ignored.👇 www.gva.be/cnt/dmf20241...

Vandaag duiding in De Morgen over het doorbreken van het cordon sanitaire in Brecht & Izegem (naast de absolute meerderheid in Ninove, de coalitie in Ranst). Nationaal staat het cordon nog stevig, lokaal is meer mogelijk, en dat zal Van Grieken extra in de verf zetten www.demorgen.be/politiek/en-...

📢 Final days to apply for @ECPR @ECPR_PolCom endorsed (reserved) workshop: how uncivil, intolerant & violent communication styles threaten our democracies. Conveners Jérémy Dodeigne & Chiara Vargiu at Joint Session '25 in Prague! ecpr.eu/Events/Event/W…… ⏰DL: 21 Nov

‼️ I am looking for a ECR/postdoc working at the intersection of protest event and social network analysis. This is a 2-year position part of the Horizon EU ProTest project. The successful candidate will work with me (mostly) on the Italian case. Deadline: 11 December. bandi.unibo.it/ricerca/asse...

PRQ article w/ Bart Maes & Stefaan Walgrave about #responsiveness: BE & CA politicians rely more on public opinion sources when setting priorities, interest groups play a major role throughout, and party and expert sources come into play during policy formulation journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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).

For all the new arrivals here is the beginnings of a starter pack on politics and policy in Belgium (not EU focused). Suggestions of new names welcome particularly those on the centre/right of the political spectrum. We're quite noir-jaune-vert on Bluesky it seems. go.bsky.app/AcRtMjW

Welcome to all our new followers! You can keep abreast of the latest research from the M2P team by following our excellent team of researchers individually. We've created a starter pack here: go.bsky.app/Lquzoz1

Excellent way to start the 🎄break 🥰 Happy with our - @frederikstevens.bsky.social - study in @jeppjournal.bsky.social on interest groups’ agenda-setting influence. We examine when groups can push their dreams onto the agenda while blocking their nightmares. ✨ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Interested in why governments sometimes defy public opinion? I have bene writing about my research into why governments sometimes miscalculate how voters will react to their decisions and what some common pitfalls are blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

Great to see that my article on mainstream parties' justifications on ruling with right-wing and left-wing populist parties is now also out in print in Government & Opposition, and can be accessed here: cambridge.org/core/journal...

Spoiler alert & sneak peak into the results: In the Flemish context, results of an experiment suggest that if the N-VA includes Vlaams Belang, this results in a higher propensity to vote for VB.

 🗳️ Vandaag is het zover: verkiezingen! Spannend moment, want we zouden weleens een record uit 2010 kunnen breken... Zullen er dit keer meer dan 64 vrouwen in de Tweede Kamer komen? 🤔

📚New paper out in Political Communication, co-authored with @henrikseeberg.bsky.social. We investigate how issue salience and ownership influence parties' propensity to attack, and what happens when salience and ownership are (in)congruent. Read more at: doi.org/10.1080/1058...

Sinds het voorjaar zijn we aan de KU Leuven en Universiteit Antwerpe gestart met het YouVoiceProject, waarin we onderzoeken hoe het gesteld is met de politieke kennis van jonge burgers in Vlaanderen en hoe ze zich informeren over politieke en maatschappelijke kwesties