New research article published #openaccess in PLC ! 🤩 Loïc Cobut and @amandine-orsini.bsky.social (CReSPo - UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles) demonstrate that local governance structures can contribute to overcoming or maintaining carbon-intensive lock-ins. 🆓 Download here: doi.org/10.54195/plc...

We're pleased to open the PhD Review & Summary section of the 8th volume of PLC (2026, issue 1) with the very first review in PLC of a PhD based in Luxembourg ! 🎓 "Deliberative democracy amidst the Tower of Babel. Insights from Luxembourgish deliberative minipublics" (Lisa Verhasselt, @uni.lu )

🚀 Very first publication in PLC in 2026, a research note by Thomas Laloux, Tom Delreux & Emilien Mercenier (ISPOLE-UCLouvain) on whether the Belgian 2024 Presidency of the Council of the EU was successful in reaching trilogue deals on prioritised files, & what explains the variation in that success.

✨Big plans for PLC in 2026 ✨ 📚 The first research articles from the special issue on #localpolitics "Local democracy in the Low Countries: at the base changing face?" guest edited by Kristof Steyvers and @ostaaijen.bsky.social will be out soon ! 🧵

⏰ Publication alert! Just in time before the end of the year, we published the final piece of the 2025 issue: a research article by Damien Piron, Amandine Andrien, Tom Frenea, Gatien Grommen, Alex Pierre & Yanis Tambour - @universitedeliege.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.54195/plc... #openaccess

📢 New publication 📢 We are pleased to shine the spotlight on Toine Paulissen's PhD (‪@vd-researchgroup.bsky.social - KU Leuven)! 👉 The PhD summary by @toinepaulissen.bsky.social : doi.org/10.54195/plc... 👉A critical review by @theresareidy.bsky.social : doi.org/10.54195/plc... #openaccess

[OUT] Out now in @plc-journal.bsky.social PhD Summary: "Crafting campaigns, messages, and identities: Belgian parties in a digitalized political arena" by @lucaskins.bsky.social, postdoc at SciencePo ULB (Cevipol) plc-journal.eu/article/view...

Interested in how parties integrate social media comm to shape public perceptions of party competition & their relationship to groups? Check out @lucaskins.bsky.social dissertation (and other outputs!). PhD summary and my short review @plc-journal.bsky.social plc-journal.eu/issue/view/1...

📢 New publication ! Julie Sevenans & Patrick F.A. van Erkel study how out-party cues shift policy preferences in 🇧🇪 and show that minimal aversion is needed for polarisation of attitudes. 🔗 doi.org/10.54195/plc... #OpenAccess #PolSci

One week left to submit your abstract for the special issue on Democratic Innovations ! #democraticinnovations

📢 Call for Papers – Special Issue on Democratic Innovations in the Low Countries Guest editors: Emilien Paulis (University of Luxembourg), David Talukder (Université de Namur) & @takesipma.bsky.social (Tilburg University) 🗓️ Abstract submissions by October 31 plc-journal.eu/announcement...

Happy to announce the publication of my first article in @plc-journal.bsky.social! 👀 Interested in reading more about sibling parties and electoral behaviour in Belgium? Check out the post below 👇 Thank you to my supervisors @marchooghe.bsky.social and @dieterstiers.bsky.social for their guidance

🔦PLC is pleased to spotlight this literature review by Sofie Hennau, Johan Ackaert from our archives "Compulsory Voting and Voter Turnout in the Low Countries: A Qualitative Data Analysis of the Case Vlaams Belang" 🔗Available in #OpenAccess in PLC (Vol. 4 No. 3) at: plc-journal.eu/article/view...

📣Today PLC is also proud to reintroduce this article by Jasper Praet "The Ideological Roots of Populist Radical-Right Climate Scepticism: A Qualitative Data Analysis of the Case Vlaams Belang" 🔓Available in #OpenAccess in PLC (Vol. 4 No. 3) at: plc-journal.eu/article/view...

📂Delving into our archives PLC is pleased to highlight this article by Ruud Wouters, Michiel de Vydt, Luna Staes @uantwerpen.be "Truly Exceptional? Participants in the Belgian 2019 Youth for Climate Protest Wave" 🔗Available in #OpenAccess in PLC (Vol. 4 No. 3) at: plc-journal.eu/article/view...

💡Interested in Referendums, Political Parties and Policies in Europe? Politics of the Low Countries is pleased to reintroduce its special issue on the topic! Available in #OpenAccess 🧵 #OpenPublishing #PoliticalScience

📢 New #openaccess publication 📢 📝 Party Families as a Cross-Cutting Cleavage on the Individual Level: The case of Belgium 👤 By Steven De Keyser (@kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social, Voting and Democracy Research Group) 🔗 plc-journal.eu/article/view...

📣 New publication 📣 We're proud that @sldelange.bsky.social, @tomlouwerse.nl Paul 't Hart & Carolien Van Ham, editors of the Oxford Handbook of Dutch Politics chose PLC to discuss & advertise their work 😊 📄 Curious ? Have a read, it's short, impactful & #openaccess: plc-journal.eu/article/view...

Very happy to announce that @plc-journal.bsky.social has published an abbreviated version of our introduction to the OUP Handbook of Dutch Politics. It is a concise analysis of how Dutch politics has (not) changed since the heydays of consociationalism plc-journal.eu/article/view...

📢 New #openaccess publication 📢 📝 Insiders, Outsiders, and Ideology: Explaining Variation in Ministerial Adviser Recruitment Patterns in Flanders (1999–2020) 👥 By Tom Bellens & Marleen Brans (KU Leuven Public Governance Institute @io-pgi-kuleuven.bsky.social) 🔗 plc-journal.eu/article/view... 🧵

📢 New Publication Alert 📢 We’re proud to share a new article published in #openaccess🎉 📝 Belgium’s multilateral policymaking in the age of global uncertainty: the strive for coherence and consistency through network governance 👤 By Edouard Xia (UCLouvain) 🔗 plc-journal.eu/article/view... 🧵

📂PLC is revisiting key articles from its archives. Today we spotlight "Homo, Hunter-gatherer, Habermas" 🔗Available in #OpenAccess in PLC (Vol. 5 No. 2) at: PhD Summary by Ramon van der Does: plc-journal.eu/article/view... PhD Review by Florian van Leeuwen: plc-journal.eu/article/view...

📂PLC is revisiting key articles from its archives. Today we spotlight this PhD summary by Julien Vrydagh @unistuttgart.bsky.social "Unravelling a Mystery" 🔓Available in #OpenAccess in Politics of the Low Countries (Vol. 5 No. 2) at: plc-journal.eu/article/view... #OpenPublishing #PoliticalScience

📝PLC is proud to reintroduce this PhD summary and its review "Political Legitimacy and Under-representation" 🔓Available in #OpenAccess in PLC (Vol. 5 No. 2) Summary by David Talukder @sciencepoulb.bsky.social at: plc-journal.eu/article/view... Review by Roberto Foa at: plc-journal.eu/article/view...

📝PLC is pleased to reintroduce this PhD summary and its review "Searching for a Democratic Equalizer" 🔗Available in #OpenAccess in PLC (Vol. 5 No. 2) Summary by Joke Matthieu available at: plc-journal.eu/article/view... Review by Silvia Erzeel available at : plc-journal.eu/article/view...

📣Delving into our archives PLC is pleased to highlight this state of the profession by Ramon van der Does "Doing Political Science on the Eve of Destruction" 🔓Available in #OpenAccess in Politics of the Low Countries (Vol. 5 No. 2) at: plc-journal.eu/article/view... #OpenPublishing #PoliticalScience

📣Today PLC is proud to reintroduce this state of the profession by Dounia Bourabain "The University in Crisis: Why (Neoliberal) Diversity Is Not the Answer" 🔗Available in #OpenAccess in Politics of the Low Countries (Vol. 5 No. 2) at: plc-journal.eu/article/view.... #OpenPublishing #PoliticalScience

📁PLC is revisiting key articles from its archives. Today we spolight the article by Nina Barzachka. "Using Process-Tracing to Evaluate Competing Accounts of Proportional Representation in Belgium" 🔗Available in #OpenAccess in PLC at: plc-journal.eu/article/view... #OpenPublishing #PoliticalScience

📂Delving into our archives, PLC is proud to highlight the article "Assessing Basic Income Feasibility Political Parties’ Positions on the French-Speaking Belgian Scene" By Floriane Geels 🔗Available in #OpenAccess in Politics of the Low Countries (Vol. 5 No. 3) at: plc-journal.eu/article/view...

📣PLC is pleased to reintroduce this state of the profession by @rebeccagebauer.bsky.social, Min Reuchamps, @luanarusso.bsky.social @maastrichtu.bsky.social "Insight into Gender Authorship in Politics in the Low Countries"! 🔗Available in #OpenAccess in PLC at: plc-journal.eu/article/view...

☀️ Summer is the perfect time to reflect and plan ahead! Thinking about your next publication project? Consider hosting a special issue with Politics of the Low Countries ! 📢 We're now accepting proposals, deadline to submit : 8 September Find your co-guest editor, and let's go 😊

For all the people who didn't have time to read my dissertation back-to-back: (I'm guessing that's everyone 😄) The journal PLC published a 1000-word summary I wrote of my dissertation, with a review from my favourite author of my PhD: Dr. LaFleur Stephens-Dougan from Pinceton University. Enjoy!

How do voters react to diversity in politics? How do voters feel about to women, ethnic minority, and Muslim politicians, and how do these groups respond to in-group politicians? 💎 New double publication in #openaccess 💎 👉By @sbvanoosten.bsky.social and LaFleur Stephens-Dougan #OpenPublishing 🧵

📢 Call for Special Issue Proposals 📢 PLC invites proposals for a special issue, focusing on a key political science theme relevant to the Low Countries, ideally connecting local developments to broader international or comparative debates. #OpenPublishing #Openaccess #DiamondOpenAccess 🧵

🔍Check out this article by @rozemarijnvandijk.bsky.social @uantwerpen.be "Ambitious Women: Hidden within the Party?". 🔓Available in #OpenAccess in Politics of the Low Countries (Vol. 5 No. 3) at: plc-journal.eu/article/view... #OpenPublishing #PoliticalScience

📝Take a look at this article by Niels Spierings @nellageurts.bsky.social‬ @radboudpol.bsky.social "Understanding the Religiosity-Political Participation Linkage among Muslim Women". 🔓Available in #OpenAccess in Politics of the Low Countries (Vol. 5 No. 3) at: plc-journal.eu/article/view...

🔍Have a look at this editorial on "Women and Politics" by @luanarusso.bsky.social (@maastrichtu.bsky.social) and Min Reuchamps! 🔗Available in #OpenAccess in Politics of the Low Countries (Vol. 5 No. 3) at: plc-journal.eu/article/view... #OpenPublishing #PoliticalScience

📝Check out this article by @elisestorme.bsky.social @gasparugent.bsky.social "Hard Worker versus Pretty Eyes" 🔗Available in #OpenAccess in Politics of the Low Countries (Vol. 5 No. 3) at: plc-journal.eu/article/view... #OpenPublishing #PoliticalScience

📢 New publication 📢 We’re proud to continue our “State of the Profession” section, now in collaboration with our new publisher, #RadboudUniversityPress! 👉 Read our newest piece: lnkd.in/evhi2HZU #DiamondOpenAccess #OpenPublishing #AcademicPublishing #PoliticalScience @openjournalsnl.bsky.social

📢 Have you recently defended your PhD in political science in The Netherlands, Belgium or Luxembourg? PLC is looking for PhD Summaries and Reviews! #PhDOpportunity #PhDGraduates #PoliticalScience #AcademicPublishing #PhDResearch #EarlyCareerResearchers 🧵

Very insightful workshop in Amsterdam, where @audreyvdleene.bsky.social shared best practices with fellow journal editors using #OpenJournalSystems via Open Journals and learned about future possibilities. Thanks @openjournalsnl.bsky.social for a great users' day ! #OpenScience #OpenPublishing

Interested in #Communication and #EnvironmentalPolitics? Check out our special issue on "Communication and Environmental Politics in the Low Countries" now available in #OpenAccess in PLC down below Editorial by Anais Auge Ramon van der Does plc-journal.eu/article/view... 🧵

Take a look at this literature review by Kevin Meyvaert @dfuturevub.bsky.social "A Lower Voting Age in the Low Countries? Potential Effects of Voting Age at 16 for the Low Countries". Now available in #OpenAccess in Politics of the Low Countries (Vol. 6 No. 2) at: plc-journal.eu/article/view...

Check out this article by Nick Martin @sciencepoulb.bsky.social "From Divergence to Convergence" Now available in #OpenAccess in Politics of the Low Countries (Vol. 6 No. 2) at: plc-journal.eu/article/view...

Take a look at this article by Raf Reuse and Tom Verhelst @gasparugent.bsky.social "Instrument of Institutional Empowerment? An Explorative Study of the Local Council Chair in Flanders". Now available in #OpenAccess in Politics of the Low Countries (Vol. 6 No. 2) at: plc-journal.eu/article/view...

🎉 We are very pleased to announce the publication of the very first paper of PLC with Radboud University Press, in #openaccess 👉 plc-journal.eu/article/view... 💡Jan Philipp Thomeczek @drphilphil.bsky.social (@unipotsdam.bsky.social) publishes a research note titled "Where does Volt stand?" 1/3 🧵

Check out this article by Diedrik Statig (@vuamsterdam.bsky.social) " Ruling the Dutch Tax Haven: How the United States Drove the Rise and Fall of the Ruling Practice of the Netherlands". Now available in Politics of the Low Countries in #OpenAccess at plc-journal.eu/article/view...

💡 LAUNCH EVENT June 13 @ Groningen 💬 Roundtable discussion on the importance of open publishing in academia With @bnbakker.bsky.social Mirjam Ernestus @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social @jeroenson.bsky.social @audreyvdleene.bsky.social #OpenAccess #AcademicPublishing #PLCLaunch #RadboudUniversityPress

Interested in #AffectivePolarization? Check out our special issue on "Affective polarisation in the Low Countries" now available in #OpenAccess down below ⬇️ Editorial by @luanarusso.bsky.social @maastrichtu.bsky.social at plc-journal.eu/article/view... 🧵

Yesterday, almost all our Associate Editors gathered for a productive Board meeting of Politics of the Low Countries. We discussed ongoing papers, our new publisher Radboud University Press, and the much-anticipated launch event at Politicologenetmaal 2025 in Groningen (Stay tuned!)