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Dieter Stiers @dieterstiers.bsky.social · 5d

Gefeliciteerd dr. Reuse!

Dieter Stiers @dieterstiers.bsky.social · 7d

Today I celebrate my 10th academic birthday (since start PhD) and it's nice to be able to do that with a little milestone of itself!

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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 8d

With the start of the new academic year, we're planning more talks at @vd-researchgroup.bsky.social!

Looking forward to welcoming @bjornhoyland.bsky.social in Leuven on Monday 20 October. If you're around and would like to attend, more info is here 👇

soc.kuleuven.be/afdeling-pol...

Seminar Bjørn Høyland

soc.kuleuven.be

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Dieter Stiers @dieterstiers.bsky.social · 14d

The first, but definitely not the last, publication of @stevendekeyser.bsky.social! Be sure to follow him to stay up-to-date about his work on federalism, regionalist parties, and voting behaviour in divided societies!

Steven De Keyser @stevendekeyser.bsky.social · 14d

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

Politics of the Low Countries @plc-journal.bsky.social · 15d

📢 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...

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Dieter Stiers @dieterstiers.bsky.social · 14d

Congratulations @stevendekeyser.bsky.social!

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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 20d

📢 Call for Papers for EPSS 2026 conference in Belfast is out: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

Starting today, we'll feature two sections each week to provide more information about the conference.

🔝 This week: Electoral + Voting Behaviour & Climate Politics

▶️ Electoral + Voting Behaviour

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Call for Papers | EPSS Belfast 2026 Conference

Submit your abstract or full paper for EPSS Belfast 2026. Share cutting‑edge political science research, network with peers & contribute to academic impact.

epssnet.org

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Maurits Meijers @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social · 29d

🚨📢 We’re hiring a Postdoc in Computational Political Science at the University of Antwerp!

💻 Focus: NLP + ML + political text analysis
🗳️ Project: ERC DEMO-LIES (disinformation in democracies)
🌍 Location: Antwerp, 🇧🇪
📅 Deadline: 16 Oct 2025

www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vaca...

Postdoctoral scholarship holder in computational political science | University of Antwerp

YUFE vacancies

www.uantwerpen.be

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Dieter Stiers @dieterstiers.bsky.social · Jul 22

Congratulations!

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Dieter Stiers @dieterstiers.bsky.social · Jul 8

Congratulations!

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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · Jul 3

For a data collection we want to launch soon, we're looking for a German speaker who could translate our survey instrument to German. This should only take a few hours of work. Of course we are remunerating! Interested? Please reach out to @alexjabbour.bsky.social !

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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · Jul 1

Do generous welfare policies foster political trust? Matthijs Gillissen, @silkegoubin.bsky.social & Anna Ruelens examine the long-term effects of welfare generosity on trust in political institutions. Read more:
buff.ly/tBe6gLG

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com

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Dieter Stiers @dieterstiers.bsky.social · Jul 1

Can elections foster political legitimacy? In my new study @wepsocial.bsky.social I show that they can, depending on the level of participation, the congruence between the electorate and the parliament and government, and the reactiveness of the electoral result to past incumbent performance.

Electoral input and political legitimacy

Political legitimacy is of fundamental importance for democratic systems, as it ensures that citizens adhere to political rules and decisions peacefully and voluntarily. Recent research indicates a...

www.tandfonline.com

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Dieter Stiers @dieterstiers.bsky.social · Jul 1

Net als bij volwassen kiezers, is een laag vertrouwen in de politiek een belangrijke reden om op radicale partijen te stemmen. Jongeren hebben, op dat vlak, dus best gelijkaardige stemmotieven als volwassen kiezers.

Linde Stals @lindestals.bsky.social · Jul 1

📢 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

Political Trust and Electoral Behavior Among 16- and 17-Year-Old First-Time-Voters in Belgium

Abstract. Citizens’ electoral behaviors tend to persist over time and are driven by long-standing political attitudes acquired during the formative years o

academic.oup.com

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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · Jun 30

‼️ There are a few more days left to apply for the PhD positions in my group at KU Leuven. Make sure to send in applications by July 4! 👇

Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · Jun 3

I'm recruiting 2 PhD researchers to work with me on a project studying how social groups influence vote choices!

Info on the position and how to apply 👉 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

Please share with interested students who would like to move to beautiful Leuven!

2 PhD positions in Electoral behavior

2 PhD positions to research how social group memberships become connected to vote choices

www.kuleuven.be

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Dieter Stiers @dieterstiers.bsky.social · Jun 26

If theoretical models of turnout are effective, do they allow predicting who will abstain from voting? Leveraging a unique situation in Belgium, @marchooghe.bsky.social and I pre-registered predicted turnout of panel respondents, and find that we can indeed predict participation quite accurately.

Is it possible to predict electoral abstention on the individual level? A preregistered test on forecasting the effects of abolishing compulsory voting in Belgium

There is a vast literature on determinants of electoral turnout that allows us to forecast which groups of the population will turn out to vote and wh…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Dieter Stiers @dieterstiers.bsky.social · Jun 10

Inderdaad, als je naar de totale verschuivingen wilt kijken. Hier willen we abstractie maken van grote en kleine partijen. Voor partijloyaliteit, bv., willen we weten welke proportie kiezers uit 2019 op dezelfde partij stemde in 2024. Totale partijgrootte maakt daarvoor niet uit, enkel het aandeel.

Dieter Stiers @dieterstiers.bsky.social · Jun 10

De figuur toont dus enkel/vooral de stromen tussen partijen, niet de grootte van elk electoraat afzonderlijk. Grotere of kleinere balkjes aan de rechterkant zijn dus puur een visuele noodzaak (bij Les Engagés komen meer “kiezerstromen” toe) om het overzichtelijk voor te stellen.

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Dieter Stiers @dieterstiers.bsky.social · Jun 10

De figuur toont enkel de stromen tussen partijen, en kan niet gebruikt worden om de grootte van de partijen onderling te vergelijken. Links (cijfers voor 2019) zijn alle partijen gelijk: ze hebben 100% van hun kiezers. Vervolgens gaan we na waar die kiezers vijf jaar later naar toe zijn gegaan.

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GASPAR UGent @gasparugent.bsky.social · Jun 4

📣 We are looking for two new colleagues!

Are you interested in doing research on either socio-demographic cues to estimate politicians' ideological positions or in losers' consent in the context of salient policy decisions?

More information below 👇

Bram Wauters @bramwauters.bsky.social · Jun 4

🚨 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

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Dieter Stiers @dieterstiers.bsky.social · Jun 3

Several members of the group are hiring; see the thread below for more information and information on how to apply.

bsky.app/profile/rdas...

Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · Jun 3

I'm recruiting 2 PhD researchers to work with me on a project studying how social groups influence vote choices!

Info on the position and how to apply 👉 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

Please share with interested students who would like to move to beautiful Leuven!

2 PhD positions in Electoral behavior

2 PhD positions to research how social group memberships become connected to vote choices

www.kuleuven.be

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Dieter Stiers @dieterstiers.bsky.social · Jun 3

The Voting & Democracy research group is now active on Bluesky. Make sure to follow us @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social‬ to stay up to date with our latest research!

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Politics of the Low Countries @plc-journal.bsky.social · May 28

📢 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

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Marc Hooghe @marchooghe.bsky.social · May 16

Hebben leerkrachten echt een specifiek ideologisch profiel? Sari Verachtert en @dieterstiers.bsky.social tonen in een onderzoek bij Vlaamse leerkrachten aan dat ze ideologisch gematigd zijn, extreme partijen vermijden, en neutraliteit belangrijk vinden.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Regional & Federal Studies @regfedst.bsky.social · May 12

🇧🇪New article!
"Who decides what are second-order elections? A study of ticket-splitting in simultaneous federal and regional elections in Belgium" by @dieterstiers.bsky.social and @marchooghe.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Who decides what are second-order elections? A study of ticket-splitting in simultaneous federal and regional elections in Belgium

The idea that regional elections automatically could be considered as second-order elections has been criticized in the recent literature, as the rise of regional authority implies that the regiona...

www.tandfonline.com

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Marc Hooghe @marchooghe.bsky.social · Apr 28

In Belgium, federal and regional elections are held simultaneously. What does this imply for the traditional second-order model? @dieterstiers.bsky.social and I have asked voters, and the result is that for most voters, both levels are equally important.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Who decides what are second-order elections? A study of ticket-splitting in simultaneous federal and regional elections in Belgium

The idea that regional elections automatically could be considered as second-order elections has been criticized in the recent literature, as the rise of regional authority implies that the regiona...

www.tandfonline.com

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