Learnt so much today at our NeFCA practitioners’ event about political campaigns and political journalism!💡 Many thanks to our speakers and all participants!🙏

Two weeks ago I successfully defended my PhD dissertation “Feeding the News” UAntwerpen. Many thanks to my supportive supervisors peter van aelst & Steve Paulussen and Doctoral Jury members Cristian Vaccari, Desiree Schmuck, Claes de Vreese and Julie Sevenans!

"Vlaams Belang voerde niét de meest negatieve campagne in kranten, terwijl de advertenties van N-VA wel bijna altijd een aanval bevatten." Jonas Lefevere van M²P UAntwerpen onderzocht alle advertenties in kranten in de aanloop naar 9 juni 2024. sampol.be/2024/12/welke-…

Citizens’ engagement on politicians’ own social media shapes not just what politicians talk about—but also what they act on. 🤳🏻💥 We show how interacting with politicians' posts increases the likelihood of real legislative action by those same politicians. doi.org/10.1177/106591…

Glad to see this study w Jean-Benoit Pilet out in Party Politics: using an experiment in Belgium, we show that signaling willingness by a mainstream party to rule with the radical right legitimizes the latter, while not granting an electoral advantage to the former journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

In deze studie, gepubliceerd in Party Politics, tonen we (Jean-Benoit Pilet) o.b.v. een experiment in België aan dat als mainstream partijen (N-VA) claimen open te staan te regeren met radicaal-rechts (VB) dit deze laatste legitimeert + electoraal voordeel oplevert journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

[Out] “To rule or not to rule? An experimental study of the electoral ramifications of claims to (not) rule with radical right populist parties” New paper by Laura Jacobs (UAntwerpen) and Jean-Benoit Pilet, Professor at SciencePo ULB (Cevipol), in Party Politics. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13… .

In #FirstView by Zeljko Poljak and Annelise Russell: "All Talk, No Action? Politicians’ Agenda Responsiveness to Citizens’ Engagement on Social Media" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10…

Laten we 2025 dopen als jaar waarin waakzaamheid en weerbaarheid tegenover radicale krachten centraal staan. Nieuwe column van politicologe Laura Jacobs 👇 sampol.be/2025/01/2025-h…

Nieuwe column: We gaan er i/h Westen naïef van uit dat geschiedenis een lineaire & eenrichtingsbeweging is naar meer vrijheid & democratie; dit vereist constante waakzaamheid & weerwerk tov antidemocratische krachten – ongeacht ideologische kleur – die deze vooruitgang bedreigen

Met o.a. reflectie over onze nieuwe publicatie (met Jean-Benoit Pilet SciencePo ULB ) in Party Politics over de effecten van insluiting/uitsluiting van radicaal-rechts door mainstream partijen op stemgedrag: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

Uit experimenteel YouVoice onderzoek van Laura Jacobs, Matthias Van Campenhout, Stefaan Walgrave, en mezelf blijkt dat de Jongerenstemtest erin slaagt om politieke kennis en betrokkenheid te verhogen. Blij om de eerste resultaten te delen. 📰 vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2025…

📣Deelname aan de VRT Jongerenstemtest boost politieke kennis van jongeren. Ons volledig onderzoeksrapport met alle details over de effecten van de VRT jongerenstemtest en ons YouVoice project (o.l.v. peter van aelst) is hier na te lezen: youvoice.be/post/evaluat...

I'm not fond of this site and rarely login anymore, but in case any of my followers haven't followed me to the nice new blue place, I'm keen to share my latest research where we asked former Ministers and SpAds how they dealt with trust in gov't & politicians being so low (1/3)

Even though higher political trust might enable governments to take more decisions that have less immediate benefits for citizens. You can read the full paper here: doi.org/10.1177/003232…

How to Make Sense of Citizens’ Sense of Being Represented? Look no further! In our article august de mulder develops a multidimensional conceptualisation of #feeling #represented and puts this to the empirical test M²P UAntwerpen tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

In light of recent events, I thought it would be timely to reshare this article with Jean-Benoit Pilet just published in Party Politics suggesting that mainstream parties via their behavior in campaigns can legitimize radical right parties (cf. CDU/AfD in Germany) 👇

New publication in Journalism Studies! This paper explores how journalists from Belgian press agency Belga approach aspects such as framing, voice, and terminology in immigration reporting. Kathleen Beckers Laura Jacobs 原田 紗莉 ASCoR | @[email protected] tandfonline.com/eprint/ZJSTWWH…

🚨 New publication with Nadjim Fréchet 🕊️, Brian Thompson, and Yannick Dufresne! I am happy to share that our new paper on citizen forecasting and the wisdom of crowds is out in CJPS_RCSP! 🇨🇦 🗳 POLITICAL FORECASTING GROUP M²P Science politique UdeM SciencePo_ulaval Check it out 👇 doi.org/10.1017/S00084…

We decided as a research group to make the move from X and we will phase out this account from now. 👉🏼We will migrate to Bluesky where you can follow us for updates (bsky.app/profile/m2p-an…) 👉🏼 You can also follow us on LinkedIn (linkedin.com/company/media-…) See you there!