Last Friday, I defended my PhD dissertation "Every Rose Has Its Thorn? The Interplay Between Elections, Affective Polarization, and Political Behaviour" at @sciencepoulb.bsky.social. Very happy to have done this among dear colleagues, family, and friends.

New article out in JEPOP with @eliemichel.bsky.social and @emilievh.bsky.social We study how individual-level party-voter congruence shapes horizontal affective polarization (sympathy to other voters), using matched data of a Voting Advice Application in Belgium Paper: tinyurl.com/4skwumdr

New WP on political violence in democracies with the fantastic @dianebolet.bsky.social and @bjarneck.bsky.social. Sadly very topical, but with some positive results osf.io/preprints/so... 1/

📊 New Dataset Release: Belgian Electoral Panel Survey 2024 🇧🇪 We’re excited to announce the release of a new dataset from a 4-wave panel survey conducted during the 2024 Belgian elections! 📥 Download the dataset now: www.sodha.be/dataset.xhtm...

For @ecprtheloop.bsky.social, I argue that it's time for Europe to finally develop a clear Ukraine strategy — one focused on enabling victory.

The Loop@ecprtheloop.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🧭 #EUEnlargementDilemmas No.25 🕊️ EU enlargement alone won’t bring peace or security to #Ukraine. 🪖 Without matching accession promises with increased #MilitarySupport, writes @bjarneck.bsky.social, Europe risks prolonging the war — and exposing itself to greater danger. 👉 buff.ly/n47afoO

New publication in the Journal of European Public Policy together with @eliemichel.bsky.social. We study public opinion toward supporting Ukraine in 6 European countries and ask whether citizens want to increase, sustain, or decrease support. 1/4 Paper (OA): doi.org/10.1080/1350...

New paper out in @bjpols.bsky.social, co-authored with Emilien Paulis. Using survey data from 13 European democracies, we show that electoral winners are less supportive of referendums, especially when they are affectively polarized. 1/6 Paper: doi.org/10.1017/S0007123425000365

I agree with @kajakallas that the EU should become a beacon of freedom. So when do we start? Here I offer six ways to actually light the beacon and step into the role history has chosen for us. Our response to the current uncertainty can be firm and long term. A thread.🧵1/17

Just uploaded this new preprint co-authored with @eliemichel.bsky.social, and sharing here already because of the public relevance of the data. We study public opinion toward supporting Ukraine in six European countries: BE, DE, HU, IT, NL, and PL. (1/12) doi.org/10.31219/osf...

Much looking forward to the Future of Electoral Democracy conference! Over the next two days, current and former students of the CRC in Electoral Democracy will be at UdeM to present their work, think about research, and recall memories of all the fun we had at the CRC over the last eight years!

Happy to share this new article in European Union Politics, written with @bjarneck.bsky.social. In the paper, we ask: have high and growing levels of income inequality undermined support for the EU, as some have claimed? Existing studies have produced very mixed results in this regard (1/5)

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).