Bram Wauters

@bramwauters.bsky.social

Associate professor Political Science @gasparugent.bsky.social Ghent University Representation, participation and parties. Facts and figures, sometimes also (my own) opinions

📣 Last GASPAR Guest Lecture of the academic year! Dr. Nick Martin (ULB) will come talk to us about the connections between political parties and organized civil society in the city of Charleroi (as part of his study in three different European cities). 🗓️Thursday, June 25 11AM 📍Technicum Building

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📣 SAVE THE DATE 📣 Prof. Dr. Richard Katz (Johns Hopkins) will deliver a lecture at Ghent University on 19 March 2026 on the occasion of receiving an honorary doctorate. 📍 Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, Ghent (Room 3.1) 🕑 2:00–3:00 PM Open to all (registration required): tinyurl.com/3w95646v

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Er is nog tijd om in te schrijven voor de lezing van Francqui Chair @bramwauters.bsky.social op dinsdag 2 december. Inschrijven kan via deze link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Niet te missen!

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Inaugurale les op dinsdag 2 december 2025

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Ruth Dassonneville@rdassonneville.bsky.social · 9mo ago

‼️ Onze onderzoeksgroep @vd-researchgroup.bsky.social verwelkomt dit academiejaar @bramwauters.bsky.social als Francqui leerstoelhouder! 📆 Het openingscollege gaat door op 2 dec om 17u30 Voor meer info en om in te schrijven voor dit *niet te missen* college, zie hier soc.kuleuven.be/afdeling-pol...

So great to be in Berlin for this fantastic @zweitstimme.bsky.social workshop! I presented joint work with @bjarneck.bsky.social and @bramwauters.bsky.social on the limited effects of mobilizing measures following the abolition of compulsory voting in Flanders.

zweitstimme.org@zweitstimme.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🎉 Kicking off the Zweitstimme.org Workshop! We’re looking forward to two days discussing new work on Elections, Public Opinion & Elite Behaviour. Today’s sessions: 👉 Panel I – Elites 👉 Panel II – Participation 👉 Panel III – Party Strategies Huge thanks to @hertieschool.bsky.social for hosting us!

🎉 NEW ARTICLE I'm excited to share my latest research, now out in Journal of Information Technology & Politics. Seems like all politicians go negative - but some go more negative than others, and in different ways. 📊 25k tweets - 437 candidates, two elections and six months of campaigning

Playing nice? A longitudinal analysis of gender differences in negative campaigning on social media

This study offers a multidimensional analysis of gendered patterns in online negative campaigning during the 2019 and 2024 Belgian elections. Drawing on six months of Twitter data – all 25,111 twee...

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‼️Save the dates ‼️ Last lectures of our Gaspar Lecture Series ! 📊 Interested in the compulsory voting, social group appeals, or citizen support for democratic erosion? Keen to discuss these dynamics with top-tier researchers? ➡️Everyone is welcome! Registration link below 👇

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Trots op het werk van onze studenten! 🎓 Waarom zijn sommige partijleden actiever dan anderen? Vier van onze studenten BPM onderzochten dit vorig semester voor het vak ‘Samenleving en Politiek’. Dit leverde hen de prijs op voor beste paper 🥇 Lees meer: gasparblogt.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/w...

Waarom sommige partijleden actiever zijn dan anderen

Deze blogpost is een herwerkte versie van de paper van Hannelore Huyghe, Andreas De Coninck, Camille Goeminne en Lara Reyskens. Bachelorstudenten Bestuurskunde en Publiek Management aan de Universi…

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➡️ Save the date! ⬅️ Curious about candidate selection & democratic norms? 👀 On Oct 2, GASPAR welcomes @simonotjes.bsky.social (Leiden University) for our lecture series! Discover how Dutch parties weigh gender, ethnicity & past votes in renomination decisions 🇳🇱 All welcome! Register 👇

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📢September 5: save the date 📢 The location of public services matters! Libraries and bus stops are welcomed but prisons and wind farms are typically contested. How can governments navigate these sensitivities? 🧐 Prof. de Fine Licht @goteborgsuni will tell us all about it! All welcome!

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🌅📙 64.3 Closing the gap or making a new one? 🛤️ Everyone wants more #CitizenParticipation but politicians, citizens and civil servants prefer different tools. Do formal roles matter more than ideology? 🕵️ These authors (🧵⬇️) look into just that! 🔗https://buff.ly/XcSSHsY

Closing a gap or creating a new one? Comparing support for participatory instruments among different stakeholders

BRAM WAUTERS, TESSA HAESEVOETS, BRAM VERSCHUERE, ARNE ROETS, KRISTOF STEYVERS, GILLES PITTOORS, LIESE BERKVENS, NINA DE SMEDT, WILLEM GOUTRY, RUBEN VAN SEVEREN

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