👋 Are you interested in learning which factors explain the membership of MPs of specialised committees of the Dutch and Belgian chambers of representatives? 👋

🌟 SPECIAL ISSUE ALERT 🌟 Out now: the latest article from our special issue on local politics!

📖 Another week, another publication! 📖 In the latest addition to our vol. 8 no. 1, Ward Peeters (@gasparugent.bsky.social) and Els Lefever explore the relation between elite accommodation and intergroup acknowledgment across Belgian linguistic lines.

🌟 SPECIAL ISSUE ALERT 🌟 Let's shine our spotlight on the fourth article from our special issue on local politics, guest edited by Kristof Steyvers (Centre for Local Politics, UGent) and Julien van Ostaaijen (@tilburguniversity.bsky.social)!

🔥 Hot off the press! Temperatures are still on the rise outside, so what better than grabbing a cold drink and sitting down with our latest publication? 🔥

🌬️ Another week, another opportunity to blow the dust of some of our old articles and put them back in the spotlight! 🌬️ Let's take a final look at our vol. 4 issue 1 edition from 2022!

📢 Call for Special Issue proposals 📢 PLC invites proposals for a special issue in an upcoming volume, focusing on a key political science theme relevant to the Low Countries. 📅 Deadline: 30 Sept 2026 📧 Submit to: plc-journal@posteo.eu 🔗 More info: lnkd.in/ecn4xibP #OpenPublishing #Openaccess

⏰ You know what time it is! Time to take another deep dive into one of our older publications! ⏰ Today we are shining the spotlight on this article by Job Vossen (University of Antwerp) from our vol. 4 no. 1 edition!

💡 New publication! 💡 Our latest publication titled “The paradox of federalism and its many (friendly) faces: A synthesis of conflict indicators against the background of decentralization in Belgium” is out now!

💡 New publication! 💡 Which factors underlie the continued underrepresentation of women in Dutch politics? Join us as we put the spotlight on the PhD dissertation of @rozemarijnvandijk.bsky.social (Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, @m2p-antwerp.bsky.social)!

🌟 SPECIAL ISSUE ALERT 🌟 Publication three of our special issue on local democracy is out today!

😷 Is Euroscepticism contagious? 😷

🌟 SPECIAL ISSUE ALERT 🌟 The second publication of our special issue “Local Democracy in the Low Countries: At the Base, Changing Face?” is out now!

🌟 SPECIAL ISSUE ALERT 🌟 Get ready for the first publication from our special issue "Local Democracy in the Low Countries: At the Base, Changing Face?"!

🤝 Interested in local coalition formation? 🤝 Join us as we take another deep dive into our archives to put the spotlight on the 2022 article “Opening an Absolute Majority: A Typology of Motivations for Opening and Selecting Coalition Partners” from Politics of the Low Countries (Vol. 4 No. 1)!

📢 New publication! 📢 We are happy to share yet another great PhD project by @kamilbernaerts.bsky.social (@dfuturevub.bsky.social, @warwickpais.bsky.social) for our PhD Summary and Review series!

📢 New publication 📢 We are excited to shine a light on @brittvandewalle.bsky.social’s PhD project (@io-pgi-kuleuven.bsky.social, @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social) as part of our PhD Summary and Review section! 🧠The Brains Behind the Party: Varying and Evolving Roles of Political Party Think Tanks

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

Politics of the Low Countries@plc-journal.bsky.social · 10mo ago

📢 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...

📢 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

Politics of the Low Countries@plc-journal.bsky.social · 11mo ago

📢 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...

🔦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...