Job title: Ph.D. Position in European Studies (307748), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Saturday, October 10, 2026

While the far right has swept across Europe, it has failed to take root in Belgium’s south. Could Wallonia be a model for the rest of the continent?

In 2024 doorbraken MR en Les Engagés de hegemonie van PS. Is de Franstalige kiezer nu eindelijk verrechtst? En blijft Wallonië in 2029 een 'Gallisch dorp'...

Flanders is often called a right-wing region, while Walloon attitudes skew much more to the left. But, as research shows, it's not that simple.

1 PhD position to research how parties build connections with social groups

De afgelopen decennia is het kiesgedrag in België fundamenteel veranderd. Kiezers zijn volatieler...

Parmi les démocraties d'Europe occidentale, la Belgique fait figure d'exception. Le pays connaît deux systèmes politiques strictement séparés, les Flamand·es

Bij de verkiezingen van 2024 was het Franstalige electoraat voor het eerst volatieler dan het Vlaamse, leert nieuw onderzoek.

In recent decades, educational expansion has produced a large swathe of university graduates which labour markets are increasingly less able to absorb…

Mainstream political actors in many countries face the challenging decision of how to engage with radical-right parties. While some systematically exclude them from power, others accept them as coa...

PS heeft het meest migratiekritische electoraat van Franstalig België. Desondanks staan de Waalse socialisten niet te boek als een welvaartschauvinistische partij.

Why the rise of AI, might change our politics in the UK (and US!)

Major socio-economic transformations can create new cleavages, altering politics forever. The crucial contemporary transformation is the shift towards post-industrial knowledge economies, placing e...

PhD Researcher - Scientific project on Education-based social identities

This article examines how Georgian wine producers respond to EU export standards and how they perceive them. What role does the Europeanisation process play in shaping their resilience through adap...

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

Er zijn voor politieke wetenschappers en nieuwsmedia geen excuses meer om te werken met slechte steekproeven. De nieuwe steekproef, The Social Study, toont hoe het wél kan.

This study challenges the conventional conceptualisation of political space in European countries as a two-dimensional socio-economic and socio-cultural structure. Utilising data from the 2024 Euro...

Harassment of politicians is a growing global phenomenon, which threatens to erode the quality of democracy and descriptive representation. Past research has examined gender patterns of this violence ...

Why do age differences matter for voting in some countries and not in others? Despite the prevailing narrative that a ‘youthquake’ in voting is occurring across...

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