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Extremism and democracy University of Antwerp

The core of the research focuses on the relationship between political extremism and democracy, i.e. the process of mutual influence. This includes both the effects of extremist and populist parties on the functioning of democracy in Europe, as the ways in which democracies deal with extremism and its effects on extremist actors. Currently, (doctoral) research projects are being done on populism within Flemish parties (extremist and democratic), ...

Research for Digitalisation, Diversity and Democracy Hasselt University

The research unit R4D conducts social science research on three major fundamental changes in contemporary societies: digitalisation, diversity and democracy. These phenomena are increasingly redrawing the relationships between individuals and core institutions such as the state, the market, civil society, communities, the family as well as between individuals themselves. This gives rise to new, complex issues whose outcomes are often difficult ...

Centre for the study of Democracy, Signification and Resistance Vrije Universiteit Brussel

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DESIRE performs critical research into the political-democratic nature of societal processes and their discursive-significatory dimensions.

Crucial within DESIRE's remit is the study of the logics of power, how power strategies are developed and resisted and how signification intervenes into these power logics. DESIRE's areas of interest thus include the many societal fields where meaning is produced and circulated, including the ...