Researcher
Jonas Lefevere
- Research Expertise
(Vrije Universiteit Brussel):
Jonas Lefevere is Assistant Professor of Political Communication at the Brussels School of Governance.
Research
His research focuses on political communication, with a particular interest in the impact of media on the public, the impact of election campaigns on voting behavior, and the role of issues in voting behavior and partypolitical communication strategies. He has published extensively on these topics in a variety of journals, including Public Opinion Quarterly, Communication Research, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Party Politics, and so on (Google Scholar Profile).
Currently, he is principal investigator in the FWO-FNRS Excellence of Science project NOTLIKEUS (They Are Not Like Us), which studies polarization and perceptions of differentness between societal groups and politics in Belgium. NOTLIKEUS brings together a team from the VUB, ULB, UCL, UAntwerp and KU Leuven.
With Silvia Erzeel (VUB), he is supervisor of a forthcoming FWO Junior research project that will study ambiguity in political party communication (2023-2026).
With Stefaan Walgrave, he is the lead investigator for De Stemming, a yearly survey commissioned by the Flemish public broadcaster (VRT) and De Standaard.
Teaching
For 2022-2023 academic year:
- Introduction to Political Science (VUB, Bachelor in the Social Sciences);
- MA Thesis seminar II (BSoG, MA in Diplomacy and Global Governance / MA in Global Security and Strategy);
- Research Methods (BSoG, MA in Diplomacy and Global Governance / MA in Global Security and Strategy);
- BA Thesis I (BSoG, BA in Global Communication);
- BA Thesis II (BSoG, BA in Global Communication).
Academic service
Together with Katjana Gattermann (University of Amsterdam), he founded the ECPR Standing Group on Political Communication, and he is a member of the Standing Group's steering committee. He chaired the Political Communication section at the 2018 ECPR General Conference in Hamburg.
He represents VUB in the Executive Committee of The Social Survey.
- Research Expertise (University of Antwerp):Research on political communication: - the impact of media coverage on perceptions of political parties; - the strategic communication of political parties; - disinformation. Research on elections and political participation: - The role of policy themes in voting behavior; - the role of polarization in political participation; - political knowledge.
- Keywords (Vrije Universiteit Brussel):General and logistic services, Political and social sciences, Law (incl. notarial studies)
- Keywords (University of Antwerp):VOTING BEHAVIOR, ELECTIONS, ELECTION CAMPAIGNS, Political and social sciences
- Disciplines (Vrije Universiteit Brussel):Party politics, Voting behaviour, Political campaigns, Belgian politics, Political communication, Public opinion
- Disciplines (University of Antwerp):International and comparative politics, National politics, Political behaviour, Political organisations and institutions, Political theory and methodology, Communication sciences, Media studies
- Research techniques (University of Antwerp):Quantitative research methods: survey research, survey experiments, quantitative content analysis.
- Users of research expertise
(Vrije Universiteit Brussel):
Jonas Lefevere is Assistant Professor of Political Communication at the Brussels School of Governance.
Research
His research focuses on political communication, with a particular interest in the impact of media on the public, the impact of election campaigns on voting behavior, and the role of issues in voting behavior and partypolitical communication strategies. He has published extensively on these topics in a variety of journals, including Public Opinion Quarterly, Communication Research, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Party Politics, and so on (Google Scholar Profile).
Currently, he is principal investigator in the FWO-FNRS Excellence of Science project NOTLIKEUS (They Are Not Like Us), which studies polarization and perceptions of differentness between societal groups and politics in Belgium. NOTLIKEUS brings together a team from the VUB, ULB, UCL, UAntwerp and KU Leuven.
With Silvia Erzeel (VUB), he is supervisor of a forthcoming FWO Junior research project that will study ambiguity in political party communication (2023-2026).
With Stefaan Walgrave, he is the lead investigator for De Stemming, a yearly survey commissioned by the Flemish public broadcaster (VRT) and De Standaard.
Teaching
For 2022-2023 academic year:
- Introduction to Political Science (VUB, Bachelor in the Social Sciences);
- MA Thesis seminar II (BSoG, MA in Diplomacy and Global Governance / MA in Global Security and Strategy);
- Research Methods (BSoG, MA in Diplomacy and Global Governance / MA in Global Security and Strategy);
- BA Thesis I (BSoG, BA in Global Communication);
- BA Thesis II (BSoG, BA in Global Communication).
Academic service
Together with Katjana Gattermann (University of Amsterdam), he founded the ECPR Standing Group on Political Communication, and he is a member of the Standing Group's steering committee. He chaired the Political Communication section at the 2018 ECPR General Conference in Hamburg.
He represents VUB in the Executive Committee of The Social Survey.
- Users of research expertise (University of Antwerp):Journalists Politicians
- See also: Jonas Lefevere (University of Antwerp)