Organisations
Research for Digitalisation, Diversity and Democracy Hasselt University
Centre for the study of Democracy, Signification and Resistance Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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 ...
Research in Political Philosophy and Ethics Leuven (RIPPLE) KU Leuven
The Centre for Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy (CESPF) co-ordinates all research concerning ethics, applied ethics, social & political philosophy, and philosophy of law at the Institute of Philosophy.The CESPF hosts three major lines of research, dealing respectively with foundational issues such as the analysis of the moral experience in Ethics; with topical questions like health-care and migration in Applied Ethics; and with the ...
Political Science Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The Department of Political Science groups all the people involved in political science teaching and research at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. The Department organizes a Bachelor in Political Science (in Dutch), a Master in Political Science (in Dutch) and it participates in the organization of an Advanced Master in European Integration (in English). Most of the research conducted in the Department fall under four major themes: Political ...
Department of Public Governance and Management Ghent University
Criminology Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The department SCRI is developing research in the area of criminological sciences, and more in particular in the following domains: 1. Juvenile justice: - History of juvenile delinquency and the juvenile justice system; - Community service and mediation for juvenile offenders; 2. Police: community policing, public and private security. 3. Penal policy: - Alternative sanctions; - Sentencing and penal culture; - Drug policy; - Socio-legal and ...
Centre for Political Research KU Leuven
The members of the Center for Political Research focus on the central institutions and processes of decision-making, inherent in contemporary democracies. Therefore, four major domains are central in their research strategy: elections, political parties and social organisations, parliaments and governments. In the analyses and publications both structural and cultural determinants of the functioning of democracies and its patterns of ...
Functional and Cognitive Linguistics: Grammar and Typology (FunC), Brussels Campus KU Leuven
The research group FunC consists of researchers conducting research in the field of cognitive-functional linguistics. Over the last decade the research group FunC has mainly been concerned with the semantics and pragmatics of different types of verbal and (pro)nominal constructions, both synchronically and diachronically.
Political Representation in Diverse Societies Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Political representation is a crucial concept in political science. In essence, representation entails something or someone (the agent) standing for an absent thing or person (the principal). Political representation thus places an intermediary (agent) between citizens (principals) and political decision-making. These agents are called representatives. The fact that every society contains different interests and nodes that want to be ...