Projects
Post-electoral Belgian Federal Election Survey KU Leuven
Post-electoral Belgian Federal Election Survey in cooperation with the université de Liège.
Fieldwork of the Belgian National Election Study and Belgian Ethnic Minorities Election Study. University of Antwerp
Fieldwork for the Belgian national Election Study University of Antwerp
Design of a statistically sound and risk-based survey plan for the detection of Xylella fastidiosa in Belgium Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Xylella fastidiosa (Xfas) is one of the most dangerous bacterial plant pathogens associated with serious diseases in a wide range of plants. In 2013, a strain of the bacterium was, for the first time, detected on European territory (Italy), causing a dramatic outbreak of Olive Quick Decline Syndrome. In 2020, at the request of the European Commission, EFSA published specific ...
Party member surveys in sp.a and Vlaams Belang Ghent University
Membership of political parties has been shrinking, but at the same time party members are granted increased powers in the party and citizens have increasingly become involved in alternative decision-making channels independent from parties. All these trends make it important to examine party members. As parties shrink and participation procedures are introduced, do parties attract a changed mixture of members, possibly with different motives ...
Inference after model selection and averaging via confidence distributions and curves KU Leuven
Model selection and model averaging are common practices to find the best model that explains the observed data. When the working model is selected using data-driven methods and the same data are used for inference about population parameters, guarantees of classical inference techniques might not hold anymore. This dissertation discusses ways of producing valid inference for post-selection and for model averaged estimators via confidence ...
Privacy and Accountability in Networks via Optimized Randomized Mix-nets KU Leuven
The objective of the PANORAMIX project is the development of a multipurpose infrastructure for privacy-preserving communications based on "mix-networks" (mix-nets) and its integration into high-value applications that can be exploited by European businesses. Mix-nets protect not only the content of communications from third parties, but also obscure the exact identity of the senders or receivers of messages, through the use of cryptographic ...
Electoral Accountability in Extreme Conditions: An application to Belgian elections. KU Leuven
Within liberal democracies, elections offer a key moment to citizens
to hold incumbents accountable for the policies they have
implemented. Within the theoretical literature on electoral
accountability, however, it remains to be investigated what time
frame voters use to evaluate government, who is being held
accountable, and what kind of benchmark criteria are being used to
evaluate performance. These three ...