Organisations
LICOS - Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance KU Leuven
The research team focuses on the analysis of the economics of transition, with a special emphasis on empirical testing of theory using micro economic databases. The latter include firm level data collected by means of large scale business survey data. The main research topics that we focus on include: - the analysis of firm restructuring in transition countries, using approaches from Schumpeterian growth theory. - the analysis of job ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Faculty of Political and Social Sciences Ghent University
Power in History - Centre for Political History University of Antwerp
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 ...