Projects
"Trust me, I defend your interests". A Multidisciplinary Study of Politicians' Representative Claims and their Effects on Citizens. University of Antwerp
Jeopardizing the Future? The anticipation of electoral accountability by politicians and their dealing with climate change. University of Antwerp
Cognitive biases in how managers and politicians use performance information: differences between actors and moderation by the hard or soft nature of performance management KU Leuven
Worldwide, governments have devoted resources to the introduction of performance management systems. At the core of those systems is performance information. Whereas a lot of studies have examined "why" managers and politicians use available performance information, knowledge gaps remain with regard to "how" they exactly use it. In other words, we do not yet know enough about how they concretely process and respond to that information. Such ...
How politics becomes news and news becomes politics. A comparative study among political journalists and politicians in Switzerland and the Netherlands. University of Antwerp
Who Are the Bad Guys? Disentangling Definitions and Discourses on Terrorism Among Politicians and Citizens KU Leuven
Navigating identities in political news: An intersectional understanding of gendering in news coverage on women politicians Ghent University
This project studies gendered patterns in Flemish news coverage about women politicians, using an intersectional perspective. It focuses on (1) gendering in news output by means of a quantitative
content analysis, (2) women politicians’ experiences with intersecting power structures within political journalism (in-depth interviews) and (3) the ways journalists negotiate identity in the production of
news coverage (in-depth ...
Who Are the Bad Guys? Disentangling Definitions and Discourses on Terrorism Among Politicians and Citizens in Belgium and Norway KU Leuven
Terrorism is intended to change us and the societies in which we live. Yet, despite the important impact of this phenomenon, very little is known about which incidents of political violence are perceived as terrorism by political leaders and the general public. This lack of knowledge is problematic, particularly considering the strategic use and delegitimizing power that comes with attaching the label ‘terrorism’ to a particular event. In ...
Plutarch’s Politicians and the People: Popular Politics in the 'Parallel Lives' and the Greek Cities of the Roman Empire Ghent University
This project studies mass-elite relations in the Greek cities of the Roman empire by examining Plutarch’s Parallel Lives, a second-century AD collection of biographies of Greek and Roman statesmen from classical Athens to Republican Rome. Up till now, historians have explored these biographies as sources on the periods they describe, whereas Plutarch scholars have focused on their function as a programme for moral self-improvement. This ...
Does the journalist matter? A multi-method study on the influence of journalists' political gender stereotypes on the representations of male and female politicians in the news Ghent University
This project contributes to the literature by shedding light on the impact of political gender stereotypes among journalists on the representation of female politicians in Flemish news media, from an intersectional perspective. To do so, the project puts forward a multi-method research design combining quantitative content analysis, reconstruction interviews and a between-subjects survey experiment.