Projects
Enhanced migration measures from a multidimensional perspective KU Leuven
The significance of migration as a social, political and broader public concern has intensified significantly. Migration is increasingly seen as a high-priority policy issue by many governments, politicians and throughout the world.
As well as migration projections and scenarios that are essential for appropriate planning and effective policymaking, a deeper understanding of the root causes and drivers of migration and of their ...
Porn Hub: Brussels and the International Fear of Pornography Networks, 1880-1910 KU Leuven
Regularly, we are told that violent pornography is penetrating our homes through our computers. This representation of pornography as an advanced, growing and dangerous network was created at the end of the nineteenth century and made pornography into a major social problem. Obscene publications were, of course, regarded as "immoral" before 1880, but from 1880 onwards, pornography changed from a moral problem of some perverted individuals to ...
Representing Representatives: Parliaments in transforming media ensembles in Belgium, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom during the twentieth century KU Leuven
Interdisciplinary Research Programme: Brussels Centre for Urban Studies Vrije Universiteit Brussel
EcoZoo - Education sustainable development in the STEM classroom Odisee vzw
The choice before the choice: which criteria do green party selectors’ use when selecting candidates? Ghent University
The selection of electoral candidates by political parties, an intraparty process taking place before the elections, directly influences the composition of parliaments. Surprisingly little is known on the rationale behind this ‘choice before the choice’. This project aims first at understanding the selection criteria used by parties to choose their candidates. On what basis do they make their candidate selection choices? Parties may rely on ...
Information asymmetries, agricultural technology adoption, and public service delivery: Experimental evidence from Uganda KU Leuven
Markets with asymmetric information caught the gaze of economists in the 1970s, when George Akerlof, Michael Spence and Joseph Stiglitz established the foundations for this line of research. Their contribution was rewarded with the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 2001. We now acknowledge that many markets are characterized by asymmetric information, meaning that one actor in the market has more or better ...
Use and nonuse value of small- and medium-sized (sport) events KU Leuven
How does style persuade? Validating classical rhetoric through an empirical study of the practice and effects of rhetorical figures in political speech Ghent University
The depillarization tendency in Western democracies since the 1950s has resulted in an increasing
level of voter volatility and the growing importance of persuasion strategies in political
communication. Interestingly, politicians still compose speeches using classical rhetoric (e.g.
pathos, logos, rhetorical figures), which have never been empirically validated within political
marketing, despite research in ...