Projects
Sovereignty in the Belgian Constitution: its 1831 meaning and its implications for political participation today. KU Leuven
From medieval estates to modern parliament. A study into the political participation in regional and central institutions in the Low Countries University of Antwerp
The changing face of local democracy? The impact of citizen participation on attitudes, roles, relationships and legitimacy perceptions of democratic institutional stakeholders Ghent University
New initiatives of citizen participation change the nature of local democracy. This research wants to bring a more comprehensive understanding of how participation has an impact on the roles of politicians, civil servants, citizens and civil society actors in the policy-making process, the relations between these actors, and the legitimacy of local democratic public policy making in the eyes of these actors.
WomenU+2019s Participation in Decentralized Local Governance: The case of Pastoral and Non-Pastoral Women in Kondoa Local Authority, Tanzania. Ghent University
This research explores womenU+2019s participation in decentralized local governance in Tanzania. Specifically, the research explores how, why and the effect of pastoral and non-pastoral womenU+2019s participation in decentralized local governance. There has been a body of research done about participation and gender in Tanzania, however, limited information exists about womenU+2019s participation in governance beyond numbers.
Werk-ID: Development of a mobile application and platform for Direct Employee participation in Flemish SME’s Ghent University
The project introduces a model for the organization of structural and result-oriented direct employee participation by the application of innovative tools in Flemish SME’s. Through the development and use of a digital platform (web app) through which bottom-up direct employee participation is made possible, Werk-ID aims at filling the current gap between forms of top-down direct participation and indirect participation. In doing so, ...
The impact of the measures which were taken by the policymakers following the electrion s of 8/10/2006 to promote the equal participation of men and women in the local and provincial boards Ghent University
With the changes to the electoral law the policymakers tried to obtain an equal presence of men and women among the candidates for the municipal-, provincial- and district councils. The questions arises to what extent this obliged parity was also transformed in the presence of both sexes in the elected councils, as well as in the executives of these boards.
With or without you Artistic strategies that rethink participation Hasselt University
Righting Victim Participation in Transitional Justice Ghent University
The question of how to serve justice, facilitate peaceful transitions and empower victims of past large-scale abuses is about as old as the field of transitional justice (TJ) itself. Increasingly, academics and practitioners are turning to participatory approaches as a promising way to make advances regarding these issues. An oft-cited benefit of victim participation in TJ processes is that it allegedly increases the legitimacy of these ...
Off the beaten track: understanding victims’ participation trajectories in the DR Congo's transitional justice ecology Ghent University
After large-scale conflict or massive human rights violations, societies need to find ways to deal with legacies of violence and move towards more peaceful futures. Transitional justice (TJ) has been developed as an overarching set of mechanisms to facilitate this.
In contexts like the Eastern Congo a variety of actors mobilizes elements of the TJ ‘toolkit’, even in the absence of a political transition and in a context of ...