Projects
The Tree of Trust: Trust between Managers and Employee Representatives in Organizational Social Dialogue KU Leuven
The central topic of this thesis is trust in organizations. In organizational and industrial relations, one of the main aspects that leads to cooperation and that also derives from cooperation, is trust. For that reason, trust has been studied extensively in the organizational context. Surprisingly little attention has been given to trust, it’s antecedents and its consequences in the relation between employee representatives (ERs) and ...
Principle-based Regulation and Trust: Explaining Beneficiaries' and Regulatees' Trust in Hybrid Regulatory Regimes. University of Antwerp
Upcycling Trust: Upcycling substandard buildings into affordable housing with Community Land Trusts Vrije Universiteit Brussel
With the Upcycling Trust project, ...
Trust in the Belgian criminal justice chain - A qualitative empirical study on the trust relationship between the local criminal investigation department, the federal criminal investigation department, the public prosecutor's office and the examining KU Leuven
This doctoral thesis studies the interorganisational trust process in the Belgian criminal justice system. It is the result of a five-year (2012-2017) study in the context of the IAP project Justice and Populations (IAP VII/22) financed by Belspo. The research takes a public administration perspective and studies the trust process between the local police, the federal police, the public prosecutor’s office and the examining ...
Intermediation and Trust in the Regulatory State: More Regulation, Less Trust? (RegTrust). University of Antwerp
Trust as an idea: Transplantation and Regeneration of Trust Law in China KU Leuven
From a comparative law perspective, the emergence of trust law in China is curious. The Chinese legal system is completely different from that of the origin place of the trust, and the recipient country has little historical, cultural, or social similarity to the donor country. In general, the legal device of trust has long been considered incompatible with non-common law jurisdictions. However, China, as a country with a civil law tradition, ...
Scrolling Until the Trust is Gone? Investigating the Impact of Political Harmful Content on TikTok on Trust in Politics Among Adolescents. KU Leuven
As concerns rise over a widespread decrease in political trust among adolescents, social media platforms such as TikTok and its content are scrutinized for their potential role in this decline. As such, political harmful content, such as hate speech, disinformation, and extremist or populist content, is prevalent on TikTok and spreading more extensively than ever, potentially influenced by its recommendation algorithm. This raises worries ...
Breaking or making trust through violence? An analysis of the impact of the Boko Haram insurgency on inter-group trust and relations between Christians and Muslims in Nigeria KU Leuven
How does terrorism affect citizens’ social and political attitudes? And how can we explain differences in attitudinal reactions between individuals and across societies? Scholars, policymakers, and the public alike often assume that terrorism is effective to the extent it is able to influence the electorate. As a result, an impressive body of literature has accumulated—especially since the 9/11 attacks—on citizens’ attitudinal responses to ...
Social trust and regulations in the frame of economic transactions KU Leuven
PhD research proposal: Social trust and regulations in the frame of economic transactions More and more attention has been given during the last two decades within various academic disciplines to the notion of trust (Uslaner 2018). Trust represents a bet upon the expected behaviour of others. It is part of a certain mind-set reigning within a society and reflected by the way in which its people behave. Societies have different propensities of ...