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Vertrouwen in de overheid tijdens de covid-19-pandemie Universiteit Antwerpen
Is Euroscepticism contagious? How mainstream parties react to Eurosceptic challengers in Belgian parliaments Universiteit Antwerpen
Euroscepticism has long been absent among Belgian political parties. However, since the start of the century, some Eurosceptic challengers have risen. This article examines the effect of Eurosceptic competition on the salience other parties give to the EU and on the positions these parties take in parliament. Using a sample of plenary debates in the federal and regional parliaments, we track each party’s evolution from 2000 until 2019. Our ...
Managing the Covid-19 crisis in a divided Belgian federation Universiteit Antwerpen
The virus outbreak hit Belgium in the middle of a political crisis, after elections that put the confederalism debate back on the table. Combined with the decentralised and dual form of Belgian federalism, it was to be expected that the sub-states would take a prominent role in the fight against the spread of the virus. Instead, the virus turned out to be an external factor that, for the time being, reshaped de jure dual federalism into de facto ...
Recalibration of executive–legislative relations in the European Union Universiteit Antwerpen
The current institutional design of the EU and the way parliaments generally function within this design do not correspond with the EU’s aspirations of representative democracy. Th is chapter argues that this stems from the EU being caught in the trilemma of European integration, which is defined as the challenge to reconcile market integration, national sovereignty and national democracy.
Flemish EU membership, ... if secession (ever) became an option Universiteit Antwerpen
It is clear EU law specialists do not agree on how the EU should deal with newly independent states. What seems to be clear, though, is that the Lisbon Treaty does not provide an unambiguous legal framework to deal with internal fragmentation. Hence, the conclusion must be that the solution will have to come from the political world, of course within the confines of relevant existing legal frameworks and doctrines. This chapter discusses the ...
Explaining self-efficacy development in an authentic higher education learning context of role-play simulations Universiteit Antwerpen
Role-play simulations have become commonly used active learning methods to teach about complex, dynamic political processes. However, an understanding of why there is variation in student learning during such simulations is lacking. This study focuses on the development of student self-efficacy in negotiating over the period of one simulation. We investigate to what extent self-efficacy development can be explained by the individual ...
Europeanization and Sub-National Authorities Universiteit Antwerpen
Unravelling the interplay of sources of self-efficacy in negotiating in role-play simulations of political decision-making Universiteit Antwerpen
This study contributes to current self-efficacy research in two ways. First, it responds to the need for more context- and competency-specific self-efficacy research by expanding the research field to the context of role-play simulations and focusing on the outcome of self-efficacy in negotiating. Second, aiming to investigate sources of self-efficacy and their interplay, the study addresses the need for more in-depth qualitative research by ...
The EU's multilevel parliamentary system Universiteit Antwerpen
This chapter starts from the legitimacy crisis of the EU, defined as the incapacity to deal with the negative effects of its own market integration. It takes inspiration from the self-definition of the EU as a representative democracy to explore avenues to curb the lack of legitimacy. Building on a well-known but amended trilemma, this chapter proposes to reconcile market integration (necessary to create the wealth to redistribute) and national ...