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Partitocracy and intra-party ideological agreement Universiteit Antwerpen
Compulsory Voting and Voter Turnout in the Low Countries: A Research Overview Universiteit Hasselt
In recent decades research on voter turnout has vastly increased, especially because of the structural trend towards lower turnout in western societies. Some scholars consider the introduction of a system of compulsory voting as an effective tool to counter this trend. The academic debate on voter turnout and compulsory voting, however, points to a trade-off between equality of electoral participation, on the one hand, and the quality of the ...
Introduction to the Special Issue Questioning Modern Surveillance Technologies: Ethical and Legal Challenges of Emerging Information and Communication Technologies Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This Special Issue explores ethical and legal challenges of existing and emerging ICTs used in the context of security and surveillance from the vantage point of several disciplines and interpretive paradigms. The contributions discuss issues and gaps existing in current regulatory frameworks and planned policy measures designed to address the challenges associated with the promotion of digital technologies in society. They address the need to ...
Special Issue: Questioning Modern Surveillance Technologies: Ethical and Legal Challenges of Emerging Information and Communication Technologies Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This Special Issue explores ethical and legal challenges of existing and emerging ICTs used in the context of security and surveillance from the vantage point of several disciplines and interpretive paradigms. The contributions discuss issues and gaps existing in current regulatory frameworks and planned policy measures designed to address the challenges associated with the promotion of digital technologies in society. They address the need to ...
Exploring the love triangle of authoritarianism, populism, and COVID-19 through political ecology Universiteit Antwerpen
Authoritarian and populist regimes have used the coronavirus pandemic as another excuse to further push back on democracy. Through the lens of boundary-making, we discuss power processes in pandemic politics of three countries whose governments and power constellations rely on authoritarian and/or populist politics (Hungary, Nicaragua, and Guatemala). Our aim is to envision the conceptual and practical possibilities for breaking up the unhealthy ...
Explaining democratic change in the Gambia Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Even if only a small country with less than 2 million inhabitants, the Gambia is a relevant example to study contemporary democratic change in the African context. This PhD project is a timely and theory-driven study on how democratic change has been possible in the Gambia in 2016/17. A self-styled dictator since 1994, Yahya Jammeh, lost a democratic election in the country that he had vowed to rule for a ‘Billion Years’. Achieving democratic ...
Student participation in urban schools Vrije Universiteit Brussel
For students to learn democracy in their schools, it is critical that they can experience what it is like to participate. However, in Flemish and Belgian Dutch-speaking education today, despite its ambitious democratic goals, few opportunities for participation are provided, a concern that applies even more to urban schools. Understanding how urban schools can create learning environments where students can actively participate was therefore the ...
The ‘Muhoozi project’ in Uganda Universiteit Antwerpen
'Just keep silent' Universiteit Antwerpen
In the light of globally resurging authoritarianism, this paper investigates how Ethiopia’s prior ruling party Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front governed teachers to produce conformity with the regime’s objectives. The study draws from qualitative data collected in late 2018 in Addis Ababa with 77 education actors. We demonstrate how ordinary educational governance mechanisms serve as apparatuses of surveillance and sanction that ...