Min Reuchamps
Biographic Data
| ID | 369105 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Min Reuchamps |
| GIVEN NAMES | Min |
| FAMILY NAME | Reuchamps |
| SIGNATURE | REUCHAMPS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | UCLouvain |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0916-8515 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 55 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 345 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 53 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
French big brother is watching Belgium: How French newspapers covered Belgian political crises
Belgium and France, neighboring countries, share historical and linguistic ties, with approximately 40% of Belgium’s population speaking French. Yet, Belgian politics and tensions between its two main linguistic, French- and Dutch-speaking, communities often remain complex to French observers. This study investigates how French newspapers framed Belgian political crises within the context of Belgium’s political tensions. Drawing on the cultural p…
Is populism really represented as a threat? An analysis of media discourse on populism in Belgium, France and Spain
The 2024 Belgian federal elections: A Race to the Right
Measuring (Sub-)National Identities in Survey Research: Lessons from Belgium
This article explores different measurements of (sub-)national identities in survey research and examines to what extent they lead to different results. Using survey data from Belgium, where there is a long-standing tradition of (sub-)national identity surveys, three types of questions are scrutinized: the “hierarchical” question (asking respondents to which of a list of given identities they feel most closely related in first and second place), …
Populism as a centrist strategy for disqualification: The use of ‘populism(s)/populist(s)’ in Belgian, French and Spanish Parliaments
This article examines the uses of the words populism(s) and populist(s)—hereafter populis*—by Members of Parliaments from Belgium, France, and Spain in 2019. It presents noteworthy findings unexplored in the literature on the uses of populis*. First, when employed by MPs, populis* refers mainly to actions, discourses and elusive threats rather than directly blaming political enemies (except in Spain). Second, in the three focal countries, populis…
Do I want it if we’ll lose it?” Democratic preferences of national minorities in federal states
In this article, we examine the determinants of citizens’ democratic preferences in federal states with politically significant national or linguistic diversity. Using original survey data from Belgium, Canada and Switzerland, we test whether members of national or linguistic minorities prefer different (electoral, direct or deliberative) forms of decision-making than majority members – since some give advantage to them more than others. While we…
Le Parlement de la Communauté germanophone comme laboratoire de participation citoyenne: Analyse du suivi des recommandations du Dialogue citoyen permanent en Belgique de l’Est1
Si on souhaite comprendre le nouveau rôle des citoyens dans la législation, le cheminement des recommandations élaborées par les assemblées citoyennes devient un élément crucial à analyser. L’élaboration et le suivi des recommandations peuvent être considérés comme un processus en quatre phases. Tout d’abord, la phase de formulation (1), au cours de laquelle un sujet de délibération est sélectionné et défini. Il s’en suit une phase de délibératio…
A francophone political culture? Similarities and differences among French speakers in Canada, Belgium, Switzerland, and France
This paper explores whether language shapes political culture by examining the case of French and a possible transnational francophone political culture. Using original survey data from Canada, Belgium, Switzerland, and France collected in autumn 2020, we find only small within-country differences between francophones and non-francophones and limited transnational alignment. National patterns dominate even in multilingual federations with divided…
De Gruyter Handbook of Citizens’ Assemblies
Citizens’ Assemblies (CAs) are flourishing around the world. Quite often composed of randomly selected citizens, CAs, arguably, come as a possible answer to contemporary democratic challenges. Democracies worldwide are indeed confronted with a series of disruptive phenomena such as a widespread perception of distrust and growing polarization as well as low performance. Many actors seek to reinvigorate democracy with citizen participation and deli…
De Gruyter Handbook of Citizens' Assemblies
La parlementarisation de la démocratie délibérative: Pourquoi est-ce que les élu·es institutionnalisent la participation citoyenne au sein de leur parlement
Un nombre croissant de parlements expérimentent des modèles délibératifs permettant aux citoyennes et citoyens de participer activement à la prise de décision parlementaire. Leur institutionnalisation est particulièrement visible en Belgique, où quatre parlements ont instauré de manière permanente la démocratie délibérative. Nous étudions les raisons derrière cette institutionnalisation en utilisant une méthode mixte pour établir, quantitativemen…
Metaphors, political knowledge and the basic income debate in Belgium: An experimental study of the framing impact of metaphors on political representations
The framing impact of political discourses has long been attested for. Metaphors in particular are known to ease the understanding of complex concepts and processes. Yet, the question remains to what extent metaphors do work the same on different recipients? Based on an experimental design, we test a potentially key moderating variable in the study of political metaphors: political knowledge. Our experiment aims at determining the extent to which…
A scandal effect? Local scandals and political trust
The Integration of Deliberative Mini-publics in Collaborative Governance Through the Perspectives of Citizens and Stakeholders: The Case of the Education Reform in French-speaking Belgium
The integration of deliberative democracy within larger schemes of policy-making of collaborative governance is a key challenge. Such integration potentially means changes in the role and in the power relationships between the actors of collaborative governance. Indeed, it brings in citizens – who were traditionally not formally involved – along with stakeholders – who were traditionally involved. Through the case of a large-scale education refor…
Institutionalising Citizen Deliberation in Parliament: The Permanent Citizens’ Dialogue in the German-speaking Community of Belgium
In recent years, an increasing number of scholars and politicians have called for institutionalising deliberative citizen participation within Parliaments. The Parliament of the German-speaking Community of Belgium has paved the way in this direction by institutionalising a permanent deliberative citizen assembly that is directly linked to the parliamentary process. It consists in a permanent Citizens’ Council drawn by lot, which can initiate Cit…
Sortition, its advocates and its critics: An empirical analysis of citizens’ and MPs’ support for random selection as a democratic reform proposal
This article explores the prospects of an increasingly debated democratic reform: assigning political offices by lot. While this idea is advocated by political theorists and politicians in favour of participatory and deliberative democracy, the article investigates the extent to which citizens and MPs actually endorse different variants of ‘sortition’. We test for differences among respondents’ social status, disaffection with elections and polit…
Local voters have their reasons. Mapping voting motives in local elections in Belgium
Voting motives are one of the most studied but still much contested question in political science. There has been much less concern at the local level although two main tendencies can be discerned. Some consider local elections as second order political contests. Others emphasize place‐bound patterns in voting motives. Still, more research beyond those theoretical presumptions is needed to empirically determine motives for the local vote. Therefo…
Belgian Exceptionalism: Belgian Politics between Realism and Surrealism
Looking in from the Outside: How Do Invited But Not Selected Citizens Perceive the Legitimacy of a Minipublic
Deliberative minipublics are often critiqued for being disconnected with mass democracy. This is problematic from the perspective of legitimacy. If ordinary citizens are not aware of the existence of minipublics, how can citizens consent to the process and outcomes of these processes? One possible design innovation is to widen the pool of citizens randomly invited to take part in minipublics. While not all invited individuals will be selected to …
More or less regional autonomy? A qualitative analysis of citizen arguments towards (de)centralization in Belgium
Inter-regional contacts and voting behaviour in Belgium: What can we learn from the 2019 elections
The 2019 elections in Belgium yielded contrasted results between the two main regions of the country, Flanders and Wallonia. It is often posited that at the core of this regional difference is the intermingled question of identity and state reform preferences. In this context, this article asks the following question: does the presence or absence of inter-regional contacts can explain voting behaviour? To answer this question, we use structural e…
Belgian Exceptionalism
The Effect of Institutional Affiliation and Career Patterns on (De)centralization Preferences in Advanced Multi-Level States: Parliamentarians’ Support for (De)Centralization in Belgium
The decentralization of political power towards subnational entities is one of the major contemporary processes of territorial transformation in European democracies. Traditionally, research has focused on arguments related to nationalism and identities. Later, the strategic agency of political parties has been integrated as they typically play a major role in negotiating constitutional reforms. We investigate two institutionalist factors to expl…
Twenty years of research on political discourse: A systematic review and directions for future research
There is a long tradition of linguistic research on political discourse, but little attention has been paid to what the concept of political discourse itself encompasses. With this in mind, this article aims to understand what types of discourse are categorized as ‘political’ in linguistic research and what their characteristics are (form, type of actors, policy domains, geographical coverage). To this end, we conducted a systematic literature re…
The attractiveness of local and national list labels: The Role of Socio-Economic Inequalities on the Success of Electoral Lists
According to the nationalisation hypothesis, it is sometimes argued that electoral lists competing at local elections under a national party label are more likely to win. Yet, in many countries, local lists are still much present. This article seeks to assess the attractiveness of local and national list labels at local elections. Following Rokkan’s hypothesis of the nationalisation of local politics, we test the role of socio-economic inequality…
Sortition, its advocates and its critics: An empirical analysis of citizens’ and MPs’ support for random selection as a democratic reform proposal
This article explores the prospects of an increasingly debated democratic reform: assigning political offices by lot. While this idea is advocated by political theorists and politicians in favour of participatory and deliberative democracy, the article investigates the extent to which citizens and MPs actually endorse different variants of ‘sortition’. We test for differences among respondents’ social status, disaffection with elections and polit…
Strengthening democracy through bottom-up deliberation: An assessment of the internal legitimacy of the G1000 project
The Belgian Federation at a Crossroad
In the introduction, the editors present the special issue and, in particular, the issue at stake: the future of Belgian federalism. Despite the agreement on the sixth state reform, four key issues remain for Belgium's future: decision making, distribution of powers, intergovernmental relations and the role of the parties. Drawing on past and present investigations of this topic, they present the state of the federation and, in so doing, they set…
Generating Democratic Legitimacy through Deliberative Innovations: The Role of Embeddedness and Disruptiveness
Democratic deliberation is claimed to improve the legitimacy of democratic decision making. However, deliberation’s beneficial effects do not come about easily. If deliberative innovations want to contribute to the legitimacy of political decision making, they have to reflect the principles of legitimacy in their own functioning. In this paper, we set out to assess the input and output legitimacy of four deliberative events, and determine which a…
Intercameral Relations in a Bicameral Elected and Sortition Legislature
The idea of a hybrid bicameral system combining election and sortition is investigated. More precisely, the article imagines how an elected and a sortition chamber would interact, taking into account their public perception and their competing legitimacies. The article draws on a survey of a representative sample of the Belgian population and Belgian members of parliament assessing their views about sortition in political representation. Findings…
Institutionalising Citizen Deliberation in Parliament: The Permanent Citizens’ Dialogue in the German-speaking Community of Belgium
In recent years, an increasing number of scholars and politicians have called for institutionalising deliberative citizen participation within Parliaments. The Parliament of the German-speaking Community of Belgium has paved the way in this direction by institutionalising a permanent deliberative citizen assembly that is directly linked to the parliamentary process. It consists in a permanent Citizens’ Council drawn by lot, which can initiate Cit…
Does Inter-Group Deliberation Foster Inter-Group Appreciation? Evidence from Two Experiments in Belgium
Deliberative democrats assume that political deliberation is capable of transforming citizens' opinions and attitudes. This article takes this assumption as a starting point and tries to test it empirically by determining whether deliberation in an inter-group setting induces more positive out-group attitudes. Based on data from two deliberative experiments in Belgium, we argue that the overall effect of deliberative quality on attitude change is…
Combining Federalism with Consociationalism: Is Belgian Consociational Federalism Digging its Own Grave
Belgian consociational federalism is often praised for its ability to deal peacefully with the country's internal divisions. Nevertheless, recent political stalemates raise the question: Is Belgian consociational federalism digging its own grave? This article argues that granting segmental autonomy effectively accommodates political conflicts that are currently on the agenda, but renders the process of intersegmental conflict accommodation increa…
Beyond linguistic and party homogeneity: Determinants of Belgian MPs’ preferences on federalism and state reform
Political parties are often thought of as unitary actors that have consistent preferences. This ‘hidden assumption’ means that heterogeneity within parties, and therefore intra-party dynamics, are overlooked in explaining attitudes. When it comes to devolution and federalisation, parties or MPs belonging to the same region are also often implicitly considered to have homogeneous viewpoints and attitudes. Relying on an original survey of MPs carri…
The Future of Belgian Federalism Through the Eyes of the Citizens
How do Belgian citizens see the future of federalism? In the typical consociational Belgium citizens have not had much to say about the federalization process, which has been largely elite-driven. And actually not so much is known about the future of Belgian federalism through the eyes of the citizens. Survey research shows some differences in identity and in institutional preferences between the two language groups, but also a low salience of th…
Reforming Belgium’s Federalism: Comparing the Views of MPs and Voters
Consociational theory posits that political elites in divided societies will show a stronger ‘spirit of accommodation’ than the groups they represent, and that this prudent leadership on behalf of the elites explains why divided societies hold together. Belgium has long been considered to be one of the best examples of such a consociational democracy. Yet in this country the spirit of accommodation of prudent leaders was questioned and discussed …
Raising the Threshold, Fighting Fragmentation? Mechanical and Psychological Effects of the Legal Electoral Threshold in Belgium
Many proportional representation systems are characterised by a legal electoral threshold. Such a threshold reserves the allocation of seats for those parties that reach a minimum share of the votes. In order to fight fragmentation, a 5 per cent threshold has been introduced for both federal and regional elections in Belgium. This article seeks to explore the mechanical and psychological effects of this legal threshold after five elections. It is…
Changing your political mind: The impact of a metaphor on citizens’ representations and preferences for federalism
Federalism is often presented through metaphors, but little is known about the impact of such metaphors. Two experiments were conducted in Belgium presenting federalism as Tetris – with control and treatment groups – in order to grasp the influence of this metaphor. The first experiment reveals that being exposed to text with the Tetris metaphor influences respondents’ representations of federalism towards a more institutional representation and …
The Success of the Regionalist Parties in the 2014 Elections in Belgium
In May 2014, and for the second time in her political history, regional, federal and European elections were organized simultaneously in Belgium. In the direct follow-up of the sixth state reform, which increased the powers and autonomy of the Belgian Regions and Communities, these elections were crucial for the future of the country and for the multi-level coalition formation at the regional and federal levels. The political campaign was dominat…
Drawing Belgium: Using Mental Maps to Measure Territorial Conflict
Governing divided Belgium is not an easy affair. Traditional tools of political research have provided insights about the dynamics of Belgian federalism but they have fallen short in exploring the territorial dimension of the conflict and its political representations within the population. Mental maps, scarcely used hitherto by political scientists, offer an innovative research tool to dig into territorial conflict dynamics since they aim at cap…
A scandal effect? Local scandals and political trust
The attractiveness of local and national list labels: The Role of Socio-Economic Inequalities on the Success of Electoral Lists
According to the nationalisation hypothesis, it is sometimes argued that electoral lists competing at local elections under a national party label are more likely to win. Yet, in many countries, local lists are still much present. This article seeks to assess the attractiveness of local and national list labels at local elections. Following Rokkan’s hypothesis of the nationalisation of local politics, we test the role of socio-economic inequality…
The 2014 federal and European elections in Belgium
From a green high tide to government participation: The successes of Ecolo and GROEN in the 2019 Belgian elections
On 26 May 2019, over 7 million voters went to the booths to elect 21 Members of the European Parliament, 150 Members of the Belgian (federal) Chamber of Representatives, 124 Members of the Flemish Parliament, 75 Members of the Walloon Parliament, 89Members of the Parliament of the Region of Brussels-Capital and 25 Members of the Parliament of the German-speaking Community. Of the total 484 MPs directly elected, 72 were from a green party, compare…
The Effect of Institutional Affiliation and Career Patterns on (De)centralization Preferences in Advanced Multi-Level States: Parliamentarians’ Support for (De)Centralization in Belgium
The decentralization of political power towards subnational entities is one of the major contemporary processes of territorial transformation in European democracies. Traditionally, research has focused on arguments related to nationalism and identities. Later, the strategic agency of political parties has been integrated as they typically play a major role in negotiating constitutional reforms. We investigate two institutionalist factors to expl…
Who wants to pay for deliberative democracy? The crowdfunders of the G1000 in Belgium
Thanks to crowdfunding, deliberative mini-publics can be funded bottom-up to reach a wider support in the population and secure financial autonomy for their design. But who are the people willing to pay for deliberative democracy and why? This article answers this twofold question using an original survey with crowdfunders of the G1000 in Belgium. First, the financial support for deliberative democracy mainly comes from the more socially advantag…
Metaphors in political communication: A case study of the use of deliberate metaphors in non-institutional political interviews
This article analyses the use of (deliberate) metaphors in political discourse produced by French-speaking Belgian regional parliamentarians during non-institutional political interviews. The article first investigates if the use of deliberate metaphor limits itself to a particular type of political discourse (i.e. public and institutional political discourse) or if metaphor use is also found in other types of settings (i.e. non-institutional pol…
The Integration of Deliberative Mini-publics in Collaborative Governance Through the Perspectives of Citizens and Stakeholders: The Case of the Education Reform in French-speaking Belgium
The integration of deliberative democracy within larger schemes of policy-making of collaborative governance is a key challenge. Such integration potentially means changes in the role and in the power relationships between the actors of collaborative governance. Indeed, it brings in citizens – who were traditionally not formally involved – along with stakeholders – who were traditionally involved. Through the case of a large-scale education refor…
Measuring (Sub-)National Identities in Survey Research: Lessons from Belgium
This article explores different measurements of (sub-)national identities in survey research and examines to what extent they lead to different results. Using survey data from Belgium, where there is a long-standing tradition of (sub-)national identity surveys, three types of questions are scrutinized: the “hierarchical” question (asking respondents to which of a list of given identities they feel most closely related in first and second place), …
Populism as a centrist strategy for disqualification: The use of ‘populism(s)/populist(s)’ in Belgian, French and Spanish Parliaments
This article examines the uses of the words populism(s) and populist(s)—hereafter populis*—by Members of Parliaments from Belgium, France, and Spain in 2019. It presents noteworthy findings unexplored in the literature on the uses of populis*. First, when employed by MPs, populis* refers mainly to actions, discourses and elusive threats rather than directly blaming political enemies (except in Spain). Second, in the three focal countries, populis…
Représentation et participation politiques
Reprsentation et participation politiques sont au coeur de la vie dmocratique. Si l'on trouve trace de ces deux notions l'aube de XVIII e sicle et plus gnralement aux XIX e et XX e sicles que la reprsentation et la participation politiques, avec l'instauration progressive et la consolidation de la dmocratie librale, prennent le sens que nous leur connaissons aujourd'hui. Nanmoins, au cours de ces quelque 200 ans d'histoire, la vie dmocratique mod…
The Politics of Belgium
The third edition of this highly respected book covers the numerous political developments that have taken place in Belgium since 2012. This book features topics such as the implementation of the sixth state reform, the rebranding of political parties with new party leaders, several elections at all levels of government (from local to European) leading to new governing coalitions, democratic innovations in several parliaments, and, of course, the…
Drawing Belgium: Using Mental Maps to Measure Territorial Conflict
Governing divided Belgium is not an easy affair. Traditional tools of political research have provided insights about the dynamics of Belgian federalism but they have fallen short in exploring the territorial dimension of the conflict and its political representations within the population. Mental maps, scarcely used hitherto by political scientists, offer an innovative research tool to dig into territorial conflict dynamics since they aim at cap…
The Future of Belgian Federalism Through the Eyes of the Citizens
How do Belgian citizens see the future of federalism? In the typical consociational Belgium citizens have not had much to say about the federalization process, which has been largely elite-driven. And actually not so much is known about the future of Belgian federalism through the eyes of the citizens. Survey research shows some differences in identity and in institutional preferences between the two language groups, but also a low salience of th…
The Belgian Federation at a Crossroad
In the introduction, the editors present the special issue and, in particular, the issue at stake: the future of Belgian federalism. Despite the agreement on the sixth state reform, four key issues remain for Belgium's future: decision making, distribution of powers, intergovernmental relations and the role of the parties. Drawing on past and present investigations of this topic, they present the state of the federation and, in so doing, they set…
La participation en action
La participation a aujourd'hui le vent en poupe. Du niveau local a l'echelle internationale, un grand nombre d'experiences sociales et politiques menees au nom de la participation inventent, avec des publics heterogenes, de nouvelles modalites de construction du vivre ensemble. Veritable laboratoire a ciel ouvert, la participation semble desormais un horizon incontournable de nos societes. Derriere ce concept se cache cependant un foisonnement de…
Combining Federalism with Consociationalism: Is Belgian Consociational Federalism Digging its Own Grave
Belgian consociational federalism is often praised for its ability to deal peacefully with the country's internal divisions. Nevertheless, recent political stalemates raise the question: Is Belgian consociational federalism digging its own grave? This article argues that granting segmental autonomy effectively accommodates political conflicts that are currently on the agenda, but renders the process of intersegmental conflict accommodation increa…
Raising the Threshold, Fighting Fragmentation? Mechanical and Psychological Effects of the Legal Electoral Threshold in Belgium
Many proportional representation systems are characterised by a legal electoral threshold. Such a threshold reserves the allocation of seats for those parties that reach a minimum share of the votes. In order to fight fragmentation, a 5 per cent threshold has been introduced for both federal and regional elections in Belgium. This article seeks to explore the mechanical and psychological effects of this legal threshold after five elections. It is…
Does Inter-Group Deliberation Foster Inter-Group Appreciation? Evidence from Two Experiments in Belgium
Deliberative democrats assume that political deliberation is capable of transforming citizens' opinions and attitudes. This article takes this assumption as a starting point and tries to test it empirically by determining whether deliberation in an inter-group setting induces more positive out-group attitudes. Based on data from two deliberative experiments in Belgium, we argue that the overall effect of deliberative quality on attitude change is…
Special issue on the political impact of metaphors
In the wake of Lakoff and Johnson’s seminal work (1980), much attention has been devoted to the study of metaphors not as rhetorical figures, but as conceptual tools to express a complex reality in more familiar terms. While conceptual metaphors occur in every area of life, the political domain remains a particularly rich source of metaphors. As Semino puts it: “It is often claimed that the use of metaphor is particularly necessary in politics, s…
The “Belgian Tetris”: Assessing the political impact of metaphors on citizens’ representations of Belgian federalism
As metaphors not only reflect perceived reality, but can also function as cues through which citizens come to understand complex political processes, the aim of this study is to look at how specific metaphors might impact on the citizens’ framing of Belgian federalism. To measure the impact of metaphors on political representations, we conducted an experiment among 493 citizens based on an article published in the newspaper “Le Soir”, in which Be…
The Success of the Regionalist Parties in the 2014 Elections in Belgium
In May 2014, and for the second time in her political history, regional, federal and European elections were organized simultaneously in Belgium. In the direct follow-up of the sixth state reform, which increased the powers and autonomy of the Belgian Regions and Communities, these elections were crucial for the future of the country and for the multi-level coalition formation at the regional and federal levels. The political campaign was dominat…
Strengthening democracy through bottom-up deliberation: An assessment of the internal legitimacy of the G1000 project
The 2014 federal and European elections in Belgium
Union sacrée ou union forcée ? Les parlementaires belges face à l’impératif délibératif
Dans le cadre des mutations de la démocratie, les conceptions qu’ont les élus de la représentation politique et de la participation citoyenne méritent d’être analysées, car elles permettent de comprendre la potentielle insertion de nouvelles formes démocratiques dans les régimes parlementaires actuels. La position des élus oscille entre méfiance et usage des dispositifs de démocratie participative. Grâce à une méthode qualitative de codage d’entr…
Les relations entre langue et politique en Belgique: Linguistiques ou communautaires
Depuis sa naissance en 1830, la Belgique connaît des tensions entre langue et politique. Se pose dès lors la question de la nature – linguistique ou communautaire – de ces tensions car dans ce pays elles ont en effet été qualifiées tantôt de « linguistiques » par certains tantôt de « communautaires » par d’autres. Mais le choix de ces qualificatifs ne peut être anodin car il structure les enjeux politiques. L’ambition de cet article est d’aborder…
Generating Democratic Legitimacy through Deliberative Innovations: The Role of Embeddedness and Disruptiveness
Democratic deliberation is claimed to improve the legitimacy of democratic decision making. However, deliberation’s beneficial effects do not come about easily. If deliberative innovations want to contribute to the legitimacy of political decision making, they have to reflect the principles of legitimacy in their own functioning. In this paper, we set out to assess the input and output legitimacy of four deliberative events, and determine which a…
Beyond linguistic and party homogeneity: Determinants of Belgian MPs’ preferences on federalism and state reform
Political parties are often thought of as unitary actors that have consistent preferences. This ‘hidden assumption’ means that heterogeneity within parties, and therefore intra-party dynamics, are overlooked in explaining attitudes. When it comes to devolution and federalisation, parties or MPs belonging to the same region are also often implicitly considered to have homogeneous viewpoints and attitudes. Relying on an original survey of MPs carri…
Teaching Political Science with a Mooc: Analysing the Supply Side and the Demand Side
Massive open online courses (MOOC) have been considered by some observers as a powerful opportunity to improve distant learning. The Université catholique de Louvain was the first Belgian university to deliver a political science MOOC (Louv3x) in French, entitled ‘Discovering political science’ (Découvrir la science politique). This paper seeks to explore the challenges a pedagogical team faces when transforming a ‘traditional’ political science …
Drawing Cyprus: Power-sharing, identity and expectations among the next generation in northern Cyprus
In order to capture how young people in northern Cyprus see the Cyprus Question, we asked more than 300 students to ‘draw Cyprus’ and surveyed their political attitudes, as well as their identities and preferences for the future of the island. The results show that the Turkish Cypriot students, in comparison with the students from Turkey and from the other countries, are more supportive of a decentralized federative structure, identify themselves…
Le G1000: Une Expérience Citoyenne De Démocratie Délibérative
Reforming Belgium’s Federalism: Comparing the Views of MPs and Voters
Consociational theory posits that political elites in divided societies will show a stronger ‘spirit of accommodation’ than the groups they represent, and that this prudent leadership on behalf of the elites explains why divided societies hold together. Belgium has long been considered to be one of the best examples of such a consociational democracy. Yet in this country the spirit of accommodation of prudent leaders was questioned and discussed …
Satisfaits de la démocratie ? Une analyse du soutien démocratique à partir de la comparaison de deux méthodes de classification des citoyens
Il est un paradoxe démocratique régulièrement mis en avant : les peuples qui ne connaissent pas la démocratie l'appellent de leurs vœux, alors que, là où elle existe, la démocratie est fortement critiquée. Cela ne signifie pas que les citoyens qui vivent sous la démocratie veulent s'en débarrasser, mais que leur confiance dans le fonctionnement du système démocratique est fortement érodée. Cet article étudie le soutien démocratique en s'interroge…
The Legitimacy of Citizen-led Deliberative Democracy: The G1000 in Belgium
For deliberative democrats, the strength of any democracy is public deliberation, the frequent and reasoned discussion between citizens on political issues. Despite all the theoretical claims made about deliberative systems, the question remains how to empirically assess both the legitimacy and function of deliberative systems in the real world and how individual sites of deliberation interact within the larger political system. In other words, w…
Changing your political mind: The impact of a metaphor on citizens’ representations and preferences for federalism
Federalism is often presented through metaphors, but little is known about the impact of such metaphors. Two experiments were conducted in Belgium presenting federalism as Tetris – with control and treatment groups – in order to grasp the influence of this metaphor. The first experiment reveals that being exposed to text with the Tetris metaphor influences respondents’ representations of federalism towards a more institutional representation and …
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