Pieter Moens
Biographic Data
| ID | 4094743 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pieter Moens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pieter |
| FAMILY NAME | Moens |
| SIGNATURE | MOENS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2035-8766 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Great minds think alike? Ideological congruence between party members and leadership candidates
Are Political Staffers out of Touch with Grassroots Party Members? Assessing Congruence between Professionals and Volunteers
This article examines whether political professionalization causes attitudinal incongruence within political parties. In this first of a kind study, the internal opinion structure of five Belgian political parties based in Flanders is analysed by comparing the political attitudes of staffers and party members. The analysis combines original survey data collected among the staff of five Belgian political parties based in Flanders ( N = 560) and su…
Knowledge Is Power
This article analyses the distribution of staff resources between party offices. While earlier studies have compared central and parliamentary offices, this study also includes ministerial offices. To capture fully the differences in staffing, I examine both the quantity (staff size) and quality (education, experience, tasks) of their staffs. The empirical section is based on a cross-sectional analysis of original survey data collected among poli…
Professional activists? Party activism among political staffers in parliamentary democracies
Although the position of the party on the ground has been weakened by cartelization, grassroots activists remain an important recruitment pool for political professionals. Based on unique survey data collected among the staff of 14 Belgian and Dutch parties (N = 1009), this article offers an in-depth analysis of party activism among this under-researched population. Introducing a new supply and demand framework, I argue that staff recruitment is …
Knowledge Is Power
This article analyses the distribution of staff resources between party offices. While earlier studies have compared central and parliamentary offices, this study also includes ministerial offices. To capture fully the differences in staffing, I examine both the quantity (staff size) and quality (education, experience, tasks) of their staffs. The empirical section is based on a cross-sectional analysis of original survey data collected among poli…
Professional activists? Party activism among political staffers in parliamentary democracies
Although the position of the party on the ground has been weakened by cartelization, grassroots activists remain an important recruitment pool for political professionals. Based on unique survey data collected among the staff of 14 Belgian and Dutch parties (N = 1009), this article offers an in-depth analysis of party activism among this under-researched population. Introducing a new supply and demand framework, I argue that staff recruitment is …
Are Political Staffers out of Touch with Grassroots Party Members? Assessing Congruence between Professionals and Volunteers
This article examines whether political professionalization causes attitudinal incongruence within political parties. In this first of a kind study, the internal opinion structure of five Belgian political parties based in Flanders is analysed by comparing the political attitudes of staffers and party members. The analysis combines original survey data collected among the staff of five Belgian political parties based in Flanders ( N = 560) and su…
Great minds think alike? Ideological congruence between party members and leadership candidates
Professional activists? Party activism among political staffers in parliamentary democracies
Although the position of the party on the ground has been weakened by cartelization, grassroots activists remain an important recruitment pool for political professionals. Based on unique survey data collected among the staff of 14 Belgian and Dutch parties (N = 1009), this article offers an in-depth analysis of party activism among this under-researched population. Introducing a new supply and demand framework, I argue that staff recruitment is …
Knowledge Is Power
This article analyses the distribution of staff resources between party offices. While earlier studies have compared central and parliamentary offices, this study also includes ministerial offices. To capture fully the differences in staffing, I examine both the quantity (staff size) and quality (education, experience, tasks) of their staffs. The empirical section is based on a cross-sectional analysis of original survey data collected among poli…
Great minds think alike? Ideological congruence between party members and leadership candidates
Are Political Staffers out of Touch with Grassroots Party Members? Assessing Congruence between Professionals and Volunteers
This article examines whether political professionalization causes attitudinal incongruence within political parties. In this first of a kind study, the internal opinion structure of five Belgian political parties based in Flanders is analysed by comparing the political attitudes of staffers and party members. The analysis combines original survey data collected among the staff of five Belgian political parties based in Flanders ( N = 560) and su…
Electoral Systems and Political Participation (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Grassroots (2 works)