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Interuniversity Attraction Pole: Participation and Representation in Contemporary Democracies

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Prof. dr. Marc Hooghe
dr. Sofie Marien

In association with

Prof.dr. Kris Deschouwer, Free University of Brussels
Prof. dr. Stefaan Walgrave, University of Antwerp
Prof.dr. Pascal Delwit, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Prof. dr. Rudy Andeweg, University of Leiden, Netherlands

Project description

Participation and Representation are concepts that have been at the centre of political debates and political theory for a few decades. This debate refers to (still ongoing) structural changes in the way citizens are linked to the process of political decision-making. These changes raise a large number of questions that are extremely relevant for modern political science. The main research question for this inter-university research project is how the processes of participation and representation are being affected by these social changes and in turn what effect participation and representation have on the legitimacy of democratic government. We investigate among other things political representation, political trust, party members, political participation, protest movements, voting choices, political deliberation,.. . This project has developed three major research instruments namely a panel survey for the regional elections of 2009 in Belgium, an international survey of members of national and regional parliament and a survey of party members. The project is part of an Inter-University Attraction Pole, i.e. a network of excellence set up by the Federal Belgian Science Agency.

www.partirep.eu

Selection of publications

Deschouwer Kris, Delwit Pascal, Hooghe Marc, Walgrave Stefaan (2010) De stemmen van het volk. Een analyse van het kiesgedrag in Vlaanderen en Wallonië op 7 juni 2009. Brussel: VUBPress, pp. 272

K. Deschouwer, P. Delwit, M. Hooghe, & S. Walgrave (Reds.) (2010) Les voix du peuple. Le comportement électoral au scrutin du 10 juin 2009. Bruxelles: Editions de l'Université de Bruxelles.

Marien S. (2012). The Effect of Electoral Outcomes on Political Trust. A Multi-level Analysis of 23 Countries. Electoral Studies, Accepted. [link]

Marien Sofie, Hooghe Marc, Does political trust matter? An empirical investigation into the relation between political trust and support for law compliance. European Journal of Political Research, 50(2), 267-291. [pdf]

Hooghe Marc, Why there is Basically only one Form of Political Trust. British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 13(2), 269-275. [pdf]

Hooghe Marc, Deschouwer Kris, Veto Players and Electoral Reform in Belgium. West European Politics, 34(3), 626-643. [pdf]

Hooghe Marc, Marien Sofie, Pauwels Teun, Where do Distrusting Voters Turn to if there is no Viable Exit or Voice Option? The Impact of Political Trust on Electoral Behaviour in the Belgian Regional Elections of June, 2009. Government and Opposition, 46(2), 245-273. [pdf]

Quintelier Ellen, Hooghe Marc, Marien Sofie, The Effect of Compulsory Voting on Turnout Stratification Patterns. A Cross-National Analysis. International Political Science Review (accepted) [pdf]

Marien Sofie, Hooghe Marc, Quintelier Ellen (2010) Inequalities in Non-Institutionalised Forms of Political Participation. A Multi-level Analysis of 25 countries. Political Studies, 58(1), 187-213 [pdf]

Hooghe Marc, Heyndels Bruno, Jottier Dimi, Bircan Tuba, & Botterman Sarah (2010) Explaining the Green Vote. An Analysis of the Green Vote in Belgian Local Elections 1994-2006. Environmental Politics, 19(6), 930-950.

Gschwend Thomas & Hooghe Marc (2008) Should I Stay or Should I Go? An Experimental Study on Voter Responses to Pre-Electoral Coalitions in Flanders (Belgium). European Journal of Political Research, 47(5), pp. 556-577.

Hooghe Marc, Wilkenfeld Britt (2008) The stability of political attitudes and behaviors across adolescence and early adulthood. A comparison of survey data on adolescents and young adults in eight countries. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 37(2), pp. 155-167.

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