Center for political science and comparative politics

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CESPOL News

November 16, 2022

The Fear we Feel Everyday, an article by L. Knops in...

Knops, L. (2022). The Fear we Feel Everyday: Affective Temporalities in Fridays for Future, South Atlantic Quarterly 203-204, https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-10242784

November 16, 2022

Towards an Affective Turn in Theories of Representation,...

Knops, L. (2022). Towards an Affective Turn in Theories of Representation: The Case of Indignation, Representation, DOI: 10.1080/00344893.2022.2091011

November 16, 2022

Indignation as Affective Transformation, Louise Knops...

Knops, L. and Petit, G. (2022). Indignation as Affective Transformation: an Affect-Theoretical Approach to the Belgian Yellow Vests Movement. Mobilization: An International Quarterly 27(2):...

November 16, 2022

Stuck between the Modern and the Terrestrial, a...

Knops, L. (2021). Stuck between the Modern and the Terrestrial: the Indignation of the Youth for Climate Movement, Political Research Exchange, 3(1), 1-31

September 07, 2022

Fabienne Leloup, co-author of a "Courrier du CRiSP" issue

The refugee and covid crises, not to mention the war in Ukraine, have transformed the status of borders and cross-border cooperation within the European Union. Fabienne Leloup, Eric Delecosse and...

June 01, 2022

Christoph Niessen publishes in Regional Studies

Christoph Niessen (2022) Measuring evolving regional autonomy demands and statutes: introducing the Sub-state Autonomy Scale (SAS), Regional...

May 23, 2022

Several ISPOLE members contribute to "Belgian...

The book: 鈥楤elgian Exceptionalism: 'Belgian Politics between Realism and Surrealism鈥� (Routledge), in which several ISPOLE members have written a chapter is fully available open access....

May 11, 2022

The new Qualidem鈥檚 article is out ! Signed by M. Bussi,...

Bussi M, Dupuy C, &Van Ingelgom V. Does social policy change impact on politics? A review of policy feedbacks on citizens鈥� political participation and attitudes towards politics. Journal of...

March 09, 2022

Measuring the impact of consultative citizen...

Vrydagh, J. Measuring the impact of consultative citizen participation: reviewing the congruency approaches for assessing the uptake of citizen ideas. Policy Sci (2022)....

October 18, 2021

Federalization in the slipstream? Christoph Niessen...

Niessen C. ( 2021). Federalization in the slipstream: How the German-speaking Community of Belgium became one of the smallest federal entities in the world. Nations and Nationalism,...