Publications | Media, Movements and Politics

Recent publications by M²P members:

Staes, L. (2025). “Getting the protest post out”. To what extent and how social movements’ Facebook protest posts receive user engagement. Communications. (soon to be published).
Willems, E. (2025). Interest groups' news media prominence as a conduit for parliamentary attention. Interest Groups & Advocacy.
Walgrave, M., Lefevere, J. & Van Aelst, P. (2025). The heterogeneous influence of media on climate knowledge and opinion in a context of science based climate coverage. Communications.
Wouters, R. & Staes, L. (2025). Protest selection. In Nai, A., Grömping, M., & Wirz, D. (Eds). Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Staes, L. & Wouters, R. (2025). Protest Responsiveness. In Nai, A., Grömping, M., & Wirz, D. (Eds). Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Buyens, W. (2025). Never mind the source? The drivers of user engagement with politicians’ online news sharing posts in 15 European countries. The International Journal of Press/Politics.
Azabar, S., & Thijssen, P. (2025). Behind the scenes: a (self) critical reflection on doing mixed methods. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 1-19.
De Bruycker, I., Hanegraaff, M., & Willems, E. (2025). Socioeconomic (in) congruence in EU public policy: the role of civil society. West European Politics.
Vanagt, J., & Kollberg, M. (2025). United in success, fragmented in failure: The moderating effect of perceived government performance on affective polarization between coalition partners. European Journal of Political Research.
Butler, C., Jennings, W., & Stoker, G. (2025). How Do UK Political Elites Reconcile With a Low Trust Environment? Political Studies.
Goovaerts, I., de Fine Licht, J., & Marien, S. (2025). When Deliberative Mini-Publics’ Outcomes and Political Decisions Clash: Examining how Responsive Communication Influences Legitimacy Perceptions. European Journal of Political Research.
Turkenburg, E., Goovaerts, I., & Marien, S. (2025).Different Standards: Observing Variation in Citizens’ Respect-Based Norms for Mediated Political Communication.Public Opinion Quarterly.
Goovaerts, I. (2025). Deliberation.In: Nai, A., Grömping, M., & Wirz, D (Eds). Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Lefevere, J., & Verwee, A. (2025). Ambiguity in the Campaign, and in Office: How Parties’ Ambiguous Policy Statements Affect Party Support. International Journal of Public Opinion Research.
Goldberg, A. C., & and Lefevere, J. (2025). The contingent nature of proximity voting: Unravelling the interplay of party issue polarization and voters’ positional extremity. Political Research Exchange.
De Mulder, A., Gevers, I., & Poljak, Ž. (2025). Who Deserves Representation, and When? Unpacking the Temporal Dynamics of Politicians’ Claims of Representation on Social Media. Political Studies.
Walgrave, M., & Soontjens, K. (2025). Responsive nor responsible? Politicians’ climate change policy preferences and public opinion perceptions. Environmental Politics.
Walgrave, S., Sevenans, J., Varone, F., Sheffer, L., & Breunig, C. (2025). Do Political Leaders Understand Public Opinion Better than Backbenchers?. British Journal of Political Science.
Kins, L. Jacobs, L. & Close, C (2024). Favoring ingroups, derogating from outgroups: how populist parties in Belgium polarize on social media. Acta Politica.
Vanagt, J., & Russo, L. (2024). The economic divide that isn’t: Acomparative study on economic hardshipand affective polarisation. Research & Politics.
Vanagt, J., Praprotnik, K., Russo, L., & Wagner, M. (2024). Affective Polarization Among Radical‐Right Supporters: DislikeDifferentiation and Democratic Support. Politics and Governance.
Vanagt, J. (2024). Appraising Measurements of Affective Polarisation in Multiparty Systems: ComparativeInsights from the Low Countries.Politics of the Low Countries.
Jacobs, L. (2024). How do mainstream parties justify their (un)willingness to rule with populist parties? Evidence from Twitter data. Government and Opposition.
Luypaert, A., Thijssen, P. (2024). The comparative politics of solidarity: Political party discourse across three welfare state regimes. Politics and Policy.
De Mulder, A. (2024). 7. Dissatisfied partisans and the unrepresented: how feeling represented by at least some. Bitter-Sweet Democracy?: Analyzing citizens' resentment towards politics in Belgium, 179.
Verhaegen, S., De Mulder, A., & Randour, F. (2024). 2. Studying political resentment: a methodological overview. Bitter-Sweet Democracy?: Analyzing citizens' resentment towards politics in Belgium, 29.
Walgrave, M. (2024). Climate Views and Information Sources. Politics of the Low Countries.
Staes, L. (2024). “We won’t be divided, we stand united!”. An analysis of social movement organizations’ dWUNC claims on social media.Mobilization: an International Quarterly, 29(1): 1-17.
Buyens, W., Van Aelst, P., & Paulussen, S. (2024). Curating the news. Analyzing politicians’ news sharing behavior on social media in three countries. Information, Communication & Society.
Buyens, W., Van Aelst, P., & Vaccari, C. (2024). The Same Views, the Same News? A 15-Country Study on News Sharing on Social Media by European Politicians. Political Communication.
Buyens, W. (2024). Partisan news recommendations. Studying the effect of politicians’ online news sharing on news credibility. Journal of Information Technology & Politics.
Kuraishi, A., (2024).Towards a New Paradigm on Post-truth. Taylor & Francis.
Lucas, J., Sheffer, L., Loewen, P. J., Walgrave, S., Soontjens, K., Amsalem, E., ... & Varone, F. (2024). Politicians’ Theories of Voting Behavior. American Political Science Review.
Hug, S., Varone, F., Helfer, L., Walgrave, S., Soontjens, K., & Sheffer, L. (2024). The role of politicians' perceptual accuracy of voter opinions in their reelection. Legislative Studies Quarterly.
Butler, C., Walgrave, S., Soontjens, K., & Loewen, P. J. (2024).Politicians are better at estimating public opinion when they think it is more salient. Party Politics.
Willems, E., Maes, B., Walgrave, S. (2024). Mechanisms of Political Responsiveness: The Information Sources Shaping Elected Representatives' Policy Actions. Political Research Quarterly.
Gevers, I., De Mulder A., & Daelemans (2024). Towards a large scale analysis of claims: developing a machine learning method for detecting and classifying politicians’ claims of representation. Journal of Computational Social Science.
Poljak, Ž. (2024). Give the Media What They Need: Negativity as a Media Access Tool for Politicians. The International Journal of Press/Politics.
Stevens, F., & Willems, E. (2024). Information, politicization, and reputation: assessing interest groups’ agenda-setting influence in the EU. European Political Science Review.
Van der Goot, E., Soontjens, K., Beckers, K., Buyens, W., & van Aelst, P. (2024). Pointing Fingers in the Disinformation Era: How Journalists and Politicians Perceive Each Other’s Role in Spreading Disinformation and Its Impact on their Relationship. Journalism Studies.
Turkenburg, E., & Goovaerts, I. (2024). Food for Thought: A Longitudinal Investigation of Reflection- Promoting Speech in Televised Election Debates (1985–2019). Political Studies.
Willems, E. (2024). No escape from the media gates? How public support and issue salience shape interest groups’ media prominence. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly.
Butler, C. (2024). Do Governments Always Take Unpopular Decisions Knowingly? How Perceptual Inaccuracy Affects Policy Decisions. Representation.

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