Christoph Niessen postdoc researcher FWO Research Christoph Niessen Research team Politics & Public Governance Democratic Innovations and Scale: How Population Size Affects Direct and Deliberative Citizen Participation. 01/11/2023 - 31/10/2026 Abstract Following a widely perceived crisis of represen…

Antwerp Interdisciplinary Platform for Research into Inequality search menu search content Online seminar 10 December 2020 'Oral Democracy': Governance with Unequal Voices Theme What happens to “deliberative democracy” in contexts of social inequalities? What happens to citizens who are allowed …

Jan Beyers full professor Research Jan Beyers Research team Expertise The group has an extensive expertise in the field of institutional and organizational theories and is capable to supply expertise and advice to organizations (interest groups, bureaucratic agencies, political parties) that seek to…

Christoph Niessen postdoc researcher FWO About Christoph Niessen Christoph Niessen Contact Stadscampus Show email address Sint-Jacobstraat 2 2000 Antwerpen, BEL Christoph Niessen is a researcher in comparative politics. He works on multi-level governance and democratic innovations. He studied the de…

Ine Goovaerts senior researcher Research Ine Goovaerts Research team Media, Movements and Politics (M2P) Expertise Ine Goovaerts is a post-doctoral researcher in the M²P research group at the University of Antwerp. The research fields and topics Ine is interested in and conducts research on include…

Aida Araceli Patino Alvarez unpaid staff Publications Aida Araceli Patino Alvarez The role of constitutional courts in furthering democracy in Latin America : the cases of Colombia, Costa Rica and Mexico Source Antwerp, University of Antwerp, Faculty of Law, 2022,339 p. Author(s) Aída Araceli Pati�…

Josephine De Jaegere assistant professor - guest prof. external funds Publications Josephine De Jaegere Judicial review and strategic behaviour : an empirical case law analysis of the Belgian Constitutional Court Source Cambridge, Intersentia, 2019,368 p. Author(s) Josephine De Jaegere Citation link…

Karen Van Campenhout unpaid staff Publications Karen Van Campenhout Extended peer evaluation of an analytical deliberative decision support procedure in environmental health practice Source European journal of risk regulation - ISSN 1867-299X-1 (2014) p. 25-35 Author(s) Hans Keune, Gudrun Koppen, Be…

Petra Meier professor Research Petra Meier Research team Politics & Public Governance Expertise Availability of the members of the research group through lectures, workshops, research and policy notes, participation in expert panels, etc. Queer Interest Groups in The EU: Explaining Organization and …

GOVTRUST Centre of Excellence search menu search content Interpersonal trust and fundamentals Summary Individual citizens and private organizations interact frequently with the ‘frontline’ of specific government actors, with respect to regulations in a multi-level context. Trust arising in these…

Björn Carré unpaid staff Research Björn Carré Research team Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change Nonprofit change-makers? A mixed methods study on the political role of NPOs. 01/10/2019 - 30/09/2023 Abstract It is widely recognized that many nonprofit organizations (NPOs) adopt…

Government and Law search menu search content Completed PhD Research Date Name PhD Title Supervisor(s) 17 May 2024 NICÓTINA Alberto Constitutional strategies in the face of multilevel governance P. Popelier P. Bursens (FSW) 19 January 2024 GONZÁLEZ RUIZ Rosa Cultural Heritage in Cuba: Elements and…

GOVTRUST Centre of Excellence search menu search content Equality, representativeness and citizen-government relations Summary Investigating trust in government raises the question: trust by whom? Although Western governments attempt to ensure that all citizens can trust their government by ensuring…

Jan Velaers emeritus occasional assignment Research Jan Velaers Research team Expertise Constitutional law: fundamental rights and freedoms, federal institutions, state reform, judicial protection, multilevel constitutionalism Language rights, policies and practices in linguistically diverse societi…

Patricia Popelier full professor Research Patricia Popelier Research team Government and Law Expertise Theorising and legal analysis as well as interdisciplinary research on (i) Belgian and comparative constitutional law in general, (ii) federalism and multilevel governance, (iii) constitutiuonal re…

GOVTRUST Centre of Excellence search menu search content GOVTRUST Members Academic members of the GOVTRUST excellence consortium Coordinators Koen Verhoest (research group Politics & Public Governance) Expertise: public administration & management, organization and governance of public tasks, autono…

Centre for Ethics search menu search content Dissertations Dissertations Current PhD projects Sofie Avery: A just response to sexual harassment in academia Advisors: Katrien Schaubroeck (Centre for Ethics), Sarah Van de Velde (Department of Sociology), Sigrid Sterckx (Ghent University) Ina Devos: Be…

Patrick Loobuyck full professor Research Patrick Loobuyck Research team Center for Ethics Expertise Talks, lectures and workshops/seminars on the relation church-state, secularisation in the West, tolerance and pluralism, relation worldviews - meaning of life - science and history of ideas concernin…

GOVTRUST Centre of Excellence search menu search content GOVTRUST Projects Projects acquired by GOVTRUST promoter team Trust in Specialised Courts: The Unified Patent Court as a Case Study to Disentangle Trust Dynamics – 2024-2027 – FWO Research project – Esther van Zimmeren, Patricia Popelier…

Politics & Public Governance search menu search content Members Current members The contact details and main research interests of the members of Politics & Public Governance are listed below. You can find more information on each member's specific research interest, projects and academic bibliograp…

Culture Commons Quest Office search menu search content Projects Current projects Culture common and community cultural centers towards an inclusive city of Utrecht - Aart van der Maas Aart van der Maas’s socio-cultural PhD research focuses on the relationship between the inclusive city and the co…

Government and Law search menu search content Projects Here you can find a chronological overview of the projects investigated by our research group. Ongoing projects Communication as a driver of trust in the judiciary and for sustainable compliance with the law? 15/09/2024 - 14/09/2029 Abstract The…

Johan Bastiaensen emeritus occasional assignment Research Johan Bastiaensen Research team Expertise Evaluation of poverty reduction initiatives (e.g. non-governmental organizations). Actors' perspectives, motivations and aspirations in the emergence and reconfiguration of territorial development pat…

USOS search menu search content Programme 2016 Edition 2016 - What future for democracy? For a long time, liberal democracy has been perceived as an indicator of social welfare. At present, however, democracy is at a crossroads. Not only are there several authoritarian states quite efficient at prom…

Centre for Philosophical Psychology search menu search content Ongoing research projects This page provides information about ongoing research projects at the CPP. Get in touch for more information. Self-knowledge in skilled and habitual action (01/09/2023 - 01/09/2027) Abstract This project explore…