Research team
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Ideological analysis and analysis of public opinion with expertise in local politics, especially in the city of Antwerp.
Europeanisation and political parties: a comparative study of the roles and functions of transnational party conferences.
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- Promoter: Dierickx Guido
- Fellow: Van Hecke Steven
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- Research Project
Drafting of a problem definition in order to underpin an advice of the High Council for the Government of the Interior concerning the intra-city decentralisation in Antwerp.
Local networks and political recruiting. The missing-ling between political demand and political supply.
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In Antwerp, one third of the votes go to an extreme right-wing party. To restore the dialogue between the citizens and the local government, directly elected district councils were created, with own capacities and budget. The main theme of this research is whether this intra-communal decentralisation will succeed or not. In what degree do the political parties have contact with their electorate? Are the councillors and party-militants sufficiently inserted in the social life of their neighbourhood or district? Is the amount of their social and cultural capital a necessary condition for succes? Are parties, whose members have more social and cultural capital, able to maintain better contacts with the electorate?Researcher(s)
- Promoter: Dierickx Guido
- Co-promoter: Thijssen Peter
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- Research Project
Conversion, implementation, and control of implementation of European policies in Belgium. Toward a structural adaptation of the way in which Belgium honours its European obligations.
Local networks and Political recruitment
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With reference to the local elections of October, 8th 2000, all candidates for the Antwerp District Councils of the six traditional parties will be questioned by a written questionaire. The former of the several party's lists will be interviewed. We intend to sketch the profile of the candidates on party's lists in an urban environment. Which principles were used by the formers to compose a 'good' party's list? Were they able to meet their own standards? What was the motivation of the candidates to join the list? Social capital theories can be tested.Researcher(s)
- Promoter: Dierickx Guido
- Co-promoter: Thijssen Peter
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- Research Project
Implementation of the European policy : an analysis of the transposition of European Environmental Directives in Belgium.
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European policy must be implemented in all EU member-states. In spite of its Pro-integration imago, Belgium suffers trom a poor implementation record. Our country has already been condemned on several occasions by the European Court of Justice. This project seeks to answer the question why Belgium has so many difficulties with implementing European regulations. Observers tend to point to the complex structure of the Belgian federal state and to the poor co-ordination between its many administrative levels. Although we believe these formal structural variables to be important, we want to add a second category of variables which invites us to look at informal factors such as the comrnunication networks, the politica! traditions and the administrative culture of the relevant actors (diplomats, civil servants and politicians). The following questions are to be dealt with. Is the Belgian co-ordination mechanism too complex to ensure a smooth transposition? Is efficient implementation being blocked by the heterogeneous division of competencies in most of the policy sectors? Is the politica! culture of our federal and regional politica! actors adapted to the incorporation of the European input? Do the Belgian actors have adequate communication networks to steer the implementation process? The research project focuses on the implementation in the environmental policy sector.Researcher(s)
- Promoter: Dierickx Guido
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The civil society and the Belgian European policy.
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Opinions and attitudes of the civil society towards the European integration are the topics of the project. Belgian politician need more and more a broad base for their policy. The issue is dealt with by a survey of a representative amount of civil society organisations.Researcher(s)
- Promoter: Dierickx Guido
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- Research Project
Cultural deprivation
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This researchproject aims to conceptualize the several guesses about contemporary cultural evolutions. Our attention focuses on the societal capabilities of youngsters and the extent to which cultural factors (besides the classical socio-demografical factors) contribute to its explanation. All this is based on data collected in a representative survey of Flemish final year students.Researcher(s)
- Promoter: Dierickx Guido
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The influence of the European integration on the relation between interest groups and decision makers.
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This project analyses the political communication between interest groups and decision-makers on the European level and the consequences of the European integration proces on their relations. Communautarisation of policies forces them to adapt their influence-channels. How will this develop ?Researcher(s)
- Promoter: Dierickx Guido
- Fellow: Bursens Peter
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National civil servants and European institutions: an inquiry into the structure of inter-governmental networks in a federal system in the making
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What is the position of the Belgian senior civil servants in the formal and informal networks of the European community ? Can they hold their own among various other policy makers such as the interest groups and the civil servants of other countries and of the European community ? What is decisive for their position : their number, their expertise, their organisational position, their political culture ?Researcher(s)
- Promoter: Dierickx Guido
- Co-promoter: Delmartino Frank
- Co-promoter: Vanden Berghe Yvan
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The influence of the European integration on the relation between interest groups and decision makers.
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This project analyses the political communication between interest groups and decision-makers on the European level and the consequences of the European integration proces on their relations. Communautarisation of policies forces them to adapt their influence-channels. How will this develop ?Researcher(s)
- Promoter: Dierickx Guido
- Fellow: Bursens Peter
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Socio-economic and cultural deprivation: an inquiry into the social vulnerability of young persons.
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Subject of our investigation is the discrepancy between the objective fact of a non growing financial insecurity and the common feeling of increasing subjective insecurity. Young persons will be asked wether they feel able to cope with the challenge of the growing requirements of the social systems. Situational factors - cultural as well as structural - might provide an explanation for the growing social deprivation.Researcher(s)
- Promoter: Dierickx Guido
- Co-promoter: Cantillon Bea
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National civil servants and European institutions: an inquiry into the structure of inter-governmental networks in a federal system in the making
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What is the position of the Belgian senior civil servants in the formal and informal networks of the European community ? Can they hold their own among various other policy makers such as the interest groups and the civil servants of other countries and of the European community ? What is decisive for their position : their number, their expertise, their organisational position, their political culture ?Researcher(s)
- Promoter: Dierickx Guido
- Co-promoter: Delmartino Frank
- Co-promoter: Vanden Berghe Yvan
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'Problems of cultural deprivation in multicultural society.'
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The project aims at two objectives: - the elaboration of a theoretical well-founded, empirical operational concept of 'cultural deprivation' and in particular the determination of adequate indicators of cultural deprivation;//.. - the (direct or indirect) examination and explanation of the variability of cultural deprivation and its eventual correlation with more familiar forms of deprivation such as (socio-economic) poverty and social alienation.Researcher(s)
- Promoter: Dierickx Guido
- Co-promoter: Baetens Roland
- Co-promoter: Huybrechts Marc
- Co-promoter: Vandevelde Toon
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The revival of European Integration: towards a neo neofunctionalism ?
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From the conclusion that the process of European integration not necessarily lead to a loss of authority for these member states, the following question emerges : how does the member states try to influence the European decision making process via the intermingling of the commission administration and the national ministries during the preparation of this decision making processes. Related to this problem is the question in which way the commission tries to avoid an increase of national control on these processes (and a loss of her own power).Researcher(s)
- Promoter: Dierickx Guido
- Fellow: Kerremans Bart
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- Research Project
Ideology and macro-economic policy-making
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This project aims at analysing the role of ideology in macro-economic policy making. Which decisions are made and what are the important arguments and strategies ?Researcher(s)
- Promoter: Dierickx Guido
- Co-promoter: Boey Koen
- Co-promoter: Pauwels Wilfried
- Co-promoter: Plasmans Joseph
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- Promoter: Dierickx Guido
- Fellow: Kerremans Bart
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