Daan Delespaul

Électorats flamand et francophone : si loin, si proches ? - Politique Parmi les démocraties d'Europe occidentale, la Belgique fait figure d'exception. Le pays connaît deux systèmes politiques strictement séparés, les Flamand·es

Was just reading a vg article by @ddelesp.bsky.social on how the far right have been denied political space in francophone Belgium not only by the cordon sanitaire médiatique but also by success of social democrats in keeping focus on the socio-economic issues. www.revuepolitique.be/electorats-f...

🚨 New WP w/ @leonardocarella.bsky.social on OSF

doi.org/10.31235/osf...

We usually think that social identities precede preferences

We show the reverse is also true: people update their social identities to match their immigration preferences

Focus: class identity in 🇬🇧 + Christian identity in 🇮🇹

De grote stemshift: hoe België van kamp wisselt Bij de verkiezingen van 2024 was het Franstalige electoraat voor het eerst volatieler dan het Vlaamse, leert nieuw onderzoek.

NIEUW VERKIEZINGSONDERZOEK

Bij de verkiezingen van 2024 was het Franstalige electoraat voor het eerst volatieler dan het Vlaamse, leert nieuw onderzoek. (www.sampol.be/2026/01/de-g...)

Het verborgen verlies van N-VA, het plafond van Vlaams Belang en de groene jongerenvlucht: de stemverschuivingen bij de verkiezingen in 2024 blootgelegd

Achter de kiesuitslag van juni 2024 gaan grote stemverschuivingen tussen de politieke partijen schuil. Een onderzoek van de KU Leuven legt die voor het eerst bloot. Dit zijn de tien belangrijkste lessen.

De eerste van 2026: Zijn Vlaamse en Waalse kiezers écht uit elkaar gegroeid?

Met dank aan het geweldig fijne @stukroodvlees.bsky.social! 🥂

Check out this article, available #OpenAccess on #FirstView.

Third dissertation paper is out now in @govandopp.bsky.social!

OA: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

It studies the ideological structure of European electorates – finding broad similarities between countries, despite that party electorates and social groups remain structured nationally

Is gelukkig enkele keren door de vakbond aangehaald en stond ook in het verkiezingsprogramma van de rector

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#OpenAccess from @govandopp.bsky.social -

A Common Two-Dimensional Structure? Comparing Demand-side Political Spaces of Eight European Democracies - https://cup.org/4ohFZ6N

- @ddelesp.bsky.social

#FirstView

JUST OUT: "Boundaries and Cleavages: Elements of a Cultural Sociology of Political Divides."

OA: direct.mit.edu/ecps/article...

It develops what the cultural sociology of group formation can contribute to research on political cleavages.

(And why "Somewheres vs Anywheres" really doesn't cut it.)

The thesis explores changes in Belgian voting behaviour 🇧🇪

It finds that demand-side cleavages have mostly remained stable, and don't differ much between Flanders and Francophone Belgium.

You can read the whole thing here: kuleuven.limo.libis.be/discovery/se...

Happy to report that I'm officially #PhDone!

Thanks for joining me on this journey – in particular to supervisors @swyngedouwm.bsky.social, @cecilmeeusen.bsky.social & Koen Abts, and jury members @lwestheuser.bsky.social, @rdassonneville.bsky.social, @rlachat.bsky.social & Gert-Jan Put.

The unfulfilled promises of upward mobility and support for radical left parties in Western Europe In recent decades, educational expansion has produced a large swathe of university graduates which labour markets are increasingly less able to absorb…

Radical left support increases for those who study more than their parents and do not achieve upward class mobility, as well as for those who experience upward class mobility but continue to struggle financially www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Exceptional piece of research, congrats Jochem!

Partisan affect and political tolerance in the context of shifting norms: the effect of coalition signals towards the radical right Mainstream political actors in many countries face the challenging decision of how to engage with radical-right parties. While some systematically exclude them from power, others accept them as coa...

🤝 @jochemvanagt.bsky.social, Katrin Praprotnik, @luanarusso.bsky.social, and @markuswagner.bsky.social show that when the mainstream right signals openness to govern with the far right, it eases tensions on the right but amplifies antipathy on the left 👇

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thank you Linus! Really nice to hear your thoughts about the thesis!

Migratie en het tweestromenland van de Belgische sociaaldemocratie PS heeft het meest migratiekritische electoraat van Franstalig België. Desondanks staan de Waalse socialisten niet te boek als een welvaartschauvinistische partij.

Why do the Walloon social democrats have the most ethnocentric electorate of Francophone Belgium?

I lay out some hypotheses (and cool graphs!) – out now in @sampolmaandblad.bsky.social

Are you a junior scholar attending #ecprgc25 or #apsa25? Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to join a dynamic international research team at @sciencepoulb.bsky.social!
📢 Cevipol is hiring a full time postdoc researcher
🗓️ 1-year contract (possible extension)
📍based in Brussels
💼 Project: NOTLIKEUS

I'm hiring another postdoc (research-focused, for almost 5 years) for my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage!
I'm looking for someone with strong quantitative text-analysis skills (e.g. #NLP, #LLM, etc.) to study the role of political actors in cleavage formation.

How much competition within the right field?
❗Segmentation is eroding, especially among young voters❗
New article out by @siljahausermann.bsky.social ‪@dpzollinger.bsky.social
@mrsteenbergen.bsky.social and myself

@ipz.bsky.social @wepsocial.bsky.social

tinyurl.com/ycxfx2aj

A short 🧵

1/7

Congrats!

Congrats! 🎉

@elisabethgoemans.bsky.social with the great ge-daan pun

Finally time to get a haircut now

Submitted the thesis everybody

The "collar flip"....what if class politics shifted in the UK? Why the rise of AI, might change our politics in the UK (and US!)

Some afternoon thoughts on UK politics and AI exposure and how it’s so different by geography politicalwhiteboard.substack.com/p/the-collar...

Gefeliceerd Silke! Wat een prachtig beeld ☺️

I have a new paper out in @wepsocial.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The paper situates discussions about the Educational Cleavage in a longer temporal context (back to the Medieval time) to show that there have ALWAYS been conflicts between educational groups. (1/3)

Cannot stress enough how great this years’ #PolEtmaal2025 has been. Amazing people, warm (!) atmosphere and (as it turns out) great running trails 🤩 Thank you to all the organisers @rug.nl!