About

I am an associate professor in Belgian and Comparative Politics at the Department of Political, Social and Communication Sciences at the University of Namur, Belgium. Before that, I was a visiting research fellow at the University of Oxford (UK), University of Edinburg (UK), Universitat Pompeu Fabra (ES) and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ES). My research focuses broadly on the access of political elites to power and how they behave once in office, from an historical perspective. In particular, my comparative work has examined how processes of state restructuration—i.e. regionalisation and Europeanisation observed over the last 50 years—have impacted candidates’ recruitment and their parliamentary behaviour. More recently, I have extended my research agenda to the study of personalisation of politics and political communication in European democracies. In my projects, I have used both quantitative analyses (with a recent focus on deep learning techniques for content analysis) and qualitative methods (narrative interviews with elites). Under F.R.S.-FNRS funding, I am currently the PI of the "Evolv’EP – MEPs Behavior project" and the "IntraPartyComp project". My research was rewarded with the David Constant Medal of Excellence (2010), the John Burton Prize (2011), the Julie Dehay Prize (2012), the Rotary International (2013), and the ABSP prize for the best conference paper (2015). I was also a nominee for the Rudolf Wildenmann Prize (2018) and Regional and federal studies’ best article of the year (2019). My work has been published in academic journals such as West European Politics, Party Politics, Electoral Politics, American Behavioral Scientist,Swiss Political Science Review, Government & Opposition, Local Government Studies, Publius: Journal of Federalism, Regional & Federal Studies, and Representation.

Research Interests

Comparative Politics, Elections, Elites, Federalism, Local Government, Parliaments, Political Parties, Regionalism, Representation, Candidate, Communication, European Parliament

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Standing Groups and Research Networks

• Elites and Political Leadership
• Federalism and Regionalism
• Parliaments
• Public Opinion and Voting Behaviour in a Comparative Perspective
• Political Representation
• European Union
• Affective Polarization
• Political Communication