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Party leaders and voter responses to political terrorism Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In this article, we study the political implications of terrorism rooted in extremist political ideologies. Our data uniquely allow studying the potential role of party leader evaluations on political outcomes, including voter turnout and vote choice. To strengthen causal identification, we combine an event-study framework with the fact that Norwegians were affected personally to differing degrees by the 22 July 2011 terror attack because of ...
The Arabic spring in the eyes of Chinese political leaders University of Antwerp
This article aims at examining the political rhetoric of the Chinese government about the Arab Spring, which is seen as a turning point in the rhetoric of Chinas leaders in relation to the international community. It focuses on two key speeches by the Chinese political elite, i.e. personated by the Chinese president Hu Jintao and the Minister of Foreign Affairs Yang Jiechi. This study of Chinese elite rhetoric provides us with information on the ...
‘Kongo interpreters, travelling priests and political leaders in the Kongo Kingdom (15th-19th century) Ghent University
Leader or laggard? Political determinants of the EU's compliance with WTO dispute sttlement rulings University of Antwerp
Sex differences in incumbents’ turnover odds: the role of preference vote performance and the party leader’s sex. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Female incumbents quit political life more readily than male incumbents (Lawless and Theriault in Legisl Stud Q 30:581–596, 2005; Vanlangenakker in Politics Gender 9:61–75, 2013). As experience is an important determinant of political success (Fiva and Røhr Eur Econ Rev 101:142–156, 2018) sex-differences in turnover rates contribute to a sex-related inertia in the more powerful positions. Using 2012 and 2018 local election data from Flanders, we ...
Public leader's organizational learning orientations in the wake of a crisis and the role of public service motivation KU Leuven
© 2018 This study explores public leaders’ organizational learning orientation in the wake of a crisis. More precisely, we study the association between public leaders’ public service motivation and their learning orientation (instrumental versus political). This research addresses the lack of systematic empirical data on crisis-induced learning and provides a first systematic operationalization of this important concept. We analyze survey data ...