Iskander De Bruycker

✨New study from the #ACCESS4ALL project!I found that lobby teams with a balanced gender composition & shared national backgrounds with MEPs secure more access to the European Parliament🇪🇺But biases remain,especially against lobbyists from newer EU states👇tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

@GregoryEady & I are delighted our paper "Gendered Perceptions and the Costs of Political Toxicity: Experimental Evidence from Politicians and Citizens in Four Democracies" is now online @APSRjournal (Open access) More in this [1/14]

@wmjunk @WEPsocial @a_rasmussen Such nice news. Congrats! 🎉

Thrilled that our article on citizen responsiveness to lobbying has won this prize in @WEPsocial with @a_rasmussen 🏆 🥳 🙏🏻 We conducted a field experiment in cooperation with a consumer group to test the effect of their upcoming campaign. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

The Tech Coup continues: Mark Zuckerberg seeks ‘active role’ in Trump tech policy | Trump administration | ↘️ theguardian.com/us-news/2024/d…

Following up with congratulations to the proud supervisors @SLdeLange , @VanHeckeSteven , and Bart Maddens—An inspiring moment to celebrate! 🙌

Congratulations to @BrittVandeWalle on an excellent PhD defense! 🎉 Looking forward to collaborating with you on the #ACCESS4ALL project at @FasosMaastricht —exciting times ahead!

In case you missed it: Microsoft and Google’s rivalry takes center stage in Brussels as business lobby groups clash over cloud market influence. A revealing look at how business interests divide and contend in the EU public affairs space 👇politico.eu/article/micros…

How does populism drive participation patterns beyond turnout and vote choice? @Robert_A_Huber & @SMVanHauwaert take a theory- and data-driven approach to examine this topic: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00… (OPEN ACCESS) @SAGECQPolitics @PolStudiesAssoc @uniyorkpolitics #polsci

🟣 Volume 16.4 Information, politicization, & reputation Analyzing a novel dataset 📊 on the engagement of 158 interest groups, @frederiksteven1 & @evelien_willems examine interest groups’ influence on the European Commission’s policy agenda #OA 🔓 bit.ly/3T0Vp2t

🆕 A shadow on democracy? @FenzlMichele suggests that the shadow economy hurts democratic responsiveness because it reduces government revenues 📉 and decreases the reliability of economic statistics 💰. 👉 bit.ly/48yfDql #OA

🆕 Politicians’ beliefs about voting behaviour “differ dramatically” from those held by the citizens they represent, according to a new study. The study, published in @apsrjournal, was co-authored by our academic @a_rasmussen Read more 👇 kcl.ac.uk/news/politicia…

🆕publication @jepp_journal: ‘Evaluating crisis response speed of international organisations: why it matters and how to achieve it’ 🔍I introduce a model for measuring and comparing the crisis response speed of international organisations. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #OpenAccess

How does populism drive participation patterns beyond turnout and vote choice? @Robert_A_Huber & @SMVanHauwaert take a theory- and data-driven approach to examine this topic: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00… (OPEN ACCESS) @SAGECQPolitics @PolStudiesAssoc @uniyorkpolitics #polsci

To praise or to pressure? Iskander De Bruycker (@IskanderDB) examines the patterns of social media advocacy during #Covid19 across 9 countries. Read in @PolStudies: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… (OPEN ACCESS) @PolStudiesAssoc @SAGECQPolitics @uniyorkpolitics

Are you interested in the field of political psychology? And are you interested in doing a PhD at the @VUamsterdam? Check out this great project on personality traits and political ambition by Marc van de Wardt. Supervision by Marc, Loes Aaldering, and me. werkenbij.vu.nl/vacatures/phd-…

To praise or to pressure? Iskander De Bruycker (@IskanderDB) examines the patterns of social media advocacy during #Covid19 across 9 countries. Read in @PolStudies: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… (OPEN ACCESS) @PolStudiesAssoc @SAGECQPolitics @uniyorkspolitics

The Resilient Civil Society (ReCiv) project is hiring! * 1-year Postdoc position (extension might be possible) * Application deadline: 4th November * Come work with the great @michelecrepaz and myself Pls spread the word / get in touch with any questions hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrecru…

🌈 The study highlights the crucial role of diversity in lobbying teams and calls for more research on sociodemographic biases and similarity attraction in lobbying and #EU #publicaffairs.✨A whole new research agenda awaits the #ACCESS4ALL team and scholars to explore!➡️

💡Interestingly, our analyses suggest #similarity #attraction: MEPs are more likely to grant access to organizations with at least one lobbyist of the same gender or similar member state background 🔗Yet, this advantage decreases as more lobbyists share the MEP’s background👥

✨New study from the #ACCESS4ALL project!I found that lobby teams with a balanced gender composition & shared national backgrounds with MEPs secure more access to the European Parliament🇪🇺But biases remain,especially against lobbyists from newer EU states👇tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…