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Voting motives are one of the most studied but still much contested question in political science. There has been much less concern at the local level although two main tendencies can be discerned. Some consider local elections as second order political contests. Others emphasize place‐bound patterns in voting motives. Still, more research beyond those theoretical presumptions is needed to empirically...
•The Flemish regionalist party N-VA won the elections and entered the federal government. •Flemish radical-right and populist parties suffered heavy losses and became marginal actors. •The French-speaking party system became more fragmented as small political forces entered the federal parliament. •The federal government formation ‘only’ took 139 days (compared to 541 days in 2010). •The incumbent...
Deliberative democrats assume that political deliberation is capable of transforming citizens’ opinions and attitudes. This article takes this assumption as a starting point and tries to test it empirically by determining whether deliberation in an inter‐group setting induces more positive out‐group attitudes. Based on data from two deliberative experiments in Belgium, we argue that the overall effect...
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