The title is of course an obvious tribute to the work of Willem Elsschot www.weg.be/over-het-weg
The effect is strongest among those with initially low levels of political knowledge, thus widening the gap between those with high levels of knowledge, and those with low levels. Thanks to @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social for funding this research.
🆕 Avoidance is spreading 🫣
@marchooghe.bsky.social & @dieterstiers.bsky.social use BelREP panel data to ask what influence news avoidance has on congruent #Voting among those with lower levels of political understanding
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Voters for extreme right protest parties have lower levels of subjective well-being, @stevendekeyser.bsky.social, @dieterstiers.bsky.social and I show in a new article in Journal of Happiness Studies @isqols.bsky.social . The effect, however, is almost fully mediated by anti-immigrant sentimens.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 'News avoidance' is spreading quickly among younger generations. Is this just a media preference, or does it have democratic consequences? @dieterstiers.bsky.social and I show that it leads to less correct voting, thus underming representative democracy.
What are the effects of compulsory voting? That was in 1998 a research question for @koen-pelleriaux.bsky.social and myself. Glad to report that the hypothetical question we had to rely on, actually predicts real behaviour, as @dieterstiers.bsky.social shows in this new article in Acta Politica.
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Our paper on how the higher educated are more able to vote correctly just got a volume and issue number. Do check it out!
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Abolishing Compulsory Voting: The 2024 Experience in the Flemish Region of Belgium
Abolishing Compulsory Voting: The 2024 Experience in the Flemish Region of Belgium By Marc Hooghe, University of Leuven, and Dieter Stiers, University of Leuven There are few clear-cut examples of countries that…