Thomas Legein

Ideas vs. interests: explaining party elites’ support for party democratic innovations Over recent decades, political parties have experimented with organisational reforms aimed at enhancing more inclusive, direct models. More recently, one emerging model involves Party Democratic In...

[OUT] 'Ideas vs. interests: explaining party elites’ support for party democratic innovations', new paper by @s-rgi.bsky.social & @emilievh.bsky.social, researchers at SciencePo ULB (Cevipol), with @thomlegein.bsky.social & David Talukder, in Contemporary Politics
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Le gouvernement belge vire à droite, sous l’égide des séparatistes Bart De Wever, le leader nationaliste flamand, a été investi comme premier ministre d’une coalition de cinq partis. Avec l’aide des libéraux francophones, il a défini un agenda de réduction de l’État…

📰 Our colleague @thomlegein.bsky.social was interviewed by the French online media of @mediapart.fr to talk about the new Belgian government and the broader European phenomenon of shifts to the right of traditional right-wing parties.

Read it here 🔍 : www.mediapart.fr/journal/inte...

Seems like a good day to reshare this recent study that shows how mainstream parties can fuel the success of the radical right by opening the door to them

The transformation of the Belgian Christian-democratic party (cdH) - @thomlegein.bsky.social & @s-rgi.bsky.social examine how this process concentrated power in the party leader's & a shadow advisor's hands: https://buff.ly/40wBrjS (OPEN ACCESS)

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Turns out that the cultural cleavage is alive and kicking in Belgium's French-speaking region

So why have we (still!) not seen the rise of a Francophone far-right party?

I present some answers in @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social!

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Se transformer pour lutter contre un destin funeste : du cdH à Les Engagé.e.s – ABSP • Association belge francophone de science politique Le déclin du Centre démocrate humaniste (cdH), anciennement Parti social-chrétien (PSC), s’est accéléré depuis le début des années 2000. L’érosion continue de son électorat depuis lors trouve trois so...

[Blog]'Se transformer pour lutter contre un destin funeste : du cdH à Les Engagé.e.s', une contribution de Sacha Rangoni, chercheur à SciencePo ULB, en collaboration avec Thomas Legein, pour #BePolitix, le blog de l'Association belge françophone de science politique.
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Why Giorgia Meloni Loves Antonio Gramsci Countering the left’s cultural hegemony has become an obsession on the Italian right—and they’re turning to a communist philosopher for ideas.

The Italian right’s fascination with Gramsci is not an isolated case. But what sets Meloni apart is that she has both the vision and the power to make it happen, Giorgio Ghiglione writes.