Publications

Articles

Bjarn Eck & Elie Michel. (2025). Breaking the Stalemate: Europeans’ Preferences to Expand, Cut, or Sustain Support to Ukraine. Journal of European Public Policy.
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Bjarn Eck & Emilien Paulis. (2025). Defending the Status Quo or Seeking Change? Electoral Outcomes, Affective Polarization, and Support for Referendums. British Journal of Political Science.
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Bjarn Eck & Elie Michel. (2024). Towards a Polarised Electorate? How Polarisation Affects Turnout Decisions in the Belgian Context of Compulsory Voting. Politics of the Low Countries.
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Bjarn Eck & Sven Schreurs. (2024). Unequal perspectives? Income inequality as a benchmark for support for European integration. European Union Politics.
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Book chapters

Bjarn Eck & Jochem Vanagt. (forthcoming). The Low Countries (Belgium & the Netherlands): Balancing National Diversity with Supranational Integration. In T. D. Lancaster (Ed.), Comparative European Politics. Routledge.

Work in Progress

Under review

The Impact of Party-Voter Congruence on Affective Polarization: Evidence from Belgium.
With Elie Michel & Emilie van Haute. R&R

Election Salience Revisited: How Elections (Do Not) Boost Affective Polarization. With Elie Michel.

Working papers (ordered by progress)

Happiness, Anger, and Satisfaction with Democracy: Unravelling the Emotional Drivers of the Winner-Loser Gap.

Ideological, Affective, and EU Polarisation: Mobilising Voters in European Parliament Elections.

Affective Polarization and Support for Political Violence.
With Damien Bol & Diane Bolet.

Knowledge of Compulsory Voting Rules and Turnout.
With Ruth Dassonneville.