Publications

Articles

Jochem Vanagt, Laura Jacobs, Bjarn Eck, and Jean-Benoit Pilet. (forthcoming). Reversing Radical-Right Normalization: Evidence from a Natural Quasi-Experiment. Journal of European Public Policy.

Bjarn Eck. Continued Pressure on the Consociational Model: Electoral Fragmentation and Far-Right Dynamics in the 2024 Belgian and 2025 Dutch Elections. (2026). Journal of Common Market Studies.
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Bjarn Eck and Elie Michel. (2026). Election Salience Revisited: How Elections (Do Not) Boost Affective Polarization. Electoral Studies.
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Fernando Feitosa, Bjarn Eck, Jean-Benoit Pilet, and Éric Bélanger. (2026). Does (dis)liking the governing parties correlate with democratic (dis)satisfaction? International Political Science Review.
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Bjarn Eck, Elie Michel, & Emilie van Haute. (2025). The Impact of Party-Voter Congruence on Affective Polarization: Evidence from Belgium. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties.
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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.

Datasets

Bjarn Eck et al. (2025). NotLikeUs Panel Survey Dataset Belgian 2024 Elections. Social Sciences and Digital Humanities Archive – SODHA.
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Work in Progress

Under review

Soft Nudges, Hard Reality: Government Turnout Measures Don’t Offset the Impact of Ending Compulsory Voting.
With Ruth Dassonneville and Bram Wauters.

Curbing Citizen Support for Violence Against Politicians.
With Damien Bol & Diane Bolet.

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.

The Causal Effect of Knowledge of Compulsory Voting Rules on Turnout.
With Ruth Dassonneville.