In our new study, @rozemarijnvandijk.bsky.social and I looked at who gets interrupted during debates in the parliaments of 🇦🇺🇭🇷🇬🇧. We find that women and men get interrupted just as often. Yet, when more women join the debate, politicians interrupt less.

➡️ Read the full study: doi.org/10.1093/pa/g...

Great to attend IPSA's World Congress in the fantastic city of Seoul! 🇰🇷 I had the chance to present ongoing research and engage with impressive work from fellow political science colleagues. Seoul was an incredible place to visit, truly a memorable experience!

Our new study shows how politicians claim to represent diverse groups. 🗣️ Yet some, like migrants or the rich, face explicit exclusion, while others, like men or sexual minorities, are ignored. Interestingly, these gaps shrink closer to elections and during crises. Read more👇
doi.org/10.1177/0032...

This week marks the start of the spring semester at the University of Antwerp, and I’m thrilled to be teaching my own course for the very first time! 🌍📚 I’ll be guiding ≈150 bachelor students through key concepts in the field of comparative politics and teaching them how to study them empirically.

Citizens’ engagement on politicians’ own social media shapes not just what politicians talk about—but also what they act on. 🤳🏻💥 We show how interacting with politicians' posts increases the likelihood of real legislative action by those same politicians. doi.org/10.1177/1065...

Negative and uncivil politicians in parliament secure prime-time TV coverage more easily. 📺 The more this happens, the higher the probability of them resorting to negativity again. 🔁

Read more in my latest paper published in IJPP: doi.org/10.1177/1940...

📚New paper out in Political Communication, co-authored with @henrikseeberg.bsky.social. We investigate how issue salience and ownership influence parties' propensity to attack, and what happens when salience and ownership are (in)congruent. Read more at: doi.org/10.1080/1058...

I guess you can call me Dr. Poljak now! 🎓 Huge thanks to my fantastic supervisors, Stefaan Walgrave and Julie Sevenans, and my amazing colleagues at Media, Movements and Politics research group.