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Last application date Jul 11, 2025 00:00
Department PS03 - Department of Political Sciences
Contract Limited duration
Degree You hold a Master’s degree in political science, sociology, public administration, political psychology or in any other field of human sciences with comparable qualifications
Occupancy rate 100%
Vacancy type Research staff
ABOUT GHENT UNIVERSITY
Ghent University is a world of its own. Employing more than 15.000 people, it is actively involved in education and research, management and administration, as well as technical and social service provision on a daily basis. It is one of the largest, most exciting employers in the area and offers great career opportunities.
With its 11 faculties and more than 85 departments offering state-of-the-art study programmes grounded in research in a wide range of academic fields, Ghent University is a logical choice for its staff and students.
For the (faculty/department/research group) we are looking for a m/f/x
Doctoral fellow
YOUR JOB
The research group GASPAR (www.gaspar.ugent.be) is looking for a motivated and enthusiast researcher in order to conduct a PhD, based on the 4-year research project ‘Do voters use socio-demographic cues to estimate politicians' ideological positions? (IdeoPos)’ This project will be conducted under supervision of Prof. Dr. Bram Wauters and Dr. Robin Devroe. Below, we give a short summary of the content of this project:
Understanding politicians’ ideological positions is a crucial element in a representative democracy. Inaccurate estimations of these positions can have detrimental consequences, e.g. incorrect voting, lowering political trust and exacerbating affective polarisation. Citizens lack, however, time and energy to thoroughly analyze all politicians. As a result, they rely on information shortcuts (or cues) when assessing ideological positions of politicians. Due to processes such as partisan decline, personalisation and increased intra-party competition, individual cues have become more important as information shortcut. This project will focus on ideological cues related to politicians’ gender, age and ethnic origin. Based on an experimental design, existing theories will be tested in a new context and new theoretical frameworks will be explored.
For more extensive information about the content of this project, please contact [email protected]
WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU
For more information about this vacancy, please contact Prof. Bram Wauters ([email protected]) and Dr. Robin Devroe ([email protected])
Ghent University is one of the top 100 universities in the Dutch language area, with more than 44,000 students and 15,000 staff members.
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