Department of Political Sciences

Staff members Centre for Local Politics

Professors

Kristof Steyvers - Chairperson CLP

Research area: elections and parties, political leadership, citizen participation and democratic innovation,
administrative reforms, comparative perspective
Publications
E-Mail: Kristof.Steyvers@UGent.be
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Tony Valcke

Research area: local and provincial politics (including reforms), political participation and citizenship,
young people and politics, education policy, political leadership, elections
Publications
E-Mail: Tony.Valcke@UGent.be
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Koenraad De Ceuninck

Research area: scale and local politics with a focus on municipal mergers, local decision-making,
local government reforms, intermunicipal cooperation
Publications
E-Mail: Koenraad.DeCeuninck@UGent.be
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Pascal Delheye

Holder of the Ghent University chair 'The Future of Sport'
Research area: sport, policy and politics

Tom Verhelst

Research area: municipal council and municipal councilors,
Europeanisation of local government
Publications
E-Mail: Tom.Verhelst@UGent.be
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Herwig Reynaert - Honorary Chair CLP

Current position: Vice-Rector Ghent University
Publications
E-Mail: Herwig.Reynaert@UGent.be
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Postdoctoral researchers

Willem Goutry

Research area: local democracy, innovation of local democracy, political-administrative relations,
scale issues
Publications
E-Mail: Willem.Goutry@UGent.be
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Raf Reuse

Research area: local parties, local elections, coalition formation, (local) election manifestos, quantitative text analysis
Publications
E-Mail: Raf.Reuse@ugent.be
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Pre-doctoral researchers

Lise Allegaert

Research area: citizen participation,
advisory councils
Publications
E-Mail: Lise.Allegaert@UGent.be
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Gil Deveugele

Research area: board of mayor and aldermen, local executives,
coalition formation
E-Mail: Gil.Deveugele@UGent.be
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Former staff of the Centre for Local Politics