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Namur, Wallonie, Belgique Université de Namur Temps plein

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The Research Institute Transitions is pleased to announce a vacancy for one postdoctoral researcher (f/m) in political communication.

The project is funded until 2028 by an ERC starting grant The Research Institute Transitions is a rapidly growing institute, funded by two ERC grant and multiple excellency grants from the national scientific agency and other third-party organizations.

The research team "Democratic transformations" has extensive expertise in the study of political representation, democratic innovations, populism, comparative politics, and research methods.

It offers an ambitious, vibrant, and research-intensive environment with an international network. It provides an (inter)national community of PhDs, postdocs, and permanent members.

Easily accessible by train and by car, the city of Namur is a historic, dynamic and lively city offering a pleasant quality of life.

The city is situated close to three international airports.

Located in the heart of the historic centre, the University of Namur benefits from all the facilities in terms of accommodation, shops, leisure, and public transport.


POLSTYLE project (ERC starting grant .

New trends or old habits? Stability and changes of political styles since 1960

Abstract of the project


Hardly a week goes by without reports of elected officials - often pictured as 'populists' - having used vitriolic language and attacked the personal traits of their opponents.

In a context of 'restyling of politics', the style of political actors is presented as increasingly emotive, personalized, and confrontational.

In the absence of systematic comparative study, such claims remain however trivial intuitions and anecdotes that are as old as politics.


This raises critical questions:
are modern political styles new trends or old habits? What are the institutional and political factors that constrain or favour the rise of certain styles ?


The POLSTYLE project provides a groundbreaking empirical and theoretical contribution by analysing the evolutions of political styles in four European democracies since 1960 (BE, DE, ES and the UK).

It posits that configurational evolutions shape the stability and changes of political styles over time:

it depends upon the varying responses of the types of actors, arenas and political systems vis-à-vis abrupt exogenous shocks and endogenous incremental changes.

For these empirical and theoretical goals, the project builds a unique dataset of actors' political styles performing in various arenas (TV, print press, parliaments, and Twitter).

Different indicators will trace evolutions of political styles in terms of contents, nature of interactions and forms of expressions. Finally, the project develops a theory that explains how and why patterns of styles unfold according to configurational evolutions.


Overall, the POLSTYLE project decisively contributes to ongoing theoretical debates about the nature of political representation in modern democracies, and how democratic linkages with voters are built on a daily basis.

While some scholars and political observers suggest that current political styles entail nothing less than the inexorable decline of democracy; other scholars have praised them as virtues for the functioning of our democracies.


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Selection process:

- a cover letter,
- a detailed CV,
- a PhD report (max. 2 pages),
- two letters of recommendation.

Interviews for selected applicants will be scheduled on
mid-July 2023 in Namur (Belgium) and via MS Teams.

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