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Ruth Dassonneville

Ruth Dassonneville

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Political Science
Belgium
2026

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Political Science

D-Index
37
Citations
4063
World Ranking
652
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Political Science in Belgium Leader Award

Overview

Ruth Dassonneville is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and has contributed extensively to the field of social sciences, with a significant focus on political science and international relations. Their research spans various subfields including sociology and political science, gender studies, economics and econometrics, and modeling and simulation.

The scientist's work covers multiple topics related to politics and society. Main subjects of research include electoral systems and political participation, populism and right-wing movements, gender politics and representation, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, social media and politics, social policy and reform studies, and political influence and corporate strategies.

Ruth Dassonneville has published frequently in several academic venues. These include:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • European Journal of Political Research
  • Party Politics
  • Journal of Elections Public Opinion and Parties
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

The scientist's notable recent papers illustrate a diverse range of political research topics:

  • "Transformation of the political space: A citizens' perspective," 2023, European Journal of Political Research
  • "Do religious voters support populist radical right parties? Opposite effects in Western and East-Central Europe," 2021, Party Politics
  • "A guilt-free strategy increases self-reported non-compliance with COVID-19 preventive measures: Experimental evidence from 12 countries," 2021, PLoS ONE
  • "Winning, Losing, and the Quality of Democracy," 2021, Political Studies
  • "How to Survey Citizens' Compliance with COVID-19 Public Health Measures: Evidence from Three Survey Experiments," 2020, Journal of Experimental Political Science

Ruth Dassonneville has also contributed to book publications, including a work published by Cambridge University Press titled Citizens Under Compulsory Voting: A Three-Country Study (2023).

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Jean-François Daoust
  • Éric Bélanger
  • Richard Nadeau
  • Érick Lachapelle
  • Dieter Stiers

Best Publications

  • Explaining the Trump Vote: The Effect of Racist Resentment and Anti-Immigrant Sentiments

    Marc Hooghe;Ruth Dassonneville

  • Electoral volatility, political sophistication, trust and efficacy: A study on changes in voter preferences during the Belgian regional elections of 2009

    Ruth Dassonneville

  • The Relation Between Civic Education and Political Attitudes and Behavior: A Two-Year Panel Study Among Belgian Late Adolescents

    Ruth Dassonneville;Ellen Quintelier;Marc Hooghe;Ellen Claes

  • A Spiral of Distrust: A Panel Study on the Relation between Political Distrust and Protest Voting in Belgium

    Marc Hooghe;Ruth Dassonneville

  • Macroeconomics, economic crisis and electoral outcomes: A national European pool

    Ruth Dassonneville;Michael S Lewis-Beck

  • Economic indicators and electoral volatility: economic effects on electoral volatility in Western Europe, 1950–2013

    Ruth Dassonneville;Marc Hooghe

  • Gender, Political Knowledge, and Descriptive Representation: The Impact of Long-Term Socialization

    Ruth Dassonneville;Ian McAllister

  • Age, Period and Cohort Effects in the Decline of Party Identification in Germany: An Analysis of a Two Decade Panel Study in Germany (1992–2009)

    Ruth Dassonneville;Marc Hooghe;Bram Vanhoutte

  • How second order are local elections? Voting motives and party preferences in Belgian municipal elections

    Sofie Marien;Ruth Dassonneville;Marc Hooghe

  • The Impact of Education on the Development of Political Trust: Results from a Five‐Year Panel Study among Late Adolescents and Young Adults in Belgium

    Marc Hooghe;Ruth Dassonneville;Sofie Marien

  • Questioning generational replacement. An age, period and cohort analysis of electoral volatility in the Netherlands, 1971–2010

    Ruth Dassonneville

  • The Effects of Civic Education on Political Knowledge. A Two Year Panel Survey among Belgian Adolescents

    Marc Hooghe;Ruth Dassonneville

  • Voters and Candidates of the Future: The Intention of Electoral Participation among Adolescents in 22 European Countries:

    Marc Hooghe;Ruth Dassonneville

  • How to survey citizens’ compliance with COVID-19 public health measures. Evidence from three survey experiments

    Jean-Francois Daoust;Richard Nadeau;Ruth Dassonneville;Erick Lachapelle

  • Transformation of the political space: A citizens’ perspective

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  • Bridging the ideological space: A cross‐national analysis of the distance of party switching

    Ruth Dassonneville;Yves Dejaeghere

  • Staying With the Party, Switching or Exiting? A Comparative Analysis of Determinants of Party Switching and Abstaining

    Ruth Dassonneville;André Blais;Yves Dejaeghere

  • Voter turnout decline and stratification: Quasi-experimental and comparative evidence of a growing educational gap:

    Ruth Dassonneville;Marc Hooghe

  • The Noise of the Vote Recall Question: The Validity of the Vote Recall Question in Panel Studies in Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands

    Ruth Dassonneville;Ruth Dassonneville;Marc Hooghe

  • Economic Policy Voting and Incumbency: Unemployment in Western Europe

    Ruth Dassonneville;Michael S. Lewis-Beck

  • Volatile voters, short-term choices? An analysis of the vote choice determinants of stable and volatile voters in Great Britain†

    Ruth Dassonneville

  • Do religious voters support populist radical right parties? Opposite effects in Western and East-Central Europe:

    Kamil Marcinkiewicz;Ruth Dassonneville

  • Electoral volatility and parties’ ideological responsiveness

    Ruth Dassonneville

  • A Spiral of Distrust

    Ruth Dassonneville

Frequent Co-Authors

Marc Hooghe
Marc Hooghe KU Leuven
Michael S. Lewis-Beck
Michael S. Lewis-Beck University of Iowa
André Blais
André Blais University of Montreal
Ian McAllister
Ian McAllister Australian National University
Martial Foucault
Martial Foucault Sciences Po
Sylvain Brouard
Sylvain Brouard Sciences Po
Marc Debus
Marc Debus University of Mannheim
Peter Van Aelst
Peter Van Aelst University of Antwerp
Richard R. Lau
Richard R. Lau Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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