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Stefaan Walgrave

Stefaan Walgrave

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Political Science
Belgium
2026
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Law and Political Science
Belgium
2023

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Political Science

D-Index
55
Citations
14305
World Ranking
167
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Political Science in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Political Science in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Law and Political Science in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Law and Political Science in Belgium Leader Award

Overview

Stefaan Walgrave is affiliated with the University of Antwerp in Belgium. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with a strong focus on political science and international relations, communication, sociology and political science, gender studies, and strategy and management.

The main topics addressed in their work include electoral systems and political participation, social media and politics, gender politics and representation, populism and right-wing movements, media influence and politics, media studies and communication, and political influence and corporate strategies.

Walgrave has contributed extensively to various academic journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • American Political Science Review
  • West European Politics
  • Journalism Studies
  • Legislative Studies Quarterly
  • Wageningen University and Researchcenter Publications (Wageningen University & Research)

Recent papers authored by Walgrave cover multiple aspects of political perception and public opinion, with notable works such as:

  • Inaccurate Politicians: Elected Representatives' Estimations of Public Opinion in Four Countries (2022, The Journal of Politics)
  • How politicians learn about public opinion (2023, Research & Politics)

Other related research in which they have been involved includes publications with coauthors such as Julie Sevenans and Karolin Soontjens, who have collaborated on studies like "Inequality in the public priority perceptions of elected representatives" (2021, West European Politics) and "The hostile media: politicians' perceptions of coverage bias" (2020, West European Politics).

Frequent coauthors collaborating most often with Walgrave encompass:

  • Karolin Soontjens
  • Frédéric Varone
  • Rens Vliegenthart
  • Lior Sheffer
  • Julie Sevenans

Walgrave's research explores political behavior, public opinion estimation by elected officials, media dynamics related to political coverage, and various intersections of communication and political science. This multidisciplinary approach contributes to the understanding of how politics interacts with media, public perception, and societal structures.

Best Publications

  • Populism as political communication style An empirical study of political parties' discourse in Belgium

    Jan Jagers;Stefaan Walgrave

  • The Contingency of the Mass Media's Political Agenda Setting Power: Toward a Preliminary Theory

    Stefaan Walgrave;Peter Van Aelst

  • Punctuated Equilibrium in Comparative Perspective

    Frank R. Baumgartner;Christian Breunig;Christoffer Green-Pedersen;Bryan D. Jones

  • The Mass Media's Political Agenda-Setting Power: A Longitudinal Analysis of Media, Parliament, and Government in Belgium (1993 to 2000)

    Stefaan Walgrave;Stuart Soroka;Michiel Nuytemans

  • Who Demonstrates? Antistate Rebels, Conventional Participants, or Everyone?

    Pippa Norris;Stefaan Walgrave;Peter Van Aelst

  • Who is that (wo)man in the street? From the normalisation of protest to the normalisation

    Peter Van Aelst;Stefaan Walgrave

  • A General Empirical Law of Public Budgets: A Comparative Analysis

    Bryan Davidson Jones;Frank R. Baumgartner;Christian Breunig;Christopher Wlezien

  • Who is that (wo)man in the street? From the normalisation of protest to the normalisation of the protester

    Peter Van Aelst;Stefaan Walgrave

  • The tie that divides: Cross‐national evidence of the primacy of partyism

    Sean J. Westwood;Shanto Iyengar;Stefaan Walgrave;Rafael Leonisio

  • The Contingency of Intermedia Agenda Setting: A Longitudinal Study in Belgium:

    Rens Vliegenthart;Stefaan Walgrave

  • New media, new movements?

    Peter Van Aelst;Stefaan Walgrave

  • The Associative Dimension of Issue Ownership

    Stefaan Walgrave;Jonas Lefevere;Anke Tresch

  • The Making of the (Issues of the) Vlaams Blok

    Stefaan Walgrave;Knut De Swert

  • Issue Ownership Stability and Change: How Political Parties Claim and Maintain Issues Through Media Appearances

    Stefaan Walgrave;Jonas Lefevere;Michiel Nuytemans

  • Where Does Issue Ownership Come From? From the Party or from the Media? Issue-party Identifications in Belgium, 1991-2005:

    Stefaan Walgrave;Knut De Swert

  • Nonrepresentative Representatives: An Experimental Study of the Decision Making of Elected Politicians

    Lior Sheffer;Peter John Loewen;Stuart Soroka;Stefaan Walgrave

  • Minimal or Massive? The Political Agenda-Setting Power of the Mass Media According to Different Methods:

    Peter Van Aelst;Stefaan Walgrave

  • Content Matters: The Dynamics of Parliamentary Questioning in Belgium and Denmark

    Rens Vliegenthart;Stefaan Walgrave

  • Agenda setting, policies, and political systems : a comparative approach

    Christoffer Green-Pedersen;Stefaan Walgrave

  • ‘Do the Vote Test’: The Electoral Effects of a Popular Vote Advice Application at the 2004 Belgian Elections

    Stefaan Walgrave;Peter van Aelst;Michiel Nuytemans

  • The Conceptualisation and Measurement of Issue Ownership

    Stefaan Walgrave;Anke Tresch;Jonas Lefevere

  • Does news content matter? The contribution of the news media in the making of the issues of the Vlaams Blok

    Stefaan Walgrave;Knut de Swert

Frequent Co-Authors

Marc Hooghe
Marc Hooghe KU Leuven
Peter Van Aelst
Peter Van Aelst University of Antwerp
Rens Vliegenthart
Rens Vliegenthart Wageningen University & Research
Stuart Soroka
Stuart Soroka University of California, Los Angeles
Tamir Sheafer
Tamir Sheafer Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Christian Breunig
Christian Breunig University of Konstanz
Sylvain Brouard
Sylvain Brouard Sciences Po
Bryan D. Jones
Bryan D. Jones The University of Texas at Austin
Frank R. Baumgartner
Frank R. Baumgartner University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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