Jérémy DODEIGNE

Introduction

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Jérémy Dodeigne is an assistant professor in political sciences at the Department of Political, Social and Communication Sciences at the University of Namur (since 2017). Before that, he was a Marie-Curie BeIPD postdoctoral fellow at the DPIR (2016-2017, University of Oxford), and he was a F.R.S.-FNRS postdoctoral researcher at the Institut de sciences politiques Louvain-Europe (2016, UCL). He has been a research visiting fellow at University of Edinburg (UK), Universitat Pompeu Fabra (ES) and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ES).

His research focuses broadly on the access of political elites to power and how they behave once in office from an historical perspective. In particular, his comparative work has examined how processes of state restructuration—i.e. regionalisation and Europeanisation observed over the last 50 years—have impacted candidates’ recruitment and their parliamentary behaviour. In his projects, he has used both quantitative analyses (with a recent focus on deep learning techniques for content analysis) and qualitative methods (narrative interviews with elites).

More recently, he has extended his research agenda to the study of personalisation of politics and political communication in European democracies since the 2000s.  In 2023, he was awarded an ERC StG funding for the POLSTYLE project. Under F.R.S.-FNRS funding, he is furthermore PI of the 'Evolv’EP – MEPs Behavior project' and the 'IntraPartyComp project. Before that, I was involved in several collaborative research projects including Belgian Exist Poll 2018, Local Party Offer 2012 & 2018, PartiRep II, Pathways, European Mayor, and ADAPOV.

His research has been rewarded by several prizes and funding grants. His work has been published in academic journals such as West European Politics, Party Politics, Electoral Studies, American Behavioral Scientist, Swiss Political Science Review, Government & Opposition, Local Government Studies Publius: Journal of Federalism, Regional & Federal Studies, and Representation.

Jérémy served as Treasurer on the board of the Belgian Association of Political Science (2015-2018) and he currently co-chairs the ABSP working group on Elections, Public Opion and Parties (EPOP). He is director of the Bachelor programme in political sciences since 2017.