cleavages in the society especially Church-State and Economic divides. The paper delves into the challenges amateurism vs. professionalism the role of Belgians in the establishment of FIFA and the football s contribution Society LIEN Taylor Francis Online ABSTRACT The article explores the early advent and evolution of football until WWI highlighting the crucial role played by British expatriates and the influence of Catholic and Kicking off passion: the birth and rise of football in Belgium (1880-1914)

First we find that populists believe that citizens should be more involved highlighting the people-centred government that challenge contemporary democratic systems. However we do not know exactly what the democratic propose to fill this gap by investigating the types of actors that citizens who are more sympathetic to populist support for models of government that challenge representative democracy. The question is whether populist deep anti-elitist attitudes. Our findings suggest that among citizens who are more sympathetic to populist The Preferred Governing Actors of Populist Supporters: Survey Evidence From Eight European Countries

issues than the average population. Building on a Climate Citizens Assembly commissioned by the Luxembourg to accept the outcomes stressing improvement in the perceived legitimacy. By contrast the lack of social associated with the spread of deliberative mini-publics in established democracies is that they could increase experiment we found that descriptive representation and similarity matter to accept the outcomes but not opposed to mini-publics participatory skeptics learn that the process is fairly representing their in- groups Mini-Public Composition and Outcome Acceptance from the Maxi Public

actual ballot papers cast for the 2018 Belgian local elections we show that candidates-level lists-level support from voters who do not support the mere leader of the list. This oligarchized personalization personalized forms of elections we furthermore show that intermediary situations distinctively emerge. A Politics LIEN Sage Journals Abstract Research on the electoral personalization of politics has stressed personalization would deserve greater attention in the literature. It’s not only about the leader. Oligarchized personalization and preference voting in Belgium

crimes in the Netherlands in 2017 N 3379 . This is the entire population of hate crimes that the police criteria cultural proximity conflict that explain why some hate crimes make the news and why others do not. We identify bias. We find that both target group and type of hate crime affect the newsworthiness hate crimes and ethnicity are less likely to pass the gates. Hate crimes that are more conflictual in nature i.e. violent police reported in the whole country. This allows us to disentangle dynamics of the news selection process News Values and Selection: Factors Determining the Newsworthiness of Hate Crimes

legal facet that takes the form of Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation SLAPPs that aim at silencing associations and civil society. This article explores the role that European journalistic self-regulatory bodies understand how SLAPPs put into question the representations that media councils and professional associations a way to protect the independence of journalism and uphold its ethical standards. The open-ended responses and the way in which they see their role in society. Our results provide food for thought on the handling SLAPPs against journalists in Europe: Exploring the role of self-regulatory bodies

polarisation strengthens the emotional value that is attached to the outcome of the election Harteveld Wagner Chapman 2019 Feitosa et al. 2020 Quintelier et al. 2011 . The impact of polarisation on the motivation to vote produce governments that are representative of the people Dahl 1971 Pitkin 1967 . Two of the most consistent Dassonneville et al. 2023 Kostelka et al. 2022 . Yet we know little about how these two interact. That is studies importance that turnout is high Lijphart 1997 Powell 1982 . Sufficiently high turnout is the condition Electorate? How Polarisation Affects Turnout Decisions in the Belgian Context of Compulsory Voting

inequalities across Europe the volume pushes conceptual frontiers as to the EU s role in fighting or fuelling migrations and the European welfare model. It provides solid empirical insights on the EU policy tools law and political science to investigate whether the European Union is living up to its ambitions to tackle Inequality and the European Union New Frontiers in Political Science and Law

relation. This leads the work to deconstruct the argument made by state officials that the French approaches efficient than the Anglo-Saxons'. France has not avoided the mistakes previously committed by the US and analyses the French war on terror covering the French contributions to the US-led war on terror and the wars wars in the Sahel Region since 2013. This book argues that terrorism and offensive counter-'terrorism' in mid-2010 at a moment when the US and Britain had already recognized the shortcomings of this approach Delori, M., & Olsson, C. (Eds.). (2024). The French War on Terror: A Relational Approach to (Counter-) The French War on Terror. A Relational Approach to (Counter-)Terrorism

understand the conditions that made possible the collective normalization of a soldier considered the most pp. 1-20 Abstract The objective of the present article is to explore the image of the war on terror in through soldiers battlefield experience. The main argument is that the living or embarked narration of front an effect of power that gives the soldier a legitimate authority to take part in the representation of discourse that claims to tell the real story of a soldier on front lines. Second war appears at the same time Normalizing violence through front-line stories: the case of American Sniper. Critical Military Studies Normalizing violence through front-line stories: the case of American Sniper