The Oxford Handbook of Belgian Politics (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198914754)

Marleen Brans holds a PhD in Political Science from the European University Institute in Florence. As Professor at the KU Leuven Public Governance Institute, she conducts research on the production and consumption of policy advice by various actors inside and outside government. She co-founded the International Public Policy Association (IPPA).

Petra Meier is Professor in Political Science, and co-chair of A*, the Antwerp Gender & Sexuality Studies Network, at the University of Antwerp (UAntwerpen). Her research focuses on the (re)presentation of gender and other social markers in politics and policies. She investigates how (in)formal institutions (re)produce inequality, dynamics of exclusion in political spaces and how this shapes power relations among social groups, and what contributes to fostering equality in a sustainable way.

Min Reuchamps is Professor of Political Science at UCLouvain. He graduated from the Université de Liège (ULiège) and from Boston University. His teaching and research interests include federalism and multi-level governance, democracy and its transformations and innovations, participatory and deliberative methods, as well as relations between language(s) and politics and in particular the role of metaphors in political discourse.

Emilie van Haute is Professor of Political Science at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). Her research focuses on political parties, elections and voting behaviour, political participation and representation, and democracy. She is the co-editor of the European Journal of Political Research. Her work has appeared in Electoral Studies, Party Politics, Representation, European Journal of Political Research, or Regional Studies, Regional Science.