Thomas LEGEIN

Bio

Thomas Legein is scientific collaborator at CEVIPOL and postdoctoral researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He obtained a joint PhD in Political Science at the Université libre de Bruxelles and Vrije Universiteit Brussel. After the PhD, he spent one year as a Wiener-Anspach research fellow in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge.

CV

• Université libre de Bruxelles – Centre d’Etude de la Vie Politique, Scientific collaborator, Octobre 2022 – Mars 2026

• Vrije Universiteit Brussel – Department of Political Science, Postdoctoral Researcher, February 2024 – February 2027, Funded by the VUB EDGE program, Research project: Psyched Up for Party Reform: Towards a Psychological Approach to Party Politics, Also involved in the Horizon project “Politics of Grievance and Democratic Governance” (PLEDGE)

• University of Cambridge – Department of Psychology, Visiting Postdoc, October 2023 – October 2024

 

Areas of research

• Intra-party dynamics
• Party reform
• Representation
• Political parties
• Political perceptions
• Psychological traits
• Moral Foundations
• Emotions
• Democratic innovations

Teaching

POLI-D305 Régimes politiques comparés

Research

He is working on intra-party dynamics with a special focus on party reform. He is also interest in representation issues, political perceptions, emotions and democratic innovations.

Publications

LEGEIN, T. & RANGONI, S. (2024) “Between Decline and Distress Innovations: The Transformation of the Belgian French-Speaking Christian-democratic Party (cdH), Political Studies.

CLOSE, C., LEGEIN, T., LITTLE, C., (2024) “Party organisation and the party-delegate style of representation: A comparative study”, Party Politics, 30(2), pp. 247-259.

LUYPAERT, J. & LEGEIN, T. (2024) “When do parties reform? Causes of programmatic-, organizational – and personnel party reforms in the Belgian mainstream parties”, Acta Politica, 59(2024), pp. 42-76.

LEGEIN, T., (2023) “Understanding How Bundles of Party Reforms Are Shaped: A Snowballing Sequence in the French-speaking Belgian Liberal Party (MR)”, Party Politics, Online first.