Research
Party Reforms
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, 42–76.
Luypaert, J., Wauters, B., & Kern, A. (2024). Reform to perform? Electoral effects of programmatic change among mainstream parties in combination with a new party leader. Political Studies Review.
Luypaert, J. How do parties reform their political product? Work in progress.
Luypaert, J. (2024). From hero to zero, and back? The causes and consequences of party reforms. Ghent University. Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Ghent, Belgium. PhD Dissertation.
Party Ideology
Luypaert, J. (2024). Navigating new realities: Explaining programmatic transitions of mainstream and niche parties. International Political Science Review.
Luypaert, J. Balancing an Ideological Trade-Off: Electoral Appeal of Consistent and Responsive Party Positions. Under Review.
Marini, S., Lingier, L., Luypaert, J., & Wagner, M. Voter reactions to party policy shift: evidence from a conjoint experiment. Work in progress.
Party Organization and Leadership
Luypaert, J., Lingier, L., Bouteca, N., Vandeleene, A., & Wauters, B. (2022). How many captains for a ship on electoral drift? Limiting the number of leadership candidates in the Flemish Christian-democratic party (CD&V). Frontiers in Political Science, 4, 1068207.
​Wauters, B., De Smedt, N., Goutry, W., & Luypaert, J. (2024). Opening doors to more intra-party democracy? Local politicians’ perspectives on including voters in candidate selection processes in Flanders (Belgium). Acta Politica, 1-22.
Book Chapters
Luypaert, J., de Vet, B., & Wauters, B. (2021). L’ Open VLD. In P. Delwit & É. van Haute (Eds.), Les partis politiques en Belgique (4th ed., pp. 253–273). Bruxelles: Éditions de l’Université de Bruxelles.
Wauters, B., & Luypaert, J. Parties' representation of citizens. In Bolin, N., & Hagevi, M. (Editors). A Research Agenda for Political Parties. Elgar Research Agendas. Work in progress.