Stefaan Walgrave is professor of political science at the University of Antwerp (Belgium). His research focuses on political communication and on social movements and protest. Within political communication, he directed an earlier agenda-setting project in Belgium covering the 1991-2000 period. He has mainly done work on the political agenda-setting power of the media and on how political parties interact with mass media and has published about these topics in journals like Journal of Communication, Political Communication, Journal of European Public Policy and Comparative Political Studies.
Julie Sevenans is a PhD student in political communication at the University of Antwerp. She got involved in the Comparative Agendas Project through her work as a coder for the project. Her research focuses on individual political actors’ information acquisition and processing, whereby special attention is given to the political agenda-setting power of the mass media.
Jeroen Joly is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto. He obtained his PhD from the University of Antwerp in 2013. His main research interests include political communication, party governance and coalition politics in both the domestic and international sphere. He is involved in the INFOPOL Project on the determinants of politicians' information processing, and he is also an active member of the comparative agendas project (CAP).
Anne Hardy is a member of the M2P research group in Antwerp since 2009. Her research focuses on the causes, mechanisms and political consequences of media storms.
