The Antwerp Centre for Institutions and Multilevel Politics (ACIM) is a research centre at the Department of Political Science, University of Antwerp. ACIM specialises in the study of European politics, international political economy, and especially the impact of multi-level institutional configurations on politics, governance and society. ACIM’s research is organized around three key interrelated research lines: Politics of multi-level government in Europe; politics of interest representation; and regulatory and judicial politics.
PLATO PhD candidates
Philipp Lausberg
ESR5 (delegation of powers)
PhD project: European banking union and fiscal policy reform: how to explain delegations of power to the EU in the wake of the financial crisis?
Bas Redert
ESR12 (social interests)
PhD project: Stakeholder involvement in EU financial regulation: a study on the European Supervision Authorities
Faculty
Dirk De Bièvre
Associate Professor of International Politics and International Political Economy
Dirk De Bièvre’s research focuses on trade policy-making in the EU and WTO, interests groups, international political economy, and effects of international institutions on governmental behaviour. He teaches courses on a wide range of topics, including research design, theories of International Relations, and international political economy. He is also on the editorial board of the Journal of European Public Policy.
His recent publications include The Trade Policy of the European Union, with Sieglinde Gstöhl (EU Series, Palgrave Macmillan, forthcomming December 2017), Judicial politics and international cooperation: from disputes to deal-making at the World Trade Organization, with Arlo Poletti (ECPR Press, 2016), and ‘Judicial Politics in international trade institutions’ co-edited with Arlo Poletti (Special Issue, World Trade Review, Cambridge University Press, 2015).
Jan Beyers
Professor of Political Science, ACIM Spokesperson
Jan Beyers’ acadmic interests include EU politics, institutions theories, interest groups, and EU-level territorial lobbying. His research focuses on how political and interests organizations in the EU adapt to an environment that is increasingly multi-layered and fragmented.
His publications include 'Legislative lobbying in context: towards a conceptual framework of interest group lobbying in the European Union' with Heike Klüver and Caelesta Braun (Journal of European Public Policy, 2015), European integration and consensus politics in the Low Countries, co-edited with H. Vollaard and P. Dumont (Routledge, 2014), and Interest group politics in Europe: lessons from EU Studies and Comparative Politics, co-edited with Rainer Eising, William Maloney (Routledge, 2010).
Twitter: @ProfJanBeyers
Peter Bursens
Professor of Political Science
Peter Bursen's main fields of research are Europeanization, federalism and intergovernmental relations, regional politics, and public policy-making. More specifically, his research targets political legitimacy and accountability in multi-layered and federal political systems.
Among his publications are 'Regional parliaments in the EU multilevel parliamentary system', with Anna-Lena Högenauer (Journal of Legislative Studies, 2017), ‘Democratic legitimacy in multilevel political systems: the role of politicization at the polity-wide level in the EU and Belgium’, with Dave Sinardet (Acta Politica, 2014), and ‘How Europe shapes the nature of the Belgian federation: differentiated EU impact triggers both co-operation and decentralizaiton’, with Jan Beyers (Regional & Federal Studies, 2013).
