Theoretical background
The following documents played a key role in the theoretical and conceptual preparations for Beyond the Narrative of Decline.
- Elchardus, M. (2009) Self-control as social control. The emergence of symbolic society. Poetics, 37,2:146-61
- Elchardus, M. (2011) Classical Republicanism and the contemporary voter: and empirical cultural sociology of the relationship between the private realm and the public sphere. Poetics 39,11:407-25
- Elchardus, M (2012) Onderwijs als (nieuwe) sociale scheidslijn. In: De sociale klasse voorbij. Over nieuwe scheidslijnen in de samenleving. Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijkrelaties, Den Haag.
- Elchardus, M. & K. De Keere (2010) Institutionalizing the new self. A comparative analysis. European Societies, 12,5:743-764
- Elchardus, M. & K. De Keere (2012) Social control and institutional trust: reconsidering the effects of modernity on social malaise. The Social Science Journal, 50,1:101-111.
- Elchardus, M. & K. De Keere (2013) Republicanism in mediated society. A comparative analysis of public and private evaluation guided by the theory of symbolic society. International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, 26,3:273-90
- Elchardus, M., S. Herbots, B.Spruyt (2013) Keeping on track and growing apart. An empirical analysis of the role of education and media in the formation of attitudes. Poetics, 45:524-549
- Elchardus, M. & W. Smits (2007) Het grootste geluk. LannooCampus
- Elchardus, M. & B.Spruyt (2012) The contemporary contradictions of egalitarianism: an empirical analysis of the relationship between the old and new left/right alignment. European Political Science Review, 4,2:217-239
- Elchardus, M. & B. Spruyt (2014) Populism, persistent republicanism and declinism. An empirical analysis of populism as a thin ideology. Government and Opposition (first online gov.2014-27)
