Political actors receive a great amount of information every day. The aim of the InfoPol research project is to lay bare the processing of this information by individual politicians. How do they decide what information to select, to what information do they pay attention and what information requires their political action?

The research will be conducted in three countries: Belgium, Israel and Canada. These countries are chosen because of the differences in their political system, like the degree of federalism, and the size of parliaments.

The project leader of the InfoPol research is Stefaan Walgrave, full professor at the University of Antwerp. The team of the Infopol project includes scholars from University of Antwerp (Belgium), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel), the McGill University and the University of Toronto (Canada). For more information on the team members, you can visit the ‘team’ page. For a more elaborate description of the project’s goals and theoretical framework, feel free to visit the ‘Project’ page.

For more information on research matters, please see the researchers websites:

• Prof. Stefaan Walgrave, The research group Media, Movements, and Politics (M²P) at the University of Antwerp.
• Prof. Stuart Soroka, associate professor at the University of Michigan.
• Prof. Tamir Sheafer, associate professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
• Prof. Peter Loewen, assistant professor at the University of Toronto-Mississauga.

If you wish to receive further information on the project, do not hesitate to contact us.