Projects
Vox Pops or Polls? Effects of Vox Pops and Opinion Polls on Perceived Public Opinion, Personal Opinion and News Item Evaluation. University of Antwerp
How Are Policymakers Influenced by What the Public Wants? An Experimental Study of the Effect of Public Opinion on Elite Preferences and Behavior. University of Antwerp
The Voice of the People. Displays of Public Opinion in the News and Their Influence on Audiences. University of Antwerp
How politicians evaluate public opinion (POLEVPOP). University of Antwerp
Politicians' Evaluation of Public Opinion. University of Antwerp
Public Opinion versus Popular Sovereignty: Liberalism in France after the Revolution (1789-1830) KU Leuven
Today, political theorists often understand public opinion as an expression of popular sovereignty: people exercise their power by voicing and discussing their political views. Scholars have shown that this amalgamation of the two notions first occurred during the French Revolution. To date, however, no study has investigated how theorists of public opinion envisaged it in relation to popular sovereignty after the Revolution. As a result, we ...
Equality, equity or need? Public opinion towards distributive justice in the changing welfare state KU Leuven
Contemporary Western societies are characterized by a de-structuring of the social contract of organized modernity. This brings along renewed discussions on distributive justice, i.e. how the burdens and benefits of our major institutions and social arrangements can be distributed fairly. Three principles of distributive justice are distinguished: (1) equity: distribution dependent on contributions; (2) equality: the same access to social ...
Deservingness perceptions in European welfare states: Comparative analyses of public opinion on the social rights and duties of needy groups. KU Leuven
In welfare states different groups of needy people are treated differently. For some groups social protection is more easily accessible, more generous, longer lasting, and/or less subjected to reciprocal obligations than for other groups. Generally, such differential treatment is assumed to be influenced by economic (e.g. less protection for less productive groups), political (e.g. better protection for groups with stronger lobbies) and ...
Public opinion on the welfare state, climate change and energy in the EU and Russia KU Leuven
This project compares opinions of Russian citizens with that of EU citizens as regards the welfare state, climate chnage and energy, using data of various waves of the European Social Survey.