Lisanne De Blok
Biographic Data
| ID | 4263134 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisanne De Blok |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisanne |
| FAMILY NAME | De Blok |
| SIGNATURE | DE BLOK L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5949-7408 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Limits of Public Support for Fiscal Consolidation: Survey Evidence From Great Britain
In many European democracies, fiscal consolidation is back on the agenda. A common claim is that electoral constraints—stemming from public resistance to tax increases and spending cuts—limit policymakers’ ability to pursue deficit reduction. However, recent research suggests that public support for fiscal consolidation may be stronger than previously thought, calling this line of reasoning into question. This paper re-examines the issue in the B…
Political trust as a coping-mechanism for economic risks
Do political and social accountability arrangements increase citizens’ legitimacy perceptions? A vignette experiment in the Netherlands
This study investigates the effects of social and political accountability arrangements on citizens’ legitimacy perceptions. Accountability arrangements are often suggested to improve the perceived legitimacy of governmental organizations. Based upon a pre-registered vignette experiment with a representative sample of N = 1574 citizens from the Netherlands, we show that social accountability (accountability to citizens) increases legitimacy perce…
All on board? The role of institutional design for public support for differentiated integration
Differentiated integration is often considered a solution to gridlock in the European Union. However, questions remain concerning its perceived legitimacy among the public. While research shows that most citizens are not, in principle, opposed to differentiated integration – although support varies across different differentiated integration models and different country contexts – we still know little about the role institutional design plays in …
Who Cares? Issue Salience as a Key Explanation for Heterogeneity in Citizens' Approaches to Political Trust
Mapping public support for the varieties of differentiated integration
This article maps and investigates public support for different types of differentiated integration (DI) in the European Union. We examine citizens’ preferences for DI using novel survey data from eight EU member states. The data reveals substantive differences in support for different types of DI. Factor analyses reveal two dimensions that seem to structure citizens’ evaluations of DI. The first dimension relates to the effect of DI on the Europ…
A blessing and a curse? Examining public preferences for differentiated integration
This study examines public preferences for two forms of differentiated integration (DI): opt-outs and multi-speed EU. Due to the low salience of DI in domestic politics, we suggest that people use ideological benchmarks when forming opinions about DI mostly relating to their general predispositions towards the EU. While pro-EU citizens are more in favor of DI in the form of multiple speeds as this might pose a solution to overcome gridlock, Euros…
A research note on accountability and institutional clarity: How two dimensions of clarity of responsibility moderate accountability mechanisms
Losers’ Consent in Changing Welfare States: Output Dissatisfaction, Experienced Voice and Political Distrust
Mature welfare states must increasingly handle growing fiscal pressures and a multitude of needs with smaller resources. Meanwhile, evaluations of policy outputs are characterized as ‘the weakest link’ in welfare state support, resulting in generalized political distrust. We assess the procedural fairness argument that citizens are not only concerned with welfare state outcomes but also assess the fairness of the processes of service delivery. Th…
Elite‐Mass Linkages in the Preference Formation on Differentiated Integration
How does the public form preferences about differentiated integration (DI)? The literature on mass‐elite linkages offers two perspectives: top‐down, political elites cue the public, or bottom‐up, political elites react to public preferences. This paper develops expectations based on both perspectives, and presents novel empirical data on citizens, political parties, and governments to test them. We distinguish preferences over differentiated poli…
Increasingly Connected? Political Distrust and Dissatisfaction with Public Services in Europe, 2008–2016
This chapter studies public evaluations of the performance of welfare state policies, with a particular focus on how such evaluations impact on ‘political trust’; that is, generalized confidence in democratic institutions. More specifically, it examines whether performance dissatisfaction increased between 2008 and 2016, given the welfare retrenchment reactions of several governments in Europe. Furthermore, it asks whether the negative effects of…
The puzzling effect of residential neighbourhoods on the vote for the radical right an individual-level panel study on the mechanisms behind neighbourhood effects on voting for the Dutch Freedom Party…
A blessing and a curse? Examining public preferences for differentiated integration
This study examines public preferences for two forms of differentiated integration (DI): opt-outs and multi-speed EU. Due to the low salience of DI in domestic politics, we suggest that people use ideological benchmarks when forming opinions about DI mostly relating to their general predispositions towards the EU. While pro-EU citizens are more in favor of DI in the form of multiple speeds as this might pose a solution to overcome gridlock, Euros…
Mapping public support for the varieties of differentiated integration
This article maps and investigates public support for different types of differentiated integration (DI) in the European Union. We examine citizens’ preferences for DI using novel survey data from eight EU member states. The data reveals substantive differences in support for different types of DI. Factor analyses reveal two dimensions that seem to structure citizens’ evaluations of DI. The first dimension relates to the effect of DI on the Europ…
Losers’ Consent in Changing Welfare States: Output Dissatisfaction, Experienced Voice and Political Distrust
Mature welfare states must increasingly handle growing fiscal pressures and a multitude of needs with smaller resources. Meanwhile, evaluations of policy outputs are characterized as ‘the weakest link’ in welfare state support, resulting in generalized political distrust. We assess the procedural fairness argument that citizens are not only concerned with welfare state outcomes but also assess the fairness of the processes of service delivery. Th…
The puzzling effect of residential neighbourhoods on the vote for the radical right an individual-level panel study on the mechanisms behind neighbourhood effects on voting for the Dutch Freedom Party…
Elite‐Mass Linkages in the Preference Formation on Differentiated Integration
How does the public form preferences about differentiated integration (DI)? The literature on mass‐elite linkages offers two perspectives: top‐down, political elites cue the public, or bottom‐up, political elites react to public preferences. This paper develops expectations based on both perspectives, and presents novel empirical data on citizens, political parties, and governments to test them. We distinguish preferences over differentiated poli…
Who Cares? Issue Salience as a Key Explanation for Heterogeneity in Citizens' Approaches to Political Trust
A research note on accountability and institutional clarity: How two dimensions of clarity of responsibility moderate accountability mechanisms
The puzzling effect of residential neighbourhoods on the vote for the radical right an individual-level panel study on the mechanisms behind neighbourhood effects on voting for the Dutch Freedom Party…
Increasingly Connected? Political Distrust and Dissatisfaction with Public Services in Europe, 2008–2016
This chapter studies public evaluations of the performance of welfare state policies, with a particular focus on how such evaluations impact on ‘political trust’; that is, generalized confidence in democratic institutions. More specifically, it examines whether performance dissatisfaction increased between 2008 and 2016, given the welfare retrenchment reactions of several governments in Europe. Furthermore, it asks whether the negative effects of…
A research note on accountability and institutional clarity: How two dimensions of clarity of responsibility moderate accountability mechanisms
Losers’ Consent in Changing Welfare States: Output Dissatisfaction, Experienced Voice and Political Distrust
Mature welfare states must increasingly handle growing fiscal pressures and a multitude of needs with smaller resources. Meanwhile, evaluations of policy outputs are characterized as ‘the weakest link’ in welfare state support, resulting in generalized political distrust. We assess the procedural fairness argument that citizens are not only concerned with welfare state outcomes but also assess the fairness of the processes of service delivery. Th…
Elite‐Mass Linkages in the Preference Formation on Differentiated Integration
How does the public form preferences about differentiated integration (DI)? The literature on mass‐elite linkages offers two perspectives: top‐down, political elites cue the public, or bottom‐up, political elites react to public preferences. This paper develops expectations based on both perspectives, and presents novel empirical data on citizens, political parties, and governments to test them. We distinguish preferences over differentiated poli…
Mapping public support for the varieties of differentiated integration
This article maps and investigates public support for different types of differentiated integration (DI) in the European Union. We examine citizens’ preferences for DI using novel survey data from eight EU member states. The data reveals substantive differences in support for different types of DI. Factor analyses reveal two dimensions that seem to structure citizens’ evaluations of DI. The first dimension relates to the effect of DI on the Europ…
A blessing and a curse? Examining public preferences for differentiated integration
This study examines public preferences for two forms of differentiated integration (DI): opt-outs and multi-speed EU. Due to the low salience of DI in domestic politics, we suggest that people use ideological benchmarks when forming opinions about DI mostly relating to their general predispositions towards the EU. While pro-EU citizens are more in favor of DI in the form of multiple speeds as this might pose a solution to overcome gridlock, Euros…
Do political and social accountability arrangements increase citizens’ legitimacy perceptions? A vignette experiment in the Netherlands
This study investigates the effects of social and political accountability arrangements on citizens’ legitimacy perceptions. Accountability arrangements are often suggested to improve the perceived legitimacy of governmental organizations. Based upon a pre-registered vignette experiment with a representative sample of N = 1574 citizens from the Netherlands, we show that social accountability (accountability to citizens) increases legitimacy perce…
All on board? The role of institutional design for public support for differentiated integration
Differentiated integration is often considered a solution to gridlock in the European Union. However, questions remain concerning its perceived legitimacy among the public. While research shows that most citizens are not, in principle, opposed to differentiated integration – although support varies across different differentiated integration models and different country contexts – we still know little about the role institutional design plays in …
Who Cares? Issue Salience as a Key Explanation for Heterogeneity in Citizens' Approaches to Political Trust
Political trust as a coping-mechanism for economic risks
The Limits of Public Support for Fiscal Consolidation: Survey Evidence From Great Britain
In many European democracies, fiscal consolidation is back on the agenda. A common claim is that electoral constraints—stemming from public resistance to tax increases and spending cuts—limit policymakers’ ability to pursue deficit reduction. However, recent research suggests that public support for fiscal consolidation may be stronger than previously thought, calling this line of reasoning into question. This paper re-examines the issue in the B…
Law (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Economics (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (5 works)