9 search results for “public opinion” in the Student website
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Jan de Keijser
Faculty of Law
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Between Power and Public Opinion: State Reform in Nepal
On 24 April 2025, political scientist Pawan Kumar Sen will defend his PhD dissertation, "Transforming Nepal’s Political System: Party Positions and Public Opinion (2004-2012)," at Leiden University. His research examines how Nepal’s major political parties navigated key state restructuring reforms—republicanism,…
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Josh Robison
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Joop van Holsteijn
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Duygu Uysal Dincol
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Simon Otjes
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Aleksandra Khokhlova
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Understanding public support for budget cuts and tax increases
In her dissertation, political scientist Alessia Aspide explores how public attitudes toward fiscal policy are formed. Her key finding: fiscal preferences are not shaped in a vacuum, but are deeply embedded in institutional, political, and societal contexts.
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Unknown, but not unloved
Do you know what the capital of St Eustatius is? Or which province Curaçao belongs to? No idea? You are not the only one: the majority of European Dutch people know little about the Caribbean islands within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. This is according to a large-scale opinion survey led by political…