Author Archive
Laenen (2025)
Journal article
  • June 5, 2025

What makes social policy programs (un)popular? Disentangling the causal impact of policy design, risk group deservingness and and mode of delivery. Journal of European Social Policy.

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Laenen, Roosma & Achterberg (2025)
  • March 24, 2025

It’s the middle that matters? Income group coalitions in support for redistributive welfare reform. International Journal of Social Welfare.

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Laenen, Marchal & Van Lancker (2023)
  • December 21, 2023

Policy feedback and income targeting in the welfare state. Journal of Social Policy.

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Laenen, Mulayi, Francisco & Van Lancker (2023)
  • September 13, 2023

Basic Income in Belgium survey: experimental data on citizens’ attitudes towards a variety of basic income policies. Data in Brief.

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Laenen, Gielens, Geschiere & Puijk (2023)
  • April 19, 2023

Wie steunt welk type basisinkomen? Een analyse op basis van de ‘Basisinkomen in Nederland’ survey. Tilburg University: Departement Sociologie.

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Roosma & Laenen (2023)
Books
  • April 19, 2023

New Horizons in Welfare Attitudes Research. A Research Agenda for Public Attitudes to Welfare. Edward Elgar Publishing.

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Laenen (2023)
  • April 28, 2022

The Popularity of Basic Income. Evidence from the Polls. Palgrave Macmillan.

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Laenen, Van Hootegem & Rossetti (2023)
Journal article
  • April 28, 2022

The multidimensionality of public support for basic income: A vignette experiment in Belgium. Journal of European Public Policy.

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Laenen, Meuleman, Otto, Roosma & Van Lancker (2020)
Books
  • March 17, 2021

Leading Social Policy Analysis from the Front. Essays in Honour of Wim van Oorschot. Leuven: Centre for Sociological Research, KU Leuven.

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Laenen & Gugushvili (2021)
Journal article
  • March 17, 2021

Are universal welfare policies really more popular than selective ones? A critical discussion of empirical research. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy.

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Laenen & Roosma (2021)
Books
  • March 16, 2021

How to Study Welfare State Legitimacy. An Analytical Model Inspired by the Work of Wim van Oorschot. In: T. Laenen et al., (Eds.). Leading Social Policy Analysis from the Front. Essays in Honour of Wim van Oorschot. Leuven: Centre for Sociological Research, KU Leuven.

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Gugushvili & Laenen (2021)
Journal article
  • March 16, 2021

Two decades after Korpi & Palme’s “paradox of redistribution”: What have we learnt so far and where do we take it from here? Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy.

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Laenen, Meuleman & van Oorschot (2020)
Welfare state
  • December 9, 2019

Welfare State Legitimacy in Times of Crisis and Austerity: Between Continuity and Change. Edward Elgar Publishing.

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Chrisp, Laenen & van Oorschot (2020)
Journal article
  • December 8, 2019

The Social Legitimacy of Basic Income: A Cross-National and Multidimensional Perspective. Special Issue in the Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy, 36(3), 217-222.

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Laenen (2020)
Books
  • November 11, 2019

How Popular Deservingness Perceptions Mediate the Link Between Unemployment Policies and their Public Support. In Laenen, T., et al. (Eds.), Welfare State Legitimacy in Times of Crisis and Austerity: Between Continuity and Change. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.

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Rossetti, Roosma, Laenen & Abts (2020)
Journal article
  • November 10, 2019

An unconditional basic income? How Dutch citizens justify their opinions about a basic income and work conditionality. Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy, 36(3), 284-300.

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Laenen (2020)
Welfare deservingess
  • October 2, 2019

Welfare Deservingness and Welfare Policy. Popular Deservingness Opinions and their Interaction with Welfare State Policies. Edward Elgar Publishing.

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Gugushvili & Laenen (2019)
  • May 2, 2019

Twenty years after Korpi and Palme’s “paradox of redistribution”: what have we learned so far and where should we take it from here? SPSW Working Paper Series, No. CESO/SPSW/2019-01. Leuven: Centre for Sociological Research.

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Laenen, Rossetti & van Oorschot (2019)
Journal article
  • March 21, 2019

Why deservingness theory needs qualitative research: Comparing focus group discussions on social welfare in three welfare regimes. International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 60(3), 190-216.

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Laenen & Meuleman (2019)
Journal article
  • December 12, 2018

Public support for the social rights and social obligations of the unemployed: two sides of the same coin? International Journal of Social Welfare, 28(4), 454-467.

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Meuleman, van Oorschot, Gugushvili, Baute, Delespaul, Laenen & Rossetti (2018)
  • September 1, 2018

The Past, Present and Future of European Welfare Attitudes: Topline Results from Round 8 of the European Social Survey. ESS Topline Series, No. 8. London: ESS ERIC.

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Laenen & Larsen (2018)
  • September 1, 2018

Retrenchment of unemployment protection and the absence of public resistance in Denmark and the Netherlands. The role of popular deservingness perceptions among welfare constituents. CCWS Working Papers, no 2018-93. Aalborg: Centre for Comparative Welfare Studies.

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Laenen (2018)
Journal article
  • February 1, 2018

Do institutions matter? The interplay between income benefit design, popular perceptions, and the social legitimacy of targeted welfare. Journal of European Social Policy, 28(1), 4-17.

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Laenen & Meuleman (2017)
Books
  • January 1, 2017

A Universal Rank Order of Deservingness? Geographical, Temporal and Social-Structural Comparisons. In W. van Oorschot et al. (Eds.), The Social Legitimacy of Targeted Welfare: Attitudes to Welfare Deservingness. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.

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Laenen, Meuleman, Abts & Swyngedouw (2016)
  • September 15, 2016

De Vlaming over zijn sociale zekerheid: voor wat, hoort wat? Analyse op basis van het postelectoraal verkiezingsonderzoek 2014. Leuven: Centrum voor Sociologisch Onderzoek.

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Laenen (2015)
Journal article
  • December 17, 2015

Wie verdient de steun van onze welvaartsstaat? Samenleving en Politiek, 22(10), 20-26.

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