Dupuy, ClaireSautter, Ann-MireilleAnn-MireilleSautter2025-02-042025-02-042022https://dial-mem.test.bib.ucl.ac.be/handle/123456789/29375Regionalisation is often analysed as a phenomenon, driven by identarian and functional factors. However, considering policy feedback theory, regionalisation as a multi-policy environment is assumed to play a crucial role in the preference formation of citizens, too. Relying on 18 in-depth interviews and abductive analysis, this work argues that by experiencing Belgian regionalisation and the meaning-making by actors of the meso-level, regionalisation durably shaped Dutch-speaking citizens’ preferences towards the future of the Belgian state not only through the reallocation of funds and services. Instead, the work suggests that regionalisation durably shaped citizens’ preferences through the norms it transmits and the historic meaning given to it. Thereby an inter-generational difference can be detected, a normative policy feedback. At the same time, this work attempts to make sense of the surprising finding of indifference towards the future of the Belgian state.regionalisationpolicy feedbacksocialisationcitizensabductive codingtext::thesis::master thesisthesis:37254