Hans T. Blokland (born 1960) is a Dutch social and political theorist.He was a fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of the Arts and Sciences and held visiting positions at Yale University and the University of Manchester.
And in 2013 he was appointed on the Alfred Grosser chair in sociology of the SciencesPo in France.
His work has awarded, among others, the Pieter de la Court-prize of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
[2] The central subjects of Blokland's work are the meanings of freedom, autonomy, paternalism and emancipation; cultural politics and cultural policy; ethical pluralism of philosophers like Isaiah Berlin and political pluralism of political scientists like Robert Dahl and Charles E. Lindblom; the process of modernization (rationalization, differentiation and individualization); the dissemination, potencies and flaws of the market and bureaucracy; the development of (the thinking on) democracy, policy-making and planning; and the history and potency of political science.
Spearheads are democracy, deliberation, citizenship, radicalization, extremism, migration and integration.