Tussen Brussel en de Polder De Europeanisering van Politiek en Bestuur in Nederland

Session 1: Governance in the European Unio

The Impact of European Legislation on National Legislation in the Netherlands

Session 1: Governance in the European Unio

The effects of European regulatory networks on the bureaucratic autonomy of national regulatory authorities

The politics and administration of institutional chang

De gebroken belofte van de rechtsstaat: tien verbetervoorstellen met oog voor de burger

The politics and administration of institutional chang

Understanding governmental activism

This article seeks to understand an understudied phenomenon: governmental players joining forces with non-governmental players in contentious actions against policies they want to prevent or redress. This behaviour, which we call ‘governmental activism’, problematizes important assumptions in the social movement literature on state–SMO dichotomies and on seeing ‘the state’ as a homogeneous and unified actor that solely provides the context for SMO activities. Governmental activism also problematizes assumptions on cooperation and ‘new’ modes of coordination in the governance literature. To understand governmental activism, we build on the strategic interaction perspective from social movement studies and on third-phase institutionalism from political science. In our analysis, we show the particulars of governmental activism. Our arguments are illustrated by empirical material on a case of municipal amalgamation in the Netherlands

Ambtenaren in transnationale overheidsnetwerken De politieke aansturing van Haagse ambtenaren in Europese beleidsprocessen

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To merge or not to merge: The institutional re-design of telecommunications regulation in the Netherlands

The politics and administration of institutional chang

The Netherlands

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