Publications

Extreme levels of parliamentary specialization characterize the lower house of the Dutch parliament (Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal). …

New lines of conflict, political parties and the fragmentation of the political landscape have contributed to cabinet volatility in the …

This essay contemplates experiences from four national ethics audits designed to facilitate correspondence study field experiments with …

Correspondence study field experiments with political elites are a recent addition to legislative studies research, in which …

This article examines the media coverage of vote intention polls in the Netherlands. We assess whether the quality of media reporting …

Populist parties have become an important factor in opposition politics all over Europe. While we know a lot about the behaviour of …

The design of government portfolios – that is, the distribution of competencies among government ministries and office holders – has …

The COVID-19 pandemic presents an exceptional crisis situation not only for governments, but also for politicians in opposition. This …

Although often theorised, empirical research concerning the relationship between parties’ candidate selection and MPs’ parliamentary …

Policy congruence is concerned with the similarity of policy preferences of voters on the one hand and the preferences and actions of …

Does government party support decline in a monotonic fashion throughout the legislative cycle or do we observe a u-shaped “electoral cycle effect”? Moving beyond the study of midterm election results, this is the first comparative study to assess the cyclical pulse of government party support in parliamentary democracies based on voting intention polls from 171 cycles in 22 countries.

Review of PhD dissertation by Benjamin de Vet

The new fifth edition of this leading textbook provides a clear and comprehensive account of governance and politics in the …

Although the literature shows a bewildering variety of typologies of representative democracy, the most important distinctions can be …

In de tweede helft van de 20e eeuw werd de Nederlandse politiek gedomineerd door drie ideologische hoofdstromen. Het CDA en zijn …

In de tweede helft van de 20e eeuw werd de Nederlandse politiek gedomineerd door drie ideologische hoofdstromen. Het CDA en zijn …

This report assesses the degree of transparency in digital political advertising during the campaign period of the 2019 European …

Bij de Tweede Kamerverkiezingen van november 2006 wist de Partij voor de Vrijheid (PVV) als enige rechtse nieuwkomer zetels te behalen. …

This article analyses how populist parties wage opposition in parliament. Our findings indicate that populist opposition parties are particularly less likely to engage in policy-making behaviour and somewhat more likely to engage in scrutiny behaviour.

We examine the development of opposition party behaviour in the Dutch Tweede Kamer between 1998 and 2015.

This paper shifts the analysis of parliamentary oversight tools to the level of the political party, asking how political parties make use of written parliamentary questions.

The Dutch Parliamentary Behaviour Dataset contains a record of parliamentary (voting) behaviour in the Dutch Tweede Kamer (Second Chamber, House of Representatives) since 1945.

This research note extends the confrontational approach to estimating party policy positions by providing a way to estimate uncertainty …

We analyseren de relatie tussen parlement en regering aan de hand van interruptiepatronen in parlementaire debatten en een gedetailleerde lezing van geselecteerde Algemene Beschouwingen

The divide between government and opposition is clearly visible in the way members of parliament vote, but the variation in …

This article examines the effects of design choices on these tools by focusing on the response scale that is used to measure the policy positions of parties and voters.

This article describes a statistical method for aggregating the information from Irish opinion polls.

Most theories of legislative behaviour explain the behaviour of MPs through electoral incentives. However, they fail to explain variation in parliamentary activity when individual electoral incentives are largely absent.

This study seeks to establish the effect of parliamentary specialisation on cosponsorship of parliamentary proposals in parliamentary …

In parliament, populist parties express their positions almost every day through voting. There is great diversity among them, for …

We examine the use of spatial models in Voting Advice Applications. A successful branch of VAAs uses multidimensional models of the …

This article studies how the presence of the supported minority government Rutte-I affected patterns of legislative behavior. On the …

In election times more and more voters consult voting advice applications (VAAs), which show them what party or candidate provides the …

Parliamentary systems are characterised by strong links between the executive and the legislature. While the importance of …

This study seeks to establish the effect of parliamentary specialisation on cosponsorship of parliamentary proposals in parliamentary …

This article studies how the presence of the supported minority government Rutte-I affected patterns of legislative behaviour. On basis …

De politiek in België en Nederland staat in het laatste decennium onder druk: de opkomst van populistische partijen, fragmentatie van …

This paper analyses the design of the EU Profiler, the first truly cross-national VAA. We assess the convergent validity and scaling …

Leven van Dick Dolman Tien jaar lang was Dick Dolman voorzitter van de Tweede Kamer (1979-1989). In Politiek samenspel kijkt hij terug op zijn privéleven en carrière aan de hand van de mensen die hij daarin ontmoette; in elk hoofdstuk staat één van hen centraal.

This article studies the extent to which Dutch political parties fulfil their electoral mandates.

In een politieke discussie staan vooral meningen centraal. En met ‘feiten’ kunnen politici alle kanten op. Toch pleit bijna niemand …

This article studies collective party mandate fulfilment by comparing parties’ election manifestos with the parliamentary speeches of their politicians in two countries: a typical consensus democracy, the Netherlands, and a typical majoritarian democracy, the United Kingdom.

Do political parties fulfil their election mandates? This study provides an empirical analysis of a question many people feel …

This article applies spatial theory to the question of the party mandate.

Het denken over democratisering binnen GroenLinks is blijven steken in het participatie-ideaal uit de jaren zeventig, hoewel dat niet …

Book review of Mapping Policy Preferences II