Publications

This is the editorial to the special issue Parliaments in the Low Countries: Representing Divided Societies which I co-edited with Benjamin de Vet.

This work was supported by grants from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Grant Number: ZI 608/8-1) and the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (Grant Number: 464.18.108).

This is an open access publication This work was supported by grants from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Grant Number: ZI 608/8-1) and the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (Grant Number: 464.

This is an open access publication

Note: my contribution to this article was limited to the collection of data on the case of the Netherlands and workshop participation related to this research project.

This is an open access publication

This is an open access publication

The PDF is made available on this personal site, in accordance with the Taverne amendment.

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

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.

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

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 is an English-language version of Otjes & Louwerse (2013) Res Publica 55(4), 459-480

This book offers a Dutch-language introduction to comparative politics.

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.

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.

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

Book review of Mapping Policy Preferences II