Hans Keman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1534348 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hans Keman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hans |
| FAMILY NAME | Keman |
| SIGNATURE | KEMAN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8181-8407 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 297 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Social Democracy
The Social Democratic party family is a central part of political life in the West. This book focuses on this party family as well as a unique political force in the industrialised world. It provides a critical comparative survey of when, where, how and why Social Democracy developed within established capitalist democracies. The book explains the electoral fortunes of Social Democratic parties, the influence of the party system dynamics and co-o…
Comparative research methods
This chapter examines the ‘art of comparing’ by showing how to relate a theoretically guided research question to a properly founded research answer by developing an adequate research design. It first considers the role of variables in comparative research before discussing the meaning of ‘cases’ and case selection. It then looks at the ‘core’ of the comparative research method: the use of the logic of comparative inquiry to analyse the relations…
Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Political Science
This chapter discusses the changing roles of political organizations in contemporary democracies, particularly political parties but also interest groups. While providing platforms for citizens to engage in the political process, they try to exercise political influence during distinct phases of the political decision-making process: parties recruit candidates for political office, run elections, with the ultimate goal to implement policies when …
Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Political Science
Democratic Performance of Parties and Legitimacy in Europe
This article analyses the development of legitimacy across 20 European democracies (1990-2010). The claim is that the democratic performance of parties affects levels of legitimacy. A conceptual and empirical discussion is presented to establish this relationship. Democratic performance is characterised by trusting parties to be responsive to the electorate and responsible in government. Legitimacy is defined as a composite measure representing s…
Organizing Democratic Choice
'Organizing Democratic Choice' offers a new, invigorating theory of how democracy actually works. It also presents a challenge to democratic pessimists who would have everyone believe that neither political parties nor mass publics are up to the tasks that democracy assigns them.
Economic performance and institutions
In the debate about the relationship between institutions and overall economic performance, the dependent variable has received scant attention – in contrast to the independent variable(s). This paper tries to enhance the understanding of the link between institutions and performance by presenting and assessing a substantively grounded conceptualization and operationalization of overall economic performance based on economic growth, employment, a…
Peter Mair
Dr. Peter Mair, Professor of Comparative Politics and Government at the EUI (Florence) has suddenly and unexpectedly passed away, 15 August 2011, at the age of 60. He leaves behind his wife and 3 children. The political science community in Europe and beyond grieves this loss of an outstanding academic, journal editor and teacher. Peter Mair, born 3 March 1951, was a native of Ireland, a graduate of University College Dublin and enjoyed a disting…
Patterns of multi-party government
Coalition theory is central to our understanding of the nexus between party system development, party government composition and the relationship between the executive and legislature. I argue that government formation is crucial for understanding the life cycle of party government. I consider the relations between parties in parliament and parties in government as principal-agent relations, signifying the indirect character of representative gov…
Parties and government
Third Ways and Social Democracy
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Fading away of state support to the economy? A comparative analysis of the OECD world (1980–2002)
Cutting Back Public Investment after 1980
Since the 1980s public investment expenditures have been cut back in many OECD democracies. One explanation is a priority for fiscal stringency in order to curb big government in the context of neo-liberal ideas, which is reinforced by EMU requirements in the 1990s. Another is the potential impact of left and right partisan politics on investment policies. The main finding here is that the overall decrease in public investment expenditure appears…
Social Capital and European Democracy
The authors of this work examine the dominant view that voluntary activity promotes social capital and hence good government, but also explore alternative models for the creation of social capital. Theoretical discussion is combined with detailed case studies to provide a new explanation of : * the origins and nature of social capital * its effects on political participation and policy-making * the role of the voluntary sector Contributors go on …
Contemporary Approaches to Social Democracy
The Changing Landscape of Dutch Politics Since the 1970s
Introduction
The Polder Model Reviewed
The Dutch Polder Model gained international reputation in the 1990s as an example of a successful and peaceful incomes management policy while coping with severe pressure. This article claims that the Polder Model has been overrated and so has its performance in terms of consensus (central agreements). The article discusses the emergence and working of this model in three parts. First, the behaviour of the relevant actors (government, trade union…
Comparative Political Science in Germany
Experts and manifestos
Doing Research in Political Science
PART ONE: COMPARATIVE METHODOLOGY - Hans Keman Comparative Methodology and Statistics in Political Science The Comparative Approach Theory and Method Meaning and Use of the Comparative Method Research Design PART TWO: STATISTICS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE - Jan Kleinnijenhuis Concepts, Cases, Data and Measurement Explorative and Descriptive Statistics Multivariate Analysis and Causal Inference PART THREE: DOING POLITICAL RESEARCH - Paul Pennings How Pr…
Looking back… and looking forward
The Contingency of Corporatist Influence
This paper examines the hypothesis that corporatist intermediation by party governments facilitates incomes policy formation and is effective in reaching agreements between employers and trade unions as well. A social democratic party in government would positively enhance this process. Investigating this for the Netherlands between 1965–2000, two puzzles emerge. The first puzzle is that coalition governments of Social and Christian Democracy fal…
Competition and Coalescence in European Party Systems
Party systems in Europe have been in transition since the 1990s. New parties have emerged and appear more successful in gaining representation in parliament and government than before. Conversely the established party families in many postwar West European party systems - Social Democracy and Christian Democracy in particular - seem to have lost ground. We argue that an ideological convergence is developing between these two party families toward…
Comparing Across Political Systems
In the 1920s Lord Bryce published a study of the constitutional design of democracy. His point of departure was that ample modern democracies were available to undertake a systematic comparative inquiry. The aim of such a study was to „describe the working of actual democratic governments (...) classifying and comparing the phenomena which the examination of these governments reveals.“ (Bryce 1929: 9). Most important was, in his view that the com…
Party government in 20 democracies
The country tables of the data collection ‘Political Data 1945–1990. Party Government in 20 Democracies’ (European Journal of Political Research, Vol. 24, No. 1 (July 1993), pp. 1–119) are updated and corrected to the end of 1995. Errors and omissions on the level of separate Ministers and/or Ministries have been corrected as well. These are listed as ‘changes/corrections’ in the corresponding tables in the original data collection
Experts and manifestos
The Dutch Parliamentary Elections in 2002 and 2003
Third Ways and Social Democracy
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The search for the centre
The central question is whether or not in multiparty systems the so‐called parties of the 'centre' can be defined and observed in isolation. We start from the assumption that party‐life in the centre‐space of a political system has distinctive features. Centre parties must therefore be conceptualised and analysed as phenomena sui generis and do not belong to either the left‐wing or the right‐wing of a party system. The second assumption is that e…
Politics, Policies and Consequences
In this article the growing dissent and tension with regard to the relationship between political factors, public policy‐formation and the consequences (in terms of economic performance) will be investigated. Our point of departure is to find out to what extent political variables matter and which other factors may account for the above relationship. The main result is that, apart from the impact of ‘politics’, the existence of a corporatist mode…
Competition and Coalescence in European Party Systems
Party systems in Europe have been in transition since the 1990s. New parties have emerged and appear more successful in gaining representation in parliament and government than before. Conversely the established party families in many postwar West European party systems - Social Democracy and Christian Democracy in particular - seem to have lost ground. We argue that an ideological convergence is developing between these two party families toward…
Managing Political and Societal Conflict in Democracies
In their Note ‘Corporatism and Consensus Democracy in Eighteen Countries’ (this Journal, 21 (1991), 235–46) Arend Lijphart and Markus Crepaz sought to analyse the conceptual and theoretical linkages between corporatism and consensus democracy. Their aim was not only to investigate whether the concepts were linked to each other, but also to examine to what extent they overlapped. The authors claim that corporatism is part and parcel of consensual …
Democratic Performance of Parties and Legitimacy in Europe
This article analyses the development of legitimacy across 20 European democracies (1990-2010). The claim is that the democratic performance of parties affects levels of legitimacy. A conceptual and empirical discussion is presented to establish this relationship. Democratic performance is characterised by trusting parties to be responsive to the electorate and responsible in government. Legitimacy is defined as a composite measure representing s…
The Changing Landscape of Dutch Politics Since the 1970s
Explaining miracles
The emergence of the Dutch miracle – often seen as a result of the famous Polder model – has not only resulted in drastic changes as regards the labour market policy, but also in a performance that is considered superior to most other OECD economies. In addition, it is often suggested that this development may well be considered a prototype of the Third Way politics of contemporary social democracy. Both views are scrutinised and discussed by mea…
The Limits of Political Control
Even to the most outright optimist it is obvious that the contemporary economic crisis cannot be labelled a ‘recession’ any more. Faced with the present political and economic circumstances in the advanced capitalist democracies, people are being forced to modify their views on both the strength and the weakness, on the possibilities and the limitations, of the political control of economy by the state.
Theoretical Approaches to Social Democracy
Social democracy has been widely studied in political science. More often than not these studies are flawed or even biased. I contend that this results from the fact that the `object' of analysis has been conceptualized in terms of a `subjective' understanding of social democracy and its presupposed relationship with the development of the welfare state. Hence the theoretical standing of these studies must be questioned. In this article I shall i…
Political Stability in Divided Societies
Analyses of consociationalism and corporatism are based, more often than not, on descriptive case studies. These concepts are considered to explain the stability of the political systems, where one would expect that conflict and stalemate in democratic decision-making were the rule rather than the exception. In this article an attempt is made to develop a more general argument, based on the idea of a structure-induced equilibrium, to analyse inst…
Party government in 20 democracies
The country tables of the data collection ‘Political Data 1945–1990. Party Government in 20 Democracies’ (European Journal of Political Research, Vol. 24, No. 1 (July 1993), pp. 1–119) are updated and corrected to the end of 1995. Errors and omissions on the level of separate Ministers and/or Ministries have been corrected as well. These are listed as ‘changes/corrections’ in the corresponding tables in the original data collection
Patterns of multi-party government
Coalition theory is central to our understanding of the nexus between party system development, party government composition and the relationship between the executive and legislature. I argue that government formation is crucial for understanding the life cycle of party government. I consider the relations between parties in parliament and parties in government as principal-agent relations, signifying the indirect character of representative gov…
Economic performance and institutions
In the debate about the relationship between institutions and overall economic performance, the dependent variable has received scant attention – in contrast to the independent variable(s). This paper tries to enhance the understanding of the link between institutions and performance by presenting and assessing a substantively grounded conceptualization and operationalization of overall economic performance based on economic growth, employment, a…
Cutting Back Public Investment after 1980
Since the 1980s public investment expenditures have been cut back in many OECD democracies. One explanation is a priority for fiscal stringency in order to curb big government in the context of neo-liberal ideas, which is reinforced by EMU requirements in the 1990s. Another is the potential impact of left and right partisan politics on investment policies. The main finding here is that the overall decrease in public investment expenditure appears…
Social policy in rich and poor countries
Nomination: Does politics matter? A perennial question! by Hans Keman, p.159 Reflections: Politics does indeed matter! by Manfred G. Schmidt, p.164
Parties and government
Fading away of state support to the economy? A comparative analysis of the OECD world (1980–2002)
Contemporary Approaches to Social Democracy
The Contingency of Corporatist Influence
This paper examines the hypothesis that corporatist intermediation by party governments facilitates incomes policy formation and is effective in reaching agreements between employers and trade unions as well. A social democratic party in government would positively enhance this process. Investigating this for the Netherlands between 1965–2000, two puzzles emerge. The first puzzle is that coalition governments of Social and Christian Democracy fal…
Managing the mixed economy in Central and Eastern Europe
The central argument of this article is that the introduction of democracy and the transition to a market economy in Central and Eastern European countries is producing contradictory and even perverse effects on these societies. These effects are enlarging the micro‐macro paradox of politics and inducing political instability. Instead of focusing on the economic problems or institutionalizing democracy only, it is argued, one should elaborate mor…
Political‐Economic Interdependence and the Management of Economic Crisis
This article takes up some crucial problems raised in the contributions to this issue and discusses them theoretically in order to show some avenues for further research. The article reconsiders the impact of a high political‐economic interdependence on policy‐making and suggests some new questions for public policy analysis. More specifically, the importance of structural arrangements and of the complex relationship between structural arrangemen…
The Limits of Political Control
Even to the most outright optimist it is obvious that the contemporary economic crisis cannot be labelled a ‘recession’ any more. Faced with the present political and economic circumstances in the advanced capitalist democracies, people are being forced to modify their views on both the strength and the weakness, on the possibilities and the limitations, of the political control of economy by the state.
Political‐Economic Interdependence and the Management of Economic Crisis
This article takes up some crucial problems raised in the contributions to this issue and discusses them theoretically in order to show some avenues for further research. The article reconsiders the impact of a high political‐economic interdependence on policy‐making and suggests some new questions for public policy analysis. More specifically, the importance of structural arrangements and of the complex relationship between structural arrangemen…
Politics, Policies and Consequences
In this article the growing dissent and tension with regard to the relationship between political factors, public policy‐formation and the consequences (in terms of economic performance) will be investigated. Our point of departure is to find out to what extent political variables matter and which other factors may account for the above relationship. The main result is that, apart from the impact of ‘politics’, the existence of a corporatist mode…
Economic Crisis and Political Management
The management of political–economic interdependence is rather neglected in political theory as well as in political research. We propose a tentative framework of analysis concentrating on the processes of interaction between ‘politics’ and ‘economics’. Three levels of interaction are introduced and discussed in relation to current literature and to the contributions to this ‘special issue’. In particular, attention is paid to the potential role …
Economic interdependence, international regimes, and domestic strategies of industrial adjustment
This review attempts to assess the validity and usefulness of the arguments of the so‐called ‘International Regimes’ approach and the political‐institutional view with respect to economic policy formation and economic performance. In particular, the works of Keohane and Krasner on the one hand, and of Katzenstein on the other are examined. It turns out that both viewpoints can largely contribute to a better understanding of why economic interdepe…
Introduction the Politics of Unemployment
One may wonder why political scientists would bother about the analysis of questions relating to rates of unemployment. In effect, should not this be part of economic science? Economists are generally seen as better equipped with theories on the micro and macro level to deal with issues regarding labour market performance, the development of employment and the explanation of volatile rates of unemployment and inflation. This view is held by the m…
Parties and Democracy
Parties are the central institution through which mass representative democracies now work. This book covers four aspects of their activities at governmental level—the actual formation and termination of governments; the distribution of ministries between parties forming the government; and policymaking. In each area, it proposes theories and models of how parties drive these processes, and checks them against comparative evidence for 20 States f…
Theoretical Approaches to Social Democracy
Social democracy has been widely studied in political science. More often than not these studies are flawed or even biased. I contend that this results from the fact that the `object' of analysis has been conceptualized in terms of a `subjective' understanding of social democracy and its presupposed relationship with the development of the welfare state. Hence the theoretical standing of these studies must be questioned. In this article I shall i…
The search for the centre
The central question is whether or not in multiparty systems the so‐called parties of the 'centre' can be defined and observed in isolation. We start from the assumption that party‐life in the centre‐space of a political system has distinctive features. Centre parties must therefore be conceptualised and analysed as phenomena sui generis and do not belong to either the left‐wing or the right‐wing of a party system. The second assumption is that e…
Managing Political and Societal Conflict in Democracies
In their Note ‘Corporatism and Consensus Democracy in Eighteen Countries’ (this Journal, 21 (1991), 235–46) Arend Lijphart and Markus Crepaz sought to analyse the conceptual and theoretical linkages between corporatism and consensus democracy. Their aim was not only to investigate whether the concepts were linked to each other, but also to examine to what extent they overlapped. The authors claim that corporatism is part and parcel of consensual …
Managing the mixed economy in Central and Eastern Europe
The central argument of this article is that the introduction of democracy and the transition to a market economy in Central and Eastern European countries is producing contradictory and even perverse effects on these societies. These effects are enlarging the micro‐macro paradox of politics and inducing political instability. Instead of focusing on the economic problems or institutionalizing democracy only, it is argued, one should elaborate mor…
The Politics of Problem-Solving in Postwar Democracies
The Politics of Problem-solving in Postwar Democracies focuses explicitly on the way in which and the extent to which public policy formation in multi-party systems can be both effective and legitimat
Social policy in rich and poor countries
Nomination: Does politics matter? A perennial question! by Hans Keman, p.159 Reflections: Politics does indeed matter! by Manfred G. Schmidt, p.164
Party government in 20 democracies
The country tables of the data collection ‘Political Data 1945–1990. Party Government in 20 Democracies’ (European Journal of Political Research, Vol. 24, No. 1 (July 1993), pp. 1–119) are updated and corrected to the end of 1995. Errors and omissions on the level of separate Ministers and/or Ministries have been corrected as well. These are listed as ‘changes/corrections’ in the corresponding tables in the original data collection
Party government in 20 democracies
The country tables of the data collection ‘Political Data 1945–1990. Party Government in 20 Democracies’ (European Journal of Political Research, Vol. 24, No. 1 (July 1993), pp. 1–119) are updated and corrected to the end of 1995. Errors and omissions on the level of separate Ministers and/or Ministries have been corrected as well. These are listed as ‘changes/corrections’ in the corresponding tables in the original data collection
Political Stability in Divided Societies
Analyses of consociationalism and corporatism are based, more often than not, on descriptive case studies. These concepts are considered to explain the stability of the political systems, where one would expect that conflict and stalemate in democratic decision-making were the rule rather than the exception. In this article an attempt is made to develop a more general argument, based on the idea of a structure-induced equilibrium, to analyse inst…
Party Government in 48 Democracies (1945–1998)
Comparative Democratic Politics
This volume brings together a team of renowned international scholars to provide a comprehensive review of theory and research in this essential area of comparative study
Autonomous Policy Making by International Organisations
The Dutch Parliamentary Elections in 2002 and 2003
Political Parties — Old Concepts and New Challenges (Comparative Politics Series)
Explaining miracles
The emergence of the Dutch miracle – often seen as a result of the famous Polder model – has not only resulted in drastic changes as regards the labour market policy, but also in a performance that is considered superior to most other OECD economies. In addition, it is often suggested that this development may well be considered a prototype of the Third Way politics of contemporary social democracy. Both views are scrutinised and discussed by mea…
Comparing Across Political Systems
In the 1920s Lord Bryce published a study of the constitutional design of democracy. His point of departure was that ample modern democracies were available to undertake a systematic comparative inquiry. The aim of such a study was to „describe the working of actual democratic governments (...) classifying and comparing the phenomena which the examination of these governments reveals.“ (Bryce 1929: 9). Most important was, in his view that the com…
Gedreven en behoedzaam. Willem Drees 1886–1988, De jaren 1940–1948
Doing Research in Political Science
PART ONE: COMPARATIVE METHODOLOGY - Hans Keman Comparative Methodology and Statistics in Political Science The Comparative Approach Theory and Method Meaning and Use of the Comparative Method Research Design PART TWO: STATISTICS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE - Jan Kleinnijenhuis Concepts, Cases, Data and Measurement Explorative and Descriptive Statistics Multivariate Analysis and Causal Inference PART THREE: DOING POLITICAL RESEARCH - Paul Pennings How Pr…
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