Verweij
Biographic Data
| ID | 1732191 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Verweij |
| FAMILY NAME | Verweij |
| SIGNATURE | VERWEIJ |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6477-2734 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 106 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 30 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Drivers of public inter-organizational collaboration in area-oriented transport infrastructure planning
Aging transport infrastructures in Western countries require redevelopment to meet future demands. Literature suggests that traditional planning is inadequate for redevelopment. This has led to the rise of area-oriented infrastructure planning, where multiple organizations collaborate. While existing studies acknowledge the importance of inter-organizational collaboration in area-oriented planning, they do not clarify whether and how specific dri…
Bundling transport infrastructure projects to achieve equitable development
Recent governance approaches bundle infrastructure projects into arrangements to promote equitable development. However, analyses of their multi-level governance (MLG) arrangements remain limited. We explore government intentions on how equity in transport infrastructure planning is addressed through various MLG arrangements for bundled project approaches in France, the Philippines, Colombia, South Korea and Thailand. The findings reveal an empha…
Strategies to account for time and process in Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)
In its original form, Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) struggles with cases that evolve over time. Temporal QCA (TQCA) and Time-Series QCA (TS/QCA) are among the older variants that try to incorporate time in the comparative analysis. Recently, many more alternative strategies have been proposed. This article provides an overview of all known strategies to account for time and process in QCA, so that researchers can make informed research d…
How rule directions influence actors to achieve collective action
While institutional analyses often assess whether collective action occurs, scant literature exists on key characteristics of institutional rules and how they affect collective action. Building on the Institutional Analysis and Development framework, this paper aims to identify rule directions and demonstrate how rule directions influence collective action. A rule direction is the particular direction that is provided to the decision-making proce…
Enabling boundary spanners in public–private collaboration
Boundary spanners are pivotal in developing effective public–private collaboration in public infrastructure projects. As boundary spanners have to account for different interests, perspectives, and ways of working in public–private collaborations, engaging in boundary‐spanning activities often comes with role stress, which can negatively impact their job performance. However, despite the significant levels of role stress associated with boundary …
Mapping institutional change
Actors' toolset to affect institutional change by doing institutional design is limited because criteria for effective institutional design are often too general and abstract. This paper aims to identify institutional design strategies and explore how they influence institutional change. The theoretical framework builds on Ostrom's Institutional Analysis and Development framework to map institutional change, and it identifies six institutional de…
No time for nonsense!”
This essay introduces and frames the contributions to the special issue on learning and co-evolution in governance. It develops the argument that learning, dark learning and non-learning are necessarily entwined in governance, moreover, entwined in a pattern unique to each governance configuration and path. What can be learned collectively for the common good, what kind of knowledge and learning can be strategically used and shamelessly abused, a…
Policy Learning and Adaptation in governance; a Co-evolutionary Perspective
This paper introduces the concepts and ideas that frame this special issue on co-evolution in governance, and their implications for policy learning and adaptation. It offers a brief overview of co-evolutionary approaches to governance and their elementary connections with systems theories, post-structuralism, institutionalism, and actor-network theory, and explores how they are connected to co-evolution in governance. Co-evolutionary approaches …
In search of the collaborative advantage of public‐private partnerships
The theory of collaborative advantage is a major theory rationalizing the role of Public‐Private Partnerships (PPPs). However, the evidence for the theory in the case of PPPs is weak: the literature lacks studies that compared the actual performance and collaboration of PPPs to that of traditionally procured public projects. The aim of this article is to test the theory of a collaborative advantage of PPPs, focusing on three common performance in…
Private management of public networks? Unpacking the relationship between network management strategies in infrastructure implementation
With the aim to successfully implement infrastructure, implementation arrangements increasingly assign responsibilities for network management to private actors. In the literature, two types of network management strategies are distinguished: process design and institutional design. To date, research has focused on either of these strategies. Moreover, while private actors aim to use the institutional capital built in the network before the priva…
The importance of policy design fit for effectiveness
Policy design has returned as a central topic in public policy research. An important area of policy design study deals with effectively attaining desired policy outcomes by aligning goals and means to achieve policy design fit. So far, only a few empirical studies have explored the relationship between policy design fit and effectiveness. In this paper, we adopt the multilevel framework for policy design to determine which conditions of policy d…
Three strategies to track configurations over time with Qualitative Comparative Analysis
Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) – a configurational research approach – has become often-used in political science. In its original form, QCA is relatively static and does not analyze configurations over time. Since many key questions in political science – and other social sciences – have a temporal dimension, this is a major drawback of QCA. Therefore, we discuss and compare three QCA-related strategies that enable researchers to track c…
Comparative Planning Research, Learning, and Governance
In this article, the authors develop a perspective on the value of, and methodologies for, comparative planning research. Through comparative research, similarities and differences between planning cases and experiences can be disentangled. This opens up possibilities for learning across planning systems, and possibly even the transfer of best planning and policy practices across systems, places, or countries. Learning in governance systems is al…
Learning from Other Places and Their Plans
In this thematic issue we pursue the idea that comparative studies of planning systems are utterly useful for gaining a deeper understanding of learning processes and learning capacity in spatial planning systems. In contemporary planning systems the pressures towards learning and continuous self-transformation are high. On the one hand more and more planning is needed in terms of integration of expertise, policy, local knowledge, and response to…
Effective policy instrument mixes for implementing integrated flood risk management
Central to integrated flood risk management is the integration of water management with spatial planning. Existing studies often focus on analyzing the policy instruments in the initiation and planning phases of integrated flood risk management. Little is known, however, about the policy instrument mixes that enable implementation of integrated flood risk management. Therefore, in this article we analyze the Dutch Room for the River program to id…
A common ground? Constructing and exploring scenarios for infrastructure network-of-networks
Contemporary infrastructure networks require large investments especially due to aging. Investment opportunities of network-of-networks are often obscured because current scenarios often concern single infrastructure networks. Major barriers to the construction and use of network-of-networks scenarios are institutional fragmentation and the disconnection of scenario-development phases. This paper aims to construct and enhance the use of network-o…
Implementing multiple intervention strategies in Dutch public health-related policy networks
Improving public health requires multiple intervention strategies. Implementing such an intervention mix is supposed to require a multisectoral policy network. As evidence to support this assumption is scarce, we examined under which conditions public health-related policy networks were able to implement an intervention mix. Data were collected (2009-14) from 29 Dutch public health policy networks. Surveys were used to identify the number of poli…
What makes decisions about urban water infrastructure forward looking? A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis of investment decisions in 40 Dutch municipalities
Municipalities worldwide are confronted with the need to take long-term decisions about ageing water infrastructure in the face of unpredictable future developments. Previous studies on long-term decision making have proposed solutions targeted at the domain of either politics or planning. This study combines insights from the domains of policy, politics, and planning by using the Multiple Streams Framework to explain what enables municipalities …
The Evaluation of Complex Infrastructure Projects
Infrastructure projects are notoriously hard to manage so it is important that society learns from the successes and mistakes made over time. However, most evaluation methods run into a conundrum: either they cover a large number of projects but have little to say about their details, or they focus on detailed single-case studies with little in terms of applicability elsewhere. This book presents Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) as an alter…
Conditions for addressing environmental determinants of health behavior in intersectoral policy networks
Implementing Public–Private Partnerships
Most research on Public–Private Partnerships (PPPs) in infrastructure development focuses on phases prior to construction. The implementation phase itself has received less attention. However, sound public–private agreements and project preparations can fail during project implementation because of, for example, unforeseen events and ineffective responses to them. We conducted case studies on two infrastructure projects to examine which managemen…
When Governance Networks Become the Agenda
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Governing Environmental Conflicts in China
In recent years, governing environmental conflicts concerning the planning, construction, and operation of urban facilities has increasingly become a challenge for Chinese local governments. Chinese governments seek adequate responses to deal with these conflicts, for instance by ignoring criticism and sticking to initial decisions, by suppressing protests, or by compromising. In this article, by analysing 10 cases of conflict in China using cris…
Two effective causal paths that explain the adoption of US state environmental justice policy
Taking stock of complexity in evaluation
1. Using Complexity Theory for Research and Program Evaluation Michael Wolf-Branigin (author), Oxford University Press, 2013, ISBN: 9780199829460 (paperback) 2. Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use Michael Quinn Patton (author), The Guilford Press, 2011, ISBN: 9781606238721 (paperback) 3. Evaluating the Complex: Attribution, Contribution, and Beyond Kim Forss, Mita Marra and Robert Schwartz (eds), T…
Governing Environmental Conflicts in China
In recent years, governing environmental conflicts concerning the planning, construction, and operation of urban facilities has increasingly become a challenge for Chinese local governments. Chinese governments seek adequate responses to deal with these conflicts, for instance by ignoring criticism and sticking to initial decisions, by suppressing protests, or by compromising. In this article, by analysing 10 cases of conflict in China using cris…
Two effective causal paths that explain the adoption of US state environmental justice policy
Three strategies to track configurations over time with Qualitative Comparative Analysis
Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) – a configurational research approach – has become often-used in political science. In its original form, QCA is relatively static and does not analyze configurations over time. Since many key questions in political science – and other social sciences – have a temporal dimension, this is a major drawback of QCA. Therefore, we discuss and compare three QCA-related strategies that enable researchers to track c…
What Makes Governance Networks Work? A Fuzzy Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis of 14 Dutch Spatial Planning Projects
Many studies have been conducted to determine the conditions that contribute to the satisfactory outcome of decision‐making processes in governance networks. In this article, we explore how the interaction of three such conditions – network complexity, network management, and stakeholder involvement – results in stakeholder satisfaction. We use fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis – a relatively new approach in public administration researc…
Understanding and researching complexity with Qualitative Comparative Analysis
This article proposes a complexity-informed framework for evaluating transportation infrastructure projects. The article does this through four steps. First, the properties of infrastructure development projects are discussed. This leads to the conclusion that the specific locality or contextualization of a given project is important for explaining the outcome. Hence, there is a need for an ontology and epistemology that addresses the importance …
The importance of policy design fit for effectiveness
Policy design has returned as a central topic in public policy research. An important area of policy design study deals with effectively attaining desired policy outcomes by aligning goals and means to achieve policy design fit. So far, only a few empirical studies have explored the relationship between policy design fit and effectiveness. In this paper, we adopt the multilevel framework for policy design to determine which conditions of policy d…
Implementing Public–Private Partnerships
Most research on Public–Private Partnerships (PPPs) in infrastructure development focuses on phases prior to construction. The implementation phase itself has received less attention. However, sound public–private agreements and project preparations can fail during project implementation because of, for example, unforeseen events and ineffective responses to them. We conducted case studies on two infrastructure projects to examine which managemen…
Private management of public networks? Unpacking the relationship between network management strategies in infrastructure implementation
With the aim to successfully implement infrastructure, implementation arrangements increasingly assign responsibilities for network management to private actors. In the literature, two types of network management strategies are distinguished: process design and institutional design. To date, research has focused on either of these strategies. Moreover, while private actors aim to use the institutional capital built in the network before the priva…
Policy Learning and Adaptation in governance; a Co-evolutionary Perspective
This paper introduces the concepts and ideas that frame this special issue on co-evolution in governance, and their implications for policy learning and adaptation. It offers a brief overview of co-evolutionary approaches to governance and their elementary connections with systems theories, post-structuralism, institutionalism, and actor-network theory, and explores how they are connected to co-evolution in governance. Co-evolutionary approaches …
Effective policy instrument mixes for implementing integrated flood risk management
Central to integrated flood risk management is the integration of water management with spatial planning. Existing studies often focus on analyzing the policy instruments in the initiation and planning phases of integrated flood risk management. Little is known, however, about the policy instrument mixes that enable implementation of integrated flood risk management. Therefore, in this article we analyze the Dutch Room for the River program to id…
How Satisfaction Is Achieved in the Implementation Phase of Large Transportation Infrastructure Projects
In the implementation phase of transportation infrastructure projects, unplanned events will inevitably occur. Although this is increasingly acknowledged, little systematic research has been conducted into what management strategies are best for dealing with these unplanned events. This article investigates how managers respond to unplanned events that occur in the context of a project during implementation, and which management responses produce…
A common ground? Constructing and exploring scenarios for infrastructure network-of-networks
Contemporary infrastructure networks require large investments especially due to aging. Investment opportunities of network-of-networks are often obscured because current scenarios often concern single infrastructure networks. Major barriers to the construction and use of network-of-networks scenarios are institutional fragmentation and the disconnection of scenario-development phases. This paper aims to construct and enhance the use of network-o…
What makes decisions about urban water infrastructure forward looking? A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis of investment decisions in 40 Dutch municipalities
Municipalities worldwide are confronted with the need to take long-term decisions about ageing water infrastructure in the face of unpredictable future developments. Previous studies on long-term decision making have proposed solutions targeted at the domain of either politics or planning. This study combines insights from the domains of policy, politics, and planning by using the Multiple Streams Framework to explain what enables municipalities …
Taking stock of complexity in evaluation
1. Using Complexity Theory for Research and Program Evaluation Michael Wolf-Branigin (author), Oxford University Press, 2013, ISBN: 9780199829460 (paperback) 2. Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use Michael Quinn Patton (author), The Guilford Press, 2011, ISBN: 9781606238721 (paperback) 3. Evaluating the Complex: Attribution, Contribution, and Beyond Kim Forss, Mita Marra and Robert Schwartz (eds), T…
Mapping institutional change
Actors' toolset to affect institutional change by doing institutional design is limited because criteria for effective institutional design are often too general and abstract. This paper aims to identify institutional design strategies and explore how they influence institutional change. The theoretical framework builds on Ostrom's Institutional Analysis and Development framework to map institutional change, and it identifies six institutional de…
No time for nonsense!”
This essay introduces and frames the contributions to the special issue on learning and co-evolution in governance. It develops the argument that learning, dark learning and non-learning are necessarily entwined in governance, moreover, entwined in a pattern unique to each governance configuration and path. What can be learned collectively for the common good, what kind of knowledge and learning can be strategically used and shamelessly abused, a…
Conditions for addressing environmental determinants of health behavior in intersectoral policy networks
Critical Realism as a Meta-Framework for Understanding the Relationships between Complexity and Qualitative Comparative Analysis
Many methods are used in research on complexity. One of these is qualitative comparative analysis (QCA). Although many authors allude to the relationships between complexity and QCA, these links are rarely made explicit. We propose that one way of doing so is by using critical realism as a meta-framework. This article discusses the viability of this approach by examining the extent to which QCA is a complexity-informed method. This question is an…
Understanding and researching complexity with Qualitative Comparative Analysis
This article proposes a complexity-informed framework for evaluating transportation infrastructure projects. The article does this through four steps. First, the properties of infrastructure development projects are discussed. This leads to the conclusion that the specific locality or contextualization of a given project is important for explaining the outcome. Hence, there is a need for an ontology and epistemology that addresses the importance …
What Makes Governance Networks Work? A Fuzzy Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis of 14 Dutch Spatial Planning Projects
Many studies have been conducted to determine the conditions that contribute to the satisfactory outcome of decision‐making processes in governance networks. In this article, we explore how the interaction of three such conditions – network complexity, network management, and stakeholder involvement – results in stakeholder satisfaction. We use fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis – a relatively new approach in public administration researc…
How Satisfaction Is Achieved in the Implementation Phase of Large Transportation Infrastructure Projects
In the implementation phase of transportation infrastructure projects, unplanned events will inevitably occur. Although this is increasingly acknowledged, little systematic research has been conducted into what management strategies are best for dealing with these unplanned events. This article investigates how managers respond to unplanned events that occur in the context of a project during implementation, and which management responses produce…
Taking stock of complexity in evaluation
1. Using Complexity Theory for Research and Program Evaluation Michael Wolf-Branigin (author), Oxford University Press, 2013, ISBN: 9780199829460 (paperback) 2. Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use Michael Quinn Patton (author), The Guilford Press, 2011, ISBN: 9781606238721 (paperback) 3. Evaluating the Complex: Attribution, Contribution, and Beyond Kim Forss, Mita Marra and Robert Schwartz (eds), T…
Beyond the “Government‐versus‐the‐Market” Debate
Book review of: Colander & Kupers (2014). Complexity and the art of public policy: Solving society’s problems from the bottom up. Princeton: Princeton University Press
Implementing Public–Private Partnerships
Most research on Public–Private Partnerships (PPPs) in infrastructure development focuses on phases prior to construction. The implementation phase itself has received less attention. However, sound public–private agreements and project preparations can fail during project implementation because of, for example, unforeseen events and ineffective responses to them. We conducted case studies on two infrastructure projects to examine which managemen…
When Governance Networks Become the Agenda
Related Content: Balfour and Newbold (PAR January/February 2017) Related Content: Roberts (PAR January/February 2017) Related Content: Eckerd (PAR January/February 2017) Related Content: Vidal‐Aparicio (PAR January/February 2017) Related Content: Robbins (PAR January/February 2017)
Governing Environmental Conflicts in China
In recent years, governing environmental conflicts concerning the planning, construction, and operation of urban facilities has increasingly become a challenge for Chinese local governments. Chinese governments seek adequate responses to deal with these conflicts, for instance by ignoring criticism and sticking to initial decisions, by suppressing protests, or by compromising. In this article, by analysing 10 cases of conflict in China using cris…
Two effective causal paths that explain the adoption of US state environmental justice policy
Conditions for addressing environmental determinants of health behavior in intersectoral policy networks
The Evaluation of Complex Infrastructure Projects
Infrastructure projects are notoriously hard to manage so it is important that society learns from the successes and mistakes made over time. However, most evaluation methods run into a conundrum: either they cover a large number of projects but have little to say about their details, or they focus on detailed single-case studies with little in terms of applicability elsewhere. This book presents Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) as an alter…
Implementing multiple intervention strategies in Dutch public health-related policy networks
Improving public health requires multiple intervention strategies. Implementing such an intervention mix is supposed to require a multisectoral policy network. As evidence to support this assumption is scarce, we examined under which conditions public health-related policy networks were able to implement an intervention mix. Data were collected (2009-14) from 29 Dutch public health policy networks. Surveys were used to identify the number of poli…
What makes decisions about urban water infrastructure forward looking? A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis of investment decisions in 40 Dutch municipalities
Municipalities worldwide are confronted with the need to take long-term decisions about ageing water infrastructure in the face of unpredictable future developments. Previous studies on long-term decision making have proposed solutions targeted at the domain of either politics or planning. This study combines insights from the domains of policy, politics, and planning by using the Multiple Streams Framework to explain what enables municipalities …
Comparative Planning Research, Learning, and Governance
In this article, the authors develop a perspective on the value of, and methodologies for, comparative planning research. Through comparative research, similarities and differences between planning cases and experiences can be disentangled. This opens up possibilities for learning across planning systems, and possibly even the transfer of best planning and policy practices across systems, places, or countries. Learning in governance systems is al…
Learning from Other Places and Their Plans
In this thematic issue we pursue the idea that comparative studies of planning systems are utterly useful for gaining a deeper understanding of learning processes and learning capacity in spatial planning systems. In contemporary planning systems the pressures towards learning and continuous self-transformation are high. On the one hand more and more planning is needed in terms of integration of expertise, policy, local knowledge, and response to…
Effective policy instrument mixes for implementing integrated flood risk management
Central to integrated flood risk management is the integration of water management with spatial planning. Existing studies often focus on analyzing the policy instruments in the initiation and planning phases of integrated flood risk management. Little is known, however, about the policy instrument mixes that enable implementation of integrated flood risk management. Therefore, in this article we analyze the Dutch Room for the River program to id…
A common ground? Constructing and exploring scenarios for infrastructure network-of-networks
Contemporary infrastructure networks require large investments especially due to aging. Investment opportunities of network-of-networks are often obscured because current scenarios often concern single infrastructure networks. Major barriers to the construction and use of network-of-networks scenarios are institutional fragmentation and the disconnection of scenario-development phases. This paper aims to construct and enhance the use of network-o…
The importance of policy design fit for effectiveness
Policy design has returned as a central topic in public policy research. An important area of policy design study deals with effectively attaining desired policy outcomes by aligning goals and means to achieve policy design fit. So far, only a few empirical studies have explored the relationship between policy design fit and effectiveness. In this paper, we adopt the multilevel framework for policy design to determine which conditions of policy d…
Three strategies to track configurations over time with Qualitative Comparative Analysis
Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) – a configurational research approach – has become often-used in political science. In its original form, QCA is relatively static and does not analyze configurations over time. Since many key questions in political science – and other social sciences – have a temporal dimension, this is a major drawback of QCA. Therefore, we discuss and compare three QCA-related strategies that enable researchers to track c…
Mapping institutional change
Actors' toolset to affect institutional change by doing institutional design is limited because criteria for effective institutional design are often too general and abstract. This paper aims to identify institutional design strategies and explore how they influence institutional change. The theoretical framework builds on Ostrom's Institutional Analysis and Development framework to map institutional change, and it identifies six institutional de…
No time for nonsense!”
This essay introduces and frames the contributions to the special issue on learning and co-evolution in governance. It develops the argument that learning, dark learning and non-learning are necessarily entwined in governance, moreover, entwined in a pattern unique to each governance configuration and path. What can be learned collectively for the common good, what kind of knowledge and learning can be strategically used and shamelessly abused, a…
Policy Learning and Adaptation in governance; a Co-evolutionary Perspective
This paper introduces the concepts and ideas that frame this special issue on co-evolution in governance, and their implications for policy learning and adaptation. It offers a brief overview of co-evolutionary approaches to governance and their elementary connections with systems theories, post-structuralism, institutionalism, and actor-network theory, and explores how they are connected to co-evolution in governance. Co-evolutionary approaches …
In search of the collaborative advantage of public‐private partnerships
The theory of collaborative advantage is a major theory rationalizing the role of Public‐Private Partnerships (PPPs). However, the evidence for the theory in the case of PPPs is weak: the literature lacks studies that compared the actual performance and collaboration of PPPs to that of traditionally procured public projects. The aim of this article is to test the theory of a collaborative advantage of PPPs, focusing on three common performance in…
Private management of public networks? Unpacking the relationship between network management strategies in infrastructure implementation
With the aim to successfully implement infrastructure, implementation arrangements increasingly assign responsibilities for network management to private actors. In the literature, two types of network management strategies are distinguished: process design and institutional design. To date, research has focused on either of these strategies. Moreover, while private actors aim to use the institutional capital built in the network before the priva…
Computer Science (20 works) · Economics (17 works) · Business (16 works) · Political science (15 works) · Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Public Policy and Administration Research (11 works) · Qualitative comparative analysis (10 works) · Engineering (9 works) · Evaluation and Performance Assessment (8 works)