Sanneke Kuiper
Biographic Data
| ID | 2270887 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sanneke Kuiper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sanneke |
| FAMILY NAME | Kuiper |
| SIGNATURE | KUIPER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0934-5406 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 194 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Cybersecurity threats, challenges, and strategies in humanitarian operations
Humanitarian organizations increasingly rely on digital tools and data with the promise of faster and more efficient aid delivery. But digitalization comes with a critical drawback: a heightened exposure to cyber threats. The data breach experienced by the International Committee of the Red Cross in 2022 is a clear example of this risk, but not an isolated one. The incidents recorded during the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza show that cyberattacks…
Overlooking the obvious? Understanding patterns of policy inaction in organizational decision-making
This article theorizes on how patterns of policy inaction emerge, where policymakers systematically fail to address pressing societal issues or signals about failing policies. Building on Herbert Simon’s core concept of decision premises, we argue how such patterns of inaction result from the systematic biases and blind spots inherent in the organizational design and institutional context of ministerial departments and public agencies. By explici…
Is crisis on the rise? An empirical study of the evolution of crisis in the European Union between 1980 and 2023
Among policymakers, political leaders, and the research community, there is a sense that the EU is experiencing an era of unprecedented crises. Despite a wealth of in-depth case studies, we lack a comprehensive overview of EU crises. This gap undermines our understanding of the scale and characteristics of the phenomenon, limits our ability to make informed decisions about case selection, and hampers comparative research beyond a handful of cases…
Preferences for risk conversations in everyday life
Risk talk has recently received increased attention as a predictor of risk perception. If social interactions strongly influence how people think about risks, we first need to know how and why individuals engage in conversations on risk. Many factors may play a role in the decision to engage in a conversation. To untangle precisely which factors influence the decision to enter a risk conversation—and to what extent—we use a pre-registered conjoin…
Between life and death
Identifying and explaining change in the structure of central state bureaucracies and the determinants of survival of individual public organizations are two closely related areas of research in public administration. We aim to bridge the gap between these two main strands of studies of organizational change by presenting a novel approach to collecting event history data for public organizations. We have developed this framework as part of the St…
Ministerial influence on the machinery of government
The structure and organisation of the machinery of government are key to the ambitions of political coalitions. When portfolio allocation and agencification are a function of political choice, political volatility should also affect the internal structure of government administrations. This study tests the effects of political turnover of individual ministers and of the political ideology of coalitions on a dataset of intra-ministerial changes in…
Does Terrorism Dominate Citizens' Hearts or Minds? The Relationship between Fear of Terrorism and Trust in Government
Terrorism only poses a small risk to people but tends to be a major source of public fear. Through fear, terrorism has far-reaching implications for public governance. In this paper we look at trust in government as a potential mitigating factor of fear of terrorism. We discern between calculative trust, based on analytical assessment of previous and expected future actions, and relational trust, based on emotions and perceived value similarity w…
The Crisis Approach
Explaining the survival of public organizations
Why do some public organizations survive for many decades, whereas others are terminated within a few years? This question of organizational survival has long intrigued public administration scholars. To explain longevity, public administration research has focused on organizational design features and adaptive capacities. The results have been inconclusive. This article explores an additional explanation for survival and demise: the density depe…
Does organizational adaptation really matter? How mission change affects the survival of U.S. federal independent agencies, 1933–2011
Public administration scholars tend to take for granted that organizational adaptation is important. This common notion that public organizations must adapt to stay alive has not been put to the test in the field of public administration, however. Intriguingly, organization ecologists find that adaptation does not matter and might even be counterproductive for individual organizations. They argue that the absence of adaptation—which they refer to…
Leadership in Times of Crisis
The deeply rooted belief in the importance of public leadership is accompanied by quick and often shallow assessments of leadership performance. Such assessments never arrive more quickly than in the wake of crises and disasters—these episodes make for instant winners (Giuliani) and losers (Bush). These assessments are necessarily shallow, as the public can only judge leaders by what they see. While symbolic performance is important (if only beca…
The Life and Death of Public Organizations
Why do some public organizations grow old and others die young? Since Herbert Kaufman first posed this question, considerable research has been devoted to answering it. The findings of that research suggest that the design of new public organizations affects, to a significant degree, their survival chances. In this article, we test whether and how “design factors” affected the durability of the so‐called New Deal organizations initiated under FDR…
Paths of the Past or the Road Ahead? Path Dependency and Policy Change in Two Continental European Welfare States
In contrast to what many critics claim, path dependency theory can explain both policy stability and change. It explains how public policy and institutions get increasingly consolidated, legitimated and protected by the elites governing a policy sector, and that precisely this rigidity preludes inevitable large-scale reform. Reform is the result of political behavior at a critical juncture in the history of a policy sector. This political behavio…
The Crisis Imperative
Belgium and the Netherlands were perfect examples of the "welfare without work" policy that characterized European welfare states — until a political crisis in both countries during the early 1990s produced a surprising divergence in administration. While Belgium’s government announced major reforms, its social security policy remained relatively resilient. In the Netherlands, however, policymakers implemented unprecedented cutbacks as well as a …
Shared hesitance, joint success
This paper analyses the roles of Denmark, Finland, and Sweden in the area of EU legislative decision-making. After reviewing the literature, a research design is presented which incorporates information on the policy preferences of these three political states for seventy recent EU legislative decisions. The findings of the analysis are that the positions of the Nordics are quite similar and that these three states are rather successful. Denmark …
From ‘Normal Incidents’ to Political Crises
This article aims to enhance understanding of selective politicization processes in policy failures and examine the attempts of policy-makers to use framing strategies to allocate blame. The policy response to alleged submarine intrusions in Sweden and Dutch military involvement in the fall of Srebrenica are the two case-studies used in this article. These cases will be analysed using three perspectives derived from the literature on framing: dep…
From ‘Normal Incidents’ to Political Crises
This article aims to enhance understanding of selective politicization processes in policy failures and examine the attempts of policy-makers to use framing strategies to allocate blame. The policy response to alleged submarine intrusions in Sweden and Dutch military involvement in the fall of Srebrenica are the two case-studies used in this article. These cases will be analysed using three perspectives derived from the literature on framing: dep…
The Life and Death of Public Organizations
Why do some public organizations grow old and others die young? Since Herbert Kaufman first posed this question, considerable research has been devoted to answering it. The findings of that research suggest that the design of new public organizations affects, to a significant degree, their survival chances. In this article, we test whether and how “design factors” affected the durability of the so‐called New Deal organizations initiated under FDR…
Explaining the survival of public organizations
Why do some public organizations survive for many decades, whereas others are terminated within a few years? This question of organizational survival has long intrigued public administration scholars. To explain longevity, public administration research has focused on organizational design features and adaptive capacities. The results have been inconclusive. This article explores an additional explanation for survival and demise: the density depe…
Shared hesitance, joint success
This paper analyses the roles of Denmark, Finland, and Sweden in the area of EU legislative decision-making. After reviewing the literature, a research design is presented which incorporates information on the policy preferences of these three political states for seventy recent EU legislative decisions. The findings of the analysis are that the positions of the Nordics are quite similar and that these three states are rather successful. Denmark …
Ministerial influence on the machinery of government
The structure and organisation of the machinery of government are key to the ambitions of political coalitions. When portfolio allocation and agencification are a function of political choice, political volatility should also affect the internal structure of government administrations. This study tests the effects of political turnover of individual ministers and of the political ideology of coalitions on a dataset of intra-ministerial changes in…
Does organizational adaptation really matter? How mission change affects the survival of U.S. federal independent agencies, 1933–2011
Public administration scholars tend to take for granted that organizational adaptation is important. This common notion that public organizations must adapt to stay alive has not been put to the test in the field of public administration, however. Intriguingly, organization ecologists find that adaptation does not matter and might even be counterproductive for individual organizations. They argue that the absence of adaptation—which they refer to…
Between life and death
Identifying and explaining change in the structure of central state bureaucracies and the determinants of survival of individual public organizations are two closely related areas of research in public administration. We aim to bridge the gap between these two main strands of studies of organizational change by presenting a novel approach to collecting event history data for public organizations. We have developed this framework as part of the St…
Does Terrorism Dominate Citizens' Hearts or Minds? The Relationship between Fear of Terrorism and Trust in Government
Terrorism only poses a small risk to people but tends to be a major source of public fear. Through fear, terrorism has far-reaching implications for public governance. In this paper we look at trust in government as a potential mitigating factor of fear of terrorism. We discern between calculative trust, based on analytical assessment of previous and expected future actions, and relational trust, based on emotions and perceived value similarity w…
Paths of the Past or the Road Ahead? Path Dependency and Policy Change in Two Continental European Welfare States
In contrast to what many critics claim, path dependency theory can explain both policy stability and change. It explains how public policy and institutions get increasingly consolidated, legitimated and protected by the elites governing a policy sector, and that precisely this rigidity preludes inevitable large-scale reform. Reform is the result of political behavior at a critical juncture in the history of a policy sector. This political behavio…
From ‘Normal Incidents’ to Political Crises
This article aims to enhance understanding of selective politicization processes in policy failures and examine the attempts of policy-makers to use framing strategies to allocate blame. The policy response to alleged submarine intrusions in Sweden and Dutch military involvement in the fall of Srebrenica are the two case-studies used in this article. These cases will be analysed using three perspectives derived from the literature on framing: dep…
Shared hesitance, joint success
This paper analyses the roles of Denmark, Finland, and Sweden in the area of EU legislative decision-making. After reviewing the literature, a research design is presented which incorporates information on the policy preferences of these three political states for seventy recent EU legislative decisions. The findings of the analysis are that the positions of the Nordics are quite similar and that these three states are rather successful. Denmark …
The Crisis Imperative
Belgium and the Netherlands were perfect examples of the "welfare without work" policy that characterized European welfare states — until a political crisis in both countries during the early 1990s produced a surprising divergence in administration. While Belgium’s government announced major reforms, its social security policy remained relatively resilient. In the Netherlands, however, policymakers implemented unprecedented cutbacks as well as a …
Paths of the Past or the Road Ahead? Path Dependency and Policy Change in Two Continental European Welfare States
In contrast to what many critics claim, path dependency theory can explain both policy stability and change. It explains how public policy and institutions get increasingly consolidated, legitimated and protected by the elites governing a policy sector, and that precisely this rigidity preludes inevitable large-scale reform. Reform is the result of political behavior at a critical juncture in the history of a policy sector. This political behavio…
The Life and Death of Public Organizations
Why do some public organizations grow old and others die young? Since Herbert Kaufman first posed this question, considerable research has been devoted to answering it. The findings of that research suggest that the design of new public organizations affects, to a significant degree, their survival chances. In this article, we test whether and how “design factors” affected the durability of the so‐called New Deal organizations initiated under FDR…
Leadership in Times of Crisis
The deeply rooted belief in the importance of public leadership is accompanied by quick and often shallow assessments of leadership performance. Such assessments never arrive more quickly than in the wake of crises and disasters—these episodes make for instant winners (Giuliani) and losers (Bush). These assessments are necessarily shallow, as the public can only judge leaders by what they see. While symbolic performance is important (if only beca…
Does organizational adaptation really matter? How mission change affects the survival of U.S. federal independent agencies, 1933–2011
Public administration scholars tend to take for granted that organizational adaptation is important. This common notion that public organizations must adapt to stay alive has not been put to the test in the field of public administration, however. Intriguingly, organization ecologists find that adaptation does not matter and might even be counterproductive for individual organizations. They argue that the absence of adaptation—which they refer to…
The Crisis Approach
Explaining the survival of public organizations
Why do some public organizations survive for many decades, whereas others are terminated within a few years? This question of organizational survival has long intrigued public administration scholars. To explain longevity, public administration research has focused on organizational design features and adaptive capacities. The results have been inconclusive. This article explores an additional explanation for survival and demise: the density depe…
Ministerial influence on the machinery of government
The structure and organisation of the machinery of government are key to the ambitions of political coalitions. When portfolio allocation and agencification are a function of political choice, political volatility should also affect the internal structure of government administrations. This study tests the effects of political turnover of individual ministers and of the political ideology of coalitions on a dataset of intra-ministerial changes in…
Does Terrorism Dominate Citizens' Hearts or Minds? The Relationship between Fear of Terrorism and Trust in Government
Terrorism only poses a small risk to people but tends to be a major source of public fear. Through fear, terrorism has far-reaching implications for public governance. In this paper we look at trust in government as a potential mitigating factor of fear of terrorism. We discern between calculative trust, based on analytical assessment of previous and expected future actions, and relational trust, based on emotions and perceived value similarity w…
Between life and death
Identifying and explaining change in the structure of central state bureaucracies and the determinants of survival of individual public organizations are two closely related areas of research in public administration. We aim to bridge the gap between these two main strands of studies of organizational change by presenting a novel approach to collecting event history data for public organizations. We have developed this framework as part of the St…
Preferences for risk conversations in everyday life
Risk talk has recently received increased attention as a predictor of risk perception. If social interactions strongly influence how people think about risks, we first need to know how and why individuals engage in conversations on risk. Many factors may play a role in the decision to engage in a conversation. To untangle precisely which factors influence the decision to enter a risk conversation—and to what extent—we use a pre-registered conjoin…
Cybersecurity threats, challenges, and strategies in humanitarian operations
Humanitarian organizations increasingly rely on digital tools and data with the promise of faster and more efficient aid delivery. But digitalization comes with a critical drawback: a heightened exposure to cyber threats. The data breach experienced by the International Committee of the Red Cross in 2022 is a clear example of this risk, but not an isolated one. The incidents recorded during the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza show that cyberattacks…
Overlooking the obvious? Understanding patterns of policy inaction in organizational decision-making
This article theorizes on how patterns of policy inaction emerge, where policymakers systematically fail to address pressing societal issues or signals about failing policies. Building on Herbert Simon’s core concept of decision premises, we argue how such patterns of inaction result from the systematic biases and blind spots inherent in the organizational design and institutional context of ministerial departments and public agencies. By explici…
Is crisis on the rise? An empirical study of the evolution of crisis in the European Union between 1980 and 2023
Among policymakers, political leaders, and the research community, there is a sense that the EU is experiencing an era of unprecedented crises. Despite a wealth of in-depth case studies, we lack a comprehensive overview of EU crises. This gap undermines our understanding of the scale and characteristics of the phenomenon, limits our ability to make informed decisions about case selection, and hampers comparative research beyond a handful of cases…
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (7 works) · Public Policy and Administration Research (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Policy Transfer and Learning (5 works) · Public Administration (5 works) · Law (4 works)