Pieter Wagenaar
Biographic Data
| ID | 3065945 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pieter Wagenaar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pieter |
| FAMILY NAME | Wagenaar |
| SIGNATURE | WAGENAAR P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5439-7590 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Calling on the Community
There is a call in Heritage Studies to democratize heritage practices and place local communities at the forefront; heritage plays an important role in identity formation, and therefore in social inclusion and exclusion. Public participation is often presented as the primary means to prioritize communities. Studies focusing on public participation are typically descriptive in nature, however these studies lack a strong analytical framework that e…
The crowding out of social values
Heritage is a public value, which is determined by many other values. These values can be mutually dependent and reinforcing, but can also displace or nullify each other. As public values are arguments, this can result in discursive struggles when discussing whether something should be valued as ‘heritage’. It turns out that the proponents of so-called ‘social values’ often lose such battles. Why is it that precisely their arguments are so vulner…
Listing to survive. Why the Dutch traveler community wanted to have its heritage officially recognized
In recent times, the Dutch Traveler community has successfully gained official recognition of its heritage. At first glance, one would consider that Tajfel’s ‘creativity’–in this case a desire to change a ‘negative social identity’ through the use of heritage–explains the aim of the community to gain official recognition. However, if ‘creativity’ were responsible for this aspiration, it would be an extreme and radical form of it. The aim of the T…
Essentializing 'Black Pete
The Netherlands’ most important tradition, the celebration of the feast of Saint Nicholas, (Sinterklaas) has become subject to nation-wide contestation. As Dutch society has become more multicultural, partly due to the immigration from the former Dutch colonies in the West-Indies, new sensitivities have arisen about this institutionalised heritage practice. At the core of the controversy is the figure of Black Pete (Zwarte Piet), Saint Nicholas’ …
Histories of State Surveillance in Europe and Beyond
Zooming in on 'heterotopia
Airports are places that are heavily surveilled by different(technical) means, including CCTV (Closed Circuit Television). So far, the literature on CCTV has not paid much attention to the practices behind the screens of the CCTV monitors at airports. In this article, we present an in-depth, ethnographic study of the use of CCTV in the Military Police's control room at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. We find that, since nobody is 'at home' at Schipho…
The Good Cause
Open Access: This is an open access title which is free to download or can be bought as paperback./ Dies ist ein Open Access-Titel, den Sie kostenlos herunterladen oder als Printausgabe bestellen können. The book presents the state of the art in studying the causes of corruption from a comparative perspective. Leading scholars in [...]
Public–Private Partnership in Poland
A language barrier prevents us from understanding how other cultures look at public administration, as “semantic fields” differ between languages. These differences can never be fully grasped, but what we can do is study what happens when a particular concept crosses the border. In this article we select a concept, public–private partnership, that in recent times migrated from one administrative order, the United States, to another, Poland. We fo…
Pre-Napoleonic centralization in a decentralized polity
The interest in the origins of present-day government is often derived from the thought that its current functioning and problems can be at least partially explained by the institutional choices made at the moment of origin. The institutional reforms made during the so-called French (or Napoleonic) era divert attention from the at least equally relevant Ancien Régime reform origins. For a thorough understanding of the origins of a ‘modern’ govern…
ICTs and the limits of integration
In this article we have tried to establish how the nature of professional routines affects the ICT supported standardization and scripting of work performed by operators in Dutch colocated emergency response control rooms. In this type of multidisciplinary emergency control room three professions – police, fire rescue services and ambulance services – share the same technical facilities and are housed under the same roof. In the control rooms und…
Soft Sister and the Rationalization of the World
In the discussions concerning the emergence of the surveillance state it is often the "Big Brother" perspective that comes to the fore. The idea is that responses to security threats cause penetration of administration into the lives of individual citizens. However, according to Higgs (2004), increased administrative surveillance caused by security issues is temporary by nature. Surveillance of individual citizens that has a lasting character is …
The ‘Iron Cage’ Strengthened? Discretion and Digital Discipline
Research on changes in public administration associated with the adoption and use of information and communication technologies (‘informatization’), almost univocally supports the conclusion that shop floor discretion disappears under their influence. We, however, are ill at ease with this direction in thought about discretion. Our unease is based on the scholarly work about practices, organizational learning and responsiveness. In this article, …
Managing emergent information systems
The introduction of information technology is often considered to be important for increased organisational performance. Yet, in the public sector, regularly promised results do not (fully) materialise, and the actual systems delivered deviate strongly from those intended. In the literature, two perspectives are used to explain these outcomes: infighting in the initial phases of an information system's life, and continuous adaptation of the techn…
Een schout in de fout? Fred Riggs' prismatische model toegepast op de zaak Van Banchem
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Corruptie in de Nederlanden, 1400-1800
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Coping with the dilemma of common pool information resourcing
In a previous article in Information Polity [1] we looked into the question of whether integration of its information domains is leading to centralization in the Dutch police system. In this article we attempt to find out how such integration came about in the first place. Trying to establish an overall information management in or between organizations can be viewed as an attempt to create a common pool resource (CPR). Is hierarchy really the on…
Symposium
Excises, Postal Services, Oaths of Office and Property Taxes
Before the French Revolution, the choice between centralization and decentralization was between being able to reach down to the individual citizen, and having the ability to make policy on a national scale. Scholarly orthodoxy has it that it was French revolutionary armies that would serve as the great reconciler of these two mutually exclusive choices. By exporting the so-called “Napoleonic administrative model,” they not only triggered stark c…
The permanence of paradigms
At the moment the Dutch police is busily integrating its information domains. What effect will this have on the Dutch police system? Will it cause the stark centralisation Bellamy and Taylor feared in 1997? Due to the peculiarities of its institutional arrangements, simply posing the centralisation/decentralisation question about the Dutch police system leads to little. As we will show in our article, if we want to assess anything at all about th…
Studying the Stillborn
Régime.From the second half of the 17th century onwards many practitioners in the public services of Germany's princely states devoted themselves to the construction of a true administrative theory.The tradition these scholars -the so-called cameralists -founded, Rilinger argues, has had a lasting impact on current administrative ideas and practice and, finally, even produced Weber himself (Stollberg-Rilinger, 1986;Lindenfeld, 1997).Rilinger, of …
Against a Study of the History of Public Administration
What is the value of administrative history for the study of public administration? It is common to stress the enlightenmentfunction history can have for theorists and practitioners. Thus administrative history is presented as an independent topic next to the “real” study of public administration. It is time to “tum the tables”. Administrative history is not “just a topic” to students of public administration, it is the very subject matter of the…
The ‘Iron Cage’ Strengthened? Discretion and Digital Discipline
Research on changes in public administration associated with the adoption and use of information and communication technologies (‘informatization’), almost univocally supports the conclusion that shop floor discretion disappears under their influence. We, however, are ill at ease with this direction in thought about discretion. Our unease is based on the scholarly work about practices, organizational learning and responsiveness. In this article, …
Essentializing 'Black Pete
The Netherlands’ most important tradition, the celebration of the feast of Saint Nicholas, (Sinterklaas) has become subject to nation-wide contestation. As Dutch society has become more multicultural, partly due to the immigration from the former Dutch colonies in the West-Indies, new sensitivities have arisen about this institutionalised heritage practice. At the core of the controversy is the figure of Black Pete (Zwarte Piet), Saint Nicholas’ …
Against a Study of the History of Public Administration
What is the value of administrative history for the study of public administration? It is common to stress the enlightenmentfunction history can have for theorists and practitioners. Thus administrative history is presented as an independent topic next to the “real” study of public administration. It is time to “tum the tables”. Administrative history is not “just a topic” to students of public administration, it is the very subject matter of the…
The crowding out of social values
Heritage is a public value, which is determined by many other values. These values can be mutually dependent and reinforcing, but can also displace or nullify each other. As public values are arguments, this can result in discursive struggles when discussing whether something should be valued as ‘heritage’. It turns out that the proponents of so-called ‘social values’ often lose such battles. Why is it that precisely their arguments are so vulner…
Managing emergent information systems
The introduction of information technology is often considered to be important for increased organisational performance. Yet, in the public sector, regularly promised results do not (fully) materialise, and the actual systems delivered deviate strongly from those intended. In the literature, two perspectives are used to explain these outcomes: infighting in the initial phases of an information system's life, and continuous adaptation of the techn…
Corruptie in de Nederlanden, 1400-1800
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Excises, Postal Services, Oaths of Office and Property Taxes
Before the French Revolution, the choice between centralization and decentralization was between being able to reach down to the individual citizen, and having the ability to make policy on a national scale. Scholarly orthodoxy has it that it was French revolutionary armies that would serve as the great reconciler of these two mutually exclusive choices. By exporting the so-called “Napoleonic administrative model,” they not only triggered stark c…
Listing to survive. Why the Dutch traveler community wanted to have its heritage officially recognized
In recent times, the Dutch Traveler community has successfully gained official recognition of its heritage. At first glance, one would consider that Tajfel’s ‘creativity’–in this case a desire to change a ‘negative social identity’ through the use of heritage–explains the aim of the community to gain official recognition. However, if ‘creativity’ were responsible for this aspiration, it would be an extreme and radical form of it. The aim of the T…
Zooming in on 'heterotopia
Airports are places that are heavily surveilled by different(technical) means, including CCTV (Closed Circuit Television). So far, the literature on CCTV has not paid much attention to the practices behind the screens of the CCTV monitors at airports. In this article, we present an in-depth, ethnographic study of the use of CCTV in the Military Police's control room at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. We find that, since nobody is 'at home' at Schipho…
Public–Private Partnership in Poland
A language barrier prevents us from understanding how other cultures look at public administration, as “semantic fields” differ between languages. These differences can never be fully grasped, but what we can do is study what happens when a particular concept crosses the border. In this article we select a concept, public–private partnership, that in recent times migrated from one administrative order, the United States, to another, Poland. We fo…
Soft Sister and the Rationalization of the World
In the discussions concerning the emergence of the surveillance state it is often the "Big Brother" perspective that comes to the fore. The idea is that responses to security threats cause penetration of administration into the lives of individual citizens. However, according to Higgs (2004), increased administrative surveillance caused by security issues is temporary by nature. Surveillance of individual citizens that has a lasting character is …
Een schout in de fout? Fred Riggs' prismatische model toegepast op de zaak Van Banchem
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Coping with the dilemma of common pool information resourcing
In a previous article in Information Polity [1] we looked into the question of whether integration of its information domains is leading to centralization in the Dutch police system. In this article we attempt to find out how such integration came about in the first place. Trying to establish an overall information management in or between organizations can be viewed as an attempt to create a common pool resource (CPR). Is hierarchy really the on…
Symposium
The permanence of paradigms
At the moment the Dutch police is busily integrating its information domains. What effect will this have on the Dutch police system? Will it cause the stark centralisation Bellamy and Taylor feared in 1997? Due to the peculiarities of its institutional arrangements, simply posing the centralisation/decentralisation question about the Dutch police system leads to little. As we will show in our article, if we want to assess anything at all about th…
Studying the Stillborn
Régime.From the second half of the 17th century onwards many practitioners in the public services of Germany's princely states devoted themselves to the construction of a true administrative theory.The tradition these scholars -the so-called cameralists -founded, Rilinger argues, has had a lasting impact on current administrative ideas and practice and, finally, even produced Weber himself (Stollberg-Rilinger, 1986;Lindenfeld, 1997).Rilinger, of …
Against a Study of the History of Public Administration
What is the value of administrative history for the study of public administration? It is common to stress the enlightenmentfunction history can have for theorists and practitioners. Thus administrative history is presented as an independent topic next to the “real” study of public administration. It is time to “tum the tables”. Administrative history is not “just a topic” to students of public administration, it is the very subject matter of the…
Studying the Stillborn
Régime.From the second half of the 17th century onwards many practitioners in the public services of Germany's princely states devoted themselves to the construction of a true administrative theory.The tradition these scholars -the so-called cameralists -founded, Rilinger argues, has had a lasting impact on current administrative ideas and practice and, finally, even produced Weber himself (Stollberg-Rilinger, 1986;Lindenfeld, 1997).Rilinger, of …
Symposium
Excises, Postal Services, Oaths of Office and Property Taxes
Before the French Revolution, the choice between centralization and decentralization was between being able to reach down to the individual citizen, and having the ability to make policy on a national scale. Scholarly orthodoxy has it that it was French revolutionary armies that would serve as the great reconciler of these two mutually exclusive choices. By exporting the so-called “Napoleonic administrative model,” they not only triggered stark c…
The permanence of paradigms
At the moment the Dutch police is busily integrating its information domains. What effect will this have on the Dutch police system? Will it cause the stark centralisation Bellamy and Taylor feared in 1997? Due to the peculiarities of its institutional arrangements, simply posing the centralisation/decentralisation question about the Dutch police system leads to little. As we will show in our article, if we want to assess anything at all about th…
Een schout in de fout? Fred Riggs' prismatische model toegepast op de zaak Van Banchem
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Corruptie in de Nederlanden, 1400-1800
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Coping with the dilemma of common pool information resourcing
In a previous article in Information Polity [1] we looked into the question of whether integration of its information domains is leading to centralization in the Dutch police system. In this article we attempt to find out how such integration came about in the first place. Trying to establish an overall information management in or between organizations can be viewed as an attempt to create a common pool resource (CPR). Is hierarchy really the on…
Managing emergent information systems
The introduction of information technology is often considered to be important for increased organisational performance. Yet, in the public sector, regularly promised results do not (fully) materialise, and the actual systems delivered deviate strongly from those intended. In the literature, two perspectives are used to explain these outcomes: infighting in the initial phases of an information system's life, and continuous adaptation of the techn…
The ‘Iron Cage’ Strengthened? Discretion and Digital Discipline
Research on changes in public administration associated with the adoption and use of information and communication technologies (‘informatization’), almost univocally supports the conclusion that shop floor discretion disappears under their influence. We, however, are ill at ease with this direction in thought about discretion. Our unease is based on the scholarly work about practices, organizational learning and responsiveness. In this article, …
ICTs and the limits of integration
In this article we have tried to establish how the nature of professional routines affects the ICT supported standardization and scripting of work performed by operators in Dutch colocated emergency response control rooms. In this type of multidisciplinary emergency control room three professions – police, fire rescue services and ambulance services – share the same technical facilities and are housed under the same roof. In the control rooms und…
Soft Sister and the Rationalization of the World
In the discussions concerning the emergence of the surveillance state it is often the "Big Brother" perspective that comes to the fore. The idea is that responses to security threats cause penetration of administration into the lives of individual citizens. However, according to Higgs (2004), increased administrative surveillance caused by security issues is temporary by nature. Surveillance of individual citizens that has a lasting character is …
The Good Cause
Open Access: This is an open access title which is free to download or can be bought as paperback./ Dies ist ein Open Access-Titel, den Sie kostenlos herunterladen oder als Printausgabe bestellen können. The book presents the state of the art in studying the causes of corruption from a comparative perspective. Leading scholars in [...]
Public–Private Partnership in Poland
A language barrier prevents us from understanding how other cultures look at public administration, as “semantic fields” differ between languages. These differences can never be fully grasped, but what we can do is study what happens when a particular concept crosses the border. In this article we select a concept, public–private partnership, that in recent times migrated from one administrative order, the United States, to another, Poland. We fo…
Pre-Napoleonic centralization in a decentralized polity
The interest in the origins of present-day government is often derived from the thought that its current functioning and problems can be at least partially explained by the institutional choices made at the moment of origin. The institutional reforms made during the so-called French (or Napoleonic) era divert attention from the at least equally relevant Ancien Régime reform origins. For a thorough understanding of the origins of a ‘modern’ govern…
Zooming in on 'heterotopia
Airports are places that are heavily surveilled by different(technical) means, including CCTV (Closed Circuit Television). So far, the literature on CCTV has not paid much attention to the practices behind the screens of the CCTV monitors at airports. In this article, we present an in-depth, ethnographic study of the use of CCTV in the Military Police's control room at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. We find that, since nobody is 'at home' at Schipho…
Histories of State Surveillance in Europe and Beyond
Essentializing 'Black Pete
The Netherlands’ most important tradition, the celebration of the feast of Saint Nicholas, (Sinterklaas) has become subject to nation-wide contestation. As Dutch society has become more multicultural, partly due to the immigration from the former Dutch colonies in the West-Indies, new sensitivities have arisen about this institutionalised heritage practice. At the core of the controversy is the figure of Black Pete (Zwarte Piet), Saint Nicholas’ …
Listing to survive. Why the Dutch traveler community wanted to have its heritage officially recognized
In recent times, the Dutch Traveler community has successfully gained official recognition of its heritage. At first glance, one would consider that Tajfel’s ‘creativity’–in this case a desire to change a ‘negative social identity’ through the use of heritage–explains the aim of the community to gain official recognition. However, if ‘creativity’ were responsible for this aspiration, it would be an extreme and radical form of it. The aim of the T…
Calling on the Community
There is a call in Heritage Studies to democratize heritage practices and place local communities at the forefront; heritage plays an important role in identity formation, and therefore in social inclusion and exclusion. Public participation is often presented as the primary means to prioritize communities. Studies focusing on public participation are typically descriptive in nature, however these studies lack a strong analytical framework that e…
The crowding out of social values
Heritage is a public value, which is determined by many other values. These values can be mutually dependent and reinforcing, but can also displace or nullify each other. As public values are arguments, this can result in discursive struggles when discussing whether something should be valued as ‘heritage’. It turns out that the proponents of so-called ‘social values’ often lose such battles. Why is it that precisely their arguments are so vulner…
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