Anthony Forster
Biographic Data
| ID | 319171 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anthony Forster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anthony |
| FAMILY NAME | Forster |
| SIGNATURE | FORSTER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5201-1452 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 206 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Gedrag voorspellen met factorial survey experimenten. Een goed idee
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community
Validating Factorial Survey Experiments: Response to Comment
In Forster and Neugebauer (2024), we examine to what extent a factorial survey (FS) on invitations of fictitious applicants can replicate the findings of a nearly identical field experiment conducted with the same employers. In addition to exploring the conditions under which FSs provide valid behavioral predictions, we varied the topic sensitivity and tested whether behavioral predictions were more accurate after filtering out respondents who pr…
Factorial Survey Experiments to Predict Real-World Behavior: A Cautionary Tale from Hiring Studies
Factorial surveys (FSs) are increasingly used to predict real-world decisions. However, there is a paucity of research assessing whether these predictions are valid and, if so, under what conditions. In this preregistered study, we sent out N = 3, 002 applications to job vacancies in Germany and measured real-world responses. Eight weeks later, we presented nearly identical applicant profiles to the same employers as a part of an FS. To explore t…
De invloed van ouderlijke kennis van het onderwijssysteem op het onderwijssucces van kinderen
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community
Caught by surprise: The adaptation of parental expectations after unexpected ability track placement
The study examines the adaptation of educational expectations. It focuses on the expectations that parents have of their children during the transition from primary to secondary school in Germany. During this transition, students are placed into different ability tracks. It is examined whether parents react to this information about their child's achievement by adjusting their educational expectations or whether their expectations are nonreactive…
Who benefits most from college? Dimensions of selection and heterogeneous returns to higher education in the United States and the Netherlands
There has been ample debate about heterogeneous returns to a college degree, and so far, findings have been mixed on the question of whether individuals who attend college are also those who benefit most from it (positive selection), whether returns would be larger for those who never went (negative selection), or whether there is heterogeneity in returns at all. We argue that these diverging findings have two sources: First, they may arise from …
The adaptation of educational expectations in response to ability tracking: Variations by migration background
In various educational systems, students are sorted into separate secondary schools on the basis of their academic ability. Research suggests that this type of tracking impacts students' educational expectations, as expectations generally align with students' ability track. However, most research is cross‐sectional and students with lower expectations are possibly also sorted into lower tracks. Moreover, the extent to which track placement influe…
Navigating Institutions: Parents’ Knowledge of the Educational System and Students’ Success in Education
This study investigates whether families navigate educational institutions more successfully if they have a higher knowledge of the pathways in the educational system that are available to their children. We also study whether this kind of knowledge mediates secondary effects of social origin, i.e. differences in educational pathways once achievement differences between children are accounted for. The role of parents’ knowledge is consistent with…
Vocational education and employment over the life course using a new measure of occupational specificity
Vocational Education and Employment over the Life Cycle
Vocationally educated individuals often find employment sooner after school than those with a general educational qualification. A recent study has argued that the higher employment probability associated with a vocational qualification reverses in later life. The main explanation is that although having (occupation-)specific skills is an advantage when entering the labor market, specific skills also make the vocationally educated less flexible. …
British judicial engagement and the juridification of the armed forces
Although the law has always been a major reference point in the conduct of war, little scholarly attention has focused on the transformative effect of recent legal challenges, judicial rulings and inquiries on the armed forces themselves, notably the 2011 Gage Inquiry into the death of Baha Mousa and the Philip Inquiry into the Mull of Kintyre helicopter disaster. Despite this, the impact has been significant in the ways it has transformed the go…
The Military Covenant and British Civil-Military Relations: Letting the Genie out of the Bottle
This article reviews debates surrounding the Military Covenant and explores its salience for contemporary British civil-military relations. It explores why the concept of the Military Covenant was created, the nature of subsequent debates, and finally it reflects on the wider implications of this research. Locating the Covenant in debates concerned with the changing nature of the military profession, this article argues that the Covenant was crea…
Breaking the covenant: Governance of the British army in the twenty-first century
This article argues that the military covenant between senior army commanders and soldiers is breaking down for two reasons: first, British forces are being engaged in new and controversial wars of choice, putting new and distinct pressures on the covenant; and second because senior military commanders have not fully appreciated the changes to their authority and power in governing the British army. It further suggests that military commanders, c…
Security and governance in an uncertain world: Introduction
This special issue has its origins in series of discussions within the Governance Research Centre, University of Bristol concerning the changing nature of conflict, security and development and debates about different conceptual lenses for explaining and understanding these changes. Our interest is in the relevance and the extent to which the multifaceted concept of governance explains security challenges in a world in which many previous certain…
Anti–Europeans, Anti–Marketeers and Eurosceptics: The Evolution and Influence of Labour and Conservative Opposition to Europe
Euroscepticism in contemporary British politics: Opposition to Europe in the British conservative and labour parties since 1945
The Second Generation Problematic: Rethinking Democracy and Civil-Military Relations
This article argues that a decade after the collapse of communism in central and eastern Europe, the establishment of democratic civil-military relations has moved on from first generation issues of institutional restructuring to second generation challenges relating to the democratic consolidation of these relationships. In practice, these have more to do with issues of state capacity-building and bureaucratic modernization with the traditional …
What is Nato for
Evaluating the EU–Asem relationship: A Negotiated Order Approach
Explaining and understanding the external role of the European Union (EU) has been an under-researched aspect of theorizing about the EU. This article analyses the motivations and methods through which the EU and its member states attempt to regulate contact with international actors. Examining the EU's contact with the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and more recently the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM), it argues that the negotiated …
The European Union in South-East Asia: Continuity and change in turbulent times
Journal Article The European Union in South-East Asia: continuity and change in turbulent times Get access Anthony Forster Anthony Forster 1School of Politics, University of Nottingham, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 75, Issue 4, October 1999, Pages 743–758, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2346.00106 Published: 16 December 2002
The State of the European Union, Vol. 4: Deepening and Widening
The struggle between those who seek a more integrated, and even a federal, Europe and those proposing a looser confederation was once again highlighted at the 1996-1997 Intergovernmental Conference, and reflected in the IGC’s decisions. This fourth volume in the European Community Studies Association's biennial series examines the divisions within the EU in the key areas of the common foreign and security policy, European monetary union, enlargem…
No entry: Britain and the EEC in the 1960s
The Throw That Failed: Britain's 1961 Application to Join the Common Market. By Lionel Bell. London: New European, 1995. Pp.214. £25. ISBN1 872410 03 0. Britain's Failure to Enter the European Community 1961–3. Edited by George Wilkes. London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1997. Pp.275. £37.50 (hb); £16.50 (pb). ISBN 0 7146 4687 3 and 0 7146 4221 5. Dealing with Britain: The Six and the First UK Application to the EEC. By N. Piers Ludlow. Cambridg…
Britain and the Negotiation of the Maastricht Treaty: A Critique of Liberal Intergovernmentalism
This article critically examines the liberal intergovernmental (LI) approach to bargaining in the European Union. It explores its analytical and predictive power in relation to the British negotiation of three dossiers in the 1991 Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) on Political Union: social policy, foreign and security policy and enhancing the powers of the European Parliament (EP). It casts doubt on the LI explanation of national preference for…
Defence and European Integration
This article examines neorealist and neofunctionalist theoretical approaches to the issue of defence and European integration, and specifically the prospects of adding a defence component to the European Union. It sets out the difference between the core assumptions on these issues and argues that these theories provide different and contradictory explanations and predictions about the relationship between defence and European integration. Howeve…
A common European defence
The Second Generation Problematic: Rethinking Democracy and Civil-Military Relations
This article argues that a decade after the collapse of communism in central and eastern Europe, the establishment of democratic civil-military relations has moved on from first generation issues of institutional restructuring to second generation challenges relating to the democratic consolidation of these relationships. In practice, these have more to do with issues of state capacity-building and bureaucratic modernization with the traditional …
Vocational education and employment over the life course using a new measure of occupational specificity
Vocational Education and Employment over the Life Cycle
Vocationally educated individuals often find employment sooner after school than those with a general educational qualification. A recent study has argued that the higher employment probability associated with a vocational qualification reverses in later life. The main explanation is that although having (occupation-)specific skills is an advantage when entering the labor market, specific skills also make the vocationally educated less flexible. …
The Military Covenant and British Civil-Military Relations: Letting the Genie out of the Bottle
This article reviews debates surrounding the Military Covenant and explores its salience for contemporary British civil-military relations. It explores why the concept of the Military Covenant was created, the nature of subsequent debates, and finally it reflects on the wider implications of this research. Locating the Covenant in debates concerned with the changing nature of the military profession, this article argues that the Covenant was crea…
Western Sexuality: Practice and Precept in Past and Present Times
Britain and the Negotiation of the Maastricht Treaty: A Critique of Liberal Intergovernmentalism
This article critically examines the liberal intergovernmental (LI) approach to bargaining in the European Union. It explores its analytical and predictive power in relation to the British negotiation of three dossiers in the 1991 Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) on Political Union: social policy, foreign and security policy and enhancing the powers of the European Parliament (EP). It casts doubt on the LI explanation of national preference for…
Anti–Europeans, Anti–Marketeers and Eurosceptics: The Evolution and Influence of Labour and Conservative Opposition to Europe
Caught by surprise: The adaptation of parental expectations after unexpected ability track placement
The study examines the adaptation of educational expectations. It focuses on the expectations that parents have of their children during the transition from primary to secondary school in Germany. During this transition, students are placed into different ability tracks. It is examined whether parents react to this information about their child's achievement by adjusting their educational expectations or whether their expectations are nonreactive…
Navigating Institutions: Parents’ Knowledge of the Educational System and Students’ Success in Education
This study investigates whether families navigate educational institutions more successfully if they have a higher knowledge of the pathways in the educational system that are available to their children. We also study whether this kind of knowledge mediates secondary effects of social origin, i.e. differences in educational pathways once achievement differences between children are accounted for. The role of parents’ knowledge is consistent with…
Breaking the covenant: Governance of the British army in the twenty-first century
This article argues that the military covenant between senior army commanders and soldiers is breaking down for two reasons: first, British forces are being engaged in new and controversial wars of choice, putting new and distinct pressures on the covenant; and second because senior military commanders have not fully appreciated the changes to their authority and power in governing the British army. It further suggests that military commanders, c…
Evaluating the EU–Asem relationship: A Negotiated Order Approach
Explaining and understanding the external role of the European Union (EU) has been an under-researched aspect of theorizing about the EU. This article analyses the motivations and methods through which the EU and its member states attempt to regulate contact with international actors. Examining the EU's contact with the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and more recently the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM), it argues that the negotiated …
Factorial Survey Experiments to Predict Real-World Behavior: A Cautionary Tale from Hiring Studies
Factorial surveys (FSs) are increasingly used to predict real-world decisions. However, there is a paucity of research assessing whether these predictions are valid and, if so, under what conditions. In this preregistered study, we sent out N = 3, 002 applications to job vacancies in Germany and measured real-world responses. Eight weeks later, we presented nearly identical applicant profiles to the same employers as a part of an FS. To explore t…
The adaptation of educational expectations in response to ability tracking: Variations by migration background
In various educational systems, students are sorted into separate secondary schools on the basis of their academic ability. Research suggests that this type of tracking impacts students' educational expectations, as expectations generally align with students' ability track. However, most research is cross‐sectional and students with lower expectations are possibly also sorted into lower tracks. Moreover, the extent to which track placement influe…
British judicial engagement and the juridification of the armed forces
Although the law has always been a major reference point in the conduct of war, little scholarly attention has focused on the transformative effect of recent legal challenges, judicial rulings and inquiries on the armed forces themselves, notably the 2011 Gage Inquiry into the death of Baha Mousa and the Philip Inquiry into the Mull of Kintyre helicopter disaster. Despite this, the impact has been significant in the ways it has transformed the go…
Who benefits most from college? Dimensions of selection and heterogeneous returns to higher education in the United States and the Netherlands
There has been ample debate about heterogeneous returns to a college degree, and so far, findings have been mixed on the question of whether individuals who attend college are also those who benefit most from it (positive selection), whether returns would be larger for those who never went (negative selection), or whether there is heterogeneity in returns at all. We argue that these diverging findings have two sources: First, they may arise from …
A common European defence
The European Union in South-East Asia: Continuity and change in turbulent times
Journal Article The European Union in South-East Asia: continuity and change in turbulent times Get access Anthony Forster Anthony Forster 1School of Politics, University of Nottingham, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 75, Issue 4, October 1999, Pages 743–758, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2346.00106 Published: 16 December 2002
Defence and European Integration
This article examines neorealist and neofunctionalist theoretical approaches to the issue of defence and European integration, and specifically the prospects of adding a defence component to the European Union. It sets out the difference between the core assumptions on these issues and argues that these theories provide different and contradictory explanations and predictions about the relationship between defence and European integration. Howeve…
What is Nato for
The Victorian Economy
Western Sexuality: Practice and Precept in Past and Present Times
Women in Greek Myth
A common European defence
Defence and European Integration
This article examines neorealist and neofunctionalist theoretical approaches to the issue of defence and European integration, and specifically the prospects of adding a defence component to the European Union. It sets out the difference between the core assumptions on these issues and argues that these theories provide different and contradictory explanations and predictions about the relationship between defence and European integration. Howeve…
The State of the European Union, Vol. 4: Deepening and Widening
The struggle between those who seek a more integrated, and even a federal, Europe and those proposing a looser confederation was once again highlighted at the 1996-1997 Intergovernmental Conference, and reflected in the IGC’s decisions. This fourth volume in the European Community Studies Association's biennial series examines the divisions within the EU in the key areas of the common foreign and security policy, European monetary union, enlargem…
No entry: Britain and the EEC in the 1960s
The Throw That Failed: Britain's 1961 Application to Join the Common Market. By Lionel Bell. London: New European, 1995. Pp.214. £25. ISBN1 872410 03 0. Britain's Failure to Enter the European Community 1961–3. Edited by George Wilkes. London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1997. Pp.275. £37.50 (hb); £16.50 (pb). ISBN 0 7146 4687 3 and 0 7146 4221 5. Dealing with Britain: The Six and the First UK Application to the EEC. By N. Piers Ludlow. Cambridg…
Britain and the Negotiation of the Maastricht Treaty: A Critique of Liberal Intergovernmentalism
This article critically examines the liberal intergovernmental (LI) approach to bargaining in the European Union. It explores its analytical and predictive power in relation to the British negotiation of three dossiers in the 1991 Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) on Political Union: social policy, foreign and security policy and enhancing the powers of the European Parliament (EP). It casts doubt on the LI explanation of national preference for…
The European Union in South-East Asia: Continuity and change in turbulent times
Journal Article The European Union in South-East Asia: continuity and change in turbulent times Get access Anthony Forster Anthony Forster 1School of Politics, University of Nottingham, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 75, Issue 4, October 1999, Pages 743–758, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2346.00106 Published: 16 December 2002
Evaluating the EU–Asem relationship: A Negotiated Order Approach
Explaining and understanding the external role of the European Union (EU) has been an under-researched aspect of theorizing about the EU. This article analyses the motivations and methods through which the EU and its member states attempt to regulate contact with international actors. Examining the EU's contact with the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and more recently the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM), it argues that the negotiated …
What is Nato for
Anti–Europeans, Anti–Marketeers and Eurosceptics: The Evolution and Influence of Labour and Conservative Opposition to Europe
Euroscepticism in contemporary British politics: Opposition to Europe in the British conservative and labour parties since 1945
The Second Generation Problematic: Rethinking Democracy and Civil-Military Relations
This article argues that a decade after the collapse of communism in central and eastern Europe, the establishment of democratic civil-military relations has moved on from first generation issues of institutional restructuring to second generation challenges relating to the democratic consolidation of these relationships. In practice, these have more to do with issues of state capacity-building and bureaucratic modernization with the traditional …
Security and governance in an uncertain world: Introduction
This special issue has its origins in series of discussions within the Governance Research Centre, University of Bristol concerning the changing nature of conflict, security and development and debates about different conceptual lenses for explaining and understanding these changes. Our interest is in the relevance and the extent to which the multifaceted concept of governance explains security challenges in a world in which many previous certain…
Breaking the covenant: Governance of the British army in the twenty-first century
This article argues that the military covenant between senior army commanders and soldiers is breaking down for two reasons: first, British forces are being engaged in new and controversial wars of choice, putting new and distinct pressures on the covenant; and second because senior military commanders have not fully appreciated the changes to their authority and power in governing the British army. It further suggests that military commanders, c…
British judicial engagement and the juridification of the armed forces
Although the law has always been a major reference point in the conduct of war, little scholarly attention has focused on the transformative effect of recent legal challenges, judicial rulings and inquiries on the armed forces themselves, notably the 2011 Gage Inquiry into the death of Baha Mousa and the Philip Inquiry into the Mull of Kintyre helicopter disaster. Despite this, the impact has been significant in the ways it has transformed the go…
The Military Covenant and British Civil-Military Relations: Letting the Genie out of the Bottle
This article reviews debates surrounding the Military Covenant and explores its salience for contemporary British civil-military relations. It explores why the concept of the Military Covenant was created, the nature of subsequent debates, and finally it reflects on the wider implications of this research. Locating the Covenant in debates concerned with the changing nature of the military profession, this article argues that the Covenant was crea…
Vocational Education and Employment over the Life Cycle
Vocationally educated individuals often find employment sooner after school than those with a general educational qualification. A recent study has argued that the higher employment probability associated with a vocational qualification reverses in later life. The main explanation is that although having (occupation-)specific skills is an advantage when entering the labor market, specific skills also make the vocationally educated less flexible. …
Vocational education and employment over the life course using a new measure of occupational specificity
Navigating Institutions: Parents’ Knowledge of the Educational System and Students’ Success in Education
This study investigates whether families navigate educational institutions more successfully if they have a higher knowledge of the pathways in the educational system that are available to their children. We also study whether this kind of knowledge mediates secondary effects of social origin, i.e. differences in educational pathways once achievement differences between children are accounted for. The role of parents’ knowledge is consistent with…
De invloed van ouderlijke kennis van het onderwijssysteem op het onderwijssucces van kinderen
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community
Caught by surprise: The adaptation of parental expectations after unexpected ability track placement
The study examines the adaptation of educational expectations. It focuses on the expectations that parents have of their children during the transition from primary to secondary school in Germany. During this transition, students are placed into different ability tracks. It is examined whether parents react to this information about their child's achievement by adjusting their educational expectations or whether their expectations are nonreactive…
Who benefits most from college? Dimensions of selection and heterogeneous returns to higher education in the United States and the Netherlands
There has been ample debate about heterogeneous returns to a college degree, and so far, findings have been mixed on the question of whether individuals who attend college are also those who benefit most from it (positive selection), whether returns would be larger for those who never went (negative selection), or whether there is heterogeneity in returns at all. We argue that these diverging findings have two sources: First, they may arise from …
The adaptation of educational expectations in response to ability tracking: Variations by migration background
In various educational systems, students are sorted into separate secondary schools on the basis of their academic ability. Research suggests that this type of tracking impacts students' educational expectations, as expectations generally align with students' ability track. However, most research is cross‐sectional and students with lower expectations are possibly also sorted into lower tracks. Moreover, the extent to which track placement influe…
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