Walter Kickert
Biographic Data
| ID | 3426057 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Walter Kickert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Walter |
| FAMILY NAME | Kickert |
| SIGNATURE | KICKERT W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 203 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
EU-driven public sector reforms
This paper is the introduction article to the special issue on EU-driven public sector reforms. European Union (EU) governance has dramatically changed since the outburst of the financial, economic and fiscal crises in 2007–2008. The dramatically changed circumstances have led to heightened EU influence in the field of the organization of the public sector of Member States, leading to major reforms of the public sector of Member States under cond…
The Impact of Fiscal Crisis on Public Administration in Europe
This chapter outlines the responses of European governments to the recent fiscal crisis with special focus on the effects of crisis on public administration reforms. The empirical analysis relies upon an international comparative study of the responses of 14 European governments to the fiscal crisis in the period of 2008–2013. Findings show that fiscal crisis and public administration reforms are not necessarily closely connected, as the crisis i…
The Impact of Fiscal Crisis on Public Administration Reforms in Europe
The Impact of the Fiscal Crisis on Public Administration Reforms: Comparison of 14 European Countries
This study aims to empirically test a widespread assumption that fiscal crises instigate administrative reforms. The empirical analysis relies upon an international comparative study of the responses of 14 European governments to the fiscal crisis of 2008–2013. It is found that fiscal crisis and public administration reforms are not necessarily closely connected. In the majority of cases, the fiscal crisis did not have an instant effect of trigge…
Politics of fiscal consolidation in Europe: A comparative analysis
The aim of the article is to comparatively describe and explain consolidation measures and political decision-making processes in 14 European countries. The consolidation measures followed a similar pattern. Hiring and pay freeze occurred almost everywhere, whereas more radical cutback measures were introduced only in a limited number of countries. Cutback decision-making was not a one-off event, but consisted of a series of stages, beginning wit…
The politics of fiscal consolidation in the Netherlands: Mainly compromising but hesitant attempts at targeted priority-setting
This article analyses fiscal consolidation in the Netherlands, especially the politics of consolidation and cutbacks. We discuss the contents of the consolidation measures, and the political decision-making processes leading up to the measures. The analysis of the political decision-making focuses on the characteristics and stages of the decision-making. The three stages of fiscal consolidation analysed in this article – the October 2010 coalitio…
New development: How the Spanish government responded to the global economic, banking and fiscal crisis
The way Spain responded to the global crisis differed from the general Western European pattern. First, it was not the global banking crisis that caused the economic crisis in Spain, but the other way around. Second, the Spanish banking sector was bailed-out by the ‘Troika’: the EU, ECB and IMF. Third, the fiscal austerity plan that the Zapatero government announced in 2010 and the newly-elected Rajoy government stepped up in 2012, were conceived…
The Management of Change in Public Organizations: A Literature Review
This article presents a review of the recent literature on change management in public organizations and sets out to explore the extent to which this literature has responded to earlier critiques regarding the lack of (public) contextual factors. The review includes 133 articles published on this topic in the period from 2000 to 2010. The articles are analysed based on the themes of the context, content, process, outcome, and leadership of change…
Specificity of Change Management in Public Organizations: Conditions for Successful Organizational Change in Dutch Ministerial Departments
This article is about the specificity of change management in public organizations. We analyze change management in a core-governmental type of public organization, that is, ministerial departments. Using six case studies of ministerial reorganizations, we address the question what specific characteristics the conditions for successful organizational change can have there. The case studies show that some of the success conditions did apply to the…
Small, Slow, and Gradual Reform: What can Historical Institutionalism Teach us?
In this article, the issue of “small, slow and gradual reform” is explored, particularly from the perspective of “historical institutionalism.” Historically grown and solidified institutions explain why change usually is only small, slow, and gradual. We have a closer look at the political science theory of historical institutionalism. After considering key-concepts of historical institutionalism such as “path dependency” and “punctuated equilibr…
Distinctiveness of Administrative Reform in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain. Common Characteristics of Context, Administrations and Reforms
This article, the final part of the symposium, concentrates on the common characteristics of Southern European states and administrations that can explain the distinctiveness of the reforms there. First, we briefly consider the theoretical aspect of the country papers, that is, historical institutionalism. We then briefly review some common features of contextual factors such as welfare state, economy and civic culture. This is followed by a disc…
Introduction: Administrative Reform in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain
This symposium presents an overview of the state and administrative reforms in Southern Europe. The papers are written by scholars who are not only celebrated in their field, but also native to the country they write about. The report on Greece is by Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos and Calliope Spanou of Athens University. Edoardo Ongaro of Bocconi University Milan reports on Italy. In the case of Portugal, the reporter is José Magone, himself Portuguese…
Managing emergent and complex change: The case of Dutch agencification
An analysis is made of agencification reform in the Netherlands from the viewpoint of the management of the complex change process. We will present a processual analysis of the complex change process of agencification reform by means of organization science insights on ‘emergent change’ and administrative science insights on ‘complex networks’. The analysis of the process of change events shows that it is not an example of centrally planned and c…
Annual Report 2006
The Future of European Public Administration. Part Iv: Portugal Introduction
Annual Report 2005
Public Administration in the Netherlands: Expansion, Diversification and Consolidation
The rise of Dutch administrative sciences is related to the post‐war expansion of the country’s welfare state. The growing welfare state needed scientific support for policy‐making and planning. Legal expertise alone was no longer sufficient. After the initial separation from administrative law, the post‐war policy and administrative sciences in The Netherlands were strongly oriented towards our American ‘big brother’. Since the 1980s, a growing …
The Future of European Public Administration Sciences. Part III: Germany
Annual Report 2004
The Future of European Public Administration sciences. Part II: Norway
The Future of European Public Administration. Part I: Denmark
A mini‐symposium on local management reforms: The Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland compared: Preface
Histoire de la gouvernance publique aux Pays-Bas
Underlying the diverse traditions of post-war public governance are the secular traditions of corporatism, polarisation, and consensus that characterized the Republic in the 19th and 20th centuries. An analysis of types of public governance therefore calls for historical research. However, such research cannot limit itself to the mere description of developments in the state and in policy : state, policy and governance can only be well understood…
Annual Report 2002
Beneath consensual corporatism: Traditions of governance in the Netherlands
This article begins with a historical account of the various styles of governance in The Netherlands from the post–war period to date. That overview reveals the persistence of an underlying more traditional form of governance, that is, the tradition of consensual corporatism. Although conventionally believed to be an invention of the Catholic Church and subsequent political theorists, the present twentieth and twenty–first–century historical revi…
Steering at a Distance: A New Paradigm of Public Governance in Dutch Higher Education
In the 1980s a new concept of government steering was developed at the Dutch ministry of Education and Sciences, called “steering at a distance.” It is a departure from “classical” government steering by means of legislation, prohibitions and regulations and a move towards more autonomy and self‐responsibility for institutions of higher education. This new paradigm of public governance in Dutch higher education represents a drastic change both in…
Public Governance in the Netherlands: An Alternative to Anglo‐American ‘Managerialism’
In many Western public administrations, particularly the American and Anglo‐Saxon ones, a remarkable trend is taking place ‐ the ‘new public management’ (Hood 1991). Many Western governments and public services are adopting a more ‘managerial’ approach to administration. Under conditions of heavy public demands but a severely constrained public budget, the only feasible alternative to cutting public services or raising taxes, seems to be to reduc…
Autopoiesis and the Science of (Public) Administration: Essence, Sense and Nonsense
The model of 'autopoiesis' - originally a biological model of a living system- has stimulated some outstanding social and administrative scientists to creative thinking about possible implications and applications. In this paper, the applica bility of the model to the science of (public) administration is discussed. Applying a natural scientific model to a social science is hazardous. The paper begins with a description of the original model and …
Distinctiveness of Administrative Reform in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain. Common Characteristics of Context, Administrations and Reforms
This article, the final part of the symposium, concentrates on the common characteristics of Southern European states and administrations that can explain the distinctiveness of the reforms there. First, we briefly consider the theoretical aspect of the country papers, that is, historical institutionalism. We then briefly review some common features of contextual factors such as welfare state, economy and civic culture. This is followed by a disc…
Beneath consensual corporatism: Traditions of governance in the Netherlands
This article begins with a historical account of the various styles of governance in The Netherlands from the post–war period to date. That overview reveals the persistence of an underlying more traditional form of governance, that is, the tradition of consensual corporatism. Although conventionally believed to be an invention of the Catholic Church and subsequent political theorists, the present twentieth and twenty–first–century historical revi…
EU-driven public sector reforms
This paper is the introduction article to the special issue on EU-driven public sector reforms. European Union (EU) governance has dramatically changed since the outburst of the financial, economic and fiscal crises in 2007–2008. The dramatically changed circumstances have led to heightened EU influence in the field of the organization of the public sector of Member States, leading to major reforms of the public sector of Member States under cond…
The Impact of the Fiscal Crisis on Public Administration Reforms: Comparison of 14 European Countries
This study aims to empirically test a widespread assumption that fiscal crises instigate administrative reforms. The empirical analysis relies upon an international comparative study of the responses of 14 European governments to the fiscal crisis of 2008–2013. It is found that fiscal crisis and public administration reforms are not necessarily closely connected. In the majority of cases, the fiscal crisis did not have an instant effect of trigge…
Politics of fiscal consolidation in Europe: A comparative analysis
The aim of the article is to comparatively describe and explain consolidation measures and political decision-making processes in 14 European countries. The consolidation measures followed a similar pattern. Hiring and pay freeze occurred almost everywhere, whereas more radical cutback measures were introduced only in a limited number of countries. Cutback decision-making was not a one-off event, but consisted of a series of stages, beginning wit…
Expansion and Diversification of Public Administration in the Postwar Welfare State: The Case of the Netherlands
Although public administration is now taught in The Netherlands at 10 of existing 13 Dutch universities, Dutch public administration seems to be relatively unknown abroad. In 1984 revision of well-known German textbook on Verwaltungslehre by Theime, international survey indicates that Dutch public administration is offered only at Groningen faculty of Law and Free University of Amsterdam. In recent grundliche and comprehensive textbook on Offentl…
Introduction: Managerial Reform Trends in Westem Europe
Specificity of Change Management in Public Organizations: Conditions for Successful Organizational Change in Dutch Ministerial Departments
This article is about the specificity of change management in public organizations. We analyze change management in a core-governmental type of public organization, that is, ministerial departments. Using six case studies of ministerial reorganizations, we address the question what specific characteristics the conditions for successful organizational change can have there. The case studies show that some of the success conditions did apply to the…
The Impact of Fiscal Crisis on Public Administration Reforms in Europe
Managing emergent and complex change: The case of Dutch agencification
An analysis is made of agencification reform in the Netherlands from the viewpoint of the management of the complex change process. We will present a processual analysis of the complex change process of agencification reform by means of organization science insights on ‘emergent change’ and administrative science insights on ‘complex networks’. The analysis of the process of change events shows that it is not an example of centrally planned and c…
Autonomizing Executive Tasks in Dutch Central Government
Public Administration in the Netherlands: Expansion, Diversification and Consolidation
The rise of Dutch administrative sciences is related to the post‐war expansion of the country’s welfare state. The growing welfare state needed scientific support for policy‐making and planning. Legal expertise alone was no longer sufficient. After the initial separation from administrative law, the post‐war policy and administrative sciences in The Netherlands were strongly oriented towards our American ‘big brother’. Since the 1980s, a growing …
The Future of European Public Administration. Part I: Denmark
Histoire de la gouvernance publique aux Pays-Bas
Underlying the diverse traditions of post-war public governance are the secular traditions of corporatism, polarisation, and consensus that characterized the Republic in the 19th and 20th centuries. An analysis of types of public governance therefore calls for historical research. However, such research cannot limit itself to the mere description of developments in the state and in policy : state, policy and governance can only be well understood…
Réformes administratives et gestion publique aux Pays-Bas
Administrative Reforms and Public Sector Governance in the Netherlands. In the Netherlands, as in most Western countries, reducing public deficits has constituted the main objective of administrative reform. However, successive governments have attempted to find alternative solutions, persuaded that the pure and simple adoption of management and private competition methods would not suffice. This is why, parallel to the traditional «management» a…
Conclusion and Discussion: Management, Policy, Politics and Public Values
Autopoiesis and the Science of (Public) Administration: Essence, Sense and Nonsense
The model of 'autopoiesis' - originally a biological model of a living system- has stimulated some outstanding social and administrative scientists to creative thinking about possible implications and applications. In this paper, the applica bility of the model to the science of (public) administration is discussed. Applying a natural scientific model to a social science is hazardous. The paper begins with a description of the original model and …
Réformes administratives et gestion publique aux Pays-Bas
Administrative Reforms and Public Sector Governance in the Netherlands. In the Netherlands, as in most Western countries, reducing public deficits has constituted the main objective of administrative reform. However, successive governments have attempted to find alternative solutions, persuaded that the pure and simple adoption of management and private competition methods would not suffice. This is why, parallel to the traditional «management» a…
Conclusion and Discussion: Management, Policy, Politics and Public Values
Introduction: Managerial Reform Trends in Westem Europe
Autonomizing Executive Tasks in Dutch Central Government
Steering at a Distance: A New Paradigm of Public Governance in Dutch Higher Education
In the 1980s a new concept of government steering was developed at the Dutch ministry of Education and Sciences, called “steering at a distance.” It is a departure from “classical” government steering by means of legislation, prohibitions and regulations and a move towards more autonomy and self‐responsibility for institutions of higher education. This new paradigm of public governance in Dutch higher education represents a drastic change both in…
Expansion and Diversification of Public Administration in the Postwar Welfare State: The Case of the Netherlands
Although public administration is now taught in The Netherlands at 10 of existing 13 Dutch universities, Dutch public administration seems to be relatively unknown abroad. In 1984 revision of well-known German textbook on Verwaltungslehre by Theime, international survey indicates that Dutch public administration is offered only at Groningen faculty of Law and Free University of Amsterdam. In recent grundliche and comprehensive textbook on Offentl…
Introduction: A Management Perspective on Policy Networks
Managing Complex Networks: Strategies for the Public Sector
Public Governance in the Netherlands: An Alternative to Anglo‐American ‘Managerialism’
In many Western public administrations, particularly the American and Anglo‐Saxon ones, a remarkable trend is taking place ‐ the ‘new public management’ (Hood 1991). Many Western governments and public services are adopting a more ‘managerial’ approach to administration. Under conditions of heavy public demands but a severely constrained public budget, the only feasible alternative to cutting public services or raising taxes, seems to be to reduc…
The Modern State and its Study: New Administrative Sciences in a Changing Europe and United States
Introduction: Multi-Level and Multi-Actor Governance
Communications: Annual Report 1999
When the Royal Institute of Public Administration (RIPA) owned Public Adminis‐tration, the editors always reported annually on the journal’s fortunes. The practice lapsed when the RIPA went into receivership. Now, with the launch of the journal as a European journal of public administration, we thought it was a good idea to reintroduce an annual report covering the journal’s work in the previous year. It will provide an opportunity to air problem…
Annual Report 2000
Annual report 2001
The report describes the flow of manuscripts and the contents of the journal before briefly surveying each section of the journal. It ends with a résumé of changes during the year and a thank you to the many people who have helped
A mini‐symposium on local management reforms: The Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland compared: Preface
Histoire de la gouvernance publique aux Pays-Bas
Underlying the diverse traditions of post-war public governance are the secular traditions of corporatism, polarisation, and consensus that characterized the Republic in the 19th and 20th centuries. An analysis of types of public governance therefore calls for historical research. However, such research cannot limit itself to the mere description of developments in the state and in policy : state, policy and governance can only be well understood…
Annual Report 2002
Beneath consensual corporatism: Traditions of governance in the Netherlands
This article begins with a historical account of the various styles of governance in The Netherlands from the post–war period to date. That overview reveals the persistence of an underlying more traditional form of governance, that is, the tradition of consensual corporatism. Although conventionally believed to be an invention of the Catholic Church and subsequent political theorists, the present twentieth and twenty–first–century historical revi…
The Future of European Public Administration sciences. Part II: Norway
The Future of European Public Administration. Part I: Denmark
The Future of European Public Administration Sciences. Part III: Germany
Annual Report 2004
The Future of European Public Administration. Part Iv: Portugal Introduction
Annual Report 2005
Political science (32 works) · Public Policy and Administration Research (20 works) · Economics (17 works) · Law (17 works) · Computer Science (16 works) · Law (15 works) · Public Administration (13 works) · Business (12 works) · Library science (12 works) · Politics (12 works)