Anchrit Wille
Biographic Data
| ID | 343468 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anchrit Wille |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anchrit |
| FAMILY NAME | Wille |
| SIGNATURE | WILLE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7194-4119 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 152 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Parapolitical Path to Parliament: Former Political Support Staff as Parliamentary Members
In Western parliamentary democracies, a growing number of MPs have worked as special advisers, political assistants, and parliamentary aides before their election as members of parliament. They have professional political expertise without being elected officials themselves. We call them parapoliticians, akin to paramedics or paralegals. This exploratory article describes this emerging pathway to the Dutch House of Representatives. The article op…
T4.3.2 - A low-power wireless sensor platform for real-time monitoring of pH and nitrate in the soil
Watching EU watchdogs assessing the accountability powers of the European Court of auditors and the European Ombudsman
The paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the accountability capacity of the two main EU watchdog institutions. The overarching research question is: how powerful are these watchdog institutions in holding the EU executive to account? The paper presents an expanded analysis of the formal and organisational accountability powers of these EU watchdogs and how these are exercised, based on an in-depth case study. We apply an assessment framew…
Diploma Democracy
Lay politics lies at the heart of democracy. Political offices are the only offices for which no formal qualifications are required. Contemporary political practices are diametrically opposed to this constitutional ideal. Most contemporary democracies in Western Europe are diploma democracies—ruled by those with the highest formal qualifications. Citizens with low or medium educational qualification levels currently make up about 70 per cent of t…
Political Elites as Educational Elites
In twenty-first-century Western Europe, almost all incumbents in political office have very high formal credentials. Aristocracy, rule by the nobility, has given way to meritocracy, rule by the well-educated. This dominance of the well-educated in the legislative and executive branches is a relatively modern phenomenon. We document how citizens with primary and secondary education have disappeared from Western European parliaments in the past dec…
The Meritocratization of Civil Society: The Rise of Political Meritocracy
Civil society organizations are, if not schools, at least pools of democracy. In the ‘third sector’, too, active engagement and participation ‘by the people’ have given way to meritocracy, or, in other words, to rule by the well-educated. Many popularly rooted mass organizations have witnessed a decline in membership and political influence. Their role as intermediary between politics and society has been taken over by professionally managed advo…
The evolving EU accountability landscape: Moving to an ever denser union
This article aims to bring the accountability of the EU executive out of the shadows by tracing the development of the current accountability landscape around the main EU’s executive actors. It looks at the development and the diversification of accountability forums (and mechanisms) in the EU: what forums and arrangements have come into being for holding the EU executive powers accountable? Instead of focusing on single individual accountability…
Civil Service Systems in Western Europe
Contents: 1. Civil Service Systems in Western Europe: An Introduction Frits M. van der Meer 2. The British Civil Service System Scott L. Greer and Holly Jarman 3. The Development and Current Features of the German Civil Service System Klaus H. Goetz 4. The Development and Current Features of the Norwegian Civil Service System Tom Christensen 5. The Development and Current Features of the Danish Civil Service System Morten Balle Hansen 6. The Nati…
The Field of Eurocracy: Mapping EU Actors and Professionals
The Field of Eurocracy: Mapping EU Actors and Professionals." West European Politics, 38(3), pp. 743–744
The Normalization of the European Commission: Politics and Bureaucracy in the EU Executive
The European Commission started out in the 1950s as a technocratic international organization. Today, it has acquired many of the organizational features and behavioural patterns that are highly typical of the 'normal' executives in national settings. This 'normalization' of the EU executive is due to a series of treaty reforms and internal administrative transformations that were effectuated after the demise of the Santer Commission. Based on a …
Bureaucratic Politics: Opening the Black Box of Executive Government
The politicization of the EU Commission: Democratic control and the dynamics of executive selection
Since the rise of the narrative on the ‘democratic deficit’, at the beginning of the 1990s, EU governance is expected to be democratic and its executive is expected to be democratically legitimated. Since this issue was forced onto the European agenda, the EU has been in a process of continuous polity building in which the Treaties have been revised every few years by the member states to make – among other things – the holders of political power…
The education gap in participation: A rejoinder
The education gap in participation and its political consequences
Political–Bureaucratic Accountability in the EU Commission: Modernising the Executive
The basic accountability system of the European Commission has changed over the last decade. New structures and rules with a range of ex ante constraints and ex post incentives have combined to provide a system for more control and accountability in and over the Commission. This paper uses two concepts of accountability – a passive and an active one – to analyse the modernisation of accountability at the top of the European Commission. Drawing on…
Deciphering the Dutch drop: Ten explanations for decreasing political trust in The Netherlands
The Netherlands has always been the odd case out regarding trust in public institutions. In the 1980s and 1990s, contrary to international trends, trust in government remained high and even increased. Suddenly, from 2002 onwards, public trust in government declined dramatically. In this article we examine the plausibility of ten explanations, embedded in the international scholarly literature, and explore whether they are empirically supported or…
Western European Civil Service Systems: A Comparative Analysis
According to available geological information, Europe started off as a collection of smaller tectonic plates situated somewhere in the southern hemisphere. Slowly drifting northwards, forces of nature moulded these smaller entities over time into the continent we know. On the basis of this historical geological information, we are relatively safe to presume that Europe has, at least, a geographical identity. Comparing civil service systems during…
Ministers and Top Officials in the Dutch Core Executive: Living Together, Growing Apart
This paper reports the results of a comprehensive, qualitative (100 interviews; 9 interactive workshops) study among Dutch ministers and top departmental officials. Its key question is how both groups conceive of their respective roles and working relationships. This question became a high‐profile issue in the late 1990s after a series of overt clashes between senior political and bureaucratic executives. To what extent does the old, Weberian set…
Mobilization potential for environmental protest
Mobilization potential constitutes an important concept for the theory of political mobilization. Three types of mobilization potential and their interrelationships are studied for the domain of environmental policy in the Netherlands: the general protest potential introduced by the Political Action Study, issue-specific potential, and movement-specific potential. It is shown that, even within this single policy domain, issue-specific potential v…
The education gap in participation and its political consequences
Ministers and Top Officials in the Dutch Core Executive: Living Together, Growing Apart
This paper reports the results of a comprehensive, qualitative (100 interviews; 9 interactive workshops) study among Dutch ministers and top departmental officials. Its key question is how both groups conceive of their respective roles and working relationships. This question became a high‐profile issue in the late 1990s after a series of overt clashes between senior political and bureaucratic executives. To what extent does the old, Weberian set…
Deciphering the Dutch drop: Ten explanations for decreasing political trust in The Netherlands
The Netherlands has always been the odd case out regarding trust in public institutions. In the 1980s and 1990s, contrary to international trends, trust in government remained high and even increased. Suddenly, from 2002 onwards, public trust in government declined dramatically. In this article we examine the plausibility of ten explanations, embedded in the international scholarly literature, and explore whether they are empirically supported or…
The politicization of the EU Commission: Democratic control and the dynamics of executive selection
Since the rise of the narrative on the ‘democratic deficit’, at the beginning of the 1990s, EU governance is expected to be democratic and its executive is expected to be democratically legitimated. Since this issue was forced onto the European agenda, the EU has been in a process of continuous polity building in which the Treaties have been revised every few years by the member states to make – among other things – the holders of political power…
Political–Bureaucratic Accountability in the EU Commission: Modernising the Executive
The basic accountability system of the European Commission has changed over the last decade. New structures and rules with a range of ex ante constraints and ex post incentives have combined to provide a system for more control and accountability in and over the Commission. This paper uses two concepts of accountability – a passive and an active one – to analyse the modernisation of accountability at the top of the European Commission. Drawing on…
Watching EU watchdogs assessing the accountability powers of the European Court of auditors and the European Ombudsman
The paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the accountability capacity of the two main EU watchdog institutions. The overarching research question is: how powerful are these watchdog institutions in holding the EU executive to account? The paper presents an expanded analysis of the formal and organisational accountability powers of these EU watchdogs and how these are exercised, based on an in-depth case study. We apply an assessment framew…
Mobilization potential for environmental protest
Mobilization potential constitutes an important concept for the theory of political mobilization. Three types of mobilization potential and their interrelationships are studied for the domain of environmental policy in the Netherlands: the general protest potential introduced by the Political Action Study, issue-specific potential, and movement-specific potential. It is shown that, even within this single policy domain, issue-specific potential v…
The evolving EU accountability landscape: Moving to an ever denser union
This article aims to bring the accountability of the EU executive out of the shadows by tracing the development of the current accountability landscape around the main EU’s executive actors. It looks at the development and the diversification of accountability forums (and mechanisms) in the EU: what forums and arrangements have come into being for holding the EU executive powers accountable? Instead of focusing on single individual accountability…
The education gap in participation: A rejoinder
The Parapolitical Path to Parliament: Former Political Support Staff as Parliamentary Members
In Western parliamentary democracies, a growing number of MPs have worked as special advisers, political assistants, and parliamentary aides before their election as members of parliament. They have professional political expertise without being elected officials themselves. We call them parapoliticians, akin to paramedics or paralegals. This exploratory article describes this emerging pathway to the Dutch House of Representatives. The article op…
The Field of Eurocracy: Mapping EU Actors and Professionals
The Field of Eurocracy: Mapping EU Actors and Professionals." West European Politics, 38(3), pp. 743–744
Mobilization potential for environmental protest
Mobilization potential constitutes an important concept for the theory of political mobilization. Three types of mobilization potential and their interrelationships are studied for the domain of environmental policy in the Netherlands: the general protest potential introduced by the Political Action Study, issue-specific potential, and movement-specific potential. It is shown that, even within this single policy domain, issue-specific potential v…
Ministers and Top Officials in the Dutch Core Executive: Living Together, Growing Apart
This paper reports the results of a comprehensive, qualitative (100 interviews; 9 interactive workshops) study among Dutch ministers and top departmental officials. Its key question is how both groups conceive of their respective roles and working relationships. This question became a high‐profile issue in the late 1990s after a series of overt clashes between senior political and bureaucratic executives. To what extent does the old, Weberian set…
Western European Civil Service Systems: A Comparative Analysis
According to available geological information, Europe started off as a collection of smaller tectonic plates situated somewhere in the southern hemisphere. Slowly drifting northwards, forces of nature moulded these smaller entities over time into the continent we know. On the basis of this historical geological information, we are relatively safe to presume that Europe has, at least, a geographical identity. Comparing civil service systems during…
Deciphering the Dutch drop: Ten explanations for decreasing political trust in The Netherlands
The Netherlands has always been the odd case out regarding trust in public institutions. In the 1980s and 1990s, contrary to international trends, trust in government remained high and even increased. Suddenly, from 2002 onwards, public trust in government declined dramatically. In this article we examine the plausibility of ten explanations, embedded in the international scholarly literature, and explore whether they are empirically supported or…
The education gap in participation and its political consequences
Political–Bureaucratic Accountability in the EU Commission: Modernising the Executive
The basic accountability system of the European Commission has changed over the last decade. New structures and rules with a range of ex ante constraints and ex post incentives have combined to provide a system for more control and accountability in and over the Commission. This paper uses two concepts of accountability – a passive and an active one – to analyse the modernisation of accountability at the top of the European Commission. Drawing on…
Bureaucratic Politics: Opening the Black Box of Executive Government
The politicization of the EU Commission: Democratic control and the dynamics of executive selection
Since the rise of the narrative on the ‘democratic deficit’, at the beginning of the 1990s, EU governance is expected to be democratic and its executive is expected to be democratically legitimated. Since this issue was forced onto the European agenda, the EU has been in a process of continuous polity building in which the Treaties have been revised every few years by the member states to make – among other things – the holders of political power…
The education gap in participation: A rejoinder
The Normalization of the European Commission: Politics and Bureaucracy in the EU Executive
The European Commission started out in the 1950s as a technocratic international organization. Today, it has acquired many of the organizational features and behavioural patterns that are highly typical of the 'normal' executives in national settings. This 'normalization' of the EU executive is due to a series of treaty reforms and internal administrative transformations that were effectuated after the demise of the Santer Commission. Based on a …
Civil Service Systems in Western Europe
Contents: 1. Civil Service Systems in Western Europe: An Introduction Frits M. van der Meer 2. The British Civil Service System Scott L. Greer and Holly Jarman 3. The Development and Current Features of the German Civil Service System Klaus H. Goetz 4. The Development and Current Features of the Norwegian Civil Service System Tom Christensen 5. The Development and Current Features of the Danish Civil Service System Morten Balle Hansen 6. The Nati…
The Field of Eurocracy: Mapping EU Actors and Professionals
The Field of Eurocracy: Mapping EU Actors and Professionals." West European Politics, 38(3), pp. 743–744
The evolving EU accountability landscape: Moving to an ever denser union
This article aims to bring the accountability of the EU executive out of the shadows by tracing the development of the current accountability landscape around the main EU’s executive actors. It looks at the development and the diversification of accountability forums (and mechanisms) in the EU: what forums and arrangements have come into being for holding the EU executive powers accountable? Instead of focusing on single individual accountability…
Diploma Democracy
Lay politics lies at the heart of democracy. Political offices are the only offices for which no formal qualifications are required. Contemporary political practices are diametrically opposed to this constitutional ideal. Most contemporary democracies in Western Europe are diploma democracies—ruled by those with the highest formal qualifications. Citizens with low or medium educational qualification levels currently make up about 70 per cent of t…
Political Elites as Educational Elites
In twenty-first-century Western Europe, almost all incumbents in political office have very high formal credentials. Aristocracy, rule by the nobility, has given way to meritocracy, rule by the well-educated. This dominance of the well-educated in the legislative and executive branches is a relatively modern phenomenon. We document how citizens with primary and secondary education have disappeared from Western European parliaments in the past dec…
The Meritocratization of Civil Society: The Rise of Political Meritocracy
Civil society organizations are, if not schools, at least pools of democracy. In the ‘third sector’, too, active engagement and participation ‘by the people’ have given way to meritocracy, or, in other words, to rule by the well-educated. Many popularly rooted mass organizations have witnessed a decline in membership and political influence. Their role as intermediary between politics and society has been taken over by professionally managed advo…
Watching EU watchdogs assessing the accountability powers of the European Court of auditors and the European Ombudsman
The paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the accountability capacity of the two main EU watchdog institutions. The overarching research question is: how powerful are these watchdog institutions in holding the EU executive to account? The paper presents an expanded analysis of the formal and organisational accountability powers of these EU watchdogs and how these are exercised, based on an in-depth case study. We apply an assessment framew…
The Parapolitical Path to Parliament: Former Political Support Staff as Parliamentary Members
In Western parliamentary democracies, a growing number of MPs have worked as special advisers, political assistants, and parliamentary aides before their election as members of parliament. They have professional political expertise without being elected officials themselves. We call them parapoliticians, akin to paramedics or paralegals. This exploratory article describes this emerging pathway to the Dutch House of Representatives. The article op…
T4.3.2 - A low-power wireless sensor platform for real-time monitoring of pH and nitrate in the soil
Political science (17 works) · Law (15 works) · Politics (15 works) · Public Administration (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (9 works) · Political economy (8 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (6 works) · Public Administration (6 works)