Imrat Verhoeven
Biographic Data
| ID | 349981 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Imrat Verhoeven |
| GIVEN NAMES | Imrat |
| FAMILY NAME | Verhoeven |
| SIGNATURE | VERHOEVEN I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4893-3080 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 116 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Toward an interpretive approach to recognition justice in energy transitions
Over the past decade, energy justice scholarship has expanded substantially, developing frameworks for assessing equity and fairness across energy systems and transitions. Recognition justice has emerged as a core dimension alongside distributional and procedural justice. Yet its empirical operationalization remains underdeveloped, often examined through evaluative, outcome-oriented approaches that obscure the processual and relational dynamics t…
Towards effective and just energy transitions in underprivileged neighbourhoods: A double-eyed and sociotechnical approach
Especially in underprivileged neighbourhoods (UNs), with high renovation urgency and thus opportunities to kick-start the energy transition (ET), residents tend to resist retrofit measures. This is due to general lack of trust in government, housing corporations, and other key players. We contend that a negative spiral of ET effectiveness and justice is rooted in two mismatches, between (i) UN resident needs and everyday practices and customary E…
Front stage contestation and back stage consultation: How Amsterdam navigated the governance of undocumented migrants
Migration governance is one of the most contentious issues of our time, not just between political orientations but also between different levels of government. At the local level, the reality of undocumented migrants’ existence often places municipal authorities in an awkward split between acting in accordance with intransigent national policies and the need to guarantee public order and provide basic care. The academic literature on the ‘local …
Enabling civic initiatives: Frontline workers as democratic professionals in Amsterdam
For more than fifteen years, frontline workers in the Netherlands have facilitated civic initiatives by practicing a ‘modest approach’ that can be seen as an example of democratic professionalism as developed by Albert Dzur. In this paper we empirically explore the understudied topic of how the implementation of this modest approach affects frontline workers. Based on a case study in Amsterdam, we find that frontline workers’ face a tension betwe…
Introduction to the special issue: Facilitating Citizen Engagement in Interactive Governance
This is an introduction to the special issue on facilitating citizen engagement in interactive governance. In this special issue, we focus on facilitators: the professionals that support and organise various forms of collaboration between governments and citizens that elsewhere have been conceptualised as interactive governance. We explore the main pressures that facilitators face and how these are negotiated in deliberative forms of policy-makin…
Heated policy: Policy actors’ emotional storylines and conflict escalation
Policy conflict is gaining attention in policy studies. In this paper, we explore the relation between emotional storylines and policy conflict escalation in the case of the Dutch gasquakes in the north of the country. Based on a longitudinal analysis of emotional storylines in 1308 newspaper articles and additional empirical data we find that Dutch subnational governmental actors as well as citizen action groups discursively express emotional st…
The dynamics of municipal contestation: Responses From Local Government to Perceived Policy Threats From Higher Authorities
This article focuses on the conflictual relations at the heart of what we call ‘municipal contestation’. This global phenomenon sees cities and other local governments – sometimes together with non-governmental players – contest policies proposed or implemented by higher governmental authorities, which they perceive as threats to their policy positions or local communities. Bridging public policy studies and social movement theory, we develop a n…
Contentious governance around climate change measures in the Netherlands
Conflicts over mitigation measures involve processes of contentious governance in which governmental and non-governmental players contest policies proposed or implemented by other governmental players or their business partners. Comparing a case of carbon capture and storage (CCS) with that of a nearshore windfarm in the Netherlands, I ask: how did local governmental players and their non-governmental allies succeed in getting the CCS project in …
The civic support paradox: Fighting unequal participation in deprived neighbourhoods
In urban neighbourhoods, there is an enduring problem with inequality in participation. Middle-aged, higher educated, white men are often overrepresented. Research indicates that front-line workers can play an important role to reach and activate underrepresented groups, but there is little evidence on how they manage (or fail) to do so. In this article, we focus on front-line workers’ strategies to combat inequality in citizens’ initiatives in t…
Moving Away, Toward, and Against: How Front-line Workers Cope with Substitution by Volunteers in Dutch Care and Welfare Services
Welfare states increasingly activate citizens in the provision of care and welfare services, expecting them to take over certain parts of professional work. The consequences of this 'volunteer responsibilisation' for front-line workers' professionalism have not been studied extensively. Professionalism may be pointed in another direction, from professional self-control or organisational forms of control based on management criteria toward forms o…
Understanding governmental activism
This article seeks to understand an understudied phenomenon: governmental players joining forces with non-governmental players in contentious actions against policies they want to prevent or redress. This behaviour, which we call ‘governmental activism’, problematizes important assumptions in the social movement literature on state–SMO dichotomies and on seeing ‘the state’ as a homogeneous and unified actor that solely provides the context for SM…
Enter emotions. Appealing to anxiety and anger in a process of municipal amalgamation
In recent years, emotions have taken center stage in studying politics. However, the field of interpretive policy analysis has largely neglected emotions. In this paper, we argue that we can enter emotions by studying emotional appeals by collective political actors, which are conveyed through emotion words and metaphors. For our empirical analysis, we draw on the political mobilization against the municipal amalgamation of The Hague and its vici…
Neighbourhood planning: Communities, networks and governance, by Nick Gallent and Steve Robinson
Neighbourhood planning is a very rich book on developments in planning policy and practices in England. The book is situated in the quest for active citizenship and democratic renewal under New Lab
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Talking Active Citizenship: Framing Welfare State Reform in England and the Netherlands
This article reviews how activation policies frame citizens as individual welfare agents. The analysis focuses on the framing of feeling rules employed by governments that encourage active citizenship, in this instance in the Netherlands and England. In England, encouraging voluntarism is central to the Big Society agenda; in the Netherlands, it is at the heart of the 2007 Social Support Act and more recent ideas on citizenship. Governments canno…
Taming uncertainty: The WRR approach to risk governance
In the past decade, Renn and others have drawn up classifications of the various types of risk problems. In these taxonomies, degree of incertitude serves as a main distinguishing mark. However, because risk problems may migrate between different categories, these classifications provide unreliable guides for policy‐makers. This paper argues that this flaw points to a deeper issue, viz. the dynamic relations between uncertainty and risk. An appro…
Talking Active Citizenship: Framing Welfare State Reform in England and the Netherlands
This article reviews how activation policies frame citizens as individual welfare agents. The analysis focuses on the framing of feeling rules employed by governments that encourage active citizenship, in this instance in the Netherlands and England. In England, encouraging voluntarism is central to the Big Society agenda; in the Netherlands, it is at the heart of the 2007 Social Support Act and more recent ideas on citizenship. Governments canno…
Enter emotions. Appealing to anxiety and anger in a process of municipal amalgamation
In recent years, emotions have taken center stage in studying politics. However, the field of interpretive policy analysis has largely neglected emotions. In this paper, we argue that we can enter emotions by studying emotional appeals by collective political actors, which are conveyed through emotion words and metaphors. For our empirical analysis, we draw on the political mobilization against the municipal amalgamation of The Hague and its vici…
Heated policy: Policy actors’ emotional storylines and conflict escalation
Policy conflict is gaining attention in policy studies. In this paper, we explore the relation between emotional storylines and policy conflict escalation in the case of the Dutch gasquakes in the north of the country. Based on a longitudinal analysis of emotional storylines in 1308 newspaper articles and additional empirical data we find that Dutch subnational governmental actors as well as citizen action groups discursively express emotional st…
Understanding governmental activism
This article seeks to understand an understudied phenomenon: governmental players joining forces with non-governmental players in contentious actions against policies they want to prevent or redress. This behaviour, which we call ‘governmental activism’, problematizes important assumptions in the social movement literature on state–SMO dichotomies and on seeing ‘the state’ as a homogeneous and unified actor that solely provides the context for SM…
The civic support paradox: Fighting unequal participation in deprived neighbourhoods
In urban neighbourhoods, there is an enduring problem with inequality in participation. Middle-aged, higher educated, white men are often overrepresented. Research indicates that front-line workers can play an important role to reach and activate underrepresented groups, but there is little evidence on how they manage (or fail) to do so. In this article, we focus on front-line workers’ strategies to combat inequality in citizens’ initiatives in t…
Moving Away, Toward, and Against: How Front-line Workers Cope with Substitution by Volunteers in Dutch Care and Welfare Services
Welfare states increasingly activate citizens in the provision of care and welfare services, expecting them to take over certain parts of professional work. The consequences of this 'volunteer responsibilisation' for front-line workers' professionalism have not been studied extensively. Professionalism may be pointed in another direction, from professional self-control or organisational forms of control based on management criteria toward forms o…
The dynamics of municipal contestation: Responses From Local Government to Perceived Policy Threats From Higher Authorities
This article focuses on the conflictual relations at the heart of what we call ‘municipal contestation’. This global phenomenon sees cities and other local governments – sometimes together with non-governmental players – contest policies proposed or implemented by higher governmental authorities, which they perceive as threats to their policy positions or local communities. Bridging public policy studies and social movement theory, we develop a n…
Taming uncertainty: The WRR approach to risk governance
In the past decade, Renn and others have drawn up classifications of the various types of risk problems. In these taxonomies, degree of incertitude serves as a main distinguishing mark. However, because risk problems may migrate between different categories, these classifications provide unreliable guides for policy‐makers. This paper argues that this flaw points to a deeper issue, viz. the dynamic relations between uncertainty and risk. An appro…
Enabling civic initiatives: Frontline workers as democratic professionals in Amsterdam
For more than fifteen years, frontline workers in the Netherlands have facilitated civic initiatives by practicing a ‘modest approach’ that can be seen as an example of democratic professionalism as developed by Albert Dzur. In this paper we empirically explore the understudied topic of how the implementation of this modest approach affects frontline workers. Based on a case study in Amsterdam, we find that frontline workers’ face a tension betwe…
Contentious governance around climate change measures in the Netherlands
Conflicts over mitigation measures involve processes of contentious governance in which governmental and non-governmental players contest policies proposed or implemented by other governmental players or their business partners. Comparing a case of carbon capture and storage (CCS) with that of a nearshore windfarm in the Netherlands, I ask: how did local governmental players and their non-governmental allies succeed in getting the CCS project in …
Introduction to the special issue: Facilitating Citizen Engagement in Interactive Governance
This is an introduction to the special issue on facilitating citizen engagement in interactive governance. In this special issue, we focus on facilitators: the professionals that support and organise various forms of collaboration between governments and citizens that elsewhere have been conceptualised as interactive governance. We explore the main pressures that facilitators face and how these are negotiated in deliberative forms of policy-makin…
Taming uncertainty: The WRR approach to risk governance
In the past decade, Renn and others have drawn up classifications of the various types of risk problems. In these taxonomies, degree of incertitude serves as a main distinguishing mark. However, because risk problems may migrate between different categories, these classifications provide unreliable guides for policy‐makers. This paper argues that this flaw points to a deeper issue, viz. the dynamic relations between uncertainty and risk. An appro…
Some Useful Sources
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Talking Active Citizenship: Framing Welfare State Reform in England and the Netherlands
This article reviews how activation policies frame citizens as individual welfare agents. The analysis focuses on the framing of feeling rules employed by governments that encourage active citizenship, in this instance in the Netherlands and England. In England, encouraging voluntarism is central to the Big Society agenda; in the Netherlands, it is at the heart of the 2007 Social Support Act and more recent ideas on citizenship. Governments canno…
Neighbourhood planning: Communities, networks and governance, by Nick Gallent and Steve Robinson
Neighbourhood planning is a very rich book on developments in planning policy and practices in England. The book is situated in the quest for active citizenship and democratic renewal under New Lab
Enter emotions. Appealing to anxiety and anger in a process of municipal amalgamation
In recent years, emotions have taken center stage in studying politics. However, the field of interpretive policy analysis has largely neglected emotions. In this paper, we argue that we can enter emotions by studying emotional appeals by collective political actors, which are conveyed through emotion words and metaphors. For our empirical analysis, we draw on the political mobilization against the municipal amalgamation of The Hague and its vici…
Understanding governmental activism
This article seeks to understand an understudied phenomenon: governmental players joining forces with non-governmental players in contentious actions against policies they want to prevent or redress. This behaviour, which we call ‘governmental activism’, problematizes important assumptions in the social movement literature on state–SMO dichotomies and on seeing ‘the state’ as a homogeneous and unified actor that solely provides the context for SM…
Moving Away, Toward, and Against: How Front-line Workers Cope with Substitution by Volunteers in Dutch Care and Welfare Services
Welfare states increasingly activate citizens in the provision of care and welfare services, expecting them to take over certain parts of professional work. The consequences of this 'volunteer responsibilisation' for front-line workers' professionalism have not been studied extensively. Professionalism may be pointed in another direction, from professional self-control or organisational forms of control based on management criteria toward forms o…
The civic support paradox: Fighting unequal participation in deprived neighbourhoods
In urban neighbourhoods, there is an enduring problem with inequality in participation. Middle-aged, higher educated, white men are often overrepresented. Research indicates that front-line workers can play an important role to reach and activate underrepresented groups, but there is little evidence on how they manage (or fail) to do so. In this article, we focus on front-line workers’ strategies to combat inequality in citizens’ initiatives in t…
Contentious governance around climate change measures in the Netherlands
Conflicts over mitigation measures involve processes of contentious governance in which governmental and non-governmental players contest policies proposed or implemented by other governmental players or their business partners. Comparing a case of carbon capture and storage (CCS) with that of a nearshore windfarm in the Netherlands, I ask: how did local governmental players and their non-governmental allies succeed in getting the CCS project in …
Heated policy: Policy actors’ emotional storylines and conflict escalation
Policy conflict is gaining attention in policy studies. In this paper, we explore the relation between emotional storylines and policy conflict escalation in the case of the Dutch gasquakes in the north of the country. Based on a longitudinal analysis of emotional storylines in 1308 newspaper articles and additional empirical data we find that Dutch subnational governmental actors as well as citizen action groups discursively express emotional st…
The dynamics of municipal contestation: Responses From Local Government to Perceived Policy Threats From Higher Authorities
This article focuses on the conflictual relations at the heart of what we call ‘municipal contestation’. This global phenomenon sees cities and other local governments – sometimes together with non-governmental players – contest policies proposed or implemented by higher governmental authorities, which they perceive as threats to their policy positions or local communities. Bridging public policy studies and social movement theory, we develop a n…
Enabling civic initiatives: Frontline workers as democratic professionals in Amsterdam
For more than fifteen years, frontline workers in the Netherlands have facilitated civic initiatives by practicing a ‘modest approach’ that can be seen as an example of democratic professionalism as developed by Albert Dzur. In this paper we empirically explore the understudied topic of how the implementation of this modest approach affects frontline workers. Based on a case study in Amsterdam, we find that frontline workers’ face a tension betwe…
Introduction to the special issue: Facilitating Citizen Engagement in Interactive Governance
This is an introduction to the special issue on facilitating citizen engagement in interactive governance. In this special issue, we focus on facilitators: the professionals that support and organise various forms of collaboration between governments and citizens that elsewhere have been conceptualised as interactive governance. We explore the main pressures that facilitators face and how these are negotiated in deliberative forms of policy-makin…
Front stage contestation and back stage consultation: How Amsterdam navigated the governance of undocumented migrants
Migration governance is one of the most contentious issues of our time, not just between political orientations but also between different levels of government. At the local level, the reality of undocumented migrants’ existence often places municipal authorities in an awkward split between acting in accordance with intransigent national policies and the need to guarantee public order and provide basic care. The academic literature on the ‘local …
Toward an interpretive approach to recognition justice in energy transitions
Over the past decade, energy justice scholarship has expanded substantially, developing frameworks for assessing equity and fairness across energy systems and transitions. Recognition justice has emerged as a core dimension alongside distributional and procedural justice. Yet its empirical operationalization remains underdeveloped, often examined through evaluative, outcome-oriented approaches that obscure the processual and relational dynamics t…
Towards effective and just energy transitions in underprivileged neighbourhoods: A double-eyed and sociotechnical approach
Especially in underprivileged neighbourhoods (UNs), with high renovation urgency and thus opportunities to kick-start the energy transition (ET), residents tend to resist retrofit measures. This is due to general lack of trust in government, housing corporations, and other key players. We contend that a negative spiral of ET effectiveness and justice is rooted in two mismatches, between (i) UN resident needs and everyday practices and customary E…
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