Frans Stokman

Biographic Data

ID3543178
NAMEFrans Stokman
GIVEN NAMESFrans
FAMILY NAMEStokman
SIGNATURESTOKMAN F
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Groningen, The Netherlands
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS251
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
H-INDEX6

  • Predicting Paris

    Open AccessDetlef F Sprinz, Bruce Bueno De Mesquita et al.ARTICLEPolitics and Governance2016Cited by: 6References: 2

    We examine the negotiations held under the auspices of the United Nations Framework Convention of Climate Change in Paris, December 2015. Prior to these negotiations, there was considerable uncertainty about whether an agreement would be reached, particularly given that the world’s leaders failed to do so in the 2009 negotiations held in Copenhagen. Amid this uncertainty, we applied three different methods to predict the outcomes: an expert surve…

  • The Power of Corporate Networks

    Frans Stokman, Thomas David et al.BOOKThe Power of Corporate Networks2014Cited by: 70

  • Evolution of Social Networks

    Frans N Stokman, Patrick Doreian et al.EDITORBOOKEvolution of Social Networks2013

    Modeling the evolution of networks is central to our understanding of modern large communication systems, such as the World-Wide-Web, as well as economic and social networks.The research on social and economic networks is truly interdisciplinary and the number of modeling strategies and concepts is enormous.In this survey we present some modeling approaches, covering classical random graph models and game-theoretic models, which may be used to pr…

  • A social network-based approach to assessde factoindependence of regulatory agencies

    Karin Ingold, Frédéric Varone et al.ARTICLEJournal of European Public Policy2013Cited by: 15References: 21

    This article uses a policy network perspective to assess the independence of regulatory agencies (RAs) in liberalized public utility sectors. We focus on the de facto independence of RAs from elected politicians, regulatees and other co-regulators. We go further than previous studies, which only undertook a general analysis of the de jure independence of RAs from political authorities. Specifically, we apply a social network analysis (SNA), which…

  • The Power of the Presidency in EU Council Decision-making

    Open AccessJelmer Schalk, René Torenvlied et al.ARTICLEEuropean Union Politics2007Cited by: 38References: 29

    Research on the presidency of the EU shows mixed results. Although most scholars agree that the EU presidency is not able to advance its domestic interests in the European forum, Tallberg (2006) provides evidence for presidency effects. In the present paper, we empirically estimate presidency-based power in the Council of the European Union on the DEU data — a large-scale data set containing EU policy issues from various policy areas. We show tha…

  • Winners and Losers in the European Union

    Open AccessFrans N Stokman, Frans Stokman et al.ARTICLEEuropean Union Politics2004Cited by: 30References: 33

    This special issue examines legislative decision-making in the European Union (EU). By focusing on specific examples of legislative decision-making and actors’ preferences in those situations, we aim to address questions of interest to mainstream Europeanists

  • Bargaining in the European Union and Shifts in Actors’ Policy Positions

    Open AccessJavier Arregui, Frans N Stokman et al.ARTICLEEuropean Union Politics2004Cited by: 15References: 16

    Although shifts in policy positions are a fundamental feature of the European Union (EU) bargaining process they have not yet been studied systematically. This article provides evidence on the extent to which position shifts occur and tests alternative models of the bargaining process that predict such shifts. We examine a subset of the DEU data set that contains information on shifts in actors’ positions on issues raised by 28 Commission proposa…

  • Actor alignments in European Union decision making

    Open AccessRob Thomson, Robert Thomson et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Political…2004Cited by: 70References: 27

    What is the structure of the political space in which decision‐making actors operate in the European Union? Are there consistent alignments of actors? This article addresses these questions by examining a new data set containing information on the preferences of the Commission, the Member States and the European Parliament on 174 issues raised during talks on 70 recent Commission proposals. To a limited extent, the preference alignments can be de…

  • Conflict Measures in Cooperative Exchange Models of Collective Decision-making

    Open AccessM A L M Van Assen, Marcel Van Assen et al.ARTICLERationality and Society2003Cited by: 2References: 31

    This study focuses on externalities of exchanges of voting positions in collective decision-making. Exchanges are represented by non-constant two-person cooperative games. It is assumed that the rate of exchange is specified by the Raiffa-Kalai-Smorodinsky solution, and a model is specified to identify the exchanges. Externality effects of these exchanges are assessed with two conflict measures we develop here. The measures assess within-group an…

  • Models of Collective Decision-making

    Open AccessRob Thomson, Robert Thomson et al.ARTICLERationality and Society2003Cited by: 5References: 3

    Decision making often requires the application of a procedure and the exercise of power, resulting in an authoritative allocation of values