Meindert Fennema
Biographic Data
| ID | 3744374 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Meindert Fennema |
| GIVEN NAMES | Meindert |
| FAMILY NAME | Fennema |
| SIGNATURE | FENNEMA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1112 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Hittjo Kruyswijk, Gek, niet ziek? Lucas Lindeboom, Abraham Kuyper en de stichting van gereformeerde ziekenhuizen in Nederland (1880-1940)
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
The loss‐bet paradox: Actuaries, accountants, and other numerate people rate numerically inferior gambles as superior
Psychologists have convincingly demonstrated that preferences are not always stable and, instead, are often "constructed" based on information available in the judgment or decision context. In 4 studies with experts (accountants and actuaries in Studies 1 and 2, respectively) and a diverse lay population (Studies 3 and 4), the evidence was consistent with the highly numerate being more likely than the less numerate to construct their preferences …
When theory meets methods: The Naissance of Computer Assisted Corporate Interlock Research
In this article, we study the emergence of computer aided network analysis as an example of 'Mertonian' multiple discovery. Computer assisted quantitative network analysis emerged around 1970 and small groups of researchers in different universities, who were independent of each other and looking for the right concepts and computer programs to implement graph theory in social analysis, first applied it to corporate interlock networks. We show how…
The global corporate elite after the financial crisis: Evidence From the Transnational Network of Interlocking Directorates
What impact did the recent financial crisis have on the corporate elite's international network? Has corporate governance taken on an essentially national structure or have transnational networks remained robust? We investigate this issue by comparing the networks of interlocking directorates among the 176 largest corporations in the world economy in 1976, 1996, 2006 and 2013. We find that corporate elites have not retrenched into their national …
Women on Board: Female Board Membership as a Form of Elite Democratization
Corporate elites have been all-male bastions until the twenty-first century. The recent inclusion of women in the corporate elite needs explanation because it is an abrupt change in recruitment practices. We consider female presence in corporate boards as a sign of the democratization of elite social networks. Building on a case study of the Netherlands that covers the last four decades, we show that the corporate elite has become more open to no…
The Immigration and Integration Debate in the Netherlands: Discursive and Programmatic Reactions to the Rise of Anti-Immigration Parties
Immigration and integration issues have become increasingly important in West European politics, partly as a consequence of the rise of anti-immigration parties. This article investigates how immigration and integration issues have become politicised in the Netherlands since the beginning of the 1990s, what role anti-immigration parties have played in this process and the extent to which party positions on these issues are structured by a left-ri…
The fading of the state: Corporate–government networks in the Netherlands
This article contributes to an understanding of how business–state relations have evolved over past decades by analyzing elite interlocks between the corporate sector and the state over the period 1969–2006 in the Netherlands. These interlocks create links between the top decision centers of the largest corporations and public administration. A comparative analysis over time of the network of corporate–state interlocks for the years 1969, 1996 an…
The secular outlook: In defence of moral and political secularism
The making of a transnational capitalist class: Corporate power in the twenty-first century
Throughout the world, there has been a growing wave of interest in global corporate power and the rise of a transnational capitalist class, triggered by economic and political transformations that have blurred national borders and disembedded corporate business from national domiciles. Using social network analysis, William Carroll maps the changing field of power generated by elite relations among the world’s largest corporations and related pol…
Constituting Corporate Europe: A Study of Elite Social Organization
This article explores the emerging shape and form of the European corporate community since 1996. We examine the cohesion of corporate Europe through the network of interlocking corporate directorates and memberships in the European Round Table of Industrialists. We focus on the unequal structure of representation; the interplay of national and transnational aspects of the network; the role of finance capitalists as a signpost of a regime of inte…
The Support Base of Radical Right Parties in the Enlarged European Union
It was shown on the basis of 1994 data that support for most radical right parties was motivated by the same kind of ideological and pragmatic considerations as support for established parties. On the basis of 1999 data, this was seen to be true only for a small group of successful radical right parties. The current study replicates these analyses on the basis of data from the European Elections Studies 2004. It shows that, by 2004, voters for al…
Network Dynamics of the Dutch Business Elite
This article investigates the cohesion of the Dutch business elite during the 20th century. First it considers the old boys' network, where social cohesion builds on shared family and educational background. Second, the board-meeting network of corporate directors in the Netherlands is analysed as an expression of the cohesion of the corporate elite. Unlike most studies on interlocking directorates, this article focuses on the interpersonal persp…
Forum: Causes of Voting for the Radical Right
Journal Article Forum: Causes of Voting for the Radical Right Get access International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Volume 19, Issue 4, Winter 2007, Pages 474–487, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijpor/edm031 Published: 18 October 2007
Mental budgeting versus marginal decision making: Training, experience and justification effects on decisions involving sunk costs
Many studies have shown that individuals make economically irrational decisions by using, rather than ignoring, sunk cost information. In this study, the effects of relevant academic training, financial experience and decision justification on investment decisions involving sunk costs were examined. Data on both the process (strategy) and outcome of the decisions were collected. The results indicate that practicing Certified Public Accountants (C…
Ariëtte Dekker, Cornelis Verolme. Opkomst en Ondergang van een scheepsbouwer
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Asking the Right Questions: A Final Word on the Transnational Business Community
Why Some Anti-Immigrant Parties Fail and Others Succeed: A Two-Step Model of Aggregate Electoral Support
Over the past 2 decades, some anti-immigrant parties have managed to gain substantial electoral support in various European countries, most notably, Austria ( Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs) and Flanders ( Vlaams Blok). However, in other countries, the success of such parties either has been insignificant or did not last. The most popular models of support for anti-immigrant parties focus primarily on the demand side of the electoral process. T…
The concept and measurement of ethnic community
This paper first examines why the concept of civil society should find its empirical expression in the concept of civic community. I then elaborate the concept of civic community by making a distinction between vertical and horizontal relations as two constitutional elements of civic community. I argue that in a multicultural democracy the cleavages in civil society are overcome because the ethnic elites form part of the civic elite. The concepts…
Problems in the Study of the Transnational Business Community: A Reply to Kentor and Jang
In responding to Kentor and Jang's article, the authors point to methodological problems that have led them to underestimate the level of interlocking in their reference year (1983), and thus to exaggerate the extent of the shift towards transnational interlocking. The authors also argue that Kentor and Jang fail to adequately theorize the social processes that produce corporate interlocks, and to place the practice of interlocking within its spe…
Articles
Is There a Transnational Business Community
This article tries to answer two questions. The first is whether capitalist class formation is now taking place at a transnational level; the second is what regime of corporate governance was becoming dominant in the last quarter of the 20th century. The answers given are based on a comparison of the networks of interlocking directorates among the 176 largest corporations in the world economy as of 1976 and 1996. The analysis suggests that from t…
Dealing with Extremists in Public Discussion: Front National and ‘Republican Front’ in France
In this article we investigate the way modern democracies can deal with extremists in public discussion. The first part of the article conceptualizes political discussion insofar as it makes a contribution to the democratic process. We focus upon the democratic process as a way of dealing with conflicts between citizens that stem from differences in moral outlook. We reflect upon this process mainly in relation to its capacity to overcome possibl…
Anti-immigrant parties in Europe: Ideological or protest vote
In this article we address the question whether or not the votes for anti-immigrant parties can be considered as protest votes. We define protest votes by the motives underlying electoral choices, building on earlier research done by Tillie (1995) and Van der Eijk & Franklin (1996). That research showed that ideological proximity and party size are the best predictors of party preference. On this basis we designed a typology of motives for party …
Anti‐immigrant Parties in Europe: Ideological or Protest Vote
In this article we address the question whether or not the votes for anti–immigrant parties can be considered as protest votes. We define protest votes by the motives underlying electoral choices, building on earlier research done by Tillie (1995) and Van der Eijk & Franklin (1996). That research showed that ideological proximity and party size are the best predictors of party preference. On this basis we designed a typology of motives for party …
Political participation and political trust in Amsterdam: Civic communities and ethnic networks
This article examines the political participation and political trust of four ethnic groups in Amsterdam. We explore, first, the degree to which Turks, Moroccans, Surinamese and Antilleans participate and the extent to which they trust the democratic institutions of the city. Second, we address how differences in participation and trust can be explained. For this we will turn to the civic community perspective which was reintroduced powerfully by…
Anti‐immigrant Parties in Europe: Ideological or Protest Vote
In this article we address the question whether or not the votes for anti–immigrant parties can be considered as protest votes. We define protest votes by the motives underlying electoral choices, building on earlier research done by Tillie (1995) and Van der Eijk & Franklin (1996). That research showed that ideological proximity and party size are the best predictors of party preference. On this basis we designed a typology of motives for party …
Why Some Anti-Immigrant Parties Fail and Others Succeed: A Two-Step Model of Aggregate Electoral Support
Over the past 2 decades, some anti-immigrant parties have managed to gain substantial electoral support in various European countries, most notably, Austria ( Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs) and Flanders ( Vlaams Blok). However, in other countries, the success of such parties either has been insignificant or did not last. The most popular models of support for anti-immigrant parties focus primarily on the demand side of the electoral process. T…
Political participation and political trust in Amsterdam: Civic communities and ethnic networks
This article examines the political participation and political trust of four ethnic groups in Amsterdam. We explore, first, the degree to which Turks, Moroccans, Surinamese and Antilleans participate and the extent to which they trust the democratic institutions of the city. Second, we address how differences in participation and trust can be explained. For this we will turn to the civic community perspective which was reintroduced powerfully by…
Some Conceptual Issues and Problems in the Comparison of Anti-Immigrant Parties in Western Europe
In this article it is argued that the conceptualization of anti-immigrant parties has been inadequate. Starting from the non-theoretical concept of anti-immigrant parties, three main concepts are discussed and defined: protest parties, racist parties and extreme-right parties. Each of these concepts has its own emphasis and highlights a specific feature of a political family in statu nascendi. Protest parties are non-revolutionary anti-system par…
Forum: Causes of Voting for the Radical Right
Journal Article Forum: Causes of Voting for the Radical Right Get access International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Volume 19, Issue 4, Winter 2007, Pages 474–487, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijpor/edm031 Published: 18 October 2007
Is There a Transnational Business Community
This article tries to answer two questions. The first is whether capitalist class formation is now taking place at a transnational level; the second is what regime of corporate governance was becoming dominant in the last quarter of the 20th century. The answers given are based on a comparison of the networks of interlocking directorates among the 176 largest corporations in the world economy as of 1976 and 1996. The analysis suggests that from t…
The global corporate elite after the financial crisis: Evidence From the Transnational Network of Interlocking Directorates
What impact did the recent financial crisis have on the corporate elite's international network? Has corporate governance taken on an essentially national structure or have transnational networks remained robust? We investigate this issue by comparing the networks of interlocking directorates among the 176 largest corporations in the world economy in 1976, 1996, 2006 and 2013. We find that corporate elites have not retrenched into their national …
The Immigration and Integration Debate in the Netherlands: Discursive and Programmatic Reactions to the Rise of Anti-Immigration Parties
Immigration and integration issues have become increasingly important in West European politics, partly as a consequence of the rise of anti-immigration parties. This article investigates how immigration and integration issues have become politicised in the Netherlands since the beginning of the 1990s, what role anti-immigration parties have played in this process and the extent to which party positions on these issues are structured by a left-ri…
Anti-immigrant parties in Europe: Ideological or protest vote
In this article we address the question whether or not the votes for anti-immigrant parties can be considered as protest votes. We define protest votes by the motives underlying electoral choices, building on earlier research done by Tillie (1995) and Van der Eijk & Franklin (1996). That research showed that ideological proximity and party size are the best predictors of party preference. On this basis we designed a typology of motives for party …
Women on Board: Female Board Membership as a Form of Elite Democratization
Corporate elites have been all-male bastions until the twenty-first century. The recent inclusion of women in the corporate elite needs explanation because it is an abrupt change in recruitment practices. We consider female presence in corporate boards as a sign of the democratization of elite social networks. Building on a case study of the Netherlands that covers the last four decades, we show that the corporate elite has become more open to no…
Constituting Corporate Europe: A Study of Elite Social Organization
This article explores the emerging shape and form of the European corporate community since 1996. We examine the cohesion of corporate Europe through the network of interlocking corporate directorates and memberships in the European Round Table of Industrialists. We focus on the unequal structure of representation; the interplay of national and transnational aspects of the network; the role of finance capitalists as a signpost of a regime of inte…
Problems in the Study of the Transnational Business Community: A Reply to Kentor and Jang
In responding to Kentor and Jang's article, the authors point to methodological problems that have led them to underestimate the level of interlocking in their reference year (1983), and thus to exaggerate the extent of the shift towards transnational interlocking. The authors also argue that Kentor and Jang fail to adequately theorize the social processes that produce corporate interlocks, and to place the practice of interlocking within its spe…
Network Dynamics of the Dutch Business Elite
This article investigates the cohesion of the Dutch business elite during the 20th century. First it considers the old boys' network, where social cohesion builds on shared family and educational background. Second, the board-meeting network of corporate directors in the Netherlands is analysed as an expression of the cohesion of the corporate elite. Unlike most studies on interlocking directorates, this article focuses on the interpersonal persp…
The concept and measurement of ethnic community
This paper first examines why the concept of civil society should find its empirical expression in the concept of civic community. I then elaborate the concept of civic community by making a distinction between vertical and horizontal relations as two constitutional elements of civic community. I argue that in a multicultural democracy the cleavages in civil society are overcome because the ethnic elites form part of the civic elite. The concepts…
The Support Base of Radical Right Parties in the Enlarged European Union
It was shown on the basis of 1994 data that support for most radical right parties was motivated by the same kind of ideological and pragmatic considerations as support for established parties. On the basis of 1999 data, this was seen to be true only for a small group of successful radical right parties. The current study replicates these analyses on the basis of data from the European Elections Studies 2004. It shows that, by 2004, voters for al…
When theory meets methods: The Naissance of Computer Assisted Corporate Interlock Research
In this article, we study the emergence of computer aided network analysis as an example of 'Mertonian' multiple discovery. Computer assisted quantitative network analysis emerged around 1970 and small groups of researchers in different universities, who were independent of each other and looking for the right concepts and computer programs to implement graph theory in social analysis, first applied it to corporate interlock networks. We show how…
The fading of the state: Corporate–government networks in the Netherlands
This article contributes to an understanding of how business–state relations have evolved over past decades by analyzing elite interlocks between the corporate sector and the state over the period 1969–2006 in the Netherlands. These interlocks create links between the top decision centers of the largest corporations and public administration. A comparative analysis over time of the network of corporate–state interlocks for the years 1969, 1996 an…
Dealing with Extremists in Public Discussion: Front National and ‘Republican Front’ in France
In this article we investigate the way modern democracies can deal with extremists in public discussion. The first part of the article conceptualizes political discussion insofar as it makes a contribution to the democratic process. We focus upon the democratic process as a way of dealing with conflicts between citizens that stem from differences in moral outlook. We reflect upon this process mainly in relation to its capacity to overcome possibl…
Mental budgeting versus marginal decision making: Training, experience and justification effects on decisions involving sunk costs
Many studies have shown that individuals make economically irrational decisions by using, rather than ignoring, sunk cost information. In this study, the effects of relevant academic training, financial experience and decision justification on investment decisions involving sunk costs were examined. Data on both the process (strategy) and outcome of the decisions were collected. The results indicate that practicing Certified Public Accountants (C…
Les hommes politiques issus de l'immigration à Amsterdam: Image De Soi, Image Des Autres
Migrant Politicans in Amsterdam : Self Image and Image of Others. Brieuc-Yves Cadat et Meindert Fennema. How to understand the formation of ethnic and anti-racist identities and the relationship between these identities and political strategies? Based on interviews with twenty-nine migrant politicians, candidates or elected politicians, in 1990 and 1994, the article answers the questions. The Turkish politicians argue predominantly from an « ethn…
Communist Parties in Western Europe: Decline or Adaptation
Democratic Centralism in the West European Communist Parties The Communist Party of Italy One Step Sideways, Three Steps Back - Organization and Conflict in French Communist Strategy The Spanish Communist Parties in Crisis The End of Dutch Bolshevism? The Two Communist Parties of Greece A Case of Orthodoxy - the Communist Party of Portugal Communism in a Pillarised Society - the Belgian Party Old and New Left - the Swiss Communist Party The Commu…
The loss‐bet paradox: Actuaries, accountants, and other numerate people rate numerically inferior gambles as superior
Psychologists have convincingly demonstrated that preferences are not always stable and, instead, are often "constructed" based on information available in the judgment or decision context. In 4 studies with experts (accountants and actuaries in Studies 1 and 2, respectively) and a diverse lay population (Studies 3 and 4), the evidence was consistent with the highly numerate being more likely than the less numerate to construct their preferences …
Asking the Right Questions: A Final Word on the Transnational Business Community
Hispanidad and national identity in Santo Domingo
This article compares the nationalist discourse expressed in the writings of two conservative statesmen, one from Spain and the other from Santo Domingo, who tried to come to terms with the complex relation between race and nation. Francisco Franco and Joaquin Balaguer were contemporaries who dominated the ideological debates in their countries for nearly half a century. The nationalist discourse of Balaguer is shown to be more modern, and inform…
Analysing interlocking directorates: Theory and methods
Intercorporate Relations: The Structural Analysis of Business
Within the last decade, researchers studying business organizations have come to realize that corporate behaviour cannot be explained in terms of the actions of individual firms alone, and that in order to understand how businesses operate it is necessary to explore the relationships among them. This volume constitutes the first compilation of work by leading international scholars who have adopted a structural approach to the study of business, …
Communist Parties in Western Europe: Decline or Adaptation
Democratic Centralism in the West European Communist Parties The Communist Party of Italy One Step Sideways, Three Steps Back - Organization and Conflict in French Communist Strategy The Spanish Communist Parties in Crisis The End of Dutch Bolshevism? The Two Communist Parties of Greece A Case of Orthodoxy - the Communist Party of Portugal Communism in a Pillarised Society - the Belgian Party Old and New Left - the Swiss Communist Party The Commu…
Some Conceptual Issues and Problems in the Comparison of Anti-Immigrant Parties in Western Europe
In this article it is argued that the conceptualization of anti-immigrant parties has been inadequate. Starting from the non-theoretical concept of anti-immigrant parties, three main concepts are discussed and defined: protest parties, racist parties and extreme-right parties. Each of these concepts has its own emphasis and highlights a specific feature of a political family in statu nascendi. Protest parties are non-revolutionary anti-system par…
Hispanidad and national identity in Santo Domingo
This article compares the nationalist discourse expressed in the writings of two conservative statesmen, one from Spain and the other from Santo Domingo, who tried to come to terms with the complex relation between race and nation. Francisco Franco and Joaquin Balaguer were contemporaries who dominated the ideological debates in their countries for nearly half a century. The nationalist discourse of Balaguer is shown to be more modern, and inform…
Les hommes politiques issus de l'immigration à Amsterdam: Image De Soi, Image Des Autres
Migrant Politicans in Amsterdam : Self Image and Image of Others. Brieuc-Yves Cadat et Meindert Fennema. How to understand the formation of ethnic and anti-racist identities and the relationship between these identities and political strategies? Based on interviews with twenty-nine migrant politicians, candidates or elected politicians, in 1990 and 1994, the article answers the questions. The Turkish politicians argue predominantly from an « ethn…
Political participation and political trust in Amsterdam: Civic communities and ethnic networks
This article examines the political participation and political trust of four ethnic groups in Amsterdam. We explore, first, the degree to which Turks, Moroccans, Surinamese and Antilleans participate and the extent to which they trust the democratic institutions of the city. Second, we address how differences in participation and trust can be explained. For this we will turn to the civic community perspective which was reintroduced powerfully by…
Dealing with Extremists in Public Discussion: Front National and ‘Republican Front’ in France
In this article we investigate the way modern democracies can deal with extremists in public discussion. The first part of the article conceptualizes political discussion insofar as it makes a contribution to the democratic process. We focus upon the democratic process as a way of dealing with conflicts between citizens that stem from differences in moral outlook. We reflect upon this process mainly in relation to its capacity to overcome possibl…
Anti-immigrant parties in Europe: Ideological or protest vote
In this article we address the question whether or not the votes for anti-immigrant parties can be considered as protest votes. We define protest votes by the motives underlying electoral choices, building on earlier research done by Tillie (1995) and Van der Eijk & Franklin (1996). That research showed that ideological proximity and party size are the best predictors of party preference. On this basis we designed a typology of motives for party …
Anti‐immigrant Parties in Europe: Ideological or Protest Vote
In this article we address the question whether or not the votes for anti–immigrant parties can be considered as protest votes. We define protest votes by the motives underlying electoral choices, building on earlier research done by Tillie (1995) and Van der Eijk & Franklin (1996). That research showed that ideological proximity and party size are the best predictors of party preference. On this basis we designed a typology of motives for party …
Is There a Transnational Business Community
This article tries to answer two questions. The first is whether capitalist class formation is now taking place at a transnational level; the second is what regime of corporate governance was becoming dominant in the last quarter of the 20th century. The answers given are based on a comparison of the networks of interlocking directorates among the 176 largest corporations in the world economy as of 1976 and 1996. The analysis suggests that from t…
Articles
The concept and measurement of ethnic community
This paper first examines why the concept of civil society should find its empirical expression in the concept of civic community. I then elaborate the concept of civic community by making a distinction between vertical and horizontal relations as two constitutional elements of civic community. I argue that in a multicultural democracy the cleavages in civil society are overcome because the ethnic elites form part of the civic elite. The concepts…
Problems in the Study of the Transnational Business Community: A Reply to Kentor and Jang
In responding to Kentor and Jang's article, the authors point to methodological problems that have led them to underestimate the level of interlocking in their reference year (1983), and thus to exaggerate the extent of the shift towards transnational interlocking. The authors also argue that Kentor and Jang fail to adequately theorize the social processes that produce corporate interlocks, and to place the practice of interlocking within its spe…
Why Some Anti-Immigrant Parties Fail and Others Succeed: A Two-Step Model of Aggregate Electoral Support
Over the past 2 decades, some anti-immigrant parties have managed to gain substantial electoral support in various European countries, most notably, Austria ( Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs) and Flanders ( Vlaams Blok). However, in other countries, the success of such parties either has been insignificant or did not last. The most popular models of support for anti-immigrant parties focus primarily on the demand side of the electoral process. T…
Ariëtte Dekker, Cornelis Verolme. Opkomst en Ondergang van een scheepsbouwer
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Asking the Right Questions: A Final Word on the Transnational Business Community
Forum: Causes of Voting for the Radical Right
Journal Article Forum: Causes of Voting for the Radical Right Get access International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Volume 19, Issue 4, Winter 2007, Pages 474–487, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijpor/edm031 Published: 18 October 2007
Mental budgeting versus marginal decision making: Training, experience and justification effects on decisions involving sunk costs
Many studies have shown that individuals make economically irrational decisions by using, rather than ignoring, sunk cost information. In this study, the effects of relevant academic training, financial experience and decision justification on investment decisions involving sunk costs were examined. Data on both the process (strategy) and outcome of the decisions were collected. The results indicate that practicing Certified Public Accountants (C…
The Support Base of Radical Right Parties in the Enlarged European Union
It was shown on the basis of 1994 data that support for most radical right parties was motivated by the same kind of ideological and pragmatic considerations as support for established parties. On the basis of 1999 data, this was seen to be true only for a small group of successful radical right parties. The current study replicates these analyses on the basis of data from the European Elections Studies 2004. It shows that, by 2004, voters for al…
Network Dynamics of the Dutch Business Elite
This article investigates the cohesion of the Dutch business elite during the 20th century. First it considers the old boys' network, where social cohesion builds on shared family and educational background. Second, the board-meeting network of corporate directors in the Netherlands is analysed as an expression of the cohesion of the corporate elite. Unlike most studies on interlocking directorates, this article focuses on the interpersonal persp…
The making of a transnational capitalist class: Corporate power in the twenty-first century
Throughout the world, there has been a growing wave of interest in global corporate power and the rise of a transnational capitalist class, triggered by economic and political transformations that have blurred national borders and disembedded corporate business from national domiciles. Using social network analysis, William Carroll maps the changing field of power generated by elite relations among the world’s largest corporations and related pol…
Constituting Corporate Europe: A Study of Elite Social Organization
This article explores the emerging shape and form of the European corporate community since 1996. We examine the cohesion of corporate Europe through the network of interlocking corporate directorates and memberships in the European Round Table of Industrialists. We focus on the unequal structure of representation; the interplay of national and transnational aspects of the network; the role of finance capitalists as a signpost of a regime of inte…
The secular outlook: In defence of moral and political secularism
The fading of the state: Corporate–government networks in the Netherlands
This article contributes to an understanding of how business–state relations have evolved over past decades by analyzing elite interlocks between the corporate sector and the state over the period 1969–2006 in the Netherlands. These interlocks create links between the top decision centers of the largest corporations and public administration. A comparative analysis over time of the network of corporate–state interlocks for the years 1969, 1996 an…
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