Reinout Van Der Veer
Biographic Data
| ID | 4085689 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Reinout Van Der Veer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Reinout |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Der Veer |
| SIGNATURE | VAN DER VEER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8296-0499 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 102 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The technocracy-responsiveness nexus in EU policy-making
Corporate Sponsoring of the Council Presidency: A Research Agenda
Member states holding the Council Presidency routinely seek corporate sponsors. Typically, these sponsors offer free or discounted goods and services, such as food, beverages, cell phones, software or a car fleet in exchange for being labelled an official partner or sponsor of the Presidency. The practice is deeply ingrained in the Council's working methods, but the degree to which member states choose to associate themselves with corporate spons…
Representation matters: Technocracy, populism, and attitudes towards international organisations
Under what conditions citizens accept public institutions as legitimate authorities is a key question in political science. Recent accounts suggest that populist citizens reject international organisations (IOs) as distant, elitist, and undemocratic. Conversely, technocratic citizens should favour IOs as they represent the pinnacle of depoliticised, expertise-driven decision-making. In this article, we provide the first joint analysis of technocr…
Talking cheap, or speaking Euro? Assessing congruence between leaders’ communication and negotiators’ positioning in the Eurozone crisis
Contains fulltext : 320236.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Equal in East and West? Regional anti-gender discourses and heterogeneity of the European Commission’s discursive protection of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans* and intersex rights
Recent research shows that lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans* and intersex (LGBTI) rights have become a core value of the European Union. Concurrently, hostility towards LGBTI rights is increasing across the European Union, including through anti-gender mobilisations, which reject ‘gender ideology’. This study employs sequential discourse analyses to discover: (1) the regional specificities in anti-gender discourse; and (2) whether the European Commi…
Comparing public attitudes towards internal and external EU sanctions: The role of populism, trust and Euroscepticism
Contains fulltext : 301183.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access
Technocracy, populism, and the (de)legitimation of international organizations
Our understanding of the contestation of liberal international order relies on an intuitive dualism. Technocratic norms underpin the legitimation of international organizations (IOs) because IOs embody a functional and depoliticized mode of problem-solving based on expertise and non-majoritarianism. Populist norms challenge IO authority as IOs create constraints on the popular will of the “true people.” We empirically examine whether this duality…
Walking the Tightrope: Politicization and the Commission's Enforcement of the SGP
Recent research indicates that bottom‐up EU politicization shapes top‐down EU policy enforcement, yet leaves open questions on the pervasiveness of these effects in policy areas that are depoliticized by design. This contribution asks how societal EU politicization shaped the enforcement of the Stability and Growth Pact up until its COVID‐19‐induced suspension. It employs causal process‐tracing to analyse fiscal rule enforcement under varying lev…
Is this crisis different? Attitudes towards EU fiscal transfers in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic
To mitigate the enormous and asymmetric economic implications of the COVID-19 pandemic, the EU has adopted an unprecedented €750 billion fiscal transfer programme, financed by joint member state liabilities. The highly contested decision pitted ‘frugal’ northern member states against ‘profligate’ southern member states. However, do citizens from northern countries view EU transfers as unfavourably as their governmental positions suggest? This art…
No More Gouda in Moscow? Distributive Effects of the Imposition of Sanctions
How do private firms respond when they are hit by economic sanctions? Economic sanctions are a vitally important element of the European Union's foreign policy toolbox. While their importance and frequency of use increased, not much is known about the economic impact of the economic sanctions at the micro level. Yet the sanctions imposition has been recently politicized within the EU, especially in the reaction to the sanctions that EU imposed on…
Audience Heterogeneity, Costly Signaling, and Threat Prioritization: Bureaucratic Reputation-Building in the EU
Organizational reputation theory suggests reputational threats can induce public organizations to change their behavior. However, it offers few insights into how organizations in contexts of high audience heterogeneity prioritize between conflicting threats, or how they ensure reputation-seeking signals reach their intended audiences. This article seeks to close these knowledge gaps. It expects organizational threat prioritization to be shaped by…
The politics of (de-)politicization and venue choice: A scoping review and research agenda on EU financial regulation and economic governance
Scholarly interest in EU financial regulation and economic governance has increased sharply over the last decade, but the literature on their politics remains fragmented. We present a scoping literature review which systematically locates and aggregates academic articles on their politics in ISI-ranked journals between 1999 and 2016. We identify lacunas in this literature by mapping its strands onto the EU political system. We then present a syst…
The Case of Case Study Research in Europe: Practice and Potential
Many empirical studies of European public administration and public management are case studies. In light of a trend towards more quantitative research and the rise of behavioural public administration, this chapter makes an argument for the continuity of case study research, as it is often better equipped to deal with macro-level phenomena and processes. This chapter then ventures into the practice of case study research by European scholars, pr…
Bread and butter or bread and circuses? Politicisation and the European Commission in the European Semester
Does domestic contestation of European Union legitimacy affect the behaviour of the European Commission as an economic and fiscal supervisor? We draw on theories of bureaucratic responsiveness and employ multilevel and topic modelling to examine the extent to which the politicisation of European integration affects the outputs of the European Semester: the Country-Specific Recommendations. We develop two competing sets of hypotheses and test thes…
Audience Heterogeneity, Costly Signaling, and Threat Prioritization: Bureaucratic Reputation-Building in the EU
Organizational reputation theory suggests reputational threats can induce public organizations to change their behavior. However, it offers few insights into how organizations in contexts of high audience heterogeneity prioritize between conflicting threats, or how they ensure reputation-seeking signals reach their intended audiences. This article seeks to close these knowledge gaps. It expects organizational threat prioritization to be shaped by…
Bread and butter or bread and circuses? Politicisation and the European Commission in the European Semester
Does domestic contestation of European Union legitimacy affect the behaviour of the European Commission as an economic and fiscal supervisor? We draw on theories of bureaucratic responsiveness and employ multilevel and topic modelling to examine the extent to which the politicisation of European integration affects the outputs of the European Semester: the Country-Specific Recommendations. We develop two competing sets of hypotheses and test thes…
Walking the Tightrope: Politicization and the Commission's Enforcement of the SGP
Recent research indicates that bottom‐up EU politicization shapes top‐down EU policy enforcement, yet leaves open questions on the pervasiveness of these effects in policy areas that are depoliticized by design. This contribution asks how societal EU politicization shaped the enforcement of the Stability and Growth Pact up until its COVID‐19‐induced suspension. It employs causal process‐tracing to analyse fiscal rule enforcement under varying lev…
Is this crisis different? Attitudes towards EU fiscal transfers in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic
To mitigate the enormous and asymmetric economic implications of the COVID-19 pandemic, the EU has adopted an unprecedented €750 billion fiscal transfer programme, financed by joint member state liabilities. The highly contested decision pitted ‘frugal’ northern member states against ‘profligate’ southern member states. However, do citizens from northern countries view EU transfers as unfavourably as their governmental positions suggest? This art…
Comparing public attitudes towards internal and external EU sanctions: The role of populism, trust and Euroscepticism
Contains fulltext : 301183.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access
No More Gouda in Moscow? Distributive Effects of the Imposition of Sanctions
How do private firms respond when they are hit by economic sanctions? Economic sanctions are a vitally important element of the European Union's foreign policy toolbox. While their importance and frequency of use increased, not much is known about the economic impact of the economic sanctions at the micro level. Yet the sanctions imposition has been recently politicized within the EU, especially in the reaction to the sanctions that EU imposed on…
Technocracy, populism, and the (de)legitimation of international organizations
Our understanding of the contestation of liberal international order relies on an intuitive dualism. Technocratic norms underpin the legitimation of international organizations (IOs) because IOs embody a functional and depoliticized mode of problem-solving based on expertise and non-majoritarianism. Populist norms challenge IO authority as IOs create constraints on the popular will of the “true people.” We empirically examine whether this duality…
Representation matters: Technocracy, populism, and attitudes towards international organisations
Under what conditions citizens accept public institutions as legitimate authorities is a key question in political science. Recent accounts suggest that populist citizens reject international organisations (IOs) as distant, elitist, and undemocratic. Conversely, technocratic citizens should favour IOs as they represent the pinnacle of depoliticised, expertise-driven decision-making. In this article, we provide the first joint analysis of technocr…
The Case of Case Study Research in Europe: Practice and Potential
Many empirical studies of European public administration and public management are case studies. In light of a trend towards more quantitative research and the rise of behavioural public administration, this chapter makes an argument for the continuity of case study research, as it is often better equipped to deal with macro-level phenomena and processes. This chapter then ventures into the practice of case study research by European scholars, pr…
Bread and butter or bread and circuses? Politicisation and the European Commission in the European Semester
Does domestic contestation of European Union legitimacy affect the behaviour of the European Commission as an economic and fiscal supervisor? We draw on theories of bureaucratic responsiveness and employ multilevel and topic modelling to examine the extent to which the politicisation of European integration affects the outputs of the European Semester: the Country-Specific Recommendations. We develop two competing sets of hypotheses and test thes…
The politics of (de-)politicization and venue choice: A scoping review and research agenda on EU financial regulation and economic governance
Scholarly interest in EU financial regulation and economic governance has increased sharply over the last decade, but the literature on their politics remains fragmented. We present a scoping literature review which systematically locates and aggregates academic articles on their politics in ISI-ranked journals between 1999 and 2016. We identify lacunas in this literature by mapping its strands onto the EU political system. We then present a syst…
No More Gouda in Moscow? Distributive Effects of the Imposition of Sanctions
How do private firms respond when they are hit by economic sanctions? Economic sanctions are a vitally important element of the European Union's foreign policy toolbox. While their importance and frequency of use increased, not much is known about the economic impact of the economic sanctions at the micro level. Yet the sanctions imposition has been recently politicized within the EU, especially in the reaction to the sanctions that EU imposed on…
Audience Heterogeneity, Costly Signaling, and Threat Prioritization: Bureaucratic Reputation-Building in the EU
Organizational reputation theory suggests reputational threats can induce public organizations to change their behavior. However, it offers few insights into how organizations in contexts of high audience heterogeneity prioritize between conflicting threats, or how they ensure reputation-seeking signals reach their intended audiences. This article seeks to close these knowledge gaps. It expects organizational threat prioritization to be shaped by…
Walking the Tightrope: Politicization and the Commission's Enforcement of the SGP
Recent research indicates that bottom‐up EU politicization shapes top‐down EU policy enforcement, yet leaves open questions on the pervasiveness of these effects in policy areas that are depoliticized by design. This contribution asks how societal EU politicization shaped the enforcement of the Stability and Growth Pact up until its COVID‐19‐induced suspension. It employs causal process‐tracing to analyse fiscal rule enforcement under varying lev…
Is this crisis different? Attitudes towards EU fiscal transfers in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic
To mitigate the enormous and asymmetric economic implications of the COVID-19 pandemic, the EU has adopted an unprecedented €750 billion fiscal transfer programme, financed by joint member state liabilities. The highly contested decision pitted ‘frugal’ northern member states against ‘profligate’ southern member states. However, do citizens from northern countries view EU transfers as unfavourably as their governmental positions suggest? This art…
Talking cheap, or speaking Euro? Assessing congruence between leaders’ communication and negotiators’ positioning in the Eurozone crisis
Contains fulltext : 320236.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Equal in East and West? Regional anti-gender discourses and heterogeneity of the European Commission’s discursive protection of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans* and intersex rights
Recent research shows that lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans* and intersex (LGBTI) rights have become a core value of the European Union. Concurrently, hostility towards LGBTI rights is increasing across the European Union, including through anti-gender mobilisations, which reject ‘gender ideology’. This study employs sequential discourse analyses to discover: (1) the regional specificities in anti-gender discourse; and (2) whether the European Commi…
Comparing public attitudes towards internal and external EU sanctions: The role of populism, trust and Euroscepticism
Contains fulltext : 301183.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access
Technocracy, populism, and the (de)legitimation of international organizations
Our understanding of the contestation of liberal international order relies on an intuitive dualism. Technocratic norms underpin the legitimation of international organizations (IOs) because IOs embody a functional and depoliticized mode of problem-solving based on expertise and non-majoritarianism. Populist norms challenge IO authority as IOs create constraints on the popular will of the “true people.” We empirically examine whether this duality…
The technocracy-responsiveness nexus in EU policy-making
Corporate Sponsoring of the Council Presidency: A Research Agenda
Member states holding the Council Presidency routinely seek corporate sponsors. Typically, these sponsors offer free or discounted goods and services, such as food, beverages, cell phones, software or a car fleet in exchange for being labelled an official partner or sponsor of the Presidency. The practice is deeply ingrained in the Council's working methods, but the degree to which member states choose to associate themselves with corporate spons…
Representation matters: Technocracy, populism, and attitudes towards international organisations
Under what conditions citizens accept public institutions as legitimate authorities is a key question in political science. Recent accounts suggest that populist citizens reject international organisations (IOs) as distant, elitist, and undemocratic. Conversely, technocratic citizens should favour IOs as they represent the pinnacle of depoliticised, expertise-driven decision-making. In this article, we provide the first joint analysis of technocr…
Political science (11 works) · Economics (7 works) · European union (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Political economy (6 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (5 works) · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies (5 works) · Public Administration (5 works)