Rik Joosen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4153358 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rik Joosen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rik |
| FAMILY NAME | Joosen |
| SIGNATURE | JOOSEN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0047-6098 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Who benefits from stakeholder consultations? Fire alarms or procedural politicking?
Stakeholder consultations have become increasingly common. By allowing societal interests to provide input on regulatory proposals, stakeholder consultations are meant to bolster the input legitimacy of regulatory decisions. Yet, despite a wealth of scholarship on stakeholder participation in EU regulatory processes, it is still unclear how stakeholder consultations affect the traditional democratic oversight of regulatory agencies. Following sem…
Keep your principals close, but your stakeholders closer: How agencies use stakeholders to bolster their authority
Regulatory agencies provide input in the policymaking efforts of their executive principals. While doing so, agencies test the political waters for proposed policies and collect insights by consulting with stakeholders in developing their proposals to principals. Engaging with stakeholders may give agencies the tools to improve the input they provide and enhance agencies’ authority in the eyes of the principals that rely on them.This paper assess…
Is That a Threat? How Types of Stakeholder and Reputational Threat Matter for Gaining Influence in Regulatory Rulemaking
This paper assesses what type of comments are most useful to what type of stakeholder in gaining influence during public consultations. Theoretically, the paper approaches stakeholders' consultation comments as reputational threats from key audiences that the agency needs to respond to. Different types of threats are expected to carry different weights depending on the type of stakeholders. The analysis is based on a dataset of 73,283 consultatio…
Legislating softly: The effect of preference heterogeneity on the share of EU soft-law instruments over time
This study analyses how preference heterogeneity across EU member states affects the adoption of soft-law acts over time. On the one hand, high diversity in policy preferences is expected to increase the proportion of soft-law instruments because governments are less likely to agree to binding measures. Conversely, preference heterogeneity could also decrease soft law due to the perceived threat of compliance problems. We test these competing arg…
Shaping EU agencies’ rulemaking: Interest groups, national regulatory agencies and the European Union Aviation Safety Agency
How Do Supranational Regulators Keep Companies in Line? An Analysis of the Enforcement Styles of EU Agencies
National governments have increasingly transferred enforcement powers to EU agencies that monitor and penalize non‐compliance by private actors. How do EU agencies apply enforcement competences in practice? Based on the Eurolegalism thesis, pressures for deeper integration have led to the emergence of a more adversarial enforcement style in Europe. Consequently, supranational regulators are expected to employ formal and coercive enforcement instr…
Nuclear Weapons in the Tweede Kamer: Analysis of Nuclear Motions in the Dutch House of Representatives in Times of Contestation
US nuclear weapons are presently hosted in five European countries. In recent years, parliaments in four out of the five countries held debates about these weapons. For most of them, this was the first (or the only) debate in many years. By contrast, in the Netherlands, the Tweede Kamer, the House of Representatives, held forty-four votes related to nuclear weapons in the last two parliamentary periods alone. Although parliament's powers are rest…
Persuading the independent: Understanding why interest groups engage with EU agencies
Dimensionality of Party Politics of Foreign Policy: Spatial Modeling of Slovakia's National Council
Recent scholarship on parties and foreign policy argues that foreign policy preferences seem to be split along the same lines as the general policy disputes. We use spatial modeling to analyze whether this is indeed the case. Drawing on the unique complete sample of all votes in the Slovakia's National Council from 2002 through 2019, our results suggest that the split over foreign policy is much smaller than the general policy divide. Contrary to…
The tip of the iceberg – interest group behaviour in rule drafting and consultations during EU agency rulemaking
Public consultations are used by regulatory agencies for input into their \ndecisions and provide an opportunity for interest groups to voice their \nconcerns. However, researchers emphasised that interest groups are also \nactive before consultations, when drafting regulatory rules. Public \nconsultations might be the tip of the iceberg, with influence during early rule \ndrafting stages looming beneath the surface. This paper looks into interes…
Transnational executive bodies: EU policy implementation between the EU and member state level
Existing typologies of the European administrative space locate decision‐making powers with the European Commission, member state governments, and EU and national agencies, sometimes aided through regulatory networks. This article argues that those typologies are incomplete because they do not take into account the existence of transnational executive bodies. These are public authorities that are responsible for administering and implementing EU …
Responsive to the People? Comparing the European Cognitive Maps of Dutch Political Leaders and their Followers
Political leaders are often perceived as unresponsive to the daily concerns of citizens, especially when European integration is concerned. Academic research, however, provides at most mixed evidence for the existence of such a gap. This article tries to shed light on this discrepancy by introducing an alternative measure to study leaders’ responsiveness—narrative congruence—and explores the assumption that responsiveness increases leaders’ credi…
The tip of the iceberg – interest group behaviour in rule drafting and consultations during EU agency rulemaking
Public consultations are used by regulatory agencies for input into their \ndecisions and provide an opportunity for interest groups to voice their \nconcerns. However, researchers emphasised that interest groups are also \nactive before consultations, when drafting regulatory rules. Public \nconsultations might be the tip of the iceberg, with influence during early rule \ndrafting stages looming beneath the surface. This paper looks into interes…
Responsive to the People? Comparing the European Cognitive Maps of Dutch Political Leaders and their Followers
Political leaders are often perceived as unresponsive to the daily concerns of citizens, especially when European integration is concerned. Academic research, however, provides at most mixed evidence for the existence of such a gap. This article tries to shed light on this discrepancy by introducing an alternative measure to study leaders’ responsiveness—narrative congruence—and explores the assumption that responsiveness increases leaders’ credi…
How Do Supranational Regulators Keep Companies in Line? An Analysis of the Enforcement Styles of EU Agencies
National governments have increasingly transferred enforcement powers to EU agencies that monitor and penalize non‐compliance by private actors. How do EU agencies apply enforcement competences in practice? Based on the Eurolegalism thesis, pressures for deeper integration have led to the emergence of a more adversarial enforcement style in Europe. Consequently, supranational regulators are expected to employ formal and coercive enforcement instr…
Transnational executive bodies: EU policy implementation between the EU and member state level
Existing typologies of the European administrative space locate decision‐making powers with the European Commission, member state governments, and EU and national agencies, sometimes aided through regulatory networks. This article argues that those typologies are incomplete because they do not take into account the existence of transnational executive bodies. These are public authorities that are responsible for administering and implementing EU …
Shaping EU agencies’ rulemaking: Interest groups, national regulatory agencies and the European Union Aviation Safety Agency
Dimensionality of Party Politics of Foreign Policy: Spatial Modeling of Slovakia's National Council
Recent scholarship on parties and foreign policy argues that foreign policy preferences seem to be split along the same lines as the general policy disputes. We use spatial modeling to analyze whether this is indeed the case. Drawing on the unique complete sample of all votes in the Slovakia's National Council from 2002 through 2019, our results suggest that the split over foreign policy is much smaller than the general policy divide. Contrary to…
Responsive to the People? Comparing the European Cognitive Maps of Dutch Political Leaders and their Followers
Political leaders are often perceived as unresponsive to the daily concerns of citizens, especially when European integration is concerned. Academic research, however, provides at most mixed evidence for the existence of such a gap. This article tries to shed light on this discrepancy by introducing an alternative measure to study leaders’ responsiveness—narrative congruence—and explores the assumption that responsiveness increases leaders’ credi…
Transnational executive bodies: EU policy implementation between the EU and member state level
Existing typologies of the European administrative space locate decision‐making powers with the European Commission, member state governments, and EU and national agencies, sometimes aided through regulatory networks. This article argues that those typologies are incomplete because they do not take into account the existence of transnational executive bodies. These are public authorities that are responsible for administering and implementing EU …
The tip of the iceberg – interest group behaviour in rule drafting and consultations during EU agency rulemaking
Public consultations are used by regulatory agencies for input into their \ndecisions and provide an opportunity for interest groups to voice their \nconcerns. However, researchers emphasised that interest groups are also \nactive before consultations, when drafting regulatory rules. Public \nconsultations might be the tip of the iceberg, with influence during early rule \ndrafting stages looming beneath the surface. This paper looks into interes…
Persuading the independent: Understanding why interest groups engage with EU agencies
Dimensionality of Party Politics of Foreign Policy: Spatial Modeling of Slovakia's National Council
Recent scholarship on parties and foreign policy argues that foreign policy preferences seem to be split along the same lines as the general policy disputes. We use spatial modeling to analyze whether this is indeed the case. Drawing on the unique complete sample of all votes in the Slovakia's National Council from 2002 through 2019, our results suggest that the split over foreign policy is much smaller than the general policy divide. Contrary to…
Shaping EU agencies’ rulemaking: Interest groups, national regulatory agencies and the European Union Aviation Safety Agency
How Do Supranational Regulators Keep Companies in Line? An Analysis of the Enforcement Styles of EU Agencies
National governments have increasingly transferred enforcement powers to EU agencies that monitor and penalize non‐compliance by private actors. How do EU agencies apply enforcement competences in practice? Based on the Eurolegalism thesis, pressures for deeper integration have led to the emergence of a more adversarial enforcement style in Europe. Consequently, supranational regulators are expected to employ formal and coercive enforcement instr…
Nuclear Weapons in the Tweede Kamer: Analysis of Nuclear Motions in the Dutch House of Representatives in Times of Contestation
US nuclear weapons are presently hosted in five European countries. In recent years, parliaments in four out of the five countries held debates about these weapons. For most of them, this was the first (or the only) debate in many years. By contrast, in the Netherlands, the Tweede Kamer, the House of Representatives, held forty-four votes related to nuclear weapons in the last two parliamentary periods alone. Although parliament's powers are rest…
Legislating softly: The effect of preference heterogeneity on the share of EU soft-law instruments over time
This study analyses how preference heterogeneity across EU member states affects the adoption of soft-law acts over time. On the one hand, high diversity in policy preferences is expected to increase the proportion of soft-law instruments because governments are less likely to agree to binding measures. Conversely, preference heterogeneity could also decrease soft law due to the perceived threat of compliance problems. We test these competing arg…
Is That a Threat? How Types of Stakeholder and Reputational Threat Matter for Gaining Influence in Regulatory Rulemaking
This paper assesses what type of comments are most useful to what type of stakeholder in gaining influence during public consultations. Theoretically, the paper approaches stakeholders' consultation comments as reputational threats from key audiences that the agency needs to respond to. Different types of threats are expected to carry different weights depending on the type of stakeholders. The analysis is based on a dataset of 73,283 consultatio…
Who benefits from stakeholder consultations? Fire alarms or procedural politicking?
Stakeholder consultations have become increasingly common. By allowing societal interests to provide input on regulatory proposals, stakeholder consultations are meant to bolster the input legitimacy of regulatory decisions. Yet, despite a wealth of scholarship on stakeholder participation in EU regulatory processes, it is still unclear how stakeholder consultations affect the traditional democratic oversight of regulatory agencies. Following sem…
Keep your principals close, but your stakeholders closer: How agencies use stakeholders to bolster their authority
Regulatory agencies provide input in the policymaking efforts of their executive principals. While doing so, agencies test the political waters for proposed policies and collect insights by consulting with stakeholders in developing their proposals to principals. Engaging with stakeholders may give agencies the tools to improve the input they provide and enhance agencies’ authority in the eyes of the principals that rely on them.This paper assess…
Political science (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Business (6 works) · European union (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Public Administration (5 works) · Sociology (5 works)