Valentine Herman
Biographic Data
| ID | 4371122 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valentine Herman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valentine |
| FAMILY NAME | Herman |
| SIGNATURE | HERMAN V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 251 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Nationalists without a nation: South Moluccan terrorism in the Netherlands
This article focuses on the phenomenon of South Moluccan terrorism in the Netherlands. Beginning with a historical examination of the colonial relationship between the Netherlands and Indonesia, attention is then given to the circumstances in which some 21,000 South Moluccans came to the Netherlands in the early 1950s, and the social, economic, and political conditions of the South Moluccan community in Holland since then. Then follows a detailed…
The Powers and Functions of the Directly Elected European Parliament
Journal Article THE POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF THE DIRECTLY ELECTED EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT Get access Valentine Herman Valentine Herman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 33, Issue 1, 1980, Pages 79–91, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a051864 Published: 01 January 1980
Direct Elections to the European Parliament: A Supranational Perspective
This article examines the campaigns to increase EC voters' awareness of the EC and direct elections to the European Parliament with a view to stimulating high turnout. A supranational perspective is adopted. The first part of the paper discusses and evaluates the aims and effects of the so‐called “non‐partisan” European Elections Information Programmes launched by the Commission and the European Parliament, and briefly details their implementatio…
The Economic and Social Committee in EEC decision making
Neo-functionalism ascribes a dynamic role to interest groups in the process of integrating pluralist communities. By participating in the policymaking process, interest groups are expected to develop a stake in promoting further integration in order to acquire economic payoffs and additional benefits from maintaining and stimulating the organization through which certain demands can be articulated and goals attained. This implies that in the inte…
The European parliament and the “decline of legislatures” thesis
(1978). The European parliament and the “decline of legislatures” thesis. Politics: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 10-25
Democratic legitimacy and direct elections to the European parliament
The theme of ‘democratic legitimacy’ and the way it affects the institutions and development of the European Community is a recurrent one both in the literature on Western European integration and especially in debates amongst European politicians and parliamentarians. This article examines the theme within the context of the direct elections to be held to the European Parliament in 1979. It is argued that the European Parliament has certain legi…
Is the European Parliament a Parliament
The paper considers the powers, or more correctly the lack of powers, of the European Parliament. Attention is focused on the legislative powers of the Parliament; its financial powers following the revision of Article 203 of the Treaty of Rome; and its control, or oversight, powers. Comparisons are made between the powers of the European Parliament and those of the national parliaments of the European Community's nine Member States. The detailed…
Institutional Reform in the European Community: The Case for Bicameralism
Pour une réforme institutionnelle de la CEE: l'argumentation en faveur du bicaméralisme Les auteurs examinent la question de la réforme institutionnelle de la CEE et tout particulièrement du Parlement européen. L'article soutient que le Parlement n'est pas l'assemblée législative de la CEE mais qu'il tend à la devenir. Actuellement c'est le Conseil des Ministres qui est l'organe législatif suprême mais il est incapable de remplir pleinement ses f…
Coalitions and Government Formation: An Empirically Relevant Theory
Traditional theories of government coalition formation concentrate on formal criteria inspired by – if not directly drawn from – game theory. One such criterion is that the coalition which forms must be winning; another is that it should have no surplus members without whom it would still be winning, i.e. it should be minimal; and a third is that the number of parties should be as few as possible. The closest that such theories come to considerin…
What Governments Say and What Governments Do: An Analysis of Post-War Queen's Speeches
Journal Article ‘WHAT GOVERNMENTS SAY AND WHAT GOVERNMENTS DO: AN ANALYSIS OF POST-WAR QUEEN'S SPEECHES’ Get access Valentine Herman Valentine Herman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 28, Issue 1975sep, September 1975, Pages 22–30, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a051749 Published: 01 September 1975
The Child's Conception of the Queen and the Prime Minister
What difference does it make that Britain has a monarch? ‘Some political scientists,’ as Edward Shils and Michael Young remarked at the time of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation, ‘tend to speak as if Britain is now an odd kind of republic which happens to have as its chief functionary a Queen instead of a President’.2 Shils and Young felt that the intensity of public interest in the coronation quite clearly belied such a commonsense and demystified…
Minority Governments in Western Democracies
All the theories of coalition formation known to us incorporate an assumption (or a set of assumptions which imply) that coalitions which are formed must at least be ‘winning’. 1 In the present context, a coalition is said to be winning if the sum of the seats held by its members is at least a simple majority of all the seats in the parliament. Most of these theories were intended to apply to government coalitions: indeed, several of them were sp…
Adjournment Debates in the House of Commons
ADJOURNMENT DEBATES IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS Get access Valentine Herman Valentine Herman * The author is indebted to Anthony Barker, Professor Jean Blondel, and Dr. Larry Johnson for their helpful comments on the manuscript. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 26, Issue 1972sep, September 1972, Pages 92–104, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a051627 Published: 01 September…
Communications
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Party Systems and Government Stability
Arguments are presented for and against a series of hypotheses about the influence of the parliamentary party system on the stability of governments, and the hypotheses are tested against data on 196 governments in parliamentary democracies since 1945. A strong relation is found between the duration of governments and the fragmentation of the parliamentary party system and of the government parties, but the fragmentation of the opposition parties…
Party Systems and Government Stability
Arguments are presented for and against a series of hypotheses about the influence of the parliamentary party system on the stability of governments, and the hypotheses are tested against data on 196 governments in parliamentary democracies since 1945. A strong relation is found between the duration of governments and the fragmentation of the parliamentary party system and of the government parties, but the fragmentation of the opposition parties…
Minority Governments in Western Democracies
All the theories of coalition formation known to us incorporate an assumption (or a set of assumptions which imply) that coalitions which are formed must at least be ‘winning’. 1 In the present context, a coalition is said to be winning if the sum of the seats held by its members is at least a simple majority of all the seats in the parliament. Most of these theories were intended to apply to government coalitions: indeed, several of them were sp…
Coalitions and Government Formation: An Empirically Relevant Theory
Traditional theories of government coalition formation concentrate on formal criteria inspired by – if not directly drawn from – game theory. One such criterion is that the coalition which forms must be winning; another is that it should have no surplus members without whom it would still be winning, i.e. it should be minimal; and a third is that the number of parties should be as few as possible. The closest that such theories come to considerin…
The Child's Conception of the Queen and the Prime Minister
What difference does it make that Britain has a monarch? ‘Some political scientists,’ as Edward Shils and Michael Young remarked at the time of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation, ‘tend to speak as if Britain is now an odd kind of republic which happens to have as its chief functionary a Queen instead of a President’.2 Shils and Young felt that the intensity of public interest in the coronation quite clearly belied such a commonsense and demystified…
The Economic and Social Committee in EEC decision making
Neo-functionalism ascribes a dynamic role to interest groups in the process of integrating pluralist communities. By participating in the policymaking process, interest groups are expected to develop a stake in promoting further integration in order to acquire economic payoffs and additional benefits from maintaining and stimulating the organization through which certain demands can be articulated and goals attained. This implies that in the inte…
Direct Elections to the European Parliament: A Supranational Perspective
This article examines the campaigns to increase EC voters' awareness of the EC and direct elections to the European Parliament with a view to stimulating high turnout. A supranational perspective is adopted. The first part of the paper discusses and evaluates the aims and effects of the so‐called “non‐partisan” European Elections Information Programmes launched by the Commission and the European Parliament, and briefly details their implementatio…
Is the European Parliament a Parliament
The paper considers the powers, or more correctly the lack of powers, of the European Parliament. Attention is focused on the legislative powers of the Parliament; its financial powers following the revision of Article 203 of the Treaty of Rome; and its control, or oversight, powers. Comparisons are made between the powers of the European Parliament and those of the national parliaments of the European Community's nine Member States. The detailed…
Democratic legitimacy and direct elections to the European parliament
The theme of ‘democratic legitimacy’ and the way it affects the institutions and development of the European Community is a recurrent one both in the literature on Western European integration and especially in debates amongst European politicians and parliamentarians. This article examines the theme within the context of the direct elections to be held to the European Parliament in 1979. It is argued that the European Parliament has certain legi…
Nationalists without a nation: South Moluccan terrorism in the Netherlands
This article focuses on the phenomenon of South Moluccan terrorism in the Netherlands. Beginning with a historical examination of the colonial relationship between the Netherlands and Indonesia, attention is then given to the circumstances in which some 21,000 South Moluccans came to the Netherlands in the early 1950s, and the social, economic, and political conditions of the South Moluccan community in Holland since then. Then follows a detailed…
What Governments Say and What Governments Do: An Analysis of Post-War Queen's Speeches
Journal Article ‘WHAT GOVERNMENTS SAY AND WHAT GOVERNMENTS DO: AN ANALYSIS OF POST-WAR QUEEN'S SPEECHES’ Get access Valentine Herman Valentine Herman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 28, Issue 1975sep, September 1975, Pages 22–30, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a051749 Published: 01 September 1975
The European parliament and the “decline of legislatures” thesis
(1978). The European parliament and the “decline of legislatures” thesis. Politics: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 10-25
Institutional Reform in the European Community: The Case for Bicameralism
Pour une réforme institutionnelle de la CEE: l'argumentation en faveur du bicaméralisme Les auteurs examinent la question de la réforme institutionnelle de la CEE et tout particulièrement du Parlement européen. L'article soutient que le Parlement n'est pas l'assemblée législative de la CEE mais qu'il tend à la devenir. Actuellement c'est le Conseil des Ministres qui est l'organe législatif suprême mais il est incapable de remplir pleinement ses f…
Communications
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
Communications
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
Party Systems and Government Stability
Arguments are presented for and against a series of hypotheses about the influence of the parliamentary party system on the stability of governments, and the hypotheses are tested against data on 196 governments in parliamentary democracies since 1945. A strong relation is found between the duration of governments and the fragmentation of the parliamentary party system and of the government parties, but the fragmentation of the opposition parties…
Adjournment Debates in the House of Commons
ADJOURNMENT DEBATES IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS Get access Valentine Herman Valentine Herman * The author is indebted to Anthony Barker, Professor Jean Blondel, and Dr. Larry Johnson for their helpful comments on the manuscript. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 26, Issue 1972sep, September 1972, Pages 92–104, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a051627 Published: 01 September…
Minority Governments in Western Democracies
All the theories of coalition formation known to us incorporate an assumption (or a set of assumptions which imply) that coalitions which are formed must at least be ‘winning’. 1 In the present context, a coalition is said to be winning if the sum of the seats held by its members is at least a simple majority of all the seats in the parliament. Most of these theories were intended to apply to government coalitions: indeed, several of them were sp…
The Child's Conception of the Queen and the Prime Minister
What difference does it make that Britain has a monarch? ‘Some political scientists,’ as Edward Shils and Michael Young remarked at the time of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation, ‘tend to speak as if Britain is now an odd kind of republic which happens to have as its chief functionary a Queen instead of a President’.2 Shils and Young felt that the intensity of public interest in the coronation quite clearly belied such a commonsense and demystified…
What Governments Say and What Governments Do: An Analysis of Post-War Queen's Speeches
Journal Article ‘WHAT GOVERNMENTS SAY AND WHAT GOVERNMENTS DO: AN ANALYSIS OF POST-WAR QUEEN'S SPEECHES’ Get access Valentine Herman Valentine Herman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 28, Issue 1975sep, September 1975, Pages 22–30, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a051749 Published: 01 September 1975
The European parliament and the “decline of legislatures” thesis
(1978). The European parliament and the “decline of legislatures” thesis. Politics: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 10-25
Democratic legitimacy and direct elections to the European parliament
The theme of ‘democratic legitimacy’ and the way it affects the institutions and development of the European Community is a recurrent one both in the literature on Western European integration and especially in debates amongst European politicians and parliamentarians. This article examines the theme within the context of the direct elections to be held to the European Parliament in 1979. It is argued that the European Parliament has certain legi…
Is the European Parliament a Parliament
The paper considers the powers, or more correctly the lack of powers, of the European Parliament. Attention is focused on the legislative powers of the Parliament; its financial powers following the revision of Article 203 of the Treaty of Rome; and its control, or oversight, powers. Comparisons are made between the powers of the European Parliament and those of the national parliaments of the European Community's nine Member States. The detailed…
Institutional Reform in the European Community: The Case for Bicameralism
Pour une réforme institutionnelle de la CEE: l'argumentation en faveur du bicaméralisme Les auteurs examinent la question de la réforme institutionnelle de la CEE et tout particulièrement du Parlement européen. L'article soutient que le Parlement n'est pas l'assemblée législative de la CEE mais qu'il tend à la devenir. Actuellement c'est le Conseil des Ministres qui est l'organe législatif suprême mais il est incapable de remplir pleinement ses f…
Coalitions and Government Formation: An Empirically Relevant Theory
Traditional theories of government coalition formation concentrate on formal criteria inspired by – if not directly drawn from – game theory. One such criterion is that the coalition which forms must be winning; another is that it should have no surplus members without whom it would still be winning, i.e. it should be minimal; and a third is that the number of parties should be as few as possible. The closest that such theories come to considerin…
Nationalists without a nation: South Moluccan terrorism in the Netherlands
This article focuses on the phenomenon of South Moluccan terrorism in the Netherlands. Beginning with a historical examination of the colonial relationship between the Netherlands and Indonesia, attention is then given to the circumstances in which some 21,000 South Moluccans came to the Netherlands in the early 1950s, and the social, economic, and political conditions of the South Moluccan community in Holland since then. Then follows a detailed…
The Powers and Functions of the Directly Elected European Parliament
Journal Article THE POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF THE DIRECTLY ELECTED EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT Get access Valentine Herman Valentine Herman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 33, Issue 1, 1980, Pages 79–91, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a051864 Published: 01 January 1980
Direct Elections to the European Parliament: A Supranational Perspective
This article examines the campaigns to increase EC voters' awareness of the EC and direct elections to the European Parliament with a view to stimulating high turnout. A supranational perspective is adopted. The first part of the paper discusses and evaluates the aims and effects of the so‐called “non‐partisan” European Elections Information Programmes launched by the Commission and the European Parliament, and briefly details their implementatio…
The Economic and Social Committee in EEC decision making
Neo-functionalism ascribes a dynamic role to interest groups in the process of integrating pluralist communities. By participating in the policymaking process, interest groups are expected to develop a stake in promoting further integration in order to acquire economic payoffs and additional benefits from maintaining and stimulating the organization through which certain demands can be articulated and goals attained. This implies that in the inte…
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