Frank Hendriks
Biographic Data
| ID | 82162 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frank Hendriks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frank |
| FAMILY NAME | Hendriks |
| SIGNATURE | HENDRIKS F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tilburg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7393-4144 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 302 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Democratic Values in Citizen Participation: What Citizens Prioritize in Participation
Citizen participation is often initiated to strengthen democracy. While participatory innovations are typically assessed through normative frameworks emphasizing democratic values, little is known about which of these values are prioritized by citizens. This research note presents findings from an original survey conducted in the Netherlands in 2024, investigating which democratic values citizens prioritize in the context of citizen participation…
Exploring the Democratic Merits of Hybrid Democratic Innovation. Combining Deliberation and Voting in Participatory Budgeting New Style
In this paper we theorize hybrid democratic innovations (HDIs) which combine concentrated deliberation with large-scale voting. We focus on a field of hybridization that has not been investigated extensively yet: the rise of Participatory Budgeting-new style, characterized by an increased emphasis on large-scale voting—using technologies that became widely available in the 2010s— combined with continued attention to deliberative participation. We…
Opponents, not enemies: Disentangling the relationship between polarization and democracy in Europe
Contradicting claims exist about the extent to which identity-based ideological polarization is eroding or improving democracy. We address this ambiguity by disentangling different forms of polarization (i.e., elite, partisan, societal) and the irrelationship with different aspects of democracy (i.e., quality, diffuse support, specific support). Based on the agonistic pluralism theory, we argue that democracy benefits from political conflict betw…
Hybrid democratic innovation as assemblage: Probing and extending an emerging concept for democratic-innovations research
The assemblage concept has recently been applied to the field of democratic innovations. Although ‘democratic assemblage’ as a sensitising concept can sharpen awareness to the mixing and mingling of divergent components that is going on in practices of hybrid democratic innovation (HDI), the current usage of the concept also has its limitations. We argue that to move forward with meaningful theoretical understanding of democratic assemblage, addi…
Improving referendums with deliberative democracy: A systematic literature review
This article systematically reviews the literature on combining referendums and deliberative processes. With referendums being criticized for various reasons, including their deliberative deficit, and amid the deliberative turn in democracy, various hybrid combinations of referendums and deliberative processes have been practised or suggested. We bring together the hitherto scattered literature that focuses on assumed and observed strengthening e…
The Deliberative Referendum: An Idea Whose Time has Come
While deliberative citizens’ assemblies and plebiscitary referendums have long been perceived as antithetical, the idea of combining the two democratic instruments for better connecting administration and society has come to the fore in both theory and practice in more recent years. In this article, three ways of linking citizens’ assemblies to the referendum process are distinguished, exemplified, institutionally compared, and reflectively discu…
Majoritarian and consensual patterns in political news: A longitudinal British-Dutch study of expressions of media logic (2000-2020)
Much of the mediatization literature argues that the increased occurrence of expressions of media logic in political news coverage is driven by supranational factors including marketization, and postulates that contextual factors such as the national democratic model can explain the marked variations between countries. However, the relationship between such structural conditions and the occurrence of media-content elements in news coverage remain…
Key values for democratic governance innovation: Two traditions and a synthesis
This article advances our understanding of the key values for democratic‐governance innovation by integrating two important, yet divergent, discourses—the one on democratic innovations, the other on governance innovations—thus capitalizing on their mutually reinforcing potential. The result is an integrative framework of core values, related normative coordinates, and key questions for improving democratic governance. The integrative values frame…
Setting the voting agenda for multi-option referendums: Process Variations and Civic Empowerment
Referendums figure prominently in discussions about democracy and democratic innovation. Whereas much of the literature is focused on binary versions of the referendum, this article centralizes the non-binary or multi-option referendum, paying special attention to its modalities and the leverage they give to citizens in the ballot agenda-setting stage. Studying agenda-setting in multi-option referendums contributes to our understanding of civic d…
Unravelling the New Plebiscitary Democracy: Towards a Research Agenda
Pushed by technological, cultural and related political drivers, a ‘new plebiscitary democracy’ is emerging which challenges established electoral democracy as well as variants of deliberative democracy. The new plebiscitary democracy reinvents and radicalizes longer-existing methods (initiative, referendum, recall, primary, petition, poll) with new tools and applications (mostly digital). It comes with a comparatively thin conceptualization of d…
Democratic innovation beyond deliberative reflection: The Plebiscitary Rebound and the Advent of Action-Oriented Democracy
This article investigates democratic innovations of a plebiscitary and action-oriented type that diverge from a predominantly transformative and reflective definition of democratic innovation. Conceptually, the article offers a balanced, extended framework that serves to recognize and understand a range of democratic innovations that includes non-deliberative besides deliberative models and methods. Empirically, the article offers a closer look a…
Subnational mobilization and the reconfiguration of central-local relations in the shadow of Europe: The case of the Dutch decentralized unitary state
The Netherlands is traditionally considered a decentralized unitary state. Recent decentralization of responsibilities from the national to the local level and scaling-up of authority from the local to the city-regional level, accompanied by continuing transfer of tasks to the European Union level, have changed the face of the Dutch state. This article investigates a key question that these developments evoke: what factors, at the national and po…
Don’t call me a leader, but I am one: The Dutch mayor and the tradition of bridging-and-bonding leadership in consensus democracies
In some democratic contexts, there is a strong aversion to the directive, individualistic and masculine expressions of leadership that have come to dominate the study of political leadership. Such leadership is antithetical to consensus democracies in parts of continental Europe, where the antipathy to leadership has linguistic, institutional as well as cultural dimensions. Political-administrative and socio-cultural contexts in these countries p…
Shifting repertoires: Understanding cultural plurality in policing
The police is one of the most prominent organizations in the frontline of public administration. In order to deal with high external expectations, the organization has been said to develop and nurture multiple police cultures. Applying Grid Group Cultural Theory, or GGCT, we address the following questions: what sets of values, beliefs and practices has the police organization developed to deal with high expectations stemming from their publics? …
Contestation and participation: Operationalizing and mapping democratic models for 80 electoral democracies, 1990–2009
The Quest for Good Urban Governance: Theoretical Reflections and International Practices
The Quest for Good Urban Governance: Theoretical Reflections and International Practices
This book demonstrates both successes and failures in attempts to get closer to the ideal of good urban governance in cities in North-America, Europe, and Asia. It presents a value menu and deliberately does not come up with "one best way" for improving urban governance. Good urban governance is presented as a balancing act, an interplay between government, business and civil society in which the core values need careful and timely attention. The…
Quest for Good Urban Governance: Theoretical Reflections and International Practices
Credibility Enacted: Understanding the Meaning of Credible Political Leadership in the Dutch Parliamentary Election Campaign of 2010
In times of perception politics, the credibility of electoral candidates is a crucial asset in political marketing. This raises the question to which political leaders citizens attribute credibility and how political credibility is gained and lost through media performance. We analyze and compare two contrasting cases during the Dutch parliamentary election campaign of 2010. Whereas in this campaign Mark Rutte—leader of the liberal party VVD—gain…
Grid, Group, and Grade: Challenges in Operationalizing Cultural Theory for Cross-National Research
Grid–Group Cultural Theory (CT), developed by Mary Douglas and followers, is a well-known and often-used framework for the analysis of culture in the political–administrative world. Although Douglas herself was rather wary of detailed operationalization of CT, many scholars have tried to measure Grid and Group and tested implications of the theory along these dimensions at different levels of analysis, within or between nations. In this article, …
The relation between cultural values and models of democracy: A Cross-National Study
The relation between democracy and culture is a long-lasting subject of interest in political science. In the contemporary approach to cultural analysis, value orientations are studied as fundamental manifestations of culture. The mainstream research has focused on finding a relation between the quality of a democratic system and the existence of essential values in a society. There is, however, an understudied question as to what the relation be…
Understanding Good Urban Governance: Essentials, Shifts, and Values
Building on the relevant international literature, as well as empirical research on urban cases, this article determines and discusses five core values of good urban governance: responsiveness, effectiveness, procedural justice, resilience, and counterbalance. The quest for good governance can take various forms. This article focuses on urban governance, and identifies four different shifts, with increased emphasis on the real decision makers or …
Oxford Handbook of Local and Regional Democracy in Europe
The Oxford handbook of local and regional democracy in Europe
'The Oxford Handbook of Local and Regional Democracy in Europe' is an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of subnational democracy in Europe. It analyses subnational democracy in the 27 member states of the EU plus Norway and Switzerland.
Purity and Democracy: Beauty Ideals and Pollution Reduction in Democratic Reform
In debates on democratic reform, the logic of spring cleaning resurfaces over and over again. Different democratic "beauty ideals" inspire different types of cleaning in the home of democracy. Where one particular vision of democracy is "polished up," rival visions are "rubbed out," usually at the same time. Informed by Douglas's take on cleaning ritual and pollution reduction, this article distinguishes four such beauty ideals—pendulum democracy…
Clumsy Solutions for a Complex World: The Case of Climate Change
Successful solutions to pressing social ills tend to consist of innovative combinations of a limited set of alternative ways of perceiving and resolving the issues. These contending policy perspectives justify, represent and stem from four different ways of organizing social relations: hierarchy, individualism, egalitarianism and fatalism. Each of these perspectives: (1) distils certain elements of experience and wisdom that are missed by the oth…
Understanding Good Urban Governance: Essentials, Shifts, and Values
Building on the relevant international literature, as well as empirical research on urban cases, this article determines and discusses five core values of good urban governance: responsiveness, effectiveness, procedural justice, resilience, and counterbalance. The quest for good governance can take various forms. This article focuses on urban governance, and identifies four different shifts, with increased emphasis on the real decision makers or …
Democratic innovation beyond deliberative reflection: The Plebiscitary Rebound and the Advent of Action-Oriented Democracy
This article investigates democratic innovations of a plebiscitary and action-oriented type that diverge from a predominantly transformative and reflective definition of democratic innovation. Conceptually, the article offers a balanced, extended framework that serves to recognize and understand a range of democratic innovations that includes non-deliberative besides deliberative models and methods. Empirically, the article offers a closer look a…
Everyday Fixers as Local Heroes: A Case Study of Vital Interaction in Urban Governance
This article exemplifies the importance of viable coalitions in processes of neighbourhood development and local governance. Elaborating on the notion of the ‘everyday maker’, discovered in Danish local politics by Bang and Sörensen, this article further explores the characteristics and conditions of organising capacity, using the case of the Neighbourhood Development Corporation in the Dutch city of The Hague as a paradigmatic case. This case sh…
Key values for democratic governance innovation: Two traditions and a synthesis
This article advances our understanding of the key values for democratic‐governance innovation by integrating two important, yet divergent, discourses—the one on democratic innovations, the other on governance innovations—thus capitalizing on their mutually reinforcing potential. The result is an integrative framework of core values, related normative coordinates, and key questions for improving democratic governance. The integrative values frame…
The Oxford handbook of local and regional democracy in Europe
'The Oxford Handbook of Local and Regional Democracy in Europe' is an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of subnational democracy in Europe. It analyses subnational democracy in the 27 member states of the EU plus Norway and Switzerland.
Between Democracy and Efficiency: Trends in Local Government Reform in the Netherlands and Germany
In this article attention is drawn to a striking difference between recent attempts to reform local government in the Netherlands and in Germany. What has been the prime focus of attention in the Netherlands in the 1980s is being emphasized in Germany in the 1990s, and what is being emphasized in the Netherlands in the 1990s has been the prime focus of attention in Germany in the 1980s. Trends in local goverment reform in the Netherlands have bee…
Democratic reform between the extreme makeover and the reinvention of tradition: The case of the Netherlands
Democracy in the Netherlands, like in so many other Western countries, is under substantial reform pressure. The problem with the democratic system in the Netherlands, according to democratic reformers, is that it is out of step with the fast and major changes taking place in modern society. Champions of democratic reform in the Netherlands mostly look to sweeping, large-scale, and all-encompassing plans for democratic reform, achieving, however,…
Local public management reforms in the Netherlands: Fads, fashions and winds of change
Compared to other continental European countries, especially Germany and Switzerland, which have experimented with New Public Management (NPM) in local government, The Netherlands has been relatively quick in following trends stemming from Anglo‐Saxon management thinking, but also relatively quick in redressing its course. The rise of the New Public Management in Dutch local government has been relatively swift and strong but also relatively supe…
The post-industrialising city: Political perspectives and cultural biases
Don’t call me a leader, but I am one: The Dutch mayor and the tradition of bridging-and-bonding leadership in consensus democracies
In some democratic contexts, there is a strong aversion to the directive, individualistic and masculine expressions of leadership that have come to dominate the study of political leadership. Such leadership is antithetical to consensus democracies in parts of continental Europe, where the antipathy to leadership has linguistic, institutional as well as cultural dimensions. Political-administrative and socio-cultural contexts in these countries p…
The Deliberative Referendum: An Idea Whose Time has Come
While deliberative citizens’ assemblies and plebiscitary referendums have long been perceived as antithetical, the idea of combining the two democratic instruments for better connecting administration and society has come to the fore in both theory and practice in more recent years. In this article, three ways of linking citizens’ assemblies to the referendum process are distinguished, exemplified, institutionally compared, and reflectively discu…
Unravelling the New Plebiscitary Democracy: Towards a Research Agenda
Pushed by technological, cultural and related political drivers, a ‘new plebiscitary democracy’ is emerging which challenges established electoral democracy as well as variants of deliberative democracy. The new plebiscitary democracy reinvents and radicalizes longer-existing methods (initiative, referendum, recall, primary, petition, poll) with new tools and applications (mostly digital). It comes with a comparatively thin conceptualization of d…
Contextualizing the Dutch drop in political trust: Connecting underlying factors
How can it be that a country — one that was envied until the very end of the twentieth century for its enduring high level of trust in the political system — could have suffered so much damage in just a few years at the beginning of the new century when it comes to reported rates of trust in political institutions? This article maps the loss of political trust in the Netherlands and sets out to explain the developments that the statistics describ…
The relation between cultural values and models of democracy: A Cross-National Study
The relation between democracy and culture is a long-lasting subject of interest in political science. In the contemporary approach to cultural analysis, value orientations are studied as fundamental manifestations of culture. The mainstream research has focused on finding a relation between the quality of a democratic system and the existence of essential values in a society. There is, however, an understudied question as to what the relation be…
Subnational mobilization and the reconfiguration of central-local relations in the shadow of Europe: The case of the Dutch decentralized unitary state
The Netherlands is traditionally considered a decentralized unitary state. Recent decentralization of responsibilities from the national to the local level and scaling-up of authority from the local to the city-regional level, accompanied by continuing transfer of tasks to the European Union level, have changed the face of the Dutch state. This article investigates a key question that these developments evoke: what factors, at the national and po…
Grid, Group, and Grade: Challenges in Operationalizing Cultural Theory for Cross-National Research
Grid–Group Cultural Theory (CT), developed by Mary Douglas and followers, is a well-known and often-used framework for the analysis of culture in the political–administrative world. Although Douglas herself was rather wary of detailed operationalization of CT, many scholars have tried to measure Grid and Group and tested implications of the theory along these dimensions at different levels of analysis, within or between nations. In this article, …
Contestation and participation: Operationalizing and mapping democratic models for 80 electoral democracies, 1990–2009
Credibility Enacted: Understanding the Meaning of Credible Political Leadership in the Dutch Parliamentary Election Campaign of 2010
In times of perception politics, the credibility of electoral candidates is a crucial asset in political marketing. This raises the question to which political leaders citizens attribute credibility and how political credibility is gained and lost through media performance. We analyze and compare two contrasting cases during the Dutch parliamentary election campaign of 2010. Whereas in this campaign Mark Rutte—leader of the liberal party VVD—gain…
Public, Administration, Theory and Learning: Interaction Research as Interpretation
Interaction research implies opportunities for organising learning processes in the context of public administration. This article deals with the strategy and the practice of interaction research conceived as the art and craft of interpretation in public administration. The interaction researcher is defined, first and foremost, as an “interpreter.” The interaction researcher translates, decodes and encodes signs and messages between the public of…
Improving referendums with deliberative democracy: A systematic literature review
This article systematically reviews the literature on combining referendums and deliberative processes. With referendums being criticized for various reasons, including their deliberative deficit, and amid the deliberative turn in democracy, various hybrid combinations of referendums and deliberative processes have been practised or suggested. We bring together the hitherto scattered literature that focuses on assumed and observed strengthening e…
Setting the voting agenda for multi-option referendums: Process Variations and Civic Empowerment
Referendums figure prominently in discussions about democracy and democratic innovation. Whereas much of the literature is focused on binary versions of the referendum, this article centralizes the non-binary or multi-option referendum, paying special attention to its modalities and the leverage they give to citizens in the ballot agenda-setting stage. Studying agenda-setting in multi-option referendums contributes to our understanding of civic d…
Purity and Democracy: Beauty Ideals and Pollution Reduction in Democratic Reform
In debates on democratic reform, the logic of spring cleaning resurfaces over and over again. Different democratic "beauty ideals" inspire different types of cleaning in the home of democracy. Where one particular vision of democracy is "polished up," rival visions are "rubbed out," usually at the same time. Informed by Douglas's take on cleaning ritual and pollution reduction, this article distinguishes four such beauty ideals—pendulum democracy…
Opponents, not enemies: Disentangling the relationship between polarization and democracy in Europe
Contradicting claims exist about the extent to which identity-based ideological polarization is eroding or improving democracy. We address this ambiguity by disentangling different forms of polarization (i.e., elite, partisan, societal) and the irrelationship with different aspects of democracy (i.e., quality, diffuse support, specific support). Based on the agonistic pluralism theory, we argue that democracy benefits from political conflict betw…
Hybrid democratic innovation as assemblage: Probing and extending an emerging concept for democratic-innovations research
The assemblage concept has recently been applied to the field of democratic innovations. Although ‘democratic assemblage’ as a sensitising concept can sharpen awareness to the mixing and mingling of divergent components that is going on in practices of hybrid democratic innovation (HDI), the current usage of the concept also has its limitations. We argue that to move forward with meaningful theoretical understanding of democratic assemblage, addi…
Public Policy and Political Institutions: The Role of Culture in Traffic Policy
The post-industrialising city: Political perspectives and cultural biases
Between Democracy and Efficiency: Trends in Local Government Reform in the Netherlands and Germany
In this article attention is drawn to a striking difference between recent attempts to reform local government in the Netherlands and in Germany. What has been the prime focus of attention in the Netherlands in the 1980s is being emphasized in Germany in the 1990s, and what is being emphasized in the Netherlands in the 1990s has been the prime focus of attention in Germany in the 1980s. Trends in local goverment reform in the Netherlands have bee…
Subnational Democracy in the European Union: Challenges and Opportunities
This book is the result of a research project carried out for the Committee of the Regions and analyses the 'state of play' of democratic practice at the subnational level in all of the European Member states. Its initial hypothesis was that liberal democracy is closely associated with the rise of the nation state in the 19th century. The nation state, however, has been significantly changing under the impact of various forces including globaliza…
The Quest for Interaction: The Reinvention of Consensus Democracy and its Critics
Dutch government is seeking interaction with citizens and societal groups in many different ways. The current denominator is ‘interactive governance’, or ‘interactive policymaking’, referring to a new episode in the long and winding history of consensual decision making in the Netherlands. That is not to say that there is general consensus on the value of interactive governance. Different interpretations, heroic as well as critical, abound in the…
Public, Administration, Theory and Learning: Interaction Research as Interpretation
Interaction research implies opportunities for organising learning processes in the context of public administration. This article deals with the strategy and the practice of interaction research conceived as the art and craft of interpretation in public administration. The interaction researcher is defined, first and foremost, as an “interpreter.” The interaction researcher translates, decodes and encodes signs and messages between the public of…
Local public management reforms in the Netherlands: Fads, fashions and winds of change
Compared to other continental European countries, especially Germany and Switzerland, which have experimented with New Public Management (NPM) in local government, The Netherlands has been relatively quick in following trends stemming from Anglo‐Saxon management thinking, but also relatively quick in redressing its course. The rise of the New Public Management in Dutch local government has been relatively swift and strong but also relatively supe…
The poison is the dose: Or how ‘more egalitarianism’ may work in some places but not in all
A comparison of the city development of Munich (Germany) and Birmingham (England) shows the adverse consequences of excluding egalitarian‐minded organizations and perspectives from public decision making. Since the Second World War, Munich has become an economically thriving and beautiful city in which people from all walks of life can feel at home. During the same period of time, Birmingham has struggled economically, socially and aesthetically.…
Everyday Fixers as Local Heroes: A Case Study of Vital Interaction in Urban Governance
This article exemplifies the importance of viable coalitions in processes of neighbourhood development and local governance. Elaborating on the notion of the ‘everyday maker’, discovered in Danish local politics by Bang and Sörensen, this article further explores the characteristics and conditions of organising capacity, using the case of the Neighbourhood Development Corporation in the Dutch city of The Hague as a paradigmatic case. This case sh…
Clumsy Solutions for a Complex World: The Case of Climate Change
Successful solutions to pressing social ills tend to consist of innovative combinations of a limited set of alternative ways of perceiving and resolving the issues. These contending policy perspectives justify, represent and stem from four different ways of organizing social relations: hierarchy, individualism, egalitarianism and fatalism. Each of these perspectives: (1) distils certain elements of experience and wisdom that are missed by the oth…
Contextualizing the Dutch drop in political trust: Connecting underlying factors
How can it be that a country — one that was envied until the very end of the twentieth century for its enduring high level of trust in the political system — could have suffered so much damage in just a few years at the beginning of the new century when it comes to reported rates of trust in political institutions? This article maps the loss of political trust in the Netherlands and sets out to explain the developments that the statistics describ…
Democratic reform between the extreme makeover and the reinvention of tradition: The case of the Netherlands
Democracy in the Netherlands, like in so many other Western countries, is under substantial reform pressure. The problem with the democratic system in the Netherlands, according to democratic reformers, is that it is out of step with the fast and major changes taking place in modern society. Champions of democratic reform in the Netherlands mostly look to sweeping, large-scale, and all-encompassing plans for democratic reform, achieving, however,…
Cultural Biases and New Media for the Public Domain: Cui Bono?
Vital Democracy: A Theory of Democracy in Action
Plural Democracy 2. Layered Democracy PART II: PRACTICES 3. Pendulum Democracy 4. Consensus Democracy 5. Voter Democracy 6. Participatory Democracy PART III: LESSONS 7. Mixing Democracy 8. Reforming Democracy Closing Debate Bibliography Index Notes
The Oxford handbook of local and regional democracy in Europe
'The Oxford Handbook of Local and Regional Democracy in Europe' is an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of subnational democracy in Europe. It analyses subnational democracy in the 27 member states of the EU plus Norway and Switzerland.
Purity and Democracy: Beauty Ideals and Pollution Reduction in Democratic Reform
In debates on democratic reform, the logic of spring cleaning resurfaces over and over again. Different democratic "beauty ideals" inspire different types of cleaning in the home of democracy. Where one particular vision of democracy is "polished up," rival visions are "rubbed out," usually at the same time. Informed by Douglas's take on cleaning ritual and pollution reduction, this article distinguishes four such beauty ideals—pendulum democracy…
Oxford Handbook of Local and Regional Democracy in Europe
Understanding Good Urban Governance: Essentials, Shifts, and Values
Building on the relevant international literature, as well as empirical research on urban cases, this article determines and discusses five core values of good urban governance: responsiveness, effectiveness, procedural justice, resilience, and counterbalance. The quest for good governance can take various forms. This article focuses on urban governance, and identifies four different shifts, with increased emphasis on the real decision makers or …
The Quest for Good Urban Governance: Theoretical Reflections and International Practices
The Quest for Good Urban Governance: Theoretical Reflections and International Practices
This book demonstrates both successes and failures in attempts to get closer to the ideal of good urban governance in cities in North-America, Europe, and Asia. It presents a value menu and deliberately does not come up with "one best way" for improving urban governance. Good urban governance is presented as a balancing act, an interplay between government, business and civil society in which the core values need careful and timely attention. The…
Quest for Good Urban Governance: Theoretical Reflections and International Practices
Credibility Enacted: Understanding the Meaning of Credible Political Leadership in the Dutch Parliamentary Election Campaign of 2010
In times of perception politics, the credibility of electoral candidates is a crucial asset in political marketing. This raises the question to which political leaders citizens attribute credibility and how political credibility is gained and lost through media performance. We analyze and compare two contrasting cases during the Dutch parliamentary election campaign of 2010. Whereas in this campaign Mark Rutte—leader of the liberal party VVD—gain…
Grid, Group, and Grade: Challenges in Operationalizing Cultural Theory for Cross-National Research
Grid–Group Cultural Theory (CT), developed by Mary Douglas and followers, is a well-known and often-used framework for the analysis of culture in the political–administrative world. Although Douglas herself was rather wary of detailed operationalization of CT, many scholars have tried to measure Grid and Group and tested implications of the theory along these dimensions at different levels of analysis, within or between nations. In this article, …
The relation between cultural values and models of democracy: A Cross-National Study
The relation between democracy and culture is a long-lasting subject of interest in political science. In the contemporary approach to cultural analysis, value orientations are studied as fundamental manifestations of culture. The mainstream research has focused on finding a relation between the quality of a democratic system and the existence of essential values in a society. There is, however, an understudied question as to what the relation be…
Don’t call me a leader, but I am one: The Dutch mayor and the tradition of bridging-and-bonding leadership in consensus democracies
In some democratic contexts, there is a strong aversion to the directive, individualistic and masculine expressions of leadership that have come to dominate the study of political leadership. Such leadership is antithetical to consensus democracies in parts of continental Europe, where the antipathy to leadership has linguistic, institutional as well as cultural dimensions. Political-administrative and socio-cultural contexts in these countries p…
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