Arco Timmermans
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4375088 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Arco Timmermans |
| PRENOMES | Arco |
| SOBRENOME | Timmermans |
| ASSINATURA | TIMMERMANS A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2451-6688 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 464 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2000 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Revealing private interests of non-state actor coalitions in negotiating access and benefit sharing
This research shows that applying a public–private interests lens is instructive for explaining positions of non-state actor engagements in international negotiations of environmental agreements. The research specifically focuses on ad-hoc lobbying coalitions as a feature in non-state actor engagements in negotiations. These ad-hoc coalitions have not yet been researched extensively. The analysis below focuses on the negotiations of access and be…
The Potential for Political Scientists to Remain Relevant
Brans and Timmermans respond to Flinders' concerns about the potential irrelevance of political science due to the pressures of impact regimes. Based on a 2018 survey of 12,400 European political scientists, they show that 80% of political scientists actively engage in policy advising. They identify four advisory roles: Pure Academic, Expert, Opinionating Scholar, and Public Intellectual, with most political scientists fitting the Opinionating Sc…
Out of the ivory tower
The relevance and impact of political scientists’ professional activities outside of universities has become the focus of public attention, partly due to growing expectations that research should help address society’s grand challenges. One type of such activity is policy advising. However, little attention has been devoted to understanding the extent and type of policy advising activities political scientists engage in. This paper addresses this…
Bringing science to practice
The ongoing spread of public affairs as an organizational function calls for a more integrated and systematic approach to teaching program development in this field. In many countries we see a process of “publicization,” with increasing visibility of lobbying behavior and emphasis on accountability. Also in many countries, the reality of public affairs has become more complex as new players and issues enter the public and political arenas. There …
High Politics in the Low Countries
This title was first published in 2003.This informative text deals with the emergence of coalition agreements, their contents, the problem of enforcement and with the question of whether or not the functions are performed in practice. It explores the idea that policy bargaining in government formation is not just an isolated process, but that it is a real chance for parties to deal with substantive and controversial issues at an early stage. The …
From Summitry to EU Government
While some observers have claimed that the European Council has become the key institution in European Union politics, others have argued that the Council's role has remained relatively stable over time. In this article, we argue that an analysis of agenda formation dynamics in the European Council may help us understand better how the European Council works and how its role has evolved over time. Building on theories of agenda‐setting, we identi…
The moving stages of public affairs in the Netherlands
Public Policy Investment
Public Policy Investment: Priority-Setting and Conditional Representation in British Statecraft." West European Politics, 38(3), pp. 753–754
Analysing Local Policy Agendas
This article provides an analysis of the allocation of attention to policy problems on the local level, focusing on the executive agenda of six municipalities in the Netherlands over a 25-year period. It reveals that there is specifically a local politics of attention, showing differences between national and local policy agendas in specific policy areas. We did not find evidence that the political composition of the local executive coalitions le…
Measuring the European Council agenda
This article introduces a novel dataset on the agenda of the European Council, the most powerful political body and core informal agenda setter of the EU. Using the approach taken by the Comparative Agendas Project, we trace political issue attention over a 38-year period (1975–2012). The insights in the agenda-setting processes within the European Council shed more light on the overall agenda of the EU and its temporal dynamics. This article exp…
Inter-Party Conflict Management in Coalition Governments
In this article, we focus on manifest interparty conflict over policy issues and the role of coalition agreements in solving these conflicts. We present empirical findings on the characteristics of coalition agreements including deals over policy controversy and on inter-party conflict occurring during the lifetime of governments in Germany, Belgium, Italy and the Netherlands. We analyze the ways in which parties in government were or were not co…
Policy Punctuations and Issue Diversity on the European Council Agenda
The European Council is the highest political body of the European Union and the main venue for setting the agenda on high politics. Using a new dataset of all content‐coded European Council Conclusions issued between 1975 and 2010, we analyze the policy agenda of the European Council and test hypotheses on agenda change and diversity over time. We find that the theory of punctuated equilibrium applies to the agenda of the European Council, which…
National interest versus the common good
The E uropean C ouncil is an institution which brings together the Heads of State, or Governments of the E uropean U nion ( EU ) Member States. For the Presidency, preparing the agenda of E uropean C ouncil meetings involves a tension between loyalties. Existing research is divided over the question whether the Presidency pushes its domestic policy agenda on the EU level. Using empirical data on the Conclusions of E uropean C ouncil meetings, and…
Effects of the Core Functions of Government on the Diversity of Executive Agendas
The distribution of attention across issues is of fundamental importance to the political agenda and outputs of government. This article presents an issue-based theory of the diversity of governing agendas where the core functions of government—defense, international affairs, the economy, government operations, and the rule of law—are prioritized ahead of all other issues. It undertakes comparative analysis of issue diversity of the executive age…
Comparing Government Agendas
At the beginning of each parliamentary session, almost all European governments give a speech in which they present the government’s policy priorities and legislative agenda for the year ahead. Despite the body of literature on governments in European parliamentary democracies, systematic research on these executive policy agendas is surprisingly limited. In this article the authors study the executive policy agendas—measured through the policy c…
Setting the Immigrant Policy Agenda
Policy making and agenda setting often are analyzed either in terms of how policy problems are defined, or in terms of the structural setting producing stability or opportunities for change. Building on different fields of scholarly work, this paper aims at an integration of structural and substantive elements in studying agenda setting. We analyze how particular frames of immigrant issues emerge in the interaction between policy makers and exper…
Comparer les agendas gouvernementaux
L’article étudie l’effet des changements de gouvernements sur l’évolution des agendas gouvernementaux à partir des « discours du Trône » au Royaume-Uni, en Espagne, au Pays-Bas et au Danemark. Au-delà de la théorie du mandat, les explications en terme d’héritage politique et d’intrusion des enjeux sont également testées. Malgré leurs indéniables différences, les pays quatre pays étudiés présentent des dynamiques d’agendas exécutifs très similaire…
Le Projet Agendas Comparés
Le Projet Agendas Comparés rassemble des chercheurs qui développent des indicateurs systématiques de l’attention portée aux problèmes politiques dans chacun de leur système politique national. L’objectif central du projet est de construire une taxinomie standardisée, afin de comparer à travers le temps et l’espace les activités liées à ces problèmes. La construction et l’application d’un système fiable de classification des thèmes, qui englobe le…
Comparer les productions législatives
Sur quels enjeux politiques les parlements légifèrent-ils ? Cette interrogation d’apparence anodine n’a que rarement fait l’objet d’une attention soutenue, particulièrement dans une perspective comparée. Pourtant la production des lois constitue l’un des éléments structurants d’une communauté politique et de la compétition démocratique. Dans cet article, notre objectif est à la fois d’étudier la « politique de l’attention » au sein de l’agenda lé…
Comparer les agendas politiques
En quelques décennies, « l'agenda » est devenu l'un des termes les plus utilisés de la science politique. Historiquement, deux traditions de recherche différentes s'intéressent à « l'agenda ». L'étude des politiques publiques a ainsi focalisé son attention sur les processus de « mise sur agenda » essentiellement à partir d'études de cas quand le néo-institutionnalisme s'est intéressé à la manière dont la maîtrise de l'agenda affectait l'issue des…
Political Attention in a Coalition System
Coalition Governance in Belgium and The Netherlands
The political flow of wisdom
This paper deals with the different roles that scientific knowledge can play in shaping and redefining policy images, focusing on two quite distinct policy fields in The Netherlands: immigrant policy and assisted reproductive technology policy. Interactions between policy-makers and scientific experts are linked to processes of negative and positive feedback in which a policy monopoly is maintained or attacked. We show how science and the structu…
Standing apart and sitting together
One of the most obvious questions to be asked about coalition governments is what these governments do, but this question has received little systematic attention from coalition researchers. A key element of coalition governance that may inform our empirical knowledge of the actions of government – their origin, organization and results – is coalition agreements. Party leaders negotiating a new government invest time in writing coalition agreemen…
Arenas as institutional sites for policymaking
In comparative approaches to the policy process, policymaking institutions are usually considered at the level of political systems. Countries, however, may vary not only in systemic institutions but also in types of policymaking arenas within specific domains. Systematic attention to this variation in policy arenas at both levels may complement existing theories of the policy process that focus on other explanatory variables and may increase the…
Effects of the Core Functions of Government on the Diversity of Executive Agendas
The distribution of attention across issues is of fundamental importance to the political agenda and outputs of government. This article presents an issue-based theory of the diversity of governing agendas where the core functions of government—defense, international affairs, the economy, government operations, and the rule of law—are prioritized ahead of all other issues. It undertakes comparative analysis of issue diversity of the executive age…
Comparing Government Agendas
At the beginning of each parliamentary session, almost all European governments give a speech in which they present the government’s policy priorities and legislative agenda for the year ahead. Despite the body of literature on governments in European parliamentary democracies, systematic research on these executive policy agendas is surprisingly limited. In this article the authors study the executive policy agendas—measured through the policy c…
Standing apart and sitting together
One of the most obvious questions to be asked about coalition governments is what these governments do, but this question has received little systematic attention from coalition researchers. A key element of coalition governance that may inform our empirical knowledge of the actions of government – their origin, organization and results – is coalition agreements. Party leaders negotiating a new government invest time in writing coalition agreemen…
Policy Punctuations and Issue Diversity on the European Council Agenda
The European Council is the highest political body of the European Union and the main venue for setting the agenda on high politics. Using a new dataset of all content‐coded European Council Conclusions issued between 1975 and 2010, we analyze the policy agenda of the European Council and test hypotheses on agenda change and diversity over time. We find that the theory of punctuated equilibrium applies to the agenda of the European Council, which…
Political Attention in a Coalition System
Measuring the European Council agenda
This article introduces a novel dataset on the agenda of the European Council, the most powerful political body and core informal agenda setter of the EU. Using the approach taken by the Comparative Agendas Project, we trace political issue attention over a 38-year period (1975–2012). The insights in the agenda-setting processes within the European Council shed more light on the overall agenda of the EU and its temporal dynamics. This article exp…
Coalition Governance in Belgium and The Netherlands
The political flow of wisdom
This paper deals with the different roles that scientific knowledge can play in shaping and redefining policy images, focusing on two quite distinct policy fields in The Netherlands: immigrant policy and assisted reproductive technology policy. Interactions between policy-makers and scientific experts are linked to processes of negative and positive feedback in which a policy monopoly is maintained or attacked. We show how science and the structu…
Analysing Local Policy Agendas
This article provides an analysis of the allocation of attention to policy problems on the local level, focusing on the executive agenda of six municipalities in the Netherlands over a 25-year period. It reveals that there is specifically a local politics of attention, showing differences between national and local policy agendas in specific policy areas. We did not find evidence that the political composition of the local executive coalitions le…
National interest versus the common good
The E uropean C ouncil is an institution which brings together the Heads of State, or Governments of the E uropean U nion ( EU ) Member States. For the Presidency, preparing the agenda of E uropean C ouncil meetings involves a tension between loyalties. Existing research is divided over the question whether the Presidency pushes its domestic policy agenda on the EU level. Using empirical data on the Conclusions of E uropean C ouncil meetings, and…
Inter-Party Conflict Management in Coalition Governments
In this article, we focus on manifest interparty conflict over policy issues and the role of coalition agreements in solving these conflicts. We present empirical findings on the characteristics of coalition agreements including deals over policy controversy and on inter-party conflict occurring during the lifetime of governments in Germany, Belgium, Italy and the Netherlands. We analyze the ways in which parties in government were or were not co…
Arenas as institutional sites for policymaking
In comparative approaches to the policy process, policymaking institutions are usually considered at the level of political systems. Countries, however, may vary not only in systemic institutions but also in types of policymaking arenas within specific domains. Systematic attention to this variation in policy arenas at both levels may complement existing theories of the policy process that focus on other explanatory variables and may increase the…
From Summitry to EU Government
While some observers have claimed that the European Council has become the key institution in European Union politics, others have argued that the Council's role has remained relatively stable over time. In this article, we argue that an analysis of agenda formation dynamics in the European Council may help us understand better how the European Council works and how its role has evolved over time. Building on theories of agenda‐setting, we identi…
Comparer les productions législatives
Sur quels enjeux politiques les parlements légifèrent-ils ? Cette interrogation d’apparence anodine n’a que rarement fait l’objet d’une attention soutenue, particulièrement dans une perspective comparée. Pourtant la production des lois constitue l’un des éléments structurants d’une communauté politique et de la compétition démocratique. Dans cet article, notre objectif est à la fois d’étudier la « politique de l’attention » au sein de l’agenda lé…
Setting the Immigrant Policy Agenda
Policy making and agenda setting often are analyzed either in terms of how policy problems are defined, or in terms of the structural setting producing stability or opportunities for change. Building on different fields of scholarly work, this paper aims at an integration of structural and substantive elements in studying agenda setting. We analyze how particular frames of immigrant issues emerge in the interaction between policy makers and exper…
Le Projet Agendas Comparés
Le Projet Agendas Comparés rassemble des chercheurs qui développent des indicateurs systématiques de l’attention portée aux problèmes politiques dans chacun de leur système politique national. L’objectif central du projet est de construire une taxinomie standardisée, afin de comparer à travers le temps et l’espace les activités liées à ces problèmes. La construction et l’application d’un système fiable de classification des thèmes, qui englobe le…
Comparer les agendas gouvernementaux
L’article étudie l’effet des changements de gouvernements sur l’évolution des agendas gouvernementaux à partir des « discours du Trône » au Royaume-Uni, en Espagne, au Pays-Bas et au Danemark. Au-delà de la théorie du mandat, les explications en terme d’héritage politique et d’intrusion des enjeux sont également testées. Malgré leurs indéniables différences, les pays quatre pays étudiés présentent des dynamiques d’agendas exécutifs très similaire…
Bringing science to practice
The ongoing spread of public affairs as an organizational function calls for a more integrated and systematic approach to teaching program development in this field. In many countries we see a process of “publicization,” with increasing visibility of lobbying behavior and emphasis on accountability. Also in many countries, the reality of public affairs has become more complex as new players and issues enter the public and political arenas. There …
The moving stages of public affairs in the Netherlands
The Netherlands Still the Politics of Accommodation?
In the summer of 1994, three parties negotiating the formation of a new Dutch government agreed to draft legislation that would introduce a referendum at national and local level. This intention was included in the coalition agreement, the policy package that was approved by the PvdA (Social Democrats), the VVD (Liberals), and the Liberal Democrats (D66) and that was to form the programmatic basis of the ensuing three-party government. The issue …
Arenas as institutional sites for policymaking
In comparative approaches to the policy process, policymaking institutions are usually considered at the level of political systems. Countries, however, may vary not only in systemic institutions but also in types of policymaking arenas within specific domains. Systematic attention to this variation in policy arenas at both levels may complement existing theories of the policy process that focus on other explanatory variables and may increase the…
Coalition Governance in Belgium and The Netherlands
The political flow of wisdom
This paper deals with the different roles that scientific knowledge can play in shaping and redefining policy images, focusing on two quite distinct policy fields in The Netherlands: immigrant policy and assisted reproductive technology policy. Interactions between policy-makers and scientific experts are linked to processes of negative and positive feedback in which a policy monopoly is maintained or attacked. We show how science and the structu…
Standing apart and sitting together
One of the most obvious questions to be asked about coalition governments is what these governments do, but this question has received little systematic attention from coalition researchers. A key element of coalition governance that may inform our empirical knowledge of the actions of government – their origin, organization and results – is coalition agreements. Party leaders negotiating a new government invest time in writing coalition agreemen…
Comparer les agendas gouvernementaux
L’article étudie l’effet des changements de gouvernements sur l’évolution des agendas gouvernementaux à partir des « discours du Trône » au Royaume-Uni, en Espagne, au Pays-Bas et au Danemark. Au-delà de la théorie du mandat, les explications en terme d’héritage politique et d’intrusion des enjeux sont également testées. Malgré leurs indéniables différences, les pays quatre pays étudiés présentent des dynamiques d’agendas exécutifs très similaire…
Le Projet Agendas Comparés
Le Projet Agendas Comparés rassemble des chercheurs qui développent des indicateurs systématiques de l’attention portée aux problèmes politiques dans chacun de leur système politique national. L’objectif central du projet est de construire une taxinomie standardisée, afin de comparer à travers le temps et l’espace les activités liées à ces problèmes. La construction et l’application d’un système fiable de classification des thèmes, qui englobe le…
Comparer les productions législatives
Sur quels enjeux politiques les parlements légifèrent-ils ? Cette interrogation d’apparence anodine n’a que rarement fait l’objet d’une attention soutenue, particulièrement dans une perspective comparée. Pourtant la production des lois constitue l’un des éléments structurants d’une communauté politique et de la compétition démocratique. Dans cet article, notre objectif est à la fois d’étudier la « politique de l’attention » au sein de l’agenda lé…
Comparer les agendas politiques
En quelques décennies, « l'agenda » est devenu l'un des termes les plus utilisés de la science politique. Historiquement, deux traditions de recherche différentes s'intéressent à « l'agenda ». L'étude des politiques publiques a ainsi focalisé son attention sur les processus de « mise sur agenda » essentiellement à partir d'études de cas quand le néo-institutionnalisme s'est intéressé à la manière dont la maîtrise de l'agenda affectait l'issue des…
Political Attention in a Coalition System
Setting the Immigrant Policy Agenda
Policy making and agenda setting often are analyzed either in terms of how policy problems are defined, or in terms of the structural setting producing stability or opportunities for change. Building on different fields of scholarly work, this paper aims at an integration of structural and substantive elements in studying agenda setting. We analyze how particular frames of immigrant issues emerge in the interaction between policy makers and exper…
Effects of the Core Functions of Government on the Diversity of Executive Agendas
The distribution of attention across issues is of fundamental importance to the political agenda and outputs of government. This article presents an issue-based theory of the diversity of governing agendas where the core functions of government—defense, international affairs, the economy, government operations, and the rule of law—are prioritized ahead of all other issues. It undertakes comparative analysis of issue diversity of the executive age…
Comparing Government Agendas
At the beginning of each parliamentary session, almost all European governments give a speech in which they present the government’s policy priorities and legislative agenda for the year ahead. Despite the body of literature on governments in European parliamentary democracies, systematic research on these executive policy agendas is surprisingly limited. In this article the authors study the executive policy agendas—measured through the policy c…
Policy Punctuations and Issue Diversity on the European Council Agenda
The European Council is the highest political body of the European Union and the main venue for setting the agenda on high politics. Using a new dataset of all content‐coded European Council Conclusions issued between 1975 and 2010, we analyze the policy agenda of the European Council and test hypotheses on agenda change and diversity over time. We find that the theory of punctuated equilibrium applies to the agenda of the European Council, which…
National interest versus the common good
The E uropean C ouncil is an institution which brings together the Heads of State, or Governments of the E uropean U nion ( EU ) Member States. For the Presidency, preparing the agenda of E uropean C ouncil meetings involves a tension between loyalties. Existing research is divided over the question whether the Presidency pushes its domestic policy agenda on the EU level. Using empirical data on the Conclusions of E uropean C ouncil meetings, and…
Inter-Party Conflict Management in Coalition Governments
In this article, we focus on manifest interparty conflict over policy issues and the role of coalition agreements in solving these conflicts. We present empirical findings on the characteristics of coalition agreements including deals over policy controversy and on inter-party conflict occurring during the lifetime of governments in Germany, Belgium, Italy and the Netherlands. We analyze the ways in which parties in government were or were not co…
Measuring the European Council agenda
This article introduces a novel dataset on the agenda of the European Council, the most powerful political body and core informal agenda setter of the EU. Using the approach taken by the Comparative Agendas Project, we trace political issue attention over a 38-year period (1975–2012). The insights in the agenda-setting processes within the European Council shed more light on the overall agenda of the EU and its temporal dynamics. This article exp…
The moving stages of public affairs in the Netherlands
Public Policy Investment
Public Policy Investment: Priority-Setting and Conditional Representation in British Statecraft." West European Politics, 38(3), pp. 753–754
Analysing Local Policy Agendas
This article provides an analysis of the allocation of attention to policy problems on the local level, focusing on the executive agenda of six municipalities in the Netherlands over a 25-year period. It reveals that there is specifically a local politics of attention, showing differences between national and local policy agendas in specific policy areas. We did not find evidence that the political composition of the local executive coalitions le…
From Summitry to EU Government
While some observers have claimed that the European Council has become the key institution in European Union politics, others have argued that the Council's role has remained relatively stable over time. In this article, we argue that an analysis of agenda formation dynamics in the European Council may help us understand better how the European Council works and how its role has evolved over time. Building on theories of agenda‐setting, we identi…
High Politics in the Low Countries
This title was first published in 2003.This informative text deals with the emergence of coalition agreements, their contents, the problem of enforcement and with the question of whether or not the functions are performed in practice. It explores the idea that policy bargaining in government formation is not just an isolated process, but that it is a real chance for parties to deal with substantive and controversial issues at an early stage. The …
Bringing science to practice
The ongoing spread of public affairs as an organizational function calls for a more integrated and systematic approach to teaching program development in this field. In many countries we see a process of “publicization,” with increasing visibility of lobbying behavior and emphasis on accountability. Also in many countries, the reality of public affairs has become more complex as new players and issues enter the public and political arenas. There …
Out of the ivory tower
The relevance and impact of political scientists’ professional activities outside of universities has become the focus of public attention, partly due to growing expectations that research should help address society’s grand challenges. One type of such activity is policy advising. However, little attention has been devoted to understanding the extent and type of policy advising activities political scientists engage in. This paper addresses this…
The Potential for Political Scientists to Remain Relevant
Brans and Timmermans respond to Flinders' concerns about the potential irrelevance of political science due to the pressures of impact regimes. Based on a 2018 survey of 12,400 European political scientists, they show that 80% of political scientists actively engage in policy advising. They identify four advisory roles: Pure Academic, Expert, Opinionating Scholar, and Public Intellectual, with most political scientists fitting the Opinionating Sc…
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