The Oxford Handbook of Dutch Politics

Dutch politics have long been described as consensual, engineering compromise to work well as a 'decentralized unitary' state. This Handbook examines how the key institutions and actors of the Dutch polity have evolved, and offers a comprehensive assessment of whether it is still the country of pragmatic consensus-seeking.

Auteur

Sarah de Lange is Professor of Political Pluralism at the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam. Prior to this she was an Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and held the Dr. J.M. Den Uyl chair at the same university. She took up a Jean Monnet Fellowship at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute and was a member of the parliamentary and governmental advisory group, the Council for Public Administration Tom Louwerse is Associate Professor at the Institute of Political Science, Leiden University. Prior to this he was Assistant Professor in Political Science at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Leiden University's Research Profile Area Political Legitimacy and as an instructor in the Institute of Political Science, Leiden University. Paul 't Hart is Professor of Public Administration, Utrecht University. He also serves as a Member of the Scientific Council for Government Policy of the Netherlands, the Dutch government's independent think tank advising the Dutch cabinet and parliament about long-range and boundary-crossing public policy challenges. Carolien van Ham is Professor of Empirical Political Science, Radboud University Nijmegen. Previously she held the position of Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the University of New South Wales, Australia and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Twente and the University of Gothenburg.