Papers by Tjitske Akkerman
History of European Ideas, 1991
West European Politics, 2012
This article investigates the direct influence of radical right parties on immigration and integr... more This article investigates the direct influence of radical right parties on immigration and integration policies by comparing the output of 27 cabinets of varying composition in nine countries in the period between 1996 and 2010. A Nationalist Immigration and Integration Policy index has been developed to measure legislative changes with regard to citizenship and denizenship, asylum, illegal residence, family reunion and integration. The comparative analysis of immigration and integration legislation shows that the policy output of cabinets including radical right parties deviates significantly from centre-left and centre cabinets, but does not differ much from that of centre-right cabinets. The quantitative analysis makes clear that although parties matter, radical right parties do not matter in particular. A case by case analysis confirms that the direct impact of radical right parties on policy output has been severely limited by the difficulties these parties face in adapting to public office.
Journalism, 2011
Abstract The popular press is supposed to display more sympathy for populist parties. This articl... more Abstract The popular press is supposed to display more sympathy for populist parties. This article investigates whether popular newspapers have a stronger tendency than serious newspapers to share the anti-establishment position of populist parties. It also tests the ...
Acta Politica, 2001
KNAW Narcis. Back to search results. Publication De kwetsbare democratie. Sleutelteksten uit de p... more KNAW Narcis. Back to search results. Publication De kwetsbare democratie. Sleutelteksten uit de politieke theorie (2001). Pagina-navigatie: Main. ...
Gedrag & Organisatie, 2000
Psychological Reports, 2003
European Legacy-toward New Paradigms, 1996
TJITSKE AKKERMAN 1 he liberal belief in progress was an important source of inspiration for the w... more TJITSKE AKKERMAN 1 he liberal belief in progress was an important source of inspiration for the women's movement of the last half of the nineteenth century. For liberal feminists, women's freedom became the test case of progress, but they used various arguments to ...
Psychological Reports, 2003
Psychological Reports, 2003
... Zoekresultaten. Record: oai:ARNO:124286. terug naar titellijst. 1, Auteur, T. Akkerman. Titel... more ... Zoekresultaten. Record: oai:ARNO:124286. terug naar titellijst. 1, Auteur, T. Akkerman. Titel, Een land van stemmingen. Nieuwe kansen voor politiek ondernemerschap. Tijdschrift, Nederland buitenstebinnen (VROM). Jaar, 2003. Pagina's, 1-21. ...
International Journal of Foresight and Innovation Policy, 2007
Interactive evaluation involves a deliberative procedure that has been designed to address poorly... more Interactive evaluation involves a deliberative procedure that has been designed to address poorly structured policy problems in the context of power differences between stakeholders. Basically, it consists of an iterative cycle of interviews with these stakeholders. Power differences are dealt with by anonymising the procedure, the researcher acting as a counsellor exchanging claims, concerns and issues between the stakeholders. However,
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 2004
The work of Robert Putnam has provoked a lively debate on the democratic importance of a robust c... more The work of Robert Putnam has provoked a lively debate on the democratic importance of a robust civil society. Criticism of his work concentrates on the fact that his concept of social capital conceives of the relationship between civil society and government predominantly as a one-way affair – a strong civil society is good for politics. Taking up this line of argument, an appreciation of political factors is promoted to explain varying patterns of civic engagement. Now that Western governments increasingly initiate and stimulate citizens’ participation in policy-making, it is becoming even more important to assess the role of the state. Drawing on recent empirical research on local practices in the Netherlands, we examine a Dutch variant of such top-down participatory arrangements – so-called ‘interactive policy-making’. We ask whether, and under what conditions, democratic advances can be expected from top-down state initiatives. And we develop a theoretical framework for assessing the democratic effects of top-down participatory initiatives. Squaring the main theoretical criteria with the empirical reality of interactive policy-making, we conclude that an active state does not necessarily corrode civil society.
Patterns of Prejudice, 2007
ABSTRACT Immigration, multiculturalism and citizenship policies have deeply divided political par... more ABSTRACT Immigration, multiculturalism and citizenship policies have deeply divided political parties in Western Europe. In Norway and the Netherlands these divisions have been exploited successfully by radical-right populist parties. Akkerman and Hagelund ...
Journal of Political Ideologies, 2005
The radical right parties that have emerged in Western Europe during the past thirty years have s... more The radical right parties that have emerged in Western Europe during the past thirty years have sometimes been labelled as anti-liberal. This is a puzzling qualification, considering the fact that the Flemish Block, the Austrian Freedom Party, the Northern League in Italy, ...
Papers & chapters by Tjitske Akkerman
by Yannis Stavrakakis, Giorgos Katsambekis, Benjamin De Cleen, Jana Goyvaerts, Thomás Zicman de Barros, Antonis Galanopoulos, luca manucci, Tjitske Akkerman, Nicole Curato, Emmy Eklundh, Liv Sunnercrantz, and Halil Gurhanli POPULISMUS interventions No. 7 (special edition), 2020
With the COVID-19 pandemic dominating the public sphere in recent months and no aspect of social ... more With the COVID-19 pandemic dominating the public sphere in recent months and no aspect of social and political life left unaffected, it seems almost natural that this unprecedented public health crisis would soon be reflected on discussions around the other buzzword of our time: populism. This report aims at providing a concise yet rigorous global comparative mapping of populist politics in the context of the ongoing pandemic. This will not only shed further light on the specificities, the potentials and limitations of the phenomenon, but we also expect it to highlight its irreducible heterogeneity and diversity as a way of doing politics.The key questions that we posed to contributors in this report when looking at different countries across the world can be summarised as follows:
• How have populist actors reacted to the COVID-19 pandemic when in
government or opposition?
• Has their ideological position on the left or right, or indeed somewhere inbetween, played a role to that reaction?
• How have the rates of approval and vote intensions for populist actors
developed during that period?
• More generally, how have discussions around ‘populism’ and the role of ‘experts’ and ‘science’ developed in each country during this time? Have they reproduced standard anti-populist stereotypes?
In order to shed light on these crucial aspects of the discussion and set the agenda for future comparative research as well as conceptual enquiry, we approached a series of well established scholars, along with several dynamic younger researchers specialising on both populism and the study of politics in different countries and regions. This gave us a sum of sixteen (16) case studies of countries and political actors from across the world, making the scope of our report truly global, extending from Australia to Sweden and from the Philippines to Brazil and the United States.
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Papers by Tjitske Akkerman
Papers & chapters by Tjitske Akkerman
• How have populist actors reacted to the COVID-19 pandemic when in
government or opposition?
• Has their ideological position on the left or right, or indeed somewhere inbetween, played a role to that reaction?
• How have the rates of approval and vote intensions for populist actors
developed during that period?
• More generally, how have discussions around ‘populism’ and the role of ‘experts’ and ‘science’ developed in each country during this time? Have they reproduced standard anti-populist stereotypes?
In order to shed light on these crucial aspects of the discussion and set the agenda for future comparative research as well as conceptual enquiry, we approached a series of well established scholars, along with several dynamic younger researchers specialising on both populism and the study of politics in different countries and regions. This gave us a sum of sixteen (16) case studies of countries and political actors from across the world, making the scope of our report truly global, extending from Australia to Sweden and from the Philippines to Brazil and the United States.
• How have populist actors reacted to the COVID-19 pandemic when in
government or opposition?
• Has their ideological position on the left or right, or indeed somewhere inbetween, played a role to that reaction?
• How have the rates of approval and vote intensions for populist actors
developed during that period?
• More generally, how have discussions around ‘populism’ and the role of ‘experts’ and ‘science’ developed in each country during this time? Have they reproduced standard anti-populist stereotypes?
In order to shed light on these crucial aspects of the discussion and set the agenda for future comparative research as well as conceptual enquiry, we approached a series of well established scholars, along with several dynamic younger researchers specialising on both populism and the study of politics in different countries and regions. This gave us a sum of sixteen (16) case studies of countries and political actors from across the world, making the scope of our report truly global, extending from Australia to Sweden and from the Philippines to Brazil and the United States.