The Oxford Handbook of Dutch Politics

The Oxford Handbook of Dutch Politics provides a comprehensive longitudinal overview of the state of the art of academic research on the Dutch political system: its origins and historical development, its key institutions, main fault lines, pivotal processes, and key public policy dynamics. In each of the chapters, researchers take stock of what - if anything - has changed over time, how scholars have conceptualized and studied these dynamics, and what key factors can account for the developmental patterns found to be at play. Notwithstanding its considerable degree of constitutional and institutional stability, Dutch politics has seen considerable step changes and occasional upheavals across the last half century. Influenced by long-term demographic, socio-economic, and cultural shifts the old social cleavages have waned. New social identities and dividing lines - such as ethnicity, education, place, and gender - have influenced Dutch citizens' political attitudes and behaviours, including their voting patterns. The media landscape and the information environment have been altered by new technologies that politicians and citizens alike have to navigate. This has produced changes in such pivotal components as the party system, coalition formation and management process, and executive-legislative relations, and many others. Moreover, public policy paradigms and the political coalitions that sustained them have ascended and lost traction in most of the eleven policy domains discussed in the Handbook. In all, this volume provides unique and indispensable insights into stability and change in a political system that once gained notoriety as an archetype of a consensual or consociational democracy.

1. The Evolving Study of Dutch Politics, Sarah de Lange, Tom Louwerse, Paul 't Hart, and Carolien van HamI2. The Formation and Consolidation of the Dutch National Security State, Beatrice de Graaf3. Change and Continuity in the Style of Dutch Politics Since 1800, Henk te Velde4. The Rise and Fall of Dutch Consociationalism, Rudy B. Andeweg5. The Evolving Dutch Welfare State, Franca van Hooren and Barbara VisII6. Monarchical Politics in the Netherlands, Paul Bovend'Eert7. Parliamentary Politics in the Netherlands, Tom Louwerse and Cynthia van Vonno8. Judicial Politics in the Netherlands, Stavros Zouridis9. Executive Politics in the Netherlands, Erik-Jan van Dorp and R.A.W. RhodesIII10. Municipal Politics in the Netherlands, Lisanne de Blok, Giedo Jansen, and Hans Vollaard11. Regional Politics in the Netherlands, Marcel Boogers and Klaartje Peters12. Provincial Politics and Water Authorities in the Netherlands, Harmen Binnema and Hans Vollaard13. European Union Politics in the Netherlands, Reinout van der Veer and Femke van Esch14. Political Relations in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Gert Oostindie and Wouter VeenendaalIV15. Classic Dutch Cleavages and Voting Behaviour, Galen A. Irwin and Joop J.M. van Holsteyn16. A New Structural Basis of Dutch Voting Behaviour, Eelco Harteveld and Daphne van der Pas17. Public Opinion Dynamics in the Netherlands, Wouter van der Brug and Erika van Elsas18. Democratic Legitimacy and Political Support in the Netherlands, Carolien van Ham and Jacques Thomassen19. Political Participation at the National and Local Level in the Netherlands, Josje den Ridder and Julien van Ostaaijen20. Abortion, Euthanasia, and Transgender Issues in Dutch Politics, Margo Trappenburg21. Citizenship Categories and their Legacies in the Dutch Post-colonial Politics, Lauren Lauret en Karwan Fatah-Black22. The Evolution of Populism in Dutch Politics, Léonie de Jonge, Matthijs Rooduijn, and Andrej ZasloveV23. Elections and the Electoral System in the Netherlands, Henk van der Kolk24. Professionalization and Personalization in Dutch Political Campaigning, Annemarie Walter and Philip van Praag25. Changing Patterns of Party Choice in Dutch Electoral Politics, Tom van der Meer and Wouter van der Brug26. The Ever Changing and Ever Stable Dutch Party System, Simon Otjes and Sarah de Lange27. The Evolution of Party Organizations in the Netherlands, Simon Otjes and Léonie de Jonge28. Managing Increased Complexity in Dutch Coalition Politics, Tom Louwerse and Arco Timmermans29. Descriptive Representation of Marginalized Groups in Dutch Politics, Liza Mugge, Zahra Runderkamp, and Niels Spierings30. General Yet Unequal Substantive Representation in the Netherlands, Wouter Schakel and Armen Hakhverdian31. The Role of (New) Media in the Dutch Political Landscape, Rens Vliegenthart, Sanne Kruikemeier, and Loes Aaldering32. Agenda-setting Politics in the Netherlands, Gerard Breeman and Arco Timmermans33. Interest Group Politics in the Netherlands, Ellis Aizenberg and Caelesta Braun34. The Politics of Accountability in the Netherlands, Thomas Schillemans35. The Politics of Crisis Management in the Netherlands, Arjen Boin, Sanneke Kuipers, and Jeroen WolbersVI36. The Politics of the Policymaking Process in the Netherlands, Paul 't Hart37. Economic Policy and Politics in the Netherlands, Olaf van Vliet, Koen Caminada, and Kees Goudswaard38. Labour Market Policy and Industrial Relations in the Netherlands, Paul de Beer39. The Politics of Dutch Education Policy, Marlies Honingh and Lars Stevenson40. The Politics of Dutch Health Care Governance, Hans Maarse and Patrick Jeurissen41. The Dutch Agricultural Policy-Making System, Jouke de Vries and Teun Havinga42. The Politics of Dutch Climate Change Mitigation Policy, Lisanne Groen and Dave Huitema43. International and Domestic Security Policy in the Netherlands, Joachim Koops, Erwin R. Muller, and Edwin Bakker44. The Precarious Politics of Dutch Immigration and Immigrant Policy, Peter Scholten45. Dutch Foreign Policy Between Domestic and International Pressures, Bertjan Verbeek46. The Politics of Innovation Policy in the Netherlands, Rinie van Est and Jasper Deuten47. Democratic Reform Policy in the Netherlands, Frank Hendriks, Kristof Jacobs, and Ank Michels