This article studies the extent to which Dutch political parties fulfil their electoral mandates. The central question is how collective mandate fulfilment has developed over the last sixty years. Increasing electoral volatility, changes in party organizations and the rise of populist parties could have resulted in a decrease of party mandate fulfilment. Contrary to previous studies, this article studies the mandate in terms of congruence between the electoral and parliamentary party competition. This allows for the study of opposition parties’ mandate fulfilment. Election manifestos and parliamentary debates are studied for six elections and the subsequent parliaments (between 1950-2006). The structure of the party competition is rather congruent before and after elections for all of the cases, except 1972-1977. There is no evidence for a decline of the degree to which parties collectively fulfil their electoral mandates. |
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Het democratisch mandaat van Nederlandse politieke partijen: crisis of continuïteit? |
Trefwoorden | party mandate, political representation, political parties, Dutch national elections, parliamentary behaviour |
Auteurs | Tom Louwerse |
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Een gemiste kans? De rol van YouTube in de verkiezingscampagne van 2010 |
Trefwoorden | YouTube, Web 2.0, election campaigns, political advertising, Obama, the Netherlands |
Auteurs | Annemarie S. Walter en Philip van Praag |
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This article is one of the first to systematically examine parties’ use of YouTube in Dutch election campaigns and to consider its effects. Content analysis of 406 YouTube ads and additional research show that nine political parties made use of this new campaign instrument in the 2010 Dutch parliamentary election campaign. However, unlike U.S. presidential candidate Obama, the parties did not really use YouTube to mobilize and involve voters. Instead, YouTube was used only as a means to broadcast advertisements for the party. These ads only reached a small audience and had little influence online as well as in the print media. Furthermore, this study examines which of these ads were more likely to reach a large number of viewers. The results demonstrate that short, comparative ads that contain the party leader, that are uploaded early on in the campaign, that stem from small or winning parties and that have numerous links on external websites are likely to reach more viewers. |
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Leidt meer kennis over de Europese Unie tot een sterkere Europese identiteit?Een vergelijkend onderzoek bij adolescenten in 21 lidstaten |
Trefwoorden | European identity, European Union, ICCS 2009, political knowledge |
Auteurs | Soetkin Verhaegen, Marc Hooghe en Yves Dejaeghere |
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Strengthening European citizenship is often considered as a ‘cure’ for the democratic deficit and the lack of legitimacy of the European Union. The present article focuses on the identity component of European citizenship, which is a core component of European citizenship. We distinguish two possible ways to strengthen European identity: a cognitive one (more knowledge about the EU leads to a stronger identity) and a utilitarian one (living in a member state that benefits more from its EU-membership leads to a stronger European identity). We test both explanatory models using a multilevel analysis on the data of the International Civic and Citizenship Education Study. 70,502 adolescents from 21 European member states were questioned in this study. Results indicate that knowledge about the EU only has a limited effect on European identity. The degree in which a member state contributes to the European budget does not seem to have an effect on the strength of European identity at all. |
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De dood van Khadaffi |
Auteurs | Jorg Kustermans |
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Symposium |
Goed voedsel en de verplaatsing van de politiek |
Auteurs | Herman Lelieveldt, Klaas Breunissen, Kees de Vré e.a. |
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Research Note |
Een psycho-politiek profiel van gematigden en links- en rechts-extremisten |
Auteurs | Alain Van Hiel |
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Research Note |
Verloren in vertaling: klimaatscepticisme en de terugkeer van het politieke |
Auteurs | Gert Goeminne |
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Research Note |
Economische elitenetwerken en Amerikaans buitenlands beleid van Clinton tot Obama |
Auteurs | Bastiaan van Apeldoorn en Naná de Graaff |
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