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Political Science

D-Index
25
Citations
3591
World Ranking
1602
National Ranking
49

Best Publications

  • Clumsy Solutions for a Complex World. The Case of Climate Change

    Marco Verweij;Mary Douglas;Richard Ellis;Christoph Engel

  • The Oxford Handbook of Local and Regional Democracy in Europe

    John Loughlin;Frank Hendriks;Anders Lidström

  • Clumsy Solutions for a Complex World

    Marco Verweij;Mary Douglas;Richard Ellis;Christoph Engel

  • Vital Democracy: A Theory of Democracy in Action

    Frank Hendriks

  • Understanding Good Urban Governance Essentials, Shifts, and Values

    Frank Hendriks

  • Between Democracy and Efficiency: Trends in Local Government Reform in the Netherlands and Germany

    Frank Hendriks;Pieter Tops

  • Local public management reforms in the Netherlands: fads, fashions and winds of change

    Frank Hendriks;Pieter Tops

  • Vitale democratie : Theorie van democratie in actie

    Frank Hendriks

  • Subnational Democracy in the European Union: Challenges and Opportunities

    John Patrick Loughlin;Eliseo Aja;Udo Bullmann;Frank Hendriks

  • Public Policy and Political Institutions: The Role of Culture in Traffic Policy

    Frank Hendriks

  • Polder politics : the re-invention of consensus democracy in the Netherlands

    Frank Hendriks;Theo A.J. Toonen

  • The Case for Clumsiness

    Marco Verweij;Mary Douglas;Richard Ellis;Christoph Engel

  • Everyday Fixers as Local Heroes: A Case Study of Vital Interaction in Urban Governance

    Frank Hendriks;Pieter Tops

  • Democratic innovation beyond deliberative reflection : The plebiscitary rebound and the advent of action-oriented democracy

    Frank Hendriks

  • Democracy transformed? Reforms in Britain and the Netherlands (1990-2010)

    Frank Hendriks;Ank Michels

  • Democratic reform between the extreme makeover and the reinvention of tradition

    Frank Hendriks

  • Democratische zegen of vloek : Aantekeningen bij het referendum

    Frank Hendriks;Koen van der Krieken;C.C.L. Wagenaar

  • Unravelling the new plebiscitary democracy: Towards a research agenda

    Frank Hendriks

  • Grid, Group, and Grade: Challenges in Operationalizing Cultural Theory for Cross-National Research

    Ammar Maleki;Frank Hendriks

  • Don’t call me a leader, but I am one: The Dutch mayor and the tradition of bridging-and-bonding leadership in consensus democracies

    Niels Karsten;Frank Hendriks

  • Contextualizing the Dutch drop in political trust: connecting underlying factors

    Frank Hendriks

  • The post-industrialising city: political perspectives and cultural biases

    Frank Hendriks

  • European Subnational Democracy: Comparative Reflections and Conclusions

    Frank Hendriks;John Loughlin;Anders Lidström

  • The relation between cultural values and models of democracy: a cross-national study

    Ammar Maleki;Frank Hendriks

Frequent Co-Authors

Taco Brandsen
Taco Brandsen Radboud University
Mary Douglas
Mary Douglas University College London
Steve Rayner
Steve Rayner University of Oxford
Michael Thompson
Michael Thompson International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Mark Bovens
Mark Bovens Utrecht University
Susanne Lohmann
Susanne Lohmann University of California, Los Angeles
Wouter van der Brug
Wouter van der Brug University of Amsterdam
Rudy B. Andeweg
Rudy B. Andeweg Leiden University
Claes H. de Vreese
Claes H. de Vreese University of Amsterdam

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