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Curriculum Vitae Dr. Paul Pennings

 

 

 

Present Position:

Associate Professor

Department of Political Science, VU University Amsterdam

Faculty of Social Science

 

Academic Education:

-          M.A. in Political Science at the University of Amsterdam: 1985 (with distinction)

-          PhD. at the Universiteit van Amsterdam: 1991 (Supervisors: H.H. van der Wusten and H. Knippenberg). Title: Verzuiling en Ontzuiling: De Lokale Verschillen. (Pillarization and Depillarization: The Local Differences). Publisher: J.H. Kok.

 

Career:

2002-present               Associate Professor at the VU University Amsterdam

1997-2003                   Instructor of the Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis and Collection

1995-1996                   Royal Fellow at the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies at The Hague (NIAS)

1992-present               Senior member of the Netherlands Institute of Government (NIG)

1990-2001                   Senior Lecturer at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

1987-1990                   PhD-student Universiteit van Amsterdam (FRW)

1983-1986                   Research Assistant at the Universiteit van Amsterdam (FSW-a)

 

Managerial skills:

-          Member of the Management Team, Department of Political Science (2002-2004; 2008-present)

-          Research Director of the Faculty Board (2005-2007)

-          Official Representative of the ECPR (1995-present) and the ICPSR (2007-present)

-          Secretary to the Exam commission of the Research Master in Social Research (2008-present)

-          Financial controller of the Department of Political Science (2001-2006)

-          Secretary to the Commission of Representatives of the Faculty Staff (Onderdeelcommissie). (1999-2002)

-          Member of the Exam commission Political Science/Public Administration (1999-2003)

-          Member of the Research Advisory Board of the Faculty (Commissie Wetenschap) (2001-2004)

-          Controller of Departmental Xerox-budget and SARA computer time budget (1992-2000)

-          Secretary to the Department’s daily Governance Council (Dagelijks Bestuur) (1992-1995)

-          Member of the Interuniversity Research Group on First Year Students in Political Science (1993-1995).

-          Member of the Opleidingscie. Maatschappijleer (1994-1996)

-          Member of the core group of the Dutch Electoral Research Foundation (SKON) (1992-1994) that organised the Dutch Parliamentary Election Study of 1994.

 

International cooperation and invited guest speaker at:

2004-

Participant of the project on ‘Party system change and European Integration’, led by Profs G. Marks and L. Hooghe, CES/UNC (Chapel Hill, USA).

2004-2008

Participant of the project on ‘National parties in the EU: Impacts of EU Involvement on National political parties, led by Prof. R. Harmel.

2003-2006

Partner of the Project on ‘Domestic Structures and European Integration’ (DOSEI) financed by the EU and coordinated by Prof. Thomas König (contract number HPSE-CT-2002-00117; project number SERD-2002-00061).

2003-

Member of "COMPASSS" Advisory Board (COMParative methods for the Advancement of Systematic cross-case analysis and Small-N Studies) http://www.compasss.org/

2000-2005

Comparative Electronic Manifestos Project: a NWO Investment subsidy ad Hfl. 270.000,- in order to scan, translate and code Party Manifestoes in 20 OECD-countries in cooperation with Prof. Budge (Essex), Dr. Mochman (ZA Köln) and Dr. Volkens (WZB)

http://research.fsw.vu.nl/DoingResearch/

2000-2005

Convenor of the ECPR Standing group on Party Manifestos.

http://www.essex.ac.uk/ECPR/standinggroups/pm/index.aspx

1999/2001

Co-directorship with Dr. Reuven Y. Hazan of the ECPR-workshop on 'The Consequences of Candidate Selection', resulting in a special issue of Party Politics (2001)

1996/98

Co-directorship with prof. Jan-Erik Lane of the ECPR-workshop on 'Party System Change in Europe', resulting in the edited volume 'Comparing Party System Change'(1998)

1996

NWO-subsidy for the OIO-project on comparative development and change of corporatism and consensus democracy

1995/96

Participation in the Heidelberggroup of Prof. Manfred Schmidt on Cross-National Studies on Public Policy in the 1980s and 1990s

1995/96

NIAS Research Theme Group on 'The Quality of Democracy' at Wassenaar in collaboration with Profs. Budge, Hofferbert, Keman, McDonald, resulting in articles and a co-authored book 'Organizing Democratic Choice' (2008/2009)

 

Application and Supervision of Research Projects

-          Participation in VU-ster programme ‘Public domain and markets’ by supervising the project on: “Good Governance”: The emergence of New Public management in new hospital payment systems in Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom (A.M. van Essen). (2004-2009). http://www.rechten.vu.nl/ (Onderzoek / programma’s / OPI). PhD available at: http://dare.ubvu.vu.nl/handle/1871/15244

-          Supervision of the Postdoc C. Arnold on the Project ‘Domestic Structures and European Integration’ (DOSEI) financed by the EU (2003-2006) (contract number HPSE-CT-2002-00117; project number SERD-2002-00061). http://www2.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/lspol2/dosei/

-          Europe and the democratic performance of parties. Supervision of AIO-project (H. Binnema) (2001-2005). PhD available at: http://dare.ubvu.vu.nl/handle/1871/13243

-          The comparative development and change of corporatism and consensus democracy. Application and supervision of OIO-project (N.P. Vergunst) (1997-2002). PhD available at: http://dare.ubvu.vu.nl/handle/1871/10660

 

Courses

-          International Comparative Democracy, Amsterdam University College (2010-).

-          Case Study Research, NIG course for PhD students, 2008-present.

-          Bachelor Working Group Political Science (2008-2009).

-          Comparative Politics for 2nd year students in Political Science (2008-present) (with Vis and Reci)

-          Theories and Approaches in Comparative Politics (Master Political Science 2004-2006).

-          Selective Issues: Comparative Public Policy Analysis (Master Political Science 2004/2005).

-          Workshop: Comparative Politics and Public Policy Analysis (Master Political Science 2004/2005, 2009/2010).

-          Meta-Theory and Research Methods in Political Science (Master Political Science 2004/2005) (with Crum).

-          Multivariate Statistics applied to politics (Essex Summer School, 1997-2003).

-          Comparative Politics. Course SSC 355, University College Utrecht (spring 2005, with Woldendorp).

-          Advanced Statistics in Political Science (Onderzoekspracticum Politicologie, 1991-2002 (partly with Vermeulen, Taris, Dijkstra, Van Tilburg, Verbunt, P. de Vries e.a.)

-          Empirical Political Science and Communication Science (Empirische Politicologie en Communicatiewetenschap (1992-2002) (partly with Oegema)

-          Methods of power analysis (Methoden van Invloedsanalyse (1994-1999) (with Peters, Huberts)

-          Introduction to Political Science for all students in the Faculty (Inleiding Politicologie voor SCW (1999) (with Krouwel)

-          Introduction to Political Science for first year political science students (Inleiding Politicologie voor P+B (various years) (with Krouwel, Keman)

-          Political Economy for all students in the Faculty (Politiek, Overheid en Samenleving voor BCO etc. (1999-2000) (with Keman, Verbeek, Woldendorp)

-          Political Economy for 3rd year students in Political Science (1995-2002) (partly with Vergunst)

-          European Courses (The Politics of Coalition in Europe): 1993/94

 

Publications since 1991 by Paul Pennings

 

Contributions to REFEREED journals

 

Pennings, P. (2010) Exploring Variations in the Political Discourse on Public Sector Reforms, 1981-2005, Public Management Review 12 (2): 173-190.

Pennings, P. (2009) Party Positions on the European Constitution during the 2004 European Parliament Elections. Journal of Contemporary European Research Vol. 5, No. 1, pp.24-42. Met C. Arnold.

Pennings, P. (2009) Balancing Competing Goals. Exploring the Political Controversy on New Hospital Payment Systems in Germany, the Netherlands and the UK. Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft (ZfVP), issn 1865-2646, 3 (1): 59-80 met A.M. van Essen.

Pennings, P. (2008) The Changing Landscape of Dutch Politics Since the 1970s: A Comparative Exploration, Acta Politica, 43 (2-3): 154-179 (with H. Keman).

Pennings, P. (2008) Is Constitutional Politics like Politics ‘At Home’? The Case of the EU Constitution, Political Studies, 56, 4, 789-806 (with C. Arnold).

Budge, I. & Pennings, P. (2007)Do they work? Validating a computerized word-frequency approach to textual analysis with hand-coded time series’ Electoral Studies, 26 (1), 121-29 (special issue by Gary Marks).

Pétry, F. & P. Pennings (2006), ‘Estimating the Policy Positions of Political Parties From Legislative Election Manifestos 1958-2002’, French Politics, 4 (1), 100-23. ISSN: 1476-3419

Pennings, P. (2006) ‘An empirical analysis of the Europeanisation of national party manifestos, 1960-2003’, European Union Politics, 7 (2), 257-70.

Keman, H. & P. Pennings (2006) ‘Competition and Coalescence in European Party Systems: Social Democracy and Christian Democracy Moving into the 21st Century’, Sweizerische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft,  12 (2), 95-126.

Pennings, P. (2005) ‘The Diversity and Causality of Welfare State Reforms explored with Fuzzy-sets’, Quality & Quantity 39: 317-39.

Pennings, P (2005) ‘Parties, voters and policy priorities in the Netherlands, 1971-2002’, Party Politics, 11 (1),  29-45.

Benoit, K., Laver, M., Arnold, C., Pennings, P., Hosli, M.O. (2005) ‘Measuring national delegate positions at the Convention on the Future of Europe using computerized Word-scoring’, European Union Politics, 6 (3), 291-313.

Ragin, C. C., Pennings, P. (2005), ‘Fuzzy Sets and Social Research’, Sociological Methods and Research, 33 (4),  423-30.

Mcdonald, M. D, Budge, I. and Pennings, P. (2004) ‘Choice versus sensitivity : Party reactions to public concerns’, European Journal of Political Research, 43 (6), 845-68.

Pennings, P. and H. Keman (2003) 'The Dutch Parliamentary Elections 2002-2003: The Rise and Fall of the Fortuyn Movement’, Acta Politica 38: 51-68.

Pennings, P. (2003) Beyond dichotomous explanations: Explaining constitutional control of the executive with fuzzy-sets, European Journal of Political Research 42: 541-67.

Pennings, P and Keman, H. (2002) ‘Towards a New Methodology of Estimating Party Policy Positions’, in: Quality & Quantity 36: 55-79.

Pennings, P. (2002) ‘The Dimensionality of the EU Policy Space. The European Elections of 1999’, European Union Politics, 3 (1), 59-79.

Pennings, P. and R.Y. Hazan (2001) ‘Democratizing Candidate Selection: Causes and Consequences’, in: P. Pennings and R.Y. Hazan (Eds) (2001) Special issue: Democratizing Candidate Selection: Causes and Consequences, Party Politics, 7 (3), 267-76.

Pennings, P. (2000) ‘The Consequences of Ministerial Recruitment for the Functioning of Cabinets in Western Europe’, Acta Politica, 35 (Spring), 86-103.

Pennings, P. (1999) ‘European Social Democracy between planning and market: a comparative exploration of trends and variations’, Journal of European Public Policy, 6 (5), 743-56.

Pennings, P. (1999) ‘Explaining Variations in Public Employment’. International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 40, (3,) 332-50.

Pennings, P. (1998) ‘Party responsiveness and Socio-economic Problem-solving in Western Democracies’, Party Politics, 4 (3), 119-30.

Pennings, P. (1997) ‘The Evolution of Dutch Consociationalism’, The Netherlands Journal of Social Sciences, 33 (1),  9-26.

Pennings, P. (1997) ‘Les Pays-Bas: Déclin Partiel de la Démocratie consociative?’, Revue Internationale de Politique Comparée, 4 (3), 561-83.

Pennings, P. (1995) ‘The Impact of Parties and Unions on Welfare Statism’, West European Politics, 18 (4), pp. 1-17.

Keman, H. and Pennings, P. (1995) ‘Managing Political and Societal Conflict in Democracies: Do Consensus and Corporatism Matter?’, British Journal of Political Science, 25 (2),  271-81.

 

Books, SPECIAL ISSUES and Volumes edited

 

Pennings, P. H. Keman, J. Kleinnijenhuis (1999/2006), Doing Research in Political Science. An Introduction to Comparative Methods and Statistics. London: Sage, 368 pp, ISBN 0 7619 5103 2.

Ragin, Charles C.; Pennings, P. (Eds.) (2005) Fuzzy Sets and Social Research, Sociological Methods and Research, 33 (4): 423-577 (special issue) ISSN 0049-1241

Pennings, P. and R.Y. Hazan (Eds) (2001) Special issue: Democratizing Candidate Selection: Causes and Consequences, Party Politics, 7 (3), 267-380.

Pennings, P.and  J.-E. Lane (Eds.) (1998) Comparing Party System Change. London: Routledge. 258 p.

Pennings, P. and B. Pijnenburg (red.) (1993) Student en Politiek 1992. Een onderzoek onder eerstejaars studenten Politicologie en Bestuurskunde in Amsterdam, Leiden, Nijmegen, Rotterdam en Twente. Twente: Nederlandse Kring voor Wetenschap der Politiek. 110 p.

Pennings, P. (1991) Verzuiling en ontzuiling: de lokale verschillen. Opbouw, instandhouding en neergang van plaatselijke zuilen in verschillende delen van Nederland na 1880. Kampen: Kok (dissertatie, april 1991, Universiteit van Amsterdam.). 252 pp.

 

Contributions to Volumes:

Pennings, P. (2009) The Methodology of the fuzzy-set logic and its application’, in: S. Pickel, G. Pickel, H.J. Lauth, D. Jahn (Eds), Methoden der Vergleichenden Politik- und Sozialwissenschaf. Neue Entwicklungen und Anwendungen. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, pp. 347-363.

Pennings, P. (2009) Global Comparative Methods in: T. Landman and N. Robinson (Eds.) The Sage Handbook of Comparative Politics, London: Sage, pp. 35-49 (with H. Keman and J. Kleinnijenhuis).

Pennings, P. (1999/2006) ‘How Problems Arise’, in P. Pennings, H. Keman, J. Kleinnijenhuis, Doing Research in Political Science. An Introduction to Comparative Methods and Statistics. London: Sage, pp. 227-255.

Pennings, P. (1999/2006) ‘How Problems are Solved’, in P. Pennings, H. Keman, J. Kleinnijenhuis, Doing Research in Political Science. An Introduction to Comparative Methods and Statistics. London: Sage, pp. 302-344.

Pennings, P. (1999/2006) ‘How Decisions are made’, in P. Pennings, H. Keman, J. Kleinnijenhuis, Doing Research in Political Science. An Introduction to Comparative Methods and Statistics. London: Sage, pp. 256-301.

Hosli, M. C. Arnold & Paul Pennings (2006) ‘Domestic Preference Formation in the Netherlands on the European Constitution’, in Thomas König and Simon Hug (Eds.) Policy-making Processes and the European Constitution. A comparative Study of Member States and Accession Countries", London: Routledge.

Keman, H. and P. Pennings (2004) ‘The Development of Christian and Social Democracy Across Europe: Changing Positions and Political Consequences’, in D. Th. Tsatsos, Ev. Venizelos, X.I, Contiades (Eds), Political Parties in the 21st Century. Berlin and Brussels: Wissenschafts Verlag/Emile Bruylant: 187-218.

Arnold, C., P. Pennings (2004) ‘Recent Developments in EU-level Social Policy-Making and Corporatist Governance’, in A. Warntjen, A. Wonka (eds.) Governance in Europe - The Role of Interest Groups, Nomos: Baden-Baden, 2004, pp. 113-129.

Pennings, P. (2003)  The Methodology of the fuzzy-set logic’, in: S. Pickel, G. Pickel, H.J. Lauth, D. Jahn, Vergleichende politikwissenschaftliche Methoden – Neue Entwicklungen und Diskussionen, Westdeutscher Verlag,  pp. 87-104.

Budge, I., R. Hofferbert, H. Keman, M. McDonald, P. Pennings (2002) Comparative Government and democracy: Modelling Party democracy Across 16 Countries, in H. Keman (ed) Comparative Democratic Politics. London: Sage, pp. 65-98.

Pennings, P. (2002) Voters, Elections and Ideology in European Democracies, in H. Keman (ed) Comparative Democratic Politics. London: sage, pp. 99-121.

Kleinnijenhuis, J. and P. Pennings (2001) ‘Measurement of party positions on the basis of party programmes, media coverage and voter perceptions’, in M. Laver (ed) (2001) Estimating the Policy Position of Political Actors. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 162-182.

Pennings, P. (2000) ‘Die Konsequenzen der Rekrutierung von Ministern für die Regierungspolitik in Westeuropa’, pp. 114-135, in J. van Deth, Th. König (Hrsg.), Europaeische Politikwissenschaft- ein Blick in die Werkstatt, Mannheimer Jahrbuch fuer Europaeische Sozialforschung, Band 4, Campus: Frankfurt/M.

Kleinnijenhuis, J. en P. Pennings (2000) ‘Die Messung der Parteipositionen auf der Basis von Parteiprogrammen, Medienberichterstattung und Wahrnehmung durch die Whäler’, p.57-86 in: J. van Deth, Th. König (Hrsg.) Europaeische Politikwissenschaft- ein Blick in die Werkstatt, Mannheimer Jahrbuch fuer Europaeische Sozialforschung, Band 4, Campus: Frankfurt/M.

Pennings, P. (1999) ‘The utility of party and institutional indicators of change in consociational democracies’. In: K.R. Luther and K. Deschouwer (Eds), Party elites in divided societies. Political parties in consociational democracy. London: Routledge, 1999, pp. 20-40.

Pennings, P. and J.E. Lane ( 1998) ‘Introduction’, in P. Pennings and  J.-E. Lane (Eds.) (1998) Comparing Party System Change. London: Routledge, pp. 1-20.

Pennings, P. (1998) ‘Verzuiling en Ontzuiling’, in H. Daalder, A.P.N. Nauta (red.), Compendium voor Politiek en Samenleving, Alphen aan den Rijn: Samsom, Deel B-1000, pp. 1-43.

Pennings, P. (1998) ‘The Triad of Party System Change; Votes, Office and Policy’, in P. Pennings and  J.-E. Lane (Eds.) (1998) Comparing Party System Change. London: Routledge, pp. 79-100.

Pennings, P. (1997) ‘Socioeconomic Problem-Solving between Conflict and Consensus’, in Hans Keman (ed.), The Politics of Problem-Solving. Houndsmill, MacMillan, pp. 68-84.

Pennings, P. (1997) ‘Consensus Democracy and Institutional Change’, in H. Keman (ed.), The Politics of Problem-Solving, Houndsmill, MacMillan, pp. 21-42.

Pennings, P. (1995) 'De boodschap van de partijen', in J. Kleinnijenhuis, D. Oegema, J.A. de Ridder en H.J. Bos (red.), De democratie op drift, Amsterdam: VU-Uitgeverij, hoofdstuk 1, pp. 15-38.

Pennings, P. (1995) ‘Onderzoek van verzuiling en ontzuiling’, in W. Hout en H. Pellikaan, Leren van Onderzoek. Het onderzoeksproces en methodologische problemen in de sociale wetenschappen. Amsterdam/Meppel: Boom (met B. Pijnenburg), pp. 96-121.

Pennings, P. (1995) ‘Campagnes en berichtgeving’, in J.J.M. van Holsteyn en B. Niemöller, De Nederlandse Kiezer 1994 (met J. Kleinnijenhuis). pp. 27-41.

Pennings, P and  J.E. Keman (1994) ‘'Links' en 'rechts' in de Nederlandse Politiek’, in Jaarboek 1993 van het Documentatiecentrum Nederlandse politieke partijen, Groningen 1994. pp. 118-144.

Pennings, P. and B. Pijnenburg (red.) (1993) Student en Politiek 1992. Een onderzoek onder eerstejaars studenten Politicologie en Bestuurskunde in Amsterdam, Leiden, Nijmegen, Rotterdam en Twente. Twente: Nederlandse Kring voor Wetenschap der Politiek. 110 p.

Pennings, P. (1993) ‘Verzuiling: consensus en controverse’, in U. Becker (red.), Nederlandse politiek in historisch en vergelijkend perspectief. Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis, pp. 97-120.

Pennings, P. (1992) Zuilen en lokale subsidies in 45 gemeenten, 1880-1930, in W.P. Blockmans, L.A. van der Valk (1992). Van particuliere naar openbare zorg en terug? Sociale politiek in Nederland sinds 1880. Amsterdam: NEHA, pp. 53-66.

Pennings, P. (1992) ‘Sociale, godsdienstige en geografische achtergrond’, in Student en Politiek '91. Een onderzoek onder eerstejaars studenten politicologie en bestuurskunde in Amsterdam, Leiden, Nijmegen, Rotterdam en Twente. Enschede: Nederlandse Kring voor Wetenschap der Politiek, pp. 19-32.

Pennings, P. (1992) ‘Ontzuiling in de jaren vijftig en zestig’, in H. Vossen, M. Schwegman, P. Wester (red.), Vertrouwde patronen, nieuwe dromen. Nederland op weg naar een modern-industriële samenleving. Ijsselstein: VGN, pp. 23-26.

Eijk, C. van der and P. Pennings, A.C. Wille (1992) ‘Politieke betrokkenheid - is de burger afgehaakt?’ In: J.J.M. van Holsteyn and G.A. Irwin (1992). De Nederlandse Kiezer 1989. Amsterdam: Steinmetzarchief/Swidoc/SKON, pp. 3-32.

 

Other

Pennings, P. (2009) Nationaal Belang versus Ideologische Verbondenheid, in: A. Sabahoglu (Red.) Ons Belang in Europa, Utrecht: WBGL, pp. 27-32. (Met F. Nagel en W. van den Berg).

Pennings, P. (2009) Party Government and Welfare State Change: A Configurational Approach. Paper presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions, Lisbon.

Pennings, P. (2008) Exploring variations in the political discourse on public management, 1981-2005. Paper presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions, Rennes.

Pennings, P. (2007) Balancing Competing Goals. Exploring the political controversy on new hospital payment systems in Germany, the Netherlands and the UK. Paper presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions, Pisa (with Anne Marije van Essen).

Pennings, P. (2006) Retrenchment, The International Encyclopedia of Social Policy (Vol. 2), Edited by Tony Fitzpatrick, Huck-ju Kwon, Nick Manning, James Midgley, and Gillian Pascall, London: Routledge, pp. 1151-1152.

Pennings, P. (2006) A case for case studies? In: Newsletter of the IPSA committee on Concepts & Methods, Vol 2, Nr. 1, pp. 16-17. http://www.concepts-methods.org/newsletters/20060301_33_C&M%20Newsletter%202006%201.pdf

De Beus, J. & P. Pennings (2006) Europeanisering van de Nederlandse politiek: nog steeds een zaak voor de bovenlaag maar niet voor de gewone burgerij. In: Jaarboek Documentatiecentrum Nederlandse Politieke Partijen 2004, RU Groningen, pp. 193-216.

Pennings, P. (2006) The diffusion of public management principles in the OECD, 1960-2005. Paper presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions, Cyprus.

Pennings, P. (2005) Wat mogen we verwachten van macrokwantitatief sociaal-wetenschappelijk onderzoek? In: Sociologie, 1 (2),  pp. 223-225.

Pennings, P. (2005) Programmatic adaptation of domestic parties to policy harmonisation. Third ECPR General Conference, Budapest (8-10 september).

Pennings, P (2005)  Europeanization and Programmatic Party Change, 1960-2003. Third ECPR General Conference, Budapest (8-10 september).

Arnold, C. and P. Pennings (2005) The Issue Dimensions of the European Parliament Election of 2004: One, Two, or More? EUSA, Austin, TX, March 31-April 2, 2005.

Arnold, C. and P. Pennings (2005) Party Positions on the European Constitution during the European Parliament Elections in 2004. Brussels, DOSEI Conference.

Pennings, P. C. Arnold, M.O. Hosli (2004) The EU Constitution and Positions on Governance. Paper presented at the ECPR workshop ‘Domestic structures and institution building in the European Union’, Paper presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions, Uppsala.

Pennings, P. (2004) National Political parties and Europeanisation: New Evidence from Party Manifestos (1960-2003). Conference on Party System Change and Europeanisation, UNC-CES, Chapel Hill, USA, april 2004.

Pennings, P. (2004 and 2005) Computerized content analysis of party manifestos. Methodological approaches and empirical results. in: Cor van Dijkum et al. Recent Developments and Applications in Social Research Methodology. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Logic and Methodology. August 17-20, 2004, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Amsterdam: SISWO. ISBN 90-6706-176-x (cd-rom).

Pennings, Paul (2003) Enkele kanttekeningen bij ‘Kiezen voor coalities van partijen’ ; BenM. Tijdschrift voor Beleid, Politiek en Maatschappij; 30; ; 3; pp. ; 185-187.

Pennings, P. (2003) The Effects of Cleavage Change on Government Composition in Western Europe Analysed With Fuzzy-sets. ECPR joint sessions, Edinburgh.

Pennings, P. (2002) Exploring the diversity of welfare state reforms with fuzzy sets. Paper presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions, Torino.

Pennings, P. (2001) The Dimensionality of the EU Policy Space: The European Elections of 1999. Paper Politicologenetmaal.

Pennings, P. (2000) Parliamentary Control of the Executive in 47 Democracies. Paper presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions, Copenhagen.

Pennings, P. (1999) The Consequences of Candidate Selection for Policy-Making in Western Europe. Paper presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions, Mannheim.

Pennings, P. (1998) Social democracy between planning and market. A comparative exploration of recent trends and variations in the OECD. Paper presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions, Warwick.

Pennings, P. (1998) ‘De marktgerichtheidsschaal van de Europese sociaal-democratie’, in: Socialisme en Democratie, 55 (9), pp. 402-405.

Pennings P. (1997) Rational Institutional Modelling of Public Employment. Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Results. Paper presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions, Bern.

Pennings, P. (1996) The Triad of Party System Change: Votes, Office and Policy. Paper presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions, Oslo.

Pennings, P. (1995) Consociationalism and Party System Change. Towards a Comparative Operationalisation. Paper presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions, Bordeaux.

Pennings, P. (1994) Voters, Party Manifestoes and Policy Priorities in the Netherlands, 1946-1989. Paper presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions, Leiden.