Curriculum Vitae Dr. Paul Pennings
Present Position:
Associate Professor
Department of
Political Science, VU University
Faculty of Social Science
Academic Education:
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M.A. in Political Science at
the
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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
1995-1996 Royal
Fellow at the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies at
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).
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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 ( |
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) |
2000-2005 |
Convenor of the ECPR Standing group on Party Manifestos. |
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 |
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
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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
- 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/
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- 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
- 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)
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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
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
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
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,
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
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
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.
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.
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) Vergleichenden Politik- und Sozialwissenschaf. The Methodology of the fuzzy-set logic and its
application’, in: S. Pickel, G. Pickel, H.J. Lauth, D. Jahn (Eds), Methoden der 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,
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.
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.
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.
Hosli, M. C. Arnold & Paul Pennings (2006) ‘Domestic Preference
Formation in the
Keman, H. and P. Pennings (2004) ‘The Development of Christian and
Social Democracy Across
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)
pp. 87-104.
Budge,
Pennings, P. (2002) Voters, Elections and Ideology in European
Democracies, in H. Keman (ed) Comparative
Democratic Politics.
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.
Pennings, P. and
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.
Pennings, P. (1997) ‘Socioeconomic Problem-Solving between Conflict
and Consensus’, in
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.
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,
Pennings, P. (2008) Exploring variations in the political discourse
on public management, 1981-2005. Paper presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions,
Pennings, P. (2007) Balancing Competing Goals. Exploring the
political controversy on new hospital payment systems in
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,
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,
Pennings, P (2005) Europeanization and Programmatic Party
Change, 1960-2003. Third ECPR General Conference,
Arnold, C. and P. Pennings (2005) The Issue Dimensions of the
European Parliament Election of 2004: One, Two, or More? EUSA,
Arnold, C. and P. Pennings (2005) Party Positions on the European
Constitution during the European Parliament Elections in 2004.
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,
Pennings, P. (2004) National Political parties and Europeanisation:
New Evidence from Party Manifestos (1960-2003). Conference on Party System
Change and Europeanisation, UNC-CES,
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’
Pennings, P. (2003) The Effects of Cleavage Change on Government Composition
in Western Europe Analysed With Fuzzy-sets. ECPR joint sessions,
Pennings, P. (2002) Exploring the diversity of welfare state reforms
with fuzzy sets. Paper presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions,
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,
Pennings, P. (1999) The Consequences of Candidate Selection for
Policy-Making in
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,
Pennings, P. (1996) The Triad of Party System Change: Votes, Office
and Policy. Paper presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions,
Pennings, P. (1995) Consociationalism
and Party System Change. Towards a Comparative Operationalisation. Paper
presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions,
Pennings, P. (1994) Voters, Party Manifestoes and Policy Priorities
in the