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KEY PUBLICATIONS
For a full list of publications since 2007, use this link to the publications in the Wageningen Yield database.
2012
Breeman, G.E. (2012). Hermeneutic methods in trust research. In: Lyon, F., Möllering, G. & Saunders, M.N.K (Eds.). Handbook of Research Methods on Trust. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
Breeman, G.E. & Timmermans, A. (2012). Myths and milestones: the Europeanization of the legislative agenda in the Netherlands. In: Brouard, S., König, T., Olivier, C. New York: Springer (Eds.). (Studies in Public Choice).
The Europeanization of Domestic Legislatures. The Empirical Implications of the Delors' Myth in Nine Countries.
2011
Jennings, W.; Bevan, S.; Timmermans, A.; Breeman, G.E.; Brouard, S.; Chaqués-Bonafont, L.; Green-Pedersen, C.; John, P.; Mortensen, P.B. & Palau Roque, A. (2011). Effects of the core functions of government on the diversity of executive agendas. Comparative Political Studies, 44(8): 1001-1030.
Mortensen, P.B.; Green-Pedersen, C.; Breeman, G.E.; Chaqués Bonafont, L.; Jennings, W.; John, P.; Palau, A. & Timmermans, A. (2011). Comparing government agendas: executive speeches in the Netherlands, United Kingdom, and Denmark. Comparative Political Studies, 44 (8): 973-1000.
2010
Breeman, G.E. & Zwaan, P.J. (2010). Domestic change and EU compliance in the Netherlands: policy feedback during enforcement. In: Skogstad, G., Verdun & A. Abingdon (Eds). The common agricultural policy. Routledge.
Termeer, K., G. Breeman, M. van Lieshout & W. Pot, (2010). Why more knowledge could thwart democracy: configurations and fixations in the Dutch mega-stables debate. In: In ’t Veld, R.J. (Ed.) Knowledge Democracy – Consequences for Science, Politics and Media. Heidelberg: Springer. pp. 99-112
Termeer, C.J.A.M.; Breeman, G.E.; Lieshout, M. van & Pot, W.D. (2010). Why more knowledge could thwart democracy: configurations and fixations in the Dutch mega-stables debate. In: Veld, R.J. in 't (Ed.). Knowledge Democracy. Consequences for Science, Politics, and Media. Heidelberg: Springer.
Timmermans, A. & Breeman, G.E. (2010). Potieke waarheid en dynamiek van de agenda in coalitiekabinetten
In: Baalen, C. van, Breedveld, W., Leenders, M., Merriënboer, J. van, Ramakers, J. & Turpijn, J. (Eds.). Jaarboek parlementaire Geschiedenis 2010: Waarheidsvinding en Waarheidsbeleving. Amsterdam: Boom.
2009
Breeman, G. & P. Zwaan (2009). Domestic Change and EU Compliance in the Netherlands: policy Feedback during Enforcement. Journal of European Integration, 31(3).
Breeman, G., D. Lowery, C. Poppelaars, S. Resodihardjo, A. Timmermans & J. de Vries (2009). Political Attention in
a Coalition System: Analyzing Queen’s Speeches in the Netherlands 1945-2007, Acta Politica, 44(1): 1-27.
Breeman, G. A.R.P.J. Dewulf, W.D. Pot & A. Timmermans (2009). Evolutie van het Klimaatvraagstuk: Agendadynamiek en Framing van het Klimaatprobleem in de Media. Bestuurskunde,18(4): 27-37.
Breeman, G., L. Chaques, C. Green-Pedersen, W. Jennings, P. Mortensesn, A. Palau, A. Timmermans (2009), Comparer les agendas gouvernementaux: les “discours du Trône” aux Pays-Bas, au Royaume-Uni, auu Danemark et en Espagne Revue Internationale de Politique Comparée,16(3): 405-421.
RESEARCH
Gerard's first line of research may be summarized as the politics of attention. This contains policy agenda setting, the influence of media on politics, the analysis of parliamentary prioritization, and the impact of science on political decision making. He analyses how agenda setting processes effect governance structures and how information from new and old media influences the responsiveness of the government. He publishes about many different policy domains, but mainly on animal related policies, the common agricultural policy, and the environmental policies. He is involved in a wide research network in the US and Europa of scholars that study policy agenda mechanisms.
Due to the common research approach and the universal methodology the research is by definition highly comparative. It contains both quantitative and quantitative characteristics. The politics of attention addresses questions on transition-management, and tipping points in the flows of attention. The theories used are derived from public administration literature, the political sciences, and are borrowed from communication studies and ecological theories.
Breeman’s second line of research concerns the study of trust and policy-making. The main research objective here is to unravel the social mechanisms through which trust in policies and politics is gained and lost. The methodology he uses consists of a combination of hermeneutics and the philosophical concept of collective intentionality. But he also borrows elements from the sense-making and configuration theories. The goals with this research is to help policy makers understand why citizens loose trust in plans, while they are convinced that they are doing the ‘right thing’.
PROJECTS
1. Politics of attention: policy agenda setting in comparative perspectives (co-program leader for the Netherlands) 2006-
2. Subprojects of the politics of attention: Morality issues (2009-2011), safety policies (2009-2011), and environmental
policies (2006-2008)
3. Common Agricultural Policy-making: feedback and changing the CAP (2007-2011)
4. The impact of advisory committees in the marine domain (2009-2012)
5. The mechanisms of building trust: manure policies (2006-2008), mega-stables (2008-2010) and agriculture (2010-2012).
TEACHING
PAP-20306, Hoofdfiguren en kernthema's uit de Betuurskunde en de Rechtsantropologie
Gerard Breeman, Bernd van der Meulen, Irene Hadiprayitno
PAP-52306, Policy Agenda Setting and Issue Framing
Gerard Breeman, Art Dewulf
PAP-30806, Governance, Trust and Policy Arrangements
Gerard Breeman, Jan van Tatenhove
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