Publications

Recent think tank publications include (texts in Dutch unless noted otherwise):

Consolidation of Dynamics: governance in the rhizomatic society, 2011; R. Peeters, M. Schulz, M. van Twist, M. van der Steen

‘There is Nothing to See Here’: Public Service Preparations of Coalition Formations (2011)

On The Road to the Electric Car (2011)

Policy Stress: Causes, Dynamics and Effects (2010)

Appearing in Someone Else’s Story: Office-Holders in the Media Spotlight (2010)

Instrument of Impotence: Fatalism in Politics and Technology (2010)

Tree and Rhizome: Governing in a Network Society (2010)

Follow the Money: Shifting Capital Flows and the Control of Public Service Delivery (2010)

The Logic of the Inappropriate: On The Professionalism of Neighborhood Managers in the Imperfect Organization (2010)

Renewal in Flux: An essay on 60 Years of Reform in Dutch Central Government (2010)

Learning From Contradiction and Countervailing Powers (2009)

Side Benefits: The Unplanned Results of Place-Based Initiatives (2009)

Scanning the Future, Developing the Organization: Design Choices in the RWS 2020 Scenario Project (2009)

Strategizing in the Shadow of Power: Political Advisors as Hidden Brokers (2009)

The Regulatory State (2009)

The Public Face of the State (2009)

Fluid Expectations: Role Changes and the Shaping of Strategic Professionalism (2008)

The Evolving World of Think Tanks: From ‘Knowledge for Policy’ to ‘Transnational Ideas Brokerage’ (2008)

Everyday Tales in Big Cities: Inside Bureaucracy and Government  (2007)

Reinventing the Netherlands: Designing Public Administration (2007)

Between Cooptation and Rejection: An Essay on the Strategy Function Within Central Government (2007)

A Convenient Truth: Why We Don’t Learn From Commissions of Inquiry (2007)