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dhr. dr. D.J. (Joost) Berkhout


  • Faculteit der Maatschappij- en Gedragswetenschappen
    Programmagroep: Challenges to Democratic Representation
  • Nieuwe Achtergracht  166
    1018 WV  Amsterdam
  • d.j.berkhout@uva.nl
    T:  0205252641

Onderzoek

 

Joost Berkhout is universitair docent en werkt aan het onderzoeksproject ‘Belangengroepen in West-Europa in kaart gebracht’ (NWO-Veni beurs, 2013-2017). Dit project gaat over belangenbehartiging door organisaties zoals vakbonden, denktanks, gemeentes, bedrijven, burgerinitiatieven, beroepsorganisaties, werkgeversorganisaties, NGO's en campagnegroepen. Wie probeert het overheidsbeleid te beïnvloeden? Zijn er verschillen tussen sectoren en landen? En waardoor worden deze verschillen veroorzaakt? Dit project zal resulteren in een overzicht van de aantallen en soort van politiek actieve organisaties in Nederland, Duitsland, Frankrijk en het Verenigd Koninkrijk. In een recent conferentie-paper wordt de onderzoeksopzet van dit project in de context van een breder argument uitgebreider besproken, zie: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2431609

Tussen 2009 en 2012 werkte Joost Berkhout samen met Wouter van der Brug en Laura Sudulich aan het EU-gefinancierde project ´Support and Opposition to Migration´ (SOM). In deze Europese landenvergelijkende studie staat de vraag centraal waarom in sommige landen immigratie een belangrijke politieke kwestie is geworden en in andere landen minder, later of op een andere manier.

Hij is lid van de programmagroep 'Challenges to Democratic Representation' van het 'Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research' (AISSR) en van het 'Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies' (IMES).

Onderwijs

Joost Berkhout geeft het MA-keuzevak "Collective action and interest group politics".

 

Eerder doceerde hij onder andere de volgende vakken

* de Kernmodule Politieke Theorie en Politiek Gedrag (BA), over de uitdagingen van de vertegenwoordigende democratie.
* de Specialisatiemodule Politieke Theorie en Politiek Gedrag (MA), over de opkomst van populistisch radicaal rechtse partijen,
* het Project II (BA), over politieke netwerk analyse
* en het afstudeerproject 'Collectieve actie, politieke strategie en invloed: politiek tussen de straat en de wandelgang' (MA),

Achtergrond

Joost Berkhout is in 2010 gepromoveerd aan de Universiteit Leiden met het proefschrift getiteld Political Activities of Interest Organizations: Conflicting Interests, Converging Strategies . Hij is in 2004 afgestudeerd in Internationale Betrekkingen en Media Studies aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam. In de eerste helft van 2008 was hij 'visiting researcher' aan het Europees Universitair Instituut in Florence.

List of publications

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Research

 

Joost Berkhout is assistant professor in political science specialized in research on interest organizations (research interests: mobilization, political organization, organizational ecology of interest representation, lobbying, public action, networks).

Joost Berkhout works on the project ‘Why interests organize on only some issues: Assessing the density and diversity of interest organizations in Western Europe’ (NWO-Veni, 2013-2017). This project is motivated by the puzzle that in some policy domains, such as education, development and health care, a large number and variety of organizations is politically active whereas in other domains, such as defense, banking and housing, there are only a small number of organizations active representing a relatively narrow range of interests. To date, these differences have not been systematically assessed. The research project fills this gap in the literature by describing and explaining the variation in the number (density) and character (diversity) of interest organizations in twenty policy domains in the United Kingdom, Germany, France and the Netherlands. The research design of this project is, as part of a broader argument, described in a recent conference paper: see: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2431609

This research builds upon Joost Berkhout’s doctoral research. In his PhD-dissertation Political Activities of Interest Organizations defended in 2010 in Leiden, he examined why interest organizations do what they do. In that, he points to the relationship between the population of interest organizations and the strategies that organizations pursue to influence policies. An important part of this research deals with EU-level interest representation.

Between 2009 and 2012, Joost Berkhout has been a post-doctoral researcher in the EU-funded project 'Support and Opposition to Migration' (SOM). The key research question in this study is: Why has immigration become an important political issue in some European countries but far less so (or later, of differently) in other countries? At the University of Amsterdam this project is coordinated by Wouter van der Brug and other project members include Laura Sudulich.

Joost Berkhout is a member of the programme-group 'Challenges to Democratic Representation' of the 'Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research' (AISSR) and of 'Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies' (IMES).

Teaching

 

Joost Berkhout teaches a Bachelor-level course on core themes related to challenges to representative democracy. Previous teaching includes courses on interest representation, political behavior, politicization of migration and MA-thesis writing class.

CV

Joost Berkhout earned his PhD-degree at Leiden University in 2010. He has been a visiting researcher at the European University Institute in 2008. Earlier, he obtained masters and bachelors degrees in International Relations and Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam.

PhD Dissertation

Political Activities of Interest Organizations: Conflicting Interests, Converging Strategies , PhD-dissertation, Universiteit Leiden, 2010

Journal articles and book contributions

Timing is Everything?  Organized Interests and the Timing of Legislative Activity, with Dmitr Toshkov, Brendan Carrol, David Lowery,  Interest Groups and Advocacy , advance online publication 25 September 2012

Belangen-organisaties in de Nederlandse democratie: Beleidsexperts of vertegenwoordigers?, with Caelesta Braun-Poppelaars and Marcel Hanegraaff (2011). In Rudy Andeweg and Jacques Thomassen (Eds.). Democratie doorgelicht: Het functione-ren van de Nederlandse democratie (pp. 139-159). Leiden: Leiden University Press.

'The Density of the EU Interest System: A Test of the ESA Model', with Anne Messer and David Lowery, British Journal of Political Science , 40(5), 2010

'Short-Term Volatility in the EU Interest Community', with David Lowery, Journal of European Public Policy , 18 (1) 2011
Data may be used by other researchers, please read note in excel sheet.

'The Changing Demography of the EU Interest System Since 1990 ', with David Lowery, European Union Politics , 11:3, 447-461, 2010

'Measuring the Sizeand Scope of the EU Interest Group Population', with Arndt Wonka, Frank Baumgartner and Christine Mahoney, European Union Politics , 11:3, 463-476, 2010

'Interest Representation in the European Union and Beyond', European Political Science, 8, 469-488, December 2009

'The European Interest System in Comparative Perspective: A Bridge too Far?', West European Politics , 31:6, 1231-1252, 2008, with David Lowery and Caelesta Poppelaars

'Counting Organized Interests in the European Union: A Comparison of Data Sources', Journal of European Public Policy , 15: 4, 489-513, 2008, with David Lowery

'Review of: The Politics of Attention by Bryan D. Jones and Frank R. Baumgartner', Acta Politica , 43:4, 504-507, 2008

'Boekbespreking: Demoraliserende overheid: Een eeuw filmbeleid van J.H.J. van den Heuvel.', Mens en Maatschappij 80:2, 2005

Reports

Deliverable 3.1: The Legal and Policy Situation of Immigrants: Country Report: the Netherlands, SOM project, July 2010, with Tamara Butter and Tesseltje de Lange

Deliverable 2.1: The Demographics of Immigration: Country Report: the Netherlands, SOM project, April 2010, with Laura Sudulich

Deliverable 5.1: Report on Work Plan, SOM project, February 2010, with Laura Sudulich

'Case Report of Political Mobilisation and Communication Strategies of Collective Actors: The Netherlands' http://europub.wz-berlin.de ., July 2004, with Josde Beus, JovankaBoerefijn and Jeannette Mak

Work in progress: conference papers etc.

Politicisation of immigration in The Netherlands, 1995-2009, with Laura Sudulich and Wouter van der Brug, paper prepared for presentation at the IMISCOE conference in Amsterdam, August 2012

Does party system change matter? The effect of party system change on political claimsmaking on migration and integration in the Netherlands, 1995-2009, with Laura Sudulich and Wouter van der Brug, Paper prepared for presentation at the Politicologen EtmaalMay 2012, Amsterdam

Ruedin, Didier and Berkhout, Joost, Patterns of Claims-Making on Civic Integration and Migration in Europe: Are Muslims Different? (May 8, 2012). SOM Working Paper No. 2012-08 . Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2054411 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2054411

The dependencies of independent agencies: Ties of regulators with politics, the regulated sector and expertsin the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, with Christel Koop, Paper presented at the ECPR General Conference, Section 61 - Organised Civil Society in Europe, Panel 173 - Interest Organisation Populations inEurope, Reykjavik, Iceland, August 2011

Patterns of politicization: A three-country comparison on the evolution of the migration issue in response to 9/11, with Wouter van der Brug and Laura Sudulich, Paper prepared for the ECPR General conference in Reykjavik, Iceland. August 2011

'An exchange theory of the activities of interest organizations', Paper presentedat the NIG conference November 2010, Panel 4: Interest Groups and the Policy Process: Revisiting Research on State-Society Relations in Multi-layered Political Systems

Politicisation of migration in the Netherlands, 1995-2009, with Wouter van der Brug and Laura Sudulich, paperpresented at the IMISCOE conference in Amsterdam, August 2012

2015

  • J. Berkhout, B.J. Carroll, C. Braun, A.W. Chalmers, T. Destrooper, D. Lowery, S. Otjes & A. Rasmussen (2015). Interest organizations across economic sectors: explaining interest group density in the European Union. Journal of European Public Policy, 22 (4), 462-480. doi: 10.1080/13501763.2015.1008549[go to publisher's site]
  • J. Berkhout, L. Sudulich & W. van der Brug (2015). The politicisation of immigration in the Netherlands. In W. van der Brug, G. D' Amato, J. Berkhout & D. Ruedin (Eds.), The politicisation of migration (Extremism and democracy) (pp. 97-118). London; New York: Routledge.
  • W. van der Brug, G. D' Amato, J. Berkhout & D. Ruedin (2015). A framework for studying the politicisation of immigration. In W. van der Brug, G. D' Amato, J. Berkhout & D. Ruedin (Eds.), The politicisation of migration (Extremism and democracy) (pp. 1-18). London; New York: Routledge.
  • W. van der Brug, D. Ruedin, J. Berkhout & K. Cunningham (2015). Cross-country comparisons and conclusions. In W. van der Brug, G. D' Amato, J. Berkhout & D. Ruedin (Eds.), The politicisation of migration (Extremism and democracy) (pp. 179-196). London; New York: Routledge.
  • J. Berkhout, D. Ruedin, W. van der Brug & G. D' Amato (2015). Research design. In W. van der Brug, G. D' Amato, J. Berkhout & D. Ruedin (Eds.), The politicisation of migration (Extremism and democracy) (pp. 19-30). London; New York: Routledge.
  • J. Berkhout (2015). Technical appendix: political claims analysis. In W. van der Brug, G. D' Amato, J. Berkhout & D. Ruedin (Eds.), The politicisation of migration (Extremism and democracy) (pp. 197-206). London; New York: Routledge.

2013

2011

  • C. Braun-Poppelaars, J. Berkhout & M. Hanegraaff (2011). Belangenorganisaties in de Nederlandse democratie: beleidsexperts of vertegenwoordigers? In R. Andeweg & J. Thomassen (Eds.), Democratie doorgelicht: het functioneren van de Nederlandse democratie (pp. 139-159). Leiden: Leiden University Press.
  • J. Berkhout & D. Lowery (2011). Short-term volatility in the EU interest community. Journal of European Public Policy, 18 (1), 1-16. doi: 10.1080/13501763.2011.520868

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2012

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2009

2008

  • J. Berkhout (2008). [Review of the book The politics of attention: how government prioritizes problems]. Acta Politica, 43(4), 504-507.

Wetenschappelijke positie

  • J. Berkhout (period: 2008 till 2008). Organizer panel originating from the UACES Specialist Group 'Media and Communication in Europe', September 1 Position at : The UACES Conference 'Exchanging Ideas on Europe 2008; Rethinking the European Union'.
  • J. Berkhout (period: 2008 till 2008). Organizer/ chair panel: Comparative Perspectives in Interest Group Research. Position at : the Third Central European University Graduate Conference in Socal Sciences.
  • J. Berkhout (period: 2008 till 2008). Co-organizer of the panel: Media and democracy: Building consent over Europe? Position at : Annual conference, Edinburgh.

Spreker

Boekredactie

  • W. van der Brug, G. D' Amato, J. Berkhout & D. Ruedin (Eds.). (2015). The politicisation of migration (Extremism and democracy). London; New York: Routledge.
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