Marcel Boogers

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare the transformations of political leadership at local level in Europe and the United States using conceptual dimensions identified by the literature on political leadership, and show that the strengthening of the executive comes forward as the underlying tendency in contemporary local leadership.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the success of independent local parties in the Netherlands and explore how independent local local parties distinguish themselves ideologically, organisationally, and operationally, showing that they are more successful in performing the organisational, programmatic and nomination function of political parties.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of political web sites in the Dutch parliamentary elections of 2002 is assessed. And the results of the survey reveal that political Web sites are only partly able to involve people in politics who have thus far remained aloof.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an analysis of disaster management in the Netherlands and show that even though guidelines have no official legal status, in practice, they can take on the character of formal regulation when local organizations suspect that they cannot choose alternative courses of action, however well reasoned, without being sanctioned.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effects of the structure of intermunicipal cooperatives on the perceived transaction costs and benefits of IMCs and found that trust contributes to perceptions of effective and efficient cooperation.