Gerard Breeman: Profile Politics of Attention and Policy Change

Publications within this profile

Comparative Agenda-Setting

Scientific articles and book chapters

· Breeman, G. and A. Timmermans (2018 forthcoming). Horizontal and Vertical Attention Dynamics: Environmental Problems on Executive Policy Agendas in EU Member States. In: Baumgartner, F., C. Breunig, & E. Grossmann, The Comparative Agenda’s Setting Project: state of the art. Chicago, Chicago University Press. (*)
· Breeman, G, P. Scholten, and A. Timmermans (2015) Analysing Local Policy Agendas: How Dutch Municipal Executive Coalition Allocate Attention, Local Governement Studies, Volume 41 (1), 20-43.
· Timmermans, A and G. Breeman (2014) The Policy Agenda in Multiparty Government: Coalition Agreements and Legislative Activity in the Netherlands. In: C. Green-Pedersen and S. Walgrave (eds.) Agenda Setting, Policies and Political Systems: A Comparative Approach, pp. 86-104, Chicago: Chicago University Press.
· Timmermans, A and G. Breeman (2012) Morality Issues in the Netherlands: Coalition Politics under Pressure, In: I. Engeli, Chr.Green-Pedersen and L. Thorup Larsen (eds) Morality Politics in Western Europe: Parties, Agendas and Policy Choices, (pp 35-61). Basingstoke: Palgrave.
· Breeman, G. and A. Timmermans (2012) Myths and milestones: the Europeanization of the legislative agenda in the Netherlands. In: Brouard, S., König, T., Olivier (Eds.). (Studies in Public Choice): The Europeanization of Domestic Legislatures. The Empirical Implications of the Delors' Myth in Nine Countries. New York: Springer.
· Jennings, W., S. Bevan, A. Timmermans, G. Breeman, S. Brouard, L. Chaques-Bonafont, C. Green-Pedersen, P. John, P. Mortensen, and A. Palau (2011) Effects of the core functions of government on the diversity of executive agendas, Comparative Political Studies 44(8): 1001-1030.
· Mortensen P. C. Green-Pedersen, G. Breeman, L Chagues, W. Jennings, A. Palau, and A. Timmermans (2011) Comparing government agendas: executive speeches in the Netherlands, United Kingdom, and Denmark, Comparative Political Studies 44 (8): 973-1000.
· Timmermans, A.; Breeman, G.E. (2010) Politieke waarheid en dynamiek van de agenda in coalitiekabinetten. In: Jaarboek parlementaire Geschiedenis 2010: Waarheidsvinding en Waarheidsbeleving / Baalen, C. van, Breedveld, W., Leenders, M., Merriënboer, J. van, Ramakers, J., Turpijn, J., Amsterdam : Boom.
· Breeman, G., L. Chaques, C. Green-Pedersen, W. Jennings, P. Mortensen, A. Palau, and A. Timmermans (2009) Comparer les agendas gouvernementaux: les “discours du Trône” aux Pays-Bas, au Royaume-Uni, au Danemark et en Espagne, Revue Internationale de Politique Comparée 16(3): 405-421.
· Brouard, S., J. Wilkerson, F. Baumgartner, A. Timmermans, S. Bevan, G. Breeman, C. Breunig, L. Chaques, C. Green-Pedersen, W. Jennings, P. John, B. Jones, D. Lowery (2009) Comparer les productions Legislatives: Enjeux et Methodes, Revue Internationale de Politique Comparée 16(3): 381-404.
· Breeman, G., A. Dewulf, W. Pot, and A. Timmermans (2009) Evolutie van het Klimaatvraagstuk: Agendadynamiek en Framing van het Klimaatprobleem in de Media, Bestuurskunde 18(4): 27-37. (Trans.: Evolution of climate change policies: Agenda setting and framing of climate change in the media) (*)
· Breeman, G., D. Lowery, C. Poppelaars, S. Resodihardjo, A. Timmermans, and J. de Vries (2009). Political Attention in a Coalition System: Analysing Queen's Speches in the Netherlands 1945-2007, Acta Politica 44(1), 1–27.
· Breeman, G., A. Timmermans, D. Lowery, C. Poppelaars, and S. Resodiharjo (2008) De politieke aandachtscyclus voor openbaar bestuur en democratie, Beleid & Maatschappij 35(3), 172-189.
· Breeman, G.E.; Timmermans, A. (2009) Maatschappelijke pressie en bestuurlijke responsiviteit.In: Naar een collegiaal en samenhangend overheidsbestuur: de lokale bestuurspraktijk als wenkend perspectief voor het rijk? / Bekke, H., Breed, K., Jong, P. de, . - Den Haag : SDU Uitgevers.
· Breeman, G.E.; Timmermans, A.; Vries, J. de (2007) De Politiek van de aandacht, Binnenlands Bestuur 28 (21.9.2007). - p. 28 - 29.

Reports and advice (commissioned research)

· Breeman, G.E.; Timmermans, A.; Dalfsen, F. van (2011) Politiek van de aandacht voor het Nederlandse veiligheidsbeleid. Een onderzoek naar maatschappelijke dynamiek, politieke agendavorming en prioriteren in het Nederlandse veiligheidsstelsel. Wageningen : Wageningen University.
· Breeman, G. and A. Timmermans (2008) Politiek van de aandacht voor milieubeleid: een onderzoek naar maatschappelijke dynamiek, politieke agendavorming en prioriteiten in het Nederlandse milieubeleid. Wageningen : Wettelijke Onderzoekstaken Natuur & Milieu, (WOT-rapport 77). (trans.: Politics of attention of environmental policies: societal dynamics, agendasetting and priorities in the Dutch environmental policies. Research commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture). (*)
· Breeman, G.E. (2008) Responsieve overheid: hoe, waarom, wanneer, onder welke voorwaarden komen milieu beleidsthema's op de maatschappelijke en politieke agenda? In: Kennismarkt 3 april 2008 : van onderbouwend onderzoek Wageningen UR naar producten MNP. - Wageningen : Wettelijke Onderzoekstaken Natuur en Milieu, (WOT-werkdocument 100) (*).

Trust and policy change

· Breeman, G. (2015) Hermeneutic methods in trust research (2^nd ed). Chapter 18 In: Lyon, F., Möllering, G. & Saunders, M.N.K (Eds.). Handbook of Research Methods on Trust. second edition, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
· Breeman, G. (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. (2007) De maakbaarheid van sociaal vertrouwen, B en M : tijdschrift voor politiek, beleid en maatschappij 34 (2). - p. 131 - 134.
· Breeman, G. (2006) (BOOK) Cultivating Trust: How do public policies become trusted. PhD thesis, Leiden university. (about Dutch agricultural policy) (*)
· Breeman, G.E. (2006) Bestuurswetenschappelijke kroniek: media aandacht, beleid en criminaliteit, Bestuurswetenschappen 60 (5). - p. 421 - 424.
· Breeman, G.E. (2003) Het proces van vertrouwen in de Nederlandse landbouw, Krisis, (1) 19-35 (*).

Public administration and policy

Since 2006 I have been co-author of an introductory handbook to Dutch Public Administration (De Bestuurlijke Kaart van Nederland). The book is used by 19 universities and sells 2,200 copies a year.: Breeman, G. E., Van Noort, W. J., & Rutgers, M. R. (2008 (4^e ed.), 2012 (5^e ed.), 2016 (6^e ed.)). De bestuurlijke kaart van Nederland. Coutinho.
Breeman, G. (2004) De Nederlandsche Bank, In: Compendium Publiek en Samenleving. C1600, 1- 21
Breeman, G. (2002), De Ambitie van de Beleidswetenschap, Bestuurswetenschappen, (6), 553-555.
Breeman, G. (2001), De Waarde van Loononderhandelingen, Bestuurswetenschappen, (5), 430-432.

Relevant activities within this profile

Regular teaching

Principal lecturer of the course: European Union Institutions and Policies (20012-2013, BA and MA, appr. 20 students). A free elective course that I developed and introduced at Wageningen University. The course included a fieldtrip to Brussels (*).
Principal lecturer of the course: Introduction to Public Policy (2015-2017, BA level, appr. 250 students) (*).
Lecturer of the course: Strategic management (2005-2006) MA level, appr. 40 students
Lecturer: Bachelor thesis project (2015-2016), appr. 17 students
Lecturer: Research design (2016) MA level, appr. 50 students
Lecturer: Media logics (2017-2018) MA level, appr 25 students
Supervisor of numerous master theses about agenda-setting and policy change
Co-promotor and daily supervisor of the following PhD theses (*).

P. Zwaan (2012): Struggling with Europe: How initiators of horizontal forms of governance respond to EU formal rules.
J. Candel (2016): Putting food on the table: the European Union governance of the wicked problem of food security. (Winner of the Van Poelje Price of the best PhD of public administration and political sciences, 2016)
A. van Buitenen (ongoing): What Makes Global Agri Commodities Regimes Addressing Sustainability Successful

Special programs and other activities

Between 2007-2014 (7 years) I lectured in the PhD introductory course for all Dutch public administration and political science students as part of the programme of the Dutch Institute of Government.
Between 1999-2009 (10 years) I lectured in the National Civil Service Trainee Programme in the Netherlands the course: ‘Core themes of public administration and the PhD experience’ (25 trainees, 6 modules of 2 days).
Convener of the Annual Comparative Agendas conference 2007. The Hague
Contract officer (2000), United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome - Developing case study materials for international education programmes

Media appearances, web-publications

Speeches and guest lectures[1]

Presentation Steptalk about the budget and the speech from the Throne, 19 September 2017.
Montesquieu Institute (MI) Hoe ontstaan beleidsveranderingen? 04-09-2009, The Hague. (trans.: How do policies change?) (*)
Guest lecture Public Affairs (2016), Center for Professional Learning, post graduate practitioners course.

Academic Networks

I am co-director of the Dutch agenda setting team and participate in the international network of the Comparative Agenda’s project. This has resulted in a wide variety of data-sets: http://www.comparativeagendas.net/netherlands.

Data-sets and Code-books

Then, H.; Breeman, G.E. (2012) Automated Document Classification for the social sciences using supervised machine learning: trade-offs between reliability and efficiency. (including softeware tool) In: ATISR 2012, International Conference on Applied and Theoretical Information Systems Research. Taipei, Taiwan : Academy of Taiwan Information Systems Research, International Conference on Applied and Theoretical Information Systems Research, Taipei, Taiwan, 10-12 February 2012.
Breeman, G. and A. Timmermans (2017) Politiek van de aandacht. Het Nederlandse codeboek voor onderzoek naar politieke- en maatschappelijke agendavorming, Leiden, Leiden Universiteit.

Dataset, coded in accordance with the comparative agendas research rules:

o Nederlandse wetgevingsvoorstellen (bills), 1980-2009

o Troonredes, 1945-2017

o Introductieparagrafen van de budgetten van het ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken (en Koninkrijksrelaties), 1985-2009

o EU richtlijnen (COM documenten), 1975 – 2007

o Regeerakkoorden, 1963-2017

o Coalitieakkoorden 6 grote steden, 1986-2014

o NRC, milieu-berichtgeving, 1990-2008

o Mondelinge Kamervragen, wekelijks vragenuurtje, 1984-2009

o Spoeddebatten, 2004-2009

Research proposals

· Participating in project Comparative analysis of morality issues in Europe (2010) (funded by European Science Foundation/EUROCORES and the Danish Social Science Research Council) 5k Euro (granted)
· Breeman, G., K. Marx, A. Timmermans, (2009). Policy Agenda’s Database Construction, Investment Subsidy, Medium. 300k Euro. (eligible, but no budget available at that moment)
· Participating in project ‘The Europeanization of Domestic Legislatures’ (2009) (funded by European Science Foundation/EUROCORES) 10k Euro (granted)
· Breeman, Timmermans (2008) Maatschappelijke en politieke agendavorming in Nederland, vervolg onderzoek, Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Veiligheid 25k Euro (granted)
· Breeman,G. D. Lowery, A. Timmermans (2007). A policy agendas and public issues database and monitor Medium Investment Application (eligible after adjustments-> no second round)
· Breeman, Timmermans (2007) Maatschappelijke en politieke agendavorming in Nederland, Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Veiligheid 25k Euro (granted)
· Timmermans, Breeman (2007) National Agenda Dynamics and Europeanization: Comparing policies and countries, Eurocores agency. 200k Euro (not eligible)
· WOT politics of attention (December 2006): Responsieve overheid, Een onderzoek naar maatschappelijke dynamiek, politieke agendavorming en prioriteiten in het Nederlandse Natuur en Milieubeleid. Environmental assessment agency, together with university of Twente (trans.: Agenda setting in Dutch environmental policies). Research grant: 110,000 EUR (*)
· Lowery, Timmermans, Breeman (2006) Democratic Responsiveness: Attention Shifts and Policy Priority Setting 550k Euro (not eligible)

Other Activities (outside this profile)

My other academic profile concerns with food and agricultural governance.
I am initiator and co-convener of the ECPR research network for food and agricultural policy and governance. I organize panels and sessions about this topic and participate in scientific projects.

Management (*)

Member of the board (2016- ), Institute of Public Administration, Leiden University
Chair alumni committee (2016-), Institute of Public Administration, Leiden University
Member of the ethical committee (2017 - ), Leiden University.
Financial management of the Public Administration & Policy Group (2008-2015)
Official representative of Wageningen University to the European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR)
Member of the Education Committee of Communication Studies, Wageningen University (2013-2015)
Member of the board (2004-2006), Department public administration, Leiden university.

(*) Also mentioned in my other academic profile

[1] Does not include presentations during scientific conferences

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