The central RQ this thesis poses is: To what extent does the collaborative context in which leaders operate, shape their role perception and the leadership behaviors they employ? The collaborative...Show moreThe central RQ this thesis poses is: To what extent does the collaborative context in which leaders operate, shape their role perception and the leadership behaviors they employ? The collaborative context is that of population care within Dutch safety regions. Through use of a survey and consequetive interviews, this thesis finds that generally, leaders within collaborative governance structures use all leadership behaviors that are described by Yukl (2012), between which they alternate depending on the context. However, a slight preference towards relations-oriented, problem-solving and task-oriented behaviors is visible. Leaders view themselves as the linking pin (or Harlem's oil) that unite all parties and feel responsible for making sure that all parties involved contribute to the collaboration, aiming to secure a public good together.Show less
A state committee is a Dutch ad hoc political advisory instrument that is issued by Royal Decree and usually installed to provide the government with advice on complex, multi-faceted issues. This...Show moreA state committee is a Dutch ad hoc political advisory instrument that is issued by Royal Decree and usually installed to provide the government with advice on complex, multi-faceted issues. This thesis explores the reliance on academic knowledge (scientization) within these state committees in the period 1970-2017 as a result of contemporary literature that argues how science and politics have become more and more intertwined over the last decades. An empirical analysis is executed in which the share of academics in state committees and the use of (academic) citations in committee reports function as indicators to measure the degree of scientization. Besides aiming to generate empirical data on longitudinal changes in the usage of academic knowledge in this type of committees, this thesis also evaluates the democratic effects of the outcomes. It does so by analyzing the quantitative data through different reasonable outlooks on democracy to see which conceptions of democracy show similarities with the outcomes. The quantitative outcomes unequivocally show how an amplified dependence on academic expertise in Dutch state committees can be detected throughout the mentioned period. While both indicators demonstrate an increased degree of scientization in these advisory bodies, the growing presence of academia is the most indubitable one as the share of this profession group has doubled between 1970-2017 and little over 50% of all state committee members after 2000 were academics. The evaluative part of this thesis argues how the increased reliance on academic expertise indicates a shift towards a democracy with more deliberative and epistemic features. At the same time, the developments show less characteristics that are compatible with an aggregative, pluralist or intrinsically justified democracy.Show less