Er is in de (inter)nationale literatuur al veel onderzoek gedaan naar coalitievorming. Deze spitst zich voornamelijk toe op nationale overheden. Dit onderzoek richt zich op een schaars onderzocht...Show moreEr is in de (inter)nationale literatuur al veel onderzoek gedaan naar coalitievorming. Deze spitst zich voornamelijk toe op nationale overheden. Dit onderzoek richt zich op een schaars onderzocht fenomeen: de formatieperiode in gemeenten. Iedere vier jaar wordt een nieuwe gemeenteraad gekozen in de ruim 340 gemeenten in Nederland. Tegenwoordig kiest bijna de helft van de gemeenten voor een externe formateur ter begeleiding van de coalitievorming. Daarom is in dit onderzoek aan de hand van acht semigestructureerde interviews onderzocht welke factoren formateurs overwegen wanneer zij partijen uitnodigen voor coalitiegesprekken. Hierbij is gekeken naar verschillende door de literatuur aangedragen factoren, zoals hoe de onderhandelende partijen zich politiek verhouden, hoe de partijen willen samenwerken, welke rol het verleden en ervaring speelt en welke rol persoonlijke verhoudingen spelen. Uit het onderzoek is een aantal interessante bevindingen gekomen. Zo blijkt dat naast inhoudelijke verschillen persoonlijke verhoudingen en ervaringen een cruciale rol spelen in de formatiestrategie van formateurs. Daarnaast blijkt dat de theorie met betrekking tot nationale coalitievorming goed toepasbaar is op gemeenten.Show less
The COVID-19 pandemic had a substantial impact on Dutch public organizations, and on society as a whole. This study aims to explore the leadership preferences among public servants during times of...Show moreThe COVID-19 pandemic had a substantial impact on Dutch public organizations, and on society as a whole. This study aims to explore the leadership preferences among public servants during times of crisis, and to make concrete recommendations for further research into the underdeveloped knowledge on public leadership preferences in times of crisis. To do so, semistructured interviews were conducted with employees from the municipalities of The Hague and Gouda, during which they were asked to report their needs in terms of three leadership styles: laissez-faire, transactional and transformational. The study found that transformational leadership was preferred during the pandemic and encourages fellow researchers to verify this using quantitative means. Further recommendations include the reexamination of the usefulness of laissez-faire leadership and the usage of different leadership frameworks to touch upon other behaviors.Show less
The people’s voting choice is not only influenced by political parties, but also by the individual politicians themselves. This personalization of politics could be due tot certain character traits...Show moreThe people’s voting choice is not only influenced by political parties, but also by the individual politicians themselves. This personalization of politics could be due tot certain character traits of politicians, but also due to their personal characteristics. This thesis researches the latter at a municipal election in The Netherlands in 2022. A regression analysis has been conducted using the election results from The Hague and the composition of the different neighborhoods in terms of migration backgrounds. More specifically, it has been explored whether intraparty preference voting is influenced by the migration backgrounds of the voter on the one hand and the candidate on the other hand. The results of this research suggest that voters with a migration background are more likely to cast a preference vote for candidates that also have a migration background. This is shown by the effect that in neighborhoods that have relatively more residents with a migration background, more votes are casted on candidates with a migration background. This has implications for the way parties should compose their electoral lists and could raise the question whether the preferential threshold should be lowered to increase diversity in representative bodies.Show less
Objectives: the growing trend for both public and private organisations to introduce hybrid work locations is giving employees an opportunity to work both remote and proximal from their...Show moreObjectives: the growing trend for both public and private organisations to introduce hybrid work locations is giving employees an opportunity to work both remote and proximal from their organisations. The goal of this thesis study is uncovering the contextual antecedents of leadership behaviours as a result of a work environment characterized by physical distance. Due to a lack of theoretical work on leadership which adequately understands the dual impact of both globalization and technology, this study seeks to develop a more in-depth understanding of the antecedent-conditions of physical distance and the relationship with the emergence of the task-oriented leadership behaviours: monitoring and clarifying, and the relations-oriented leadership behaviours: supporting and empowering. Four deductively constructed hypotheses are testing as possible mechanisms: feelings of uncertainty and stress, communication quality, trust in the leader-follower relationship and perceived control, as guiding the relationship between physical distance and the emergence of leadership behaviours. Methods: the research method is qualitative in nature and follows a deductive explanatory research approach. To accomplish this goal the research design is a single-case study using primary data collected through semi-structured interviews with a municipal leader and four followers measuring their intended and perceived leadership behaviours from a single, and their immediate, municipal leader. Results: the findings indicate that physical distance can be considered an antecedent-condition for the emergence of both task- and relations-oriented leadership behaviours. Additionally, two out of the four tested mechanisms did show a relationship between the work condition of physical distance and the emergence of leadership behaviours. The mechanism: feelings of uncertainty and stress increased the task-oriented leadership behaviour monitoring, while the mechanism: lowered perceived control increased the relations-oriented leadership behaviour empowering.Show less
