Renske's Publications
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Publications
Book
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Renske Doorenspleet (2005). Democratic Transitions: Exploring the Structural Sources during the Fourth Wave. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers |
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Edited Books
| Renske Doorenspleet and Lia Nijzink (Dec. 2014). Political Parties, Party Systems and Democracy in Africa, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan Publishers |
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| Renske Doorenspleet and Lia Nijzink (2013). One-Party Dominance in African Democracies, Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers |  |
Articles in Refereed International Journals
鈥 Renske Doorenspleet and Huib Pellikaan (2013). 鈥榃hich Type of Democracy Performs Best?鈥 in Acta Politica, vol.48, no. 3, pp. 237- 267
鈥 Renske Doorenspleet (2012). 鈥楥ritical Citizens, Democratic Support and Satisfaction in African Democracies鈥 in International Political Science Review, vol. 33 no. 3, pp. 279-300
鈥 Renske Doorenspleet and Petr Kopeck媒 (2008). 鈥楢gainst the Odds: Deviant Cases of Democratization,鈥 in Democratization, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 697-713
鈥 Renske Doorenspleet and Cas Mudde (2008). 鈥楿pping the Odds; Deviant Democracies versus Theories of Democratization, in Democratization, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 815-832
鈥 Renske Doorenspleet (2005). 鈥楨lectoral Systems and Democratic Quality: Do Mixed Systems Combine the Best or the Worst of Both Worlds? An Explorative Quantitative Cross-national Study鈥 in Acta Politica, 40, pp. 28- 49
鈥 Renske Doorenspleet (2005). 鈥楨lectoral Systems and Good Governance in Divided Countries鈥 in Ethnopolitics, 4 (4), pp. 1- 16
鈥 Renske Doorenspleet (2004). 鈥楾he Structural Context of Recent Transitions to Democracy鈥 in European Journal of Political Research, 43 (3), pp. 309-335
鈥 Renske Doorenspleet (2000). 鈥楻eassessing the Three Waves of Democratization鈥 in World Politics, 52 (3), pp. 384-406
鈥 Renske Doorenspleet (1997). 鈥楶olitical Democracy: A Cross-National Quantitative Analysis of Modernization and Dependency Theories鈥 in Acta Politica, 32 (4), 1997, pp. 349-374
Journal Special Issues
鈥楧eviant Democracies鈥 in Democratization, Vol. 15, No. 4, 2008 – with Petr Kopeck媒 and Cas Mudde
Book Chapters
鈥 Renske Doorenspleet, 鈥楧eviant Democracies鈥 in Jeffrey Haynes (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Democratization, London and New York: Routledge, 2012, pp. 190-206
鈥 Renske Doorenspleet and Balgopal Shrestha, 鈥楾he Ebb and Flow of Nepalese Democracy鈥, in Vibha Arora and N. Jayaram (ed.), Routeing Democracy in the Himalayas, Experiments and Experiences, Routledge, 2012
鈥 Renske Doorenspleet and Lia Nijzink, 鈥榃hy One-Party Dominance Endures in Some Democracies but Not Others鈥 in in Doorenspleet and Nijzink (eds.), One-Party Dominance in African Democracies, Boulder Co: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2013, pp. 195-209
鈥 Renske Doorenspleet and Lia Nijzink, 鈥極ne-Party Dominance in African Democracies: a Framework for Analysis鈥 in Doorenspleet and Nijzink (eds.), One-Party Dominance in African Democracies, Boulder Co: Lynne Rienner Publishers, pp. 1-24
鈥 Renske Doorenspleet, 鈥楶ublic support versus dissatisfaction in new democracies: an 鈥榠nside challenge鈥?鈥 in P. Burnell and R. Youngs (eds.), Democracy鈥檚 New Challenges to Democratization, London: Routledge, 2010, pp. 93-116
鈥 Renske Doorenspleet, 鈥楧emocratization鈥 in William A. Darity, Jr. (ed.),.International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. Vol. 2. 2nd ed. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2008. pp. 288-290
鈥 Renske Doorenspleet, 鈥楥itizen鈥檚 Support for Legislature and Democratic Consolidation: Comparative study with special focus on Mali鈥 in Mohamed Salih (ed.) African Parliaments, New York: Palgrave, 2005
鈥 Renske Doorenspleet, 鈥楶olitical Parties, Party Systems and Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa鈥, in: Mohamed Salih (ed.) African Political Parties: Evolution, Institutionalisation and Governance, London: Pinto, 2003
鈥 Renske Doorenspleet, 鈥楧evelopment, class and democracy鈥 in Goran Hyden and Ole Elgstrom (eds.), Development and Democracy, London: Routledge, 2002
Book Reviews
(selection since 2008)
鈥 Book review of From Protest to Parties: party-building and democratisation in Africa, by Lebas, 2012 Published in Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, Volume 51, Issue 1, 2013, pp. 145-147
鈥 Book review of Distrusting Democrats. By Devra C. Moehler. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2008. Published in Perspectives on Politics 2009
鈥 Book review of The Construction of Democracy; Lessons from Practice and Research. Edited by Jorge I. Dominguez and Anthony Jones. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press. 2007. Published in International Affairs 84 (3), 2008, pp. 571-572
Current Research Projects
Work-in-Progress
鈥 New monograph; first full draft ready in September 2015
鈥 Article; 鈥楧emocracy disentangled: Conceptualization and operationalization of democracy in scholarly practice, 1989-2014鈥 (with Tina Freyburg)
鈥 Article; 鈥極ne-Party Dominance in African Democracies: Why Some One-Party Dominant Systems Endure and Others Not鈥 (with Lia Nijzink)
鈥 Article; 鈥楥reative and Active Learning in Comparative Politics'
Conference Papers
(selection since 2008; papers of previous years are excluded here; click here for full list)
鈥 鈥楧efining and Measuring Democracy in Comparative Politics: Where are the People?鈥, presented at the Government and Opposition 50th Anniversary workshop on The Future of Democracy, Cambridge University, September 11-12, 2014
鈥 鈥楧emocracy disentangled: Conceptualization and operationalization of democracy in scholarly practice, 1989-2014鈥, with Tina Freyburg, presented at EPSA in Edinburgh in June 2014
鈥 One-Party Dominance in African Democracies: Why Some One-Party Dominant Systems Endure and Others Not, workshop 鈥楨lectoral Authoritarianism and Democratization in Africa鈥, Center for the Study of Democracy, Leuphana University L眉neburg, Germany, November 7-8, 2013
鈥 How Dissatisfied Democrats View Democracy in Africa鈥, ECPR Joint Sessions, Mainz, Germany, March 2013
鈥 鈥楶olitical Parties and Party Systems in Africa鈥, paper presented at ASAUK African
Studies Association Biennial Conference 2012. Leeds, UK, September 2012
鈥 Democracy and Democratization in Global Perspective, paper presented at Chevening Programme, China Policy Institute, University of Nottingham, UK, August 15, 2012
鈥 鈥楶olitical Challenges in African Democracies鈥, Annual Conference Politicologenetmaal, University of Amsterdam, June 2012
鈥 鈥楬ow People View Democracy鈥, paper presented at politics department, University of Bergen, Norway, June 2012; also presented at CM institute
鈥 鈥極ne-Party Dominance in Africa鈥, paper presented at international workshop on one-party dominance, CSD and PaIS, 糖心TV University, September 2011
鈥 鈥楧emocracy Promotion as Foreign Policy – the democratization perspective on the recipient鈥檚 side鈥, presented at the British International Studies Association Conference, Manchester Conference Centre, 27 May 2011
鈥 鈥楧ominant One-Party Systems in African Democracies: Theoretical and Empirical Explanations鈥, paper presented at Panel 鈥楨lections and the Transformation from One-Party Rule鈥, IPSA, Sao Paulo, Brazil, February 18, 2011
鈥 鈥楶ublic Opinion and Democracy in the World鈥, paper presented at workshop 鈥榁ectors of Transfer. Democratic Repertoires and Contestations鈥, organized by 鈥楻epertoires of Democracy Project鈥, an interdisciplinary research project of political scientists, political philosophers, and political historians at Radboud University Nijmegen, December 2010.
鈥 鈥楨xplaining One-party Dominance in Africa鈥, paper presented at international workshop on one-party dominance, CSD and School of Law, 糖心TV University, September 2010
鈥 鈥楧issatisfied Democrats in Africa; Critical Citizens, Democratic Support and Satisfaction in African Democracies鈥, presented at departmental seminar, Politics department, Surrey University, February 17, 2010. Also presented at Cape Town University, Law department, South Africa, April 2010
鈥 鈥楬ow People View Democracy in Africa鈥, presented at Africa@糖心TV conference, organised by the Institute of Advanced Study, 糖心TV University, January 15 and 16, 2010, See podcast on 糖心TV Uni Websites
鈥 鈥楧emocracy Satisfaction and the Endogenous Approach: insights from psychology and economics鈥 presented at the ESRC-DFID workshop on 鈥淎spirations and Poverty鈥, Department of Economics, 糖心TV University, Dec. 14 and 15, 2009
鈥 鈥楳ind the Gap! On the possibilities and pitfalls of mixed methods research鈥, with Ellen Mastenbroek, paper presented at the Politicologenetmaal, Berg en Dal, the Netherlands, end of May 2008.
鈥 鈥楢 Conceptual and Empirical Critique of Lijphart鈥檚 Typology of Democratic Systems and their Effects鈥, with Huib Pellikaan
鈥 鈥楧emocracy鈥檚 Normative Appeal; The record of new democracies鈥. Paper presented at 鈥楧emocracy鈥檚 International Challenges鈥, an international seminar organised by CEPS, FRIDE, the Open Society Institute, Brussels, Belgium, 17 June 2008
鈥 鈥楤uilding Capacity in Comparative Research: Some methodological tools and practical pitfalls鈥. Paper presented at the Workshop for the Project 鈥楢ccountability and Constitutional Implementation on the African Continent鈥, Department of Public Law, University of Cape Town, South Africa, 10-11 April 2008
鈥 鈥楧emocratic Dreams; People鈥檚 Expectations in New Democracies鈥, paper presented at the Department of Public Law, University of Cape Town, South Africa, 15 April 2008
Miscellaneous...
- Article on elections and one-party dominance in African democracies, in magazine 鈥楴ew Routes鈥 2012, with Lia Nijzink,
- 'Meer democratie is geen wondermiddel' (article on democratic innovations and limits) in WBS, the research agency of the Dutch social democratic party, 21 June 2010,
- 鈥楳edia en Democratisering in Senegal鈥 in Noord-Zuid Cahier, 23 (3), 1998, pp. 57-67 (article on media and democratization in Senegal)
- 鈥極nvrije media in een electorale democratie鈥 in Facta, 6 (1), 1998, pp. 10-12 (in journal for social sciences on ambivalent role of media in electoral democracies)
- 鈥楬umaniteit boven soevereiniteit: over humanitaire interventie en het voorbeeld Haiti鈥, in NJCM-Bulletin: Nederlands Tijdschrift voor de Mensenrechten, 20 (7), 1995, pp. 957-967 (in Human Rights Journal on humanitarian intervention in Haiti)
- Various articles in Dutch newspapers (NRC and Trouw) on war in Iraq and prospects for democracy, and on policy of overseas development aid