BARBARA VIS

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLES (refereed)

Vis, Barbara & Dieuwertje Kuijpers (2018 forthcoming), 'Prospect Theory and Foreign Policy Decision-making: Underexposed Issues, Advancements, and Ways Forward', Contemporary Security Policy (accepted for publication).

De Block, Debora & Barbara Vis (2018), 'Addressing the Challenges Related to Transforming Qualitative into Quantitative Data in Qualitative Comparative Analysis', Journal of Mixed Methods Research.

Open access article [ungated]

Van der Velden, Mariken, Gijs Schumacher & Barbara Vis (2018), 'Living in the Past or Living in the Future? Analyzing Parties' Platform Change In-between Elections, The Netherlands 1997 - 2014', Political Communication. Doi: 10.1080/10584609.2017.1384771.

Vis, Barbara (2018), 'Heuristics and Political Elites' Judgment and Decision Making' Political Studies Review (accepted for publication).

Open access article [ungated]

Linde, Jona & Barbara Vis (2017), 'Do Politicians Take Risky Decisions Like the Rest of Us? An Experimental Test of Prospect Theory under MPs', Political Psychology, 38(1): 101-117 [open access].

Online Appendix

Vis, Barbara & Jan Dul (2018 forthcoming), 'Analyzing relationships of necessity not just in kind but also in degree: Complementing fsQCA with NCA', Sociological Methods and Research, OnlineFirst article, doi: 10.1177/0049124115626179 [open access].

Schumacher, Gijs, Marc van der Wardt, Barbara Vis & Michael Baggesen Klitgaard (2015), 'How aspiration to office conditions the impact of government participation on party platform change', American Journal of Political Science, 59(4): 1040-1054.

Pre-print article [ungated] / Supplementary Information / Replication material
Blogs on the article available in English, in Danish, and in Dutch.

Vis, Barbara (2016). 'Taking Stock of the Comparative Literature on the Role of Blame Avoidance Strategies in Social Policy Reform', Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, 18(2): 122-137.

Pre-print article

Van Kersbergen, Kees & Barbara Vis (2015). 'Three Worlds' Typology: Moving Beyond Normal Science?', Journal of European Social Policy, 25(1): 111-123.

Pre-print article

Van Kersbergen, Kees, Barbara Vis & Anton Hemerijck (2014), 'The Great Recession and Welfare State Reform: Is Retrenchment Really the Only Game Left in Town?', Social Policy & Administration, 48(7): 883-904

Vis, Barbara & Kees van Kersbergen (2013), 'Towards an Open Functional Approach to Welfare State Change: Pressures, Ideas, and Blame Avoidance', Public Administration 91(4): 840-854.

Vis, Barbara & Tom Hylands (2013), 'Fat Government, Thin Populace? Is the Growth of Obesity Prevalence Lower in More Generous Welfare States?', International Journal of Social Welfare, 22(4): 360-373.

Schumacher, Gijs, Catherine de Vries & Barbara Vis (2013), 'Why Do Parties Change Position? Party Organization & Environmental Incentives', The Journal of Politics, 75(2): 464-477.

Vis, Barbara, Jaap Woldendorp & Hans Keman (2013), 'Examining Variation in Economic Performance Using Fuzzy-Sets', Quality & Quantity, 47(4): 1971-1989. [web appendix].

Hollanders, David & Barbara Vis (2013), 'Voters' Commitment Problem and the Timing of Welfare-Program Reforms', Public Choice, 155(3-4): 433-448 (open access).

Schumacher, Gijs, Barbara Vis & Kees van Kersbergen (2013), 'Political Parties' Welfare Image, Electoral Punishment and Welfare State Retrenchment', Comparative European Politics, 11(1): 1-21.

Schumacher, Gijs & Barbara Vis (2012), 'When Do Social Democrats Retrench the Welfare State?', Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 15(3): 1-12.

Vis, Barbara (2012), 'The Comparative Advantages of fsQCA and Regression Analysis for Moderately Large-N Analyses', Sociological Methods and Research [web appendix], 41(1): 168-198.

Vis, Barbara, Jaap Woldendorp & Hans Keman (2012), 'Economic Performance and Institutions: Capturing the Dependent Variable', European Political Science Review, 4(1): 73-96.

Vis, Barbara (2011), 'Prospect Theory and Political Decision-making', Political Studies Review, 9(3): 334-343.

Vis, Barbara, Kees van Kersbergen & Tom Hylands (2011), 'To What Extent Did the Financial Crisis Intensify the Pressure to Reform the Welfare State?', Social Policy & Administration, 45(4): 338-353.

Vis, Barbara (2011), Under Which Conditions Does Spending on Active Labor Market Policies Increase? A FsQCA Analysis of 53 Governments between 1985 and 2003, European Political Science Review, 3(2): 229-252 [web appendix].
Replication data [.csv file].

Vis, Barbara (2009), The Importance of Socio-Economic and Political Losses and Gains in Welfare State Reform, Journal of European Social Policy, 19(5): 395-407 [web appendix].

Vis, Barbara (2009), Governments and Unpopular Social Policy Reform: Biting the Bullet or Steering Clear?, European Journal of Political Research, 48(1): 31-57.

Vis, Barbara (2008), The Direction and Scope of Social Policy Change: Regime Specific or Radical Shift Towards Workfare?, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, 10(2): 151-169.

Vis, Barbara, Kees van Kersbergen & Uwe Becker (2008) ,The Politics of Welfare State Reform in the Netherlands: Explaining a Never-Ending Puzzle, Acta Politica , 43(2-3): 333-356.

Vis, Barbara, Jaap Woldendorp & Hans Keman (2007), Do Miracles Exist? Analyzing Economic Performance Comparatively, Journal of Business Research, 60(5): 531-538.

Vis, Barbara & Kees van Kersbergen (2007), Why and How Do Political Actors Pursue Risky Reforms?, Journal of Theoretical Politics, 19(2): 53-172.

Vis, Barbara (2007), States of Welfare or States of Workfare? Welfare State Restructuring in 16 Advanced Capitalist Democracies, 1985-2002, Policy & Politics, 35(1): 105-122 [additional tables].

BOOKS

Van Kersbergen, Kees & Barbara Vis (2016), De Verzorgingsstaat (The Welfare State), Amsterdam University Press, series Elementaire Deeltjes.

Van Kersbergen, Kees & Barbara Vis (2014), Comparative Welfare State Politics: Development, Opportunities, and Reform. Cambridge University Press.

Vis, Barbara (2010), Politics of Risk-Taking: Welfare State Reform in Advanced Democracies. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
You can find reviews of my book here, incl. a recently published one by Marek Naczyk in Czech Sociological Review.

Vis, Barbara (2008), Biting the Bullet or Steering Clear? Politics of (Not-) Unpopular Welfare State Reform in Advanced Capitalist Democracies. Ph.D. Dissertation, Faculty of Social Sciences, VU University Amsterdam. Enschede: PrintPartners Ipskamp.

EDITED VOLUME

Andeweg, Rudy & Barbara Vis (2015) (eds.), Politicologie in Nederland: Van Politisering naar Professionalisering (Political Science in the Netherlands: From Politics to Professionalism), Oudewater: NKWP.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS (* indicates refereed)

Van Kersbergen, Kees & Barbara Vis (2017 forthcoming), 'Algemeen Kiesrecht en de Verzorgingstaat' (Universal Suffrage and the Welfare State) in Monique Leyenaar & Rudy Andeweg (eds.), 100-jaar Algemeen Kiesrecht in Nederland (100-year Universal Suffrage in the Netherlands). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

Vis, Barbara (2017 forthcoming), 'Prospect Theory', in Fathali Moghaddam (ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Political Behavior, Sage (accepted for publication).

Vis, Barbara (2015), 'Hans Daalder: Over de Invloed van het Totalitarisme, Inspiratie in en uit het Buitenland, en Biografieen', in Rudy Andeweg & Barbara Vis (eds.), Politicologie in Nederland: Van Politisering naar Professionalisering (Political Science in the Netherlands: From Politics to Professionalism), Oudewater: NKWP, pp. 7-12.

Vis, Barbara (2015), 'Andries Hoogerwerf: De Politicologie als Verruimer van de Horizon', in Rudy Andeweg & Barbara Vis (eds.), Politicologie in Nederland: Van Politisering naar Professionalisering (Political Science in the Netherlands: From Politics to Professionalism), Oudewater: NKWP, pp. 13-18.

Vis, Barbara & Jaap Woldendorp (2015), 'Same as it Ever Was? The (Lack of) Influence of European Integration on Corporatism in the Low Countries'. In: Hand Vollaard, Jan Beyers & Patrick Dumont (eds.), European Integration and Consensus Politics in the Low Countries. London: Routledge, pp. 155-172. You can find the chapter's web appendix here.*

Vis, Barbara (2013), 'Fundamenteel Onderzoek voor de Publieke Zaak?! Wanneer Impopulaire Maatregelen te Nemen en hoe ermee Weg te Komen' (Fundamental Research for the Public Cause?! When to Take Impopular Measures and How to Get Away with it), in: van Genugten, Marieke, Honingh, Marlies & Trommel, Willem (eds.), Passie voor de Publieke Zaak (Passion for the Public Cause). Den Haag: Boom Lemma, pp. 19-36.

Vis, Barbara (2013), 'How to Analyse Welfare States and their Development?', in: Bent Greve (ed.), International Handbook of the Welfare State. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 274-282.

Vis, Barbara, Kees van Kersbergen & Thomas Hylands (2012), 'To What Extent Did the Financial Crisis Intensify the Pressure to Reform the Welfare State?', in Bent Greve (ed.), The Times They Are Changing? Crisis and the Welfare State. Malden etc.: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 7-22.*

Vis, Barbara (2011), Hervormingsbereidheid en Electoraal Risico (Willingness to Reform and Electoral Risk), in: Michiel Blom and Dirk Scheele (eds.), Het Profijt van Solidariteit: Draagvlak voor Herziening in het Stelsel van Werk en Inkomen (The Value of Solidarity: Support for Revisions in the System of Work and Income). The Hague: Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment, pp.120-127.

Vis, Barbara (2010), 'Political Economy, Comparative', in: George T. Kurian, James E. Alt, Simone Chambers, Geoffrey Garrett, Margaret Levi & Paula D. McClain (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Political Science. CQ Press, pp.1249-1250.

Keman, Hans, Kees van Kersbergen & Barbara Vis (2006), Political Parties and New Social Risks: The Double Backlash against Social Democracy and Christian Democracy, in: Klaus Armingeon and Giuliano Bonoli (eds), The Politics of Post-Industrial Welfare States: Adapting Post-War Social Policies to New Social Risks. London and New York: Routledge, pp.27-51.

Kees van Kersbergen & Barbara Vis (2006), Staat, Macht en Sociale Politiek: De Opbouw, Groei en Hervorming van de Nederlandse Welvaartsstaat, in: Uwe Becker and Philip van Praag (eds), Politicologie. Basisthema's & Nederlandse Politiek . Apeldoorn, Antwerpen: Het Spinhuis, pp.296-321.

RECENT CONFERENCE PAPERS (selection)

Sjoerd Stolwijk & Barbara Vis (2017), 'Do Political Elites Use Cognitive Heuristics Like the Rest of Us?', Paper prepared for the ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Nottingham, UK (April 2017) and for the IMEBESS conference in Barcelona, Spain (April 2017).

Paper also presented at the Dutch/Flemish Politicologenetmaal, Leiden, the Netherlands (June 2017).

Vis, Barbara (2016), 'How to Identify Political Elites' Employment of Heuristics in Political Judgment and Decision Making?', Paper prepared for the ISPP Annual Meeting, Warsaw, Poland (13-16 July 2016).

Paper also presented at the NIG Annual Work Conference, Antwerp, Belgium (24-25 November 2016).

Vis, Barbara (2015), 'Biased Politicians? A State-of-the-Art and Research Agenda of the Heuristics and Biases Influencing Political Judgment and Decision Making', Paper prepared for presentation at the Political Psychology Conference Amsterdam (3-4 December 2015).

Linde, Jona & Barbara Vis (2015), 'The Risk of Political Decisions: Electoral Consequences versus Electoral Uncertainty', Paper prepared for presentation at the 73rd MPSA Conference , Chicago, US (16-19 April, 2015).

Also presented at the 5th Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Vienna, Austria (25-27 June 2015).

Baggesen Klitgaard, Michael, Gijs Schumacher, Barbara Vis & Marc van de Wardt (2015), 'Office Rookies Feeling the Blues: Why and How Parties Change After Office Attainment', Paper prepared for presentation at the 73rd MPSA Conference, Chicago, US (16-19 April, 2015).

Van der Velden, Mariken, Gijs Schumacher & Barbara Vis (2015), 'Do Parties Change their Communication Before or After They Lose? An Analysis of the Amount and Substance of Press Releases Issued by Dutch Political Parties', Paper prepared for presentation at the 73rd MPSA Conference, Chicago, US (16-19 April, 2015).

Paper also presented at the Dutch/Flemish Politicologenetmaal 2014, Maastricht, the Netherlands (12-13 June 2014); at the 4th Annual EPSA Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland (19-21 June 2014), the ECPR General Conference Glasgow, Scotland (3-6 September 2014), and the Dutch/Flemish Politicologenetmaal 2015, Maastricht, the Netherlands (11-12 June 2015).

Linde, Jona & Barbara Vis (2015), 'Do Politicians Take Risky Decisions Similar to the Rest of Us? An Experimental Test of Prospect Theory among Politicians', Paper prepared for presentation at the 73rd MPSA Conference, Chicago, US (16-19 April, 2015).

Paper also presented at the research seminar of M2P, Antwerp University (7 May 2014); and at the Dutch/Flemish Politicologenetmaal 2014 , Maastricht, the Netherlands (12-13 June 2014).

OTHER PUBLICATIONS [incomplete; see CV for full list]

De Block, Debora & Barbara Vis (2017), 'Addressing the Challenges in Using Qualitative Data in Qualitative Comparative Analysis', COMPASSS Working Paper, no. 2017-88. Available here.

Linde, Jona & Barbara Vis (2017), 'The Uncertainty of Welfare Retrenchment's Electoral Consequences', DaWS Working Paper Series, 2017-1. Available here.

Vis, Barbara (2017), 'Prospect Theory', in Fathali Moghaddam (ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Political Behavior, Sage, pp. 670-672.

Vis, Barbara Vis (2014), 'Nik Brandal, Oivind, Bratberg and Dag Einar Thorsen, The Nordic Model of Social Democracy, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013', West European Politics, 37(5), 1191-1192.

Hemerijck, Anton, Verena Draebing, Barbara Vis, Moira Nelson & Menno Soentken (2013), 'European Welfare States in Motion', NEUJOBS Working Paper, D5.2/March 2013 (refereed).

Koole, Karin & Barbara Vis (2012), 'Working Mothers and the State: Under Which Conditions do Governments Spend Much on Maternal Employment Supporting Policies?', COMPASSS WP Series, 2012-71 (refereed).

Vis, Barbara (2012), 'Politieke Barrieres op de Weg naar een Sociale Investeringsagenda' (The Road to a Social Investment Agenda is Filled with Political Hurdles), B & M: Tijdschrift voor Politiek, Beleid en Maatschappij, 39(3): 354-356.

Vis, Barbara (2011), 'Is het Ontduiken van Schuld een Spel?' (Is Blame Avoidance a Game?), B & M: Tijdschrift voor Politiek, Beleid en Maatschappij , 38(3): 360-365 (book review essay).

Vis, Barbara (2011), 'De Crisis: Redder van de Verzorgingsstaat?!' (The Crisis Recues the Welfare State?!)', Talmalezing 2011, Faculty of Social Sciences, VU University Amsterdam.

Schumacher, Gijs & Barbara Vis (2010), 'To Retrench or Not to Retrench: A Simulation of the Strategic Situation of Social Democratic Parties and the Emergence of Welfare State Retrenchment', Working Paper Department of Political Science, VU University Amsterdam, No. 27 (2010/01).

Hollanders, David & Barbara Vis (2009), Voters' Commitment Problem and Welfare-Program Reforms, CentER Discussion Paper, No. 2009-93.

Koole, Karin & Barbara Vis (2009). Verplicht Schoffelen Hoeft Alleen bij Lage Werkloosheid, Kennislink, 14 January 2009.

Vis, Barbara (2009), Peter Starke, Radical Welfare State Retrenchment: A Comparative Analysis, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, Journal of European Social Policy, 19(1): 93-94 (book review).

Van Kersbergen, Kees & Barbara Vis (2007), Verbinden als Machtspolitieke Opdracht, B & M: Tijdschrift voor Politiek, Beleid en Maatschappij, 34(2): 99-102.

Vis, Barbara (2006), Francis G. Castles, The Future of the Welfare State. Crisis Myths and Crisis Realities, Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2004, Acta Politica, 41(4): 464-468 (book review).

Vis, Barbara (2006), States of Welfare or States of Workfare? A Fuzzy-Set Ideal Type Analysis of Major Welfare State Restructuring in Sixteen Advanced Capitalist Democracies, 1985-2002, Compasss Working Paper, No. 2006-42.

All publications are available upon request