Wetenschappelijk Instituut voor het CDA

Wetenschappelijk Instituut voor het CDA
founded in the year	1977
acronym	WI
City	Den Haag
Country	Netherlands
Website	https://www.cda.nl/wi
address	Buitenom 18 2512 XA Den Haag
Networks	European Ideas Network (EIN)
Virtual Networks A "Virtual Network" is a group of Think Tanks identified by certain semantic and normative (ideological) commonalities (e.g. climate change scepticism). Such a virtual network constitutes a research field that differs from the study of formal networks. Formal networks are real in the sense of officially acknowledged and immediately open to empirical validation. Virtual networks on the other hand display shared ideas. Social network analysis tools can be applied to find out if or to what extent virtual networks are real networks that display linkages (membership in networks, personnel, resources etc.). Unconnected think tanks in turn can be considered special cases in need of explanation independent from network structures (unless we have to assume invisible, hidden or covered ties).	Austerity politics
Last revision	5.12.2014

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Organizational Structure and Funding

Address

Buitenom 18 2512 XA Den Haag

People

Executive board

People leading the Think Tank in the day to day business (CEOs, directorates etc.).

• M.J. Fraanje, secretary, board member, m

• Peter J. Van Mierlo, board member

• Raymond H.J.M. Gradus, secretary, board member

• Dirk Jan Van den Berg, board member

• H.J. Bolding, board member, m

• Willem F.C. Stevens, vice chair of the board

• Désirée M. Van Gorp, board member, f

• Theodorus Jozef Franciscus Marie Bovens, chair of the board

• Joannes Franciscus Huibers, treasurer, board member

• Sophie C. Van Bijsterveld, board member, f

• Govert J. Buijs, board member, m

• Gerhardine Ruth Peetoom, board member, f

Staff

People working for the Think Tank (Fellows etc.). This includes also part-time employees.

• Chantal Hakbijl, fellow

• Hubert Beusmans, staff member

• Paul Van Velthoven, editorial team

• Geerten Boogaard, editorial team

• Henry Bontenbal, fellow

• Lútsen Kooistra, editorial team

• Marten Neuteboom, staff member

• Maike Kamps, abcd

• Gerrit De Jong, editorial team

• Mariolijn Van der Stel, editorial team

• Rijn Franje, acting director

• Pieter Jan Dijkman, chief editor, editorial team

• Paul Schenderling, editorial team

• Paul Van Geest, chair editorial team

• Petra Van der Burg, editorial team

• Jan Prij, editorial team

• Teun Hardjono, fellow

• Theo Brinkel, editorial team

Topics

We used the DGs of the EU to generate a basic list of topics. This list is going to be steadily extended. However we try to preserve a persistent list of topics.

Semantic Fields

What we call here a semantic field is the idea to categorize think tanks in a two level system. The first levels are so called 'Virtual Networks' and the second are the semantic fields. Accordingly every semantic field entered here has to be attached to a virtual network. If you would like to follow a special phenomenon among think tanks please contact us and we are going to add a new virtual network. Semantic fields are topics that promote a virtual network. Lets take climate change as an example: 'climate change skeptics' is the virtual network and 'adaption instead of mitigation' would be one possible semantic field.

• Reduction of public expenditures (Austerity Politics): strengthen the capital covered pillar of the pensions system