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Dirk J. Wolffram <d.j.wolffram@rug.nl> University of Groningen Present research project: Democracy, policy, knowledge. City government in transition, 1870-1940 Special interest in developing themes in political history: democratisation processes, administrative history, history of government policies |
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Address: | Afdeling Geschiedenis/History Department P.O.Box 716 Groningen, Groningen 9700 AS Netherlands |
Primary Phone: | 0031 50 3637699 |
Fax Number: | 0031 3637253 |
Web Page: | https://www.rug.nl/grssh/research/researchgroups/DPK/index |
List Affiliations: | List Editor for H-Low-Countries |
Interests: | Diplomacy and International Relations Ethnic History / Studies European History / Studies Oral History Political History / Studies Urban History / Studies |
Bio: PhD-degree, 1993, University of Amsterdam Publications: Non-dutch articles: In Italian: (with Nico Randeraad), ‘Il pubblico impiego e la mediazione degli interessi. I Paesi Bassi nel 900’ in Guido Melis en Angelo Varni (ed.) , Il lavoro pubblico in Europa (Turijn: Rosenberg&Sellier 2001) 65-80. (with Nico Randeraad) ‘Il “secolo breve” dell’Associazione dei comuni olandesi’, in: Patrizia Dogliani en Oscar Gaspari (ed.), L’Europa dei comuni. Origini e sviluppo del movimento comunale europeo dalla fine dell’Ottocento al secondo dopoguerra (Roma: Donzelli 2003) 149-164. In English ‘Controlled dissensions and shared prosperity. The Netherlands and the Dutch 1880-1996’ in: R. Fuchs and J. Hoet (eds), Flemish and Dutch painting: from Van Gogh, Ensor, Magritte and Mondrian to contemporary artists, (Milaan-New York: Bompiani-Rizzola 1997) 30-61. (with Nico Randeraad), ‘Constraints on Clientelism: the Dutch Path to Modern Politics, 1848-1917’, in: S. Piattoni (ed.), Clientelism and interests in transition. The European experience in historical and comparative perspective (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001) 101-121. (with Nico Randeraad), ‘Dutch administrative culture in a historic perspective’ in F. Hendriks en Th. Toonen (ed.), Polder politics in the Netherlands: The re-invention of consensus democracy in the Netherlands (Aldershot: Ashgate 2001) 41-60. ‘Town planning in the Netherlands and its administrative framework, 1900-1950’, in Jahrbuch für Europäische Verwaltungsgeschichte 15 (2003) 199-217 (with André W.M. Gerrits, eds) Political democracy and ethnic diversity in modern European history (Stanford: Stanford University Press 2005), to be published in July Dutch monographs: Bezwaarden en verlichten. Verzuiling in een Gelderse provinciestad, Harderwijk 1850 - 1925 (Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis 1993). Zeeuwse pachters in de Noordoostpolder. Selectie en bijdrage aan de sociale opbouw, 1945-1962 (Lelystad: De Twaalfde Provincie 1995) 70 jaar ingenieurskunst. Dienst der Zuiderzeewerken 1919-1989 (Lelystad: De Twaalfde Provincie 1997) Vrij van wat neerdrukt en beklemt. Staat, gemeenschap, sociale politiek 1870-1918 (Amsterdam: Wereldbibliotheek 2003) Papers in English: ‘Social politics or planning. A shift in paradigma in the interwar years’, Paper voor de 3rd European Social Science History Conference, 15 april 2000. ‘Democracy, policy, knowledge. The transfer of town planning’, paper for the conference Political Transfer. The use of foreign examples in politics, c. 1789-1960, Groningen, 14-16 january 2004. ‘The welfare state revisited’, paper for the European Social Science History Conference, Berlin, 24-27 march 2004 Courses taught: Many, on Dutch history, on the history of Central and Eastern Europe, on International Relations, on Democracy and Nationalism in Non-Western History |