Bert de Vroom

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Associate Professor of Sociology

Telephone: +31 53 489 3257 / 3280

Fax: +31 53 489 2159

Ravelijn building; room RA 4244

General information

Dr. Bert de Vroom is Associate Professor of Sociology at the School of Management and Governance, University of Twente, The Netherlands. He is head of the department Social Risks and Safety Studies, and member of the Management Team of the School of management and Governance. He is member of the Institute for Governance Studies (IGS), member of the Centre for European Studies, and member of the Netherlands Institute of Government (NIG). He got a BA Cultural anthropology and sociology, and a MA Sociology, both at the University of Amsterdam. He studied Comparative European Politics at the European University Florence, Italy. He got his Ph.D. at the University of Leyden in 1990. Title of dissertation: United Manufacturers. Business interest associations in the Dutch food processing and pharmaceutical Industry: between state and membership. His former positions were Senior Researcher/Coordinator of sociological research at the Research Center ‘Law and Public Policy’, Leyden University, and lecturer in Sociology, Faculty of Sociology, Leyden University.

Expertise

Bert de Vroom has been involved in various international comparative and national research projects, dealing with issues as organized business interests, the relation between changing labour markets and welfare state policies, new risks and social problems such as aids, pensions and ageing, and developments in regulation and governance trends. He has coordinated the European research group “Ageing & Work”, part of the COST A13 Research network “Changing labour markets, welfare state policies and citizenship”. At this moment he is involved in an international research project “Private Pensions and Social exclusion”, and co-ordinates the Dutch country study. He has been an invited expert for different international organizations, a.o. the Japan Institute of Labor Tokyo, the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions in Dublin. At this moment he is involved in an expert group organised by the UN Economic Commission for Europe & European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, on the theme “Sustainable Ageing Societies: Indicators for Effective Policy-making”, and is an invited expert by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and development (OECD) to advise the research project on “Pathways for Students with Disabilities to Tertiary Education and Employment”.

Publications

Books:

1987 Persoonlijke geschiedenissen van arbeiders, fabrikanten, managers en andere betrokkenen uit de Twentse textielindustrie, Zutphen: De Walburg Pers (samen met Frans van Waarden en Jan Laurier)

1990 Verenigde Fabrikanten. Ondernemersverenigingen van de voedings- en geneesmiddelenindustrie; tussen achterban en overheid. (dissertation). Handelseditie: Wolters-Noordhoff, Groningen

1994 Regulating Employment and Welfare - Company and National Policies of Labor Force Participation at the End of Worklife in Industrial Countries. Berlin: De Gruyter, (Together with Frieder Naschold)

1997 Arbeid en Leeftijd in Nederland. Recente voorbeelden van leeftijdbeleid in arbeidsorganisaties, Universiteit Twente

1998 Integraal Bestuur. De behoorlijkheid, effectiviteit en legitimiteit van onderhandelend bestuur, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (Together with A.J. Hoekema, N.F. van Manen, G.M.A. van der Heijden, I.C. van der Vlies).

1998 Betwijfelde Zekerheden. Reacties op nieuwe risico’s in Nederland, Universiteit Twente.

2003 A new Organization of Time throughout Working Life, Dublin: European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Together with C. Barkholdt, J. Goul Andersen, K, Krämer, G. Naegele)

2004 Ageing and the Transitition to Retirement: A Comparative Analysis of European Welfare States, Aldershot: Ashgate (Together with Tony Maltby, Maria Luisa Mirabille, Eina Overbye)

Other recent publications (selection)

Patrick Kenis & Bert de Vroom, “Neue Organisationen und alte Sektoren - Eine Analyse der Organisationen im Bereich HIV/AIDS in einigen europäischen Ländern”. In: A.Evers & T. Olk (Hrsg.) Wohlfahrtspluralismus. Vom Wohlfahrtstaat zur Wohlfahrtsgesellschaft. Opladen 1996, Westdeutscher Verlag 323-347.

Bert de Vroom, Work and Age in the Netherlands. Recent Examples of age-related policy in industrial organizations, Report for the international research project “Combating Age Barriers in Job Recruitment and Training”, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, Dublin, 1996

w	Bert de Vroom & Roland Bal, “Risicopercepties en risicoreacties in een moderniserende samenleving”. In: Justitiële Verkenningen. Themanummer De risicomaatschappij. 1996 Jrg. 22, nr. 5. 24-35.

w	Ineke Kester, Bert de Vroom, Armand van Wolferen, “The Netherlands: The Strong Civil Society Response”, in Patrick Kenis & Berd Marin Managing Aids, Frankfurt am Main/Boulder: Campus/Westview 1997(chapter 2, 52pp)

w	Bert de Vroom, “Een nieuwe rol van ondernemersverenigingen in een herlevend neo-corporatisme”, in J.P. van den Toren en P.J. Vos (red.), Overleeft het Rijnlandse model? Perspectief op arbeidsverhoudingen I, Amsterdam 1997: Nationaal Vakbondsmuseum/Stichting beheer IISG. (p.85-91:7p).

w	Romke van der Veen, Willem Trommel, Bert de Vroom, “Institutional Change of Welfare States. Empirical reality, theoretical obstacles”, in H.Wagenaar (ed.), Government Institutions: Effects, Changes and Normative Foundations, The Hague 2000, Kluwer Academic Publishers, p.33-53

w	Bert de Vroom, “Cittadinanza e welfare nelle “quatro Europe” sociale”, in Lavoratori maturi, ocuupazione e modelli di welfare, Roma: Spi Cgil e Ires Conferenza europea, 2000 (p.15-21).

Bert de Vroom, “The Dutch reaction to contaminated blood: an example of cooperative governance”, in Mark Bovens, Paul ’t Hart and B. Guy Peters (Eds.), Success and Failure in Public Governance. A Comparative Analysis, Cheltenham UK/Northampton USA: Edward Elgar 2001 (p.508-532).(ISBN 1-84064-088-X)

w	Bert de Vroom, “The Dutch Response to the Ageing Society”, in Employment and Social Policy for Older Workers. USA, the Netherlands, UK, France, Germany, Sweden and Japan, Tokyo, The Japan Institute of Labour, 2001.

w	Bert de Vroom, “Worksharing. Policies and Practices in the Netherlands”, Japan Institute of Labour, Tokyo, December 2001.

w	Bert de Vroom & Anne-Marie Guillemard, “Francia e Paesi Bassi. Dall’esternalizzazione all’integrazione dei lavoratori anziani”, in L’Assistenza Sociale. Rivista trimestrale sulle prospettive del welfare, gennaio-giugno 2001, Milan/Roma (p.159-191)

w	Bert de Vroom & Anne-Marie Guillemard, “Institutional changes at the end of the Worklife. From externalisation to integration of ageing workers”, in Goul Andersen & Jensen (eds.), Changing Labour Markets, Welfare Policies, and Citizenship, Bristol 2002, Polity Press.

w	Willem Trommel & Bert de Vroom, “New institutional forms of welfare production. Some implications for citizenship”, in Goul Andersen & Jensen (eds.), Changing Labour Markets, Welfare Policies, and Citizenship, Bristol 2002, Polity Press.

w	Bert de Vroom & Duco Bannink, “De onberekenbare toekomst. De verschuivende overgang van werk naar pensioen in Europese verzorgingsstaten”, in Tijdschrift voor Arbeidsvraagstukken, Vol.22(2), 2006, 93-108.

w	Duco Bannink & Bert de Vroom, “Obligatory Voluntarism. The Dutch case in comparative perspective”, in P.Bridgen and T.Meier (eds.) Private Pensions and Social Inclusuin. The reliability of non-state arrangements for citizens in sic European countries, Edward Elgar (in press).

w	Bert de Vroom & Duco Bannink, “Changing Life Courses and new Social Risks” in Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, (forthcoming early 2008).

Lectures

·	European Social Integration

·	European Social Policies

·	Strategy and External Environment

·	Sociology of Social problems