Caelesta Braun
Professor Public Governance and Civil Society
- Name
- Prof.dr. C.H.J.M. Braun
- Telephone
- +31 70 800 9977
- c.h.j.m.braun@fgga.leidenuniv.nl
Caelesta Braun's research expertise includes political advocacy, interest group politics, public decision-making, bureaucratic politics and regulatory governance. She studies the role of non-state stakeholders in public decision-making and regulation and how we can make sure to involve stakeholders in executive politics in an inclusive and effective way. In addition, she studies how stakeholders can succesfully strategize to influence legislative and regulatory decision-making.
More information about Caelesta Braun
News
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Public Administration celebrates its anniversary, professors reflect: '40 years young!' -
Lobbying the Courts workshop -
Leiden Governance Programme to start offering their first modules
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How to create a balanced lobby register? Researchers develop assessment framework on behalf of Ministry -
From the kitchen table to the highest government circles: everybody lobbies -
Getting to grips with invisible interests -
Caelesta Braun & Bert Fraussen awarded NIG Supervisor of the Year Award -
Blog Part I: Lobbying in times of (Corona)-Crisis: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly -
Blog Part II: Lobbying in times of (Corona)-Crisis: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
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Blog Part III: Lobbying in times of (Corona)-Crisis: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
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Rowie Stolk on strategic litigation by interest groups -
10th Anniversary Summer School on Interest Group Politics
Caelesta’s main fields of research include political advocacy, interest group politics, public decision-making, bureaucratic politics and regulatory governance. She recently finalized a large research project on civil society and the regulatory state (funded by a NWO Vidi grant), click for an overview of the project team and its research output. She’s currently involved in a NORFACE international collaborative research project ‘Reconnect’, researching the engagement of civil society and citizens with the administrative state.
Before joining Leiden University, Caelesta was an assistant professor at Utrecht University and Vu University. She has held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Antwerp from 2009-2013 and obtained her PhD at Leiden University in 2009. In addition to her academic career, she also worked for a public consultancy firm and for Dutch parliament.
See also Caelesta's Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Research
2-Capture (Vidi research project)
Comparative Interest Representation (international comparative research project)
Professor Public Governance and Civil Society
- Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
- Instituut Bestuurskunde
- Aizenberg E. & Braun C. (2024), Interest Group Politics in the Netherlands. In: Lange Sarah de, Louwerse Tom, Hart Paul 't & Ham Carolien van (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Dutch Politics: Oxford University Press. 1-832.
- Otjes S, Viëtor A. & Braun C. 8 March 2023, Bepalen ambtenaren en experts de politiek?. Het Spel en de Macht [podcast].
- Otjes S.P., Viëtor A. & Braun C.H.J.M. 22 March 2023, Hoe goed is de (media)strijd tussen coalitie en oppositie. Het spel en de macht [podcast].
- Otjes S.P., Viëtor A. & Braun C.H.J.M. 5 April 2023, Heeft de lobbywereld meer macht dan de kiezer?. Het spel en de macht [podcast].
- Otjes S.P. & Viëtor A. Braun C.H.J.M. 19 April 2023, Hoe transparant is de (nieuwe) bestuurscultuur?. Het spel en de macht [podcast].
- Otjes S.P., Viëtor A. & Braun C.H.J.M. 3 May 2023, Is een nieuwe bestuurscultuur mogelijk?. Het spel en de macht [podcast].
- Müller M., Braun C. & Fraussen B. (2022), Cautious communicators: strategic communication of European Union commissioners in regulatory decision-making, European Union Politics 23(3): 509-528.
- Pattyn V.E., Noordink M., Modderman P., Cohn R., Groot M. de, Braun C. & Steen M. van der (2021), Evaluatie gebruik bijlage CW3.1 door Tweede Kamer: een onderzoek naar de onderbouwing van beleidsvoorstellen, uitgevoerd in opdracht van Ministerie van Financiën. Den Haag: Ministerie van Financiën.
- Fraussen B., Albareda A., Braun C.H.J.M. & Maloney W. (2021), A matter of information, discussion and consequences? : exploring the accountability practices of interest groups in the EU, Interest Groups and Advocacy 10: 114-136.
- Fraussen B., Albareda A. & Braun C. (2020), Conceptualizing consultation approaches: identifying combinations of consultation tools and analyzing their implications for stakeholder diversity, Policy Sciences 53: 473-493.
- Braun C., Albareda A., Fraussen B. & Müller M. (2020), Bandwagons and Quiet Corners in Regulatory Governance: On regulation-specific and institutional drivers of stakeholder engagement, International Review of Public Policy 2(2): 209-232.
- Albareda A. & Braun C. (2019), Organizing Transmission Belts: The effect of organisational design on interest group access to EU policy-making, Journal of Common Market Studies 57(3): 468-485.
- Arras S. & Braun C. (2018), Stakeholders wanted! Why and How European Union agencies involve non-state stakeholders, Journal of European Public Policy 25(9): 1257-1275.
- Wonka A., De Bruycker I., De Bievre D., Beyers J. & Braun C. (2018), Patterns of Conflict and Mobilization: Mapping interest group activity in EU legislative policymaking, Politics and Governance 6(3): 136-146.
- Berkhout J., Beyers J., Braun C., Hanegraaff M. & Lowery D. (2018), Making Inference across Mobilisation and Influence Research: Comparing Top-Down and Bottom-Up Mapping of Interest Systems, Political Studies 66(1): 43-62.
- Fraussen B. & Braun C. (2018), ’De Lobby’ aan Banden’? Over het ongelijk speelveld en de regulering van belangenvertegenwoordiging, Tijdschrift voor Toezicht 9(4): 103-113.
- Berkhout J., Hanegraaff M. & Braun C. (2017), Is the EU different? Comparing the diversity of national and EU-level systems of interest representation, West European Politics 40(5): 1109-1131.
- Braun C., Scherpenisse J., Steen M. van der & Twist M. van (2017), On the forces of policy change and joint causation. Insights from the banker’s bonus case, International Review of Administrative Sciences 83(4): 738-756.
- Braun C.H.J.M. (2016), Het Nederlandse poldermodel langs de democratisch meetlat. Over representativiteit, verantwoording en belangenvertegenwoordiging. In: Keune M. (Ed.), Nog steeds een mirakel? De legitimiteit van het poldermodel in de 21e eeuw. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 37-60.
- Braun C. (2016), On the size and kind of influential stakeholder communities and regulatory governance. In: Lodge M. (Ed.), Regulation scholarship in crisis. London: CARR. 8-14.
- Braun C., Keulen P. van & Thijssen N. (2016), Informatie en Invloed in de Tweede Kamer. Onderzoek onder Kamerleden naar toegang tot informatie. Den Haag: Public Matters.
- Hanegraaff M., Braun C., Bievre D. de & Beyers J. (2015), The Domestic and Global Origins of Transnational Interest Communities. Explaining Lobby Patterns during WTO Ministerial Conferences, 1995-2011, Comparative Political Studies 48(12): 1591-1621.
- Klüver H., Beyers J. & Braun C. (2015), Legislative Lobbying in Context. The policy and polity determinants of interest group politics in the European Union, Journal of European Public Policy 22(4): 447-461.
- Braun C. (2015), Living Apart Together: Over de verhouding tussen toezichthouders en maatschappelijke stakeholders, Tijdschrift voor Toezicht 6(2): 22-28.
- Arras S. & Braun C. (2015), EU agentschappen en belanghebbenden: een onderzoek naar de vraagzijde van overleg, Tijdschrift voor Bestuurswetenschappen en Bestuursrecht (4): 264-278.
- Beyers J., Braun C. & Klüver H. (Eds.) (2015), Legislative Lobbying in Context. The policy and polity determinants of interest group politics in the European Union.
- Berkhout J., Carroll B., Braun C., Chalmers A.W., Destrooper T., Lowery D., Otjes S. & Rasmussen A. (2015), Interest Organizations across economic sectors: explaining interest group density in the European Union, Journal of European Public Policy 22(4): 462-480.
- Braun C. (2012), Laveren tussen belanghebbenden. Reële autonomie en financieel toezicht, Beleid en Maatschappij 39(4): 419-437.
- Braun C. (2009), Corporatism or Lobbyism behind Dutch Dikes? Interest Representation in the Netherlands. In: McGrath C. (Ed.), Interest Groups and Lobbying in Europe: The Edwin Mellen Press. 207-231.
- Breeman G., Lowery D., Braun C., Resodihardjo S., Timmermans A. & De Vries J. (2009), Political Attention in a Coalition System.Analyzing Queen's speeches in the Netherlands, Acta Politica 44: 1-27.
- Mendes de Leon P.M.J. (2008), The Relationship between Eurocontrol and the EC: Living Apart Together, International Organizations Law Review 4(2): 305-321.
- Breeman G., Timmermans A., Lowery D., Braun C. & Resodihardjo S. (2008), De Politieke Aandachtscyclus voor Openbaar Bestuur en Democratie. Een inhoudsanalyse van troonredes 1945-2007, Beleid en Maatschappij 35(3): 172-189.
- De Zwart F. & Braun C. (2007), Redistribution and ethnic diversity in the Netherlands: Accommodation, denial and replacement, Acta Sociologica 50(4): 387-399.
- Zwart F. de & Poppelaars C. (2004), Ontwijkende administratieve categorieën en etnische fragmentatie. Een internationaal perspectief, Beleid en Maatschappij 31(1): 3-14.
- Boin R.A., Kuipers S.L. & Braun C. (2000), De crisis die uitbleef: de inlichtingensector, geheimhouding en het voordeel van de twijfel. In: Boin R.A., Kuipers S.L. & Otten M.H.P. (Eds.), Institutionele crises: breuklijnen in beleidssectoren. Alphen aan den Rijn: Samsom. 144-166.
- Raadslid (vice-voorzitter)
- redactielid
- llid redactieraad politiek-wetenschappelijk tijdschrift mr. Hans van Mierlo Stichting
- Lid Raad van Advies voor de opleidingen Politicologie
- Lid Medezeggenschapsraad