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198 Pages·2011·2.67 MB·English

by  Peter Scholten

Daring Leadership
A study of water governance on the edge of
innovation and democracy
Peter Scholten
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Printed on FSC paper
ISBN: 978-94-6169-151-4
Cover design: Raymon van Vught
Layout and printing: Optima Grafische Communicatie, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Daring Leadership
A study of water governance on the edge of
innovation and democracy
Een wetenschappelijke proeve op het gebied van
de Natuurwetenschappen, Wiskunde en informatica
Proefschrift
Ter verkrijging van de graad van doctor
aan de Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
op gezag van de rector magnificus, prof. mr. S.C.J.J. Kortmann,
volgens besluit van het College van Decanen
in het openbaar te verdedigen op dinsdag 29 november
om 15.30 uur precies
door
Petrus Henricus Theodorus Scholten
Geboren op 13 december 1977
te Arnhem
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Promotores:
Prof. dr. ir. W.T. de Groot
Prof. dr. ing. G. R. Teisman (Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam)
Copromotor:
Dr. S.V. Meijerink
Manuscriptcommissie:
Prof. dr. ir. C.J.A.M. Termeer (Wageningen Universiteit)
Prof. dr. P.P.J. Driessen (Universiteit Utrecht)
Prof. dr. H.A.E. Zwart
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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to
conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in
the introduction of a new order of things.1
Niccolo Machiavelli
1. From: Machiavelli, N. (1908) The Prince. Translation W.K. Marriott. London: Morgan Inc.
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Contents
1. Introduction 9
1.1 Introduction 12
1.2 Objectives and research questions 13
1.3 Theories of change and policy-making 15
1.4 Research strategy 17
1.5 Thesis outline 24
2. Daring decisions and representative municipal democracy: an 31
exploration within the new river management in the Netherlands
2.1 Introduction 34
2.2 River management and the WaalWeelde project 35
2.3 relating daring decision-making to current concepts of democracy 37
2.4 Methods 38
2.5 Conceptualizing daring decision-making 40
2.6 Relating the grounded model to existing theory 45
2.7 Discussion 48
3. Leadership in policy innovation: a conceptual map 55
3.1 Daring decision-making, an introduction to leadership in policy 58
innovation
3.2 An overview of theories 59
3.3 A theoretical landscape 64
3.4 Findings of a grounded exploration 65
3.5 Incorporating the empirical results in the theoretical landscape 69
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3.6 Transactional and transformational leadership: a conceptual map 70
3.7 Conclusion 71
4. Daring leadership: balancing between Transactional and 75
Transformational leadership
4.1 Introduction 78
4.2 Leadership theory and conceptualization 80
4.3 Leadership in WaalWeelde: a case study of water system governance 87
4.4 Case analysis 97
4.5 Conclusion and discussion 100
5. Drivers for daring leadership: understanding public leadership in 107
Dutch water governance
5.1 Introduction 110
5.2 Transactional, transformational and daring leadership in the TDT- 111
typology
5.3 Drivers and influences on leadership 116
5.4 Methods 119
5.5 The VZ case 120
5.6 The role of individual public leadership in the Volkerak Zoommeer 123
project
5.7 Discussion 142
6. Synthesis 151
6.1 Developing the leadership concept 154
6.2 Drivers of leadership 163
6.3 Reflections and implications 164
6.4 Conclusions: answering the research questions 168
6.5 Concluding remarks 174
Summary 179
Samenvatting 187
Acknowledgements 195
About the author 197
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Introduction
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