Dr C. Hoetink (Carla)

Carla Hoetink (PhD RU 2018) is a political historian and lecturer/assistant professor at the History Department of Radboud University. Her current interest lies with the culture and language of politics, in which field she has written several articles and published a book on unparliamentary language in Dutch parliament (2006, with Peter Bootsma). Recently she contributed to the new official history of the Dutch house of representatives (2015, edited by Remieg Aerts, Carla van Baalen and Henk te Velde). Her latest publication concerns a reflection on the rules and rituals in Dutch parliament after WOII, published by Vantilt publishers in September 2018.

Apart from her interest in the culture of politics and the parliamentary history of the Netherlands, she has affinity for the history of European integration, for the history of European monarchies and for research seeing the political as a form of communication between rulers and ruled (and vice versa).

Future research plans are directed to the visual representation of European parliamentary democracies, especially through architecture; to the concept of democratization in the process of European integration, and to the alternative representativr claim of lobby organisations in modern democracies.