Ronald Kroeze's main position is Professor of Parliamentary History and Director of the Netherlands Centre for Parliamentary History (CPG) at the Faculty of Arts, Nijmegen University, see website CPG.
He is also affiliated to Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (parttime), in his role of coordinator of the NWO-funded project 'Colonial Normativity: coruption and difference in the Netherlands-Indonesian relationship 1870s-2010s', see https://colonial-normativity.com/
Currently, his research and teaching focus on:
- the history of modern politics and democracy, political leadership, parliamentary history and parliamentary inquiries;
- the history of corruption and anticorruption, including the impact of colonialism and decolonisation on good governance and global norm-setting;
- business-politics relations and the impact of (new public) management and neoliberalism on Dutch and European politics.
- business history and financial history/ heritage;
- “uses of the past” and applied history (including the learning history method);
- oral history.
In his role as director of the Centre for Parliamentary History (CPG) he acts as coordinator and initiator of project's on political and parliamentary history of the Netherlands in European an international perspective, with a focus on the period after 1945. He is coordinating a large project on parliament, politics and policy during the time of the cabinets headed by prime minister Ruud Lubbers (1982-1994); he is also coordinating projects on the history and use of parliamentary enquiries since the 1980s. Kroeze also teaches on integrity and together with colleagues from abroad he is working on a comparative European history of corruption and anticorruption in modern Europe. For more information, see also website CPG.
Kroeze is also initiator and coordinator of the research project ‘Colonial Normativity. Corruption and difference in colonial and postcolonial histories of empire and nations’ that started in 2019 and is funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). This international project compares the role of corruption in Dutch and Indonesian histories of state-formation, and its impact on good governance and global norm-setting.
Furthermore, he is a co-founder of the international network ‘Politics and Corruption’, funded by the French CNRS.
He was a visiting scholar at the University of Oxford (Corpus Christi College), University of Warwick, University of Avignon and Humboldt University of Berlin. A Key publication is Ronald Kroeze, Guy Geltner and André Vitoria (eds), A History of Anticorruption. From Antiquity until the Modern Era. Oxford University Press, 2018.
