- Kluwer Post Scriptum Award, best Dutch masterthesis in Law (1983)
- KNAW Reviewessay Award (1989)
- G.A. van Poelje Award, best PhD in Public Administration (1991)
- Professional Publication Award, Council for Organisationconsultancy (1992)
- Supervisor of the Year Award, Netherlands Researchschool of Governance (2008)
- Van de Spiegel Award, life time achievement award of the Dutch Society for Public Administration (2019)
Prizes
L.P. van de Spiegelprijs31 Oct 2019
Elected as Fellow National Academy of Public Administration. Washington DC, 14 November 2013.2013
Jacques van Doorn Fellowship at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS), Wassenaar2012
Prijs voor de beste aio-begeleider van het Jaar2008
Toekenning: alternatives of Parliamentary Democracy. the Netherlands in a European comparative Perspective, 1800 to present.2007
Essay on Diploma Democracy2007
Alternatives of Parliamentary Democracy: The Netherlands in a European Comparative Perspective, 1880 to the Present.2007