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Beleid en Maatschappij
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Redactioneel |
Van De Redactie |
Auteurs | Prof. dr. Ewald Engelen |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
Artikel |
De responsabilisering van burgers van verzorgingsstaat tot participatiesamenlevingDiscoursanalyse van troonredes en regeringsverklaringen sinds de jaren zestig |
Trefwoorden | Participation society, Withdrawing government, Making-responsible citizens, Dutch speeches from the throne, Dutch government statements |
Auteurs | Ermy Brok MA |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
Central concern of this article is tracing back how the making-responsible of citizens takes shape within Dutch speeches from the throne, government statements and reports of the Dutch Social and Cultural Research Institute (SCP) ever since the 1960s. The Dutch participation society, a term much discussed ever since mentioned in the 2013 speech of the throne, is often associated with a withdrawing government and a coming to end of the welfare state. At the same time, according to several authors, the notion of a withdrawing government that operates within a network of multiple equal actors has brought along the need for a widening of the government’s repertoire of action. This has been characterized as making-responsible citizens on conditions of the state. It has raised doubts about true government-withdrawal and authors have related it to the dominance of neo-liberal thinking ever since the 1990s. Applying an analysis framework derived from discourse analysis, it is made tangible in this article how within political discourse beginnings of the making-responsible of citizens can be traced to the 1960s, more than thirty years earlier than expected. It is argued that this longer history makes a plea for encouraging the political dimension of citizenship all the more important. |
Artikel |
Huisvestingsbeleid en nieuwe scholenOver de noodzaak van een geografisch perspectief op onderwijs |
Trefwoorden | housing policies, education markets, new schools, educational geography, friction costs |
Auteurs | Prof. dr. Sietske Waslander |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
While international research gives increasing attention to geographical factors in education, this perspective is lacking in Dutch research and policy. That a geographical perspective is badly needed, is demonstrated on the basis of the proposed policy to promote new schools in the Netherlands. Current housing policies for Dutch schools are described, pointing at disputes between municipalities and school boards who hold shared responsibilities. Next, foreign housing policies for new schools are studied, that is for friskolor in Sweden, free schools in England and charter schools in Texas (USA). Experiences abroad not only testify that very different choices can be made, but indicate that housing policies may in the long run have a substantial impact on segregation and educational inequality. It is also shown that new schools are mainly located in urban areas. It is argued that in addition to costs for new schools, friction costs for existing schools need to be considered. In all, a geographical perspective on education is needed, so as to prevent increasing segregation and social inequality as well as wasting public financial resources. |
Artikel |
Welvaart gemeten, verdeeld en verduurzaamd |
Trefwoorden | Welfare economics, Asymmetrical information, Situational contracting, Political theory, Behaviourism |
Auteurs | Prof. dr. Dik Wolfson |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
This paper shows how interactive governance can be helpful in dealing with information asymmetries in the design and administration of public policy. It describes the checks and balances of a properly incentivized mechanism design of contextual or situational contracting that reveals information on diversity in demand for public intervention, deals with complexity, creates commitment to the public cause and disciplines uncooperative behavior. The contractual mode, moreover, discloses the actual trade-offs between rivalling criteria of good governance such as individual freedom, efficiency, distributional concerns and sustainability, deepening our insight in who gets – or pays for – what, when, where, how and why, as the key issues of policy analysis. Evidence from early applications is combined with suggestions for rolling out this new mode of relinking public policy, implementation and external control. |
Discussie |
Marokkanen in de marge |
Auteurs | Duco Bannink |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
Reflection and debate initiates academically inspired discussions on issues that are on the current policy agenda. |
Discussie |
Criminologisch cultuuronderzoek onder de loepKanttekeningen en opmerkingen bij het boek Marokkanen in de marge van Hans Werdmölder |
Trefwoorden | Ethnic youth, Crime, Group dynamics, Street culture, Criminological research |
Auteurs | Samir Achbab MSc |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
Reflection and debate initiates academically inspired discussions on issues that are on the current policy agenda. |
Discussie |
Rechtscultuur en rechtsvervreemding in Nederland |
Trefwoorden | legal culture, legal alienation, Anthropology, etnic profiling, Marginality |
Auteurs | Dr. Paul Mutsaers |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
Reflection and debate initiates academically inspired discussions on issues that are on the current policy agenda. |
Discussie |
Reflectie & debat |
Trefwoorden | security policy, evidence based governance, ethnographic research, ethnic minorities, criminological research |
Auteurs | Dr. Jaap Timmer |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
Reflection and debate initiates academically inspired discussions on issues that are on the current policy agenda. |
Boekbespreking |
Management in een vloeibare samenleving |
Trefwoorden | Liquid modernity, Neoliberalism, Management, Craftsmanship, Collaborative communities |
Auteurs | Robert Van Putten MA MSc |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
In this feature authors review recently published books on subjects of interest to readers of Beleid en Maatschappij. |
Boekbespreking |
Lesmateriaal van de straat: wat Nederland kan leren van The Wire |
Trefwoorden | The Wire, Urban policy, Inner cities, Organizational studies, Police work |
Auteurs | Dr. Tim Verlaan |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
In this feature authors review recently published books on subjects of interest to readers of Beleid en Maatschappij. |
Boekbespreking |
‘Lekker ding wel, die Depp’ |
Auteurs | Ewald Engelen |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
In this feature authors review recently published books on subjects of interest to readers of Beleid en Maatschappij. |
Column |
Aanpassingsstoornis |
Trefwoorden | Mental health, Evidence Based Treatment, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Neoliberalism, Privatization |
Auteurs | Dr. Arjen Noordhof |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
The most relevant part of a discussion is not what is discussed but what cannot be spoken of. The real taboos are those for which it is taboo to call them taboos. The status quo defines itself as non-ideological while denouncing any challenge to itself as radical. Therefore the column ‘De Blinde Vlek’ frames the framers, politicizes the status quo and articulates what is not heard of. |