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Beleid en Maatschappij
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Van de redactie |
Auteurs | Dr. Tamara Metze |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
Artikel |
De digitale kooi: administratieve uitsluiting door informatiearchitectuur in de Basisregistratie Personen |
Trefwoorden | Bureaucracy, Iron cage, Civil registry, ICT, Public services |
Auteurs | Dr. Rik Peeters en Dr. Arjan Widlak |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
The Dutch Municipal Personal Records Database is an IT-innovation that enables the use of the civil registry by hundreds of (semi-)public organisations. Literature review and a case study show how this ‘basis registration’ creates a deep tension between system and lifeworld: citizens who do not fit the system’s criteria lose their access to the major part of public services. The instrumental rationality of the system simplifies the use of addresses for service delivery to one single definition, turns the consequences of address mutations into a black box, and reduces the discretionary space of street-level bureaucrats to handle with social complexities and unintended consequences of the system. This type of IT-innovations can, therefore, come to resemble a ‘digital cage’: a highly disciplining system that hinges on hardware and software design instead of Weberian rules and procedures. |
Artikel |
Slanker maar topzwaar, meer vrouwen maar vergrijsd: het veranderende gezicht van de rijksoverheid 2002-2015 |
Trefwoorden | Cutbacks, Government spending, Civil servants, Public service, Open data |
Auteurs | Dr. Dimiter Toshkov, Eduard Schmidt MSc en Prof. dr. Caspar van den Berg |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
This article analyses the transformations of the Dutch civil service over the last 15 years, during which numerous cutbacks and reorganizations took place. While existing research predominantly focused on changes in the total number of civil servants, we examine how the distribution of civil servants changed in terms of rank, gender and age. We theorize four methods for shrinking the government apparatus, and for each method, we identify the possible consequences for the composition of the central civil service in terms of hierarchical make-up and of age. Our results indicate that the total number of civil servants only slightly decreased, but the decrease affected differentially the various ranks of the civil service. While at the lower ranks the number of civil servants decreased strongly, at the upper ranks the number actually increased slightly. The number of women in the civil service increased, also in the higher echelons. Regarding the age distribution, we found considerable changes, with the modal age shifting upwards with up to ten years. Altogether, the civil service has become slightly smaller, more gender-balanced, and significantly more senior (both in terms of ranks and age). The results of this study show that it is important for researchers and practitioners to look beyond the trends in the total number of civil servants and explore the deeper changes within the civil service. |
Casus |
Inleiding bij het dossier over de winsten van zorginstellingen |
Auteurs | Dr. Duco Bannink |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
In this feature authors discuss recent research findings that are of interest to readers of Beleid en Maatschappij. |
Casus |
De winsten van zorginstellingen |
Trefwoorden | health-care organizations, financial accounts, for-profit or not-for-profit, Profits, economies of scale |
Auteurs | Prof. dr. Jeroen Suijs en Prof. dr. Harrie Verbon |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
In this feature authors discuss recent research findings that are of interest to readers of Beleid en Maatschappij. |
Casus |
In de zorg voelt de winst van de een nu als het verlies van de anderNaar een beter begrip van winst in de zorg door in de discussie over winst in de zorg onderscheid te maken tussen een leefwereld- en een systeemwereldperspectief |
Trefwoorden | Profit, healthcare providers, health insurers, lifeworld perspective, system perspective |
Auteurs | Drs. Piet de Bekker en Dr. Eric van der Hijden |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
In this feature authors discuss recent research findings that are of interest to readers of Beleid en Maatschappij. |
Casus |
De onbeheersbaarheid van beleidsimplementatie en beleidsintegratie |
Auteurs | Dr. Duco Bannink |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
In this feature authors discuss recent research findings that are of interest to readers of Beleid en Maatschappij. |
Discussie |
De constructie van Nieuw Rechts als antithese van de nieuwe neoliberale orde |
Auteurs | Dr. David Hollanders |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
Reflection and debate initiates academically inspired discussions on issues that are on the current policy agenda. |
Discussie |
Een genealogie van Nederlands Nieuw Rechts |
Auteurs | Dr. Merijn Oudenampsen |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
Reflection and debate initiates academically inspired discussions on issues that are on the current policy agenda. |
Discussie |
De herdefiniëring van democratie |
Auteurs | Dr. Ico Maly |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
Reflection and debate initiates academically inspired discussions on issues that are on the current policy agenda. |
Boekbespreking |
Markten versus kapitalisme? |
Auteurs | Dr. Pepijn Brandon |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
In this feature authors review recently published books on subjects of interest to readers of Beleid en Maatschappij. |
Column |
De blinde vlek van de witte onschuld |
Auteurs | Mr. Mitchell Esajas |
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. |