In the Netherlands and surrounding countries, there is reason to ask the question whether levels of segregation according to country of origin (mainly non-western) and in terms of socioeconomic position (mainly social arrears) are sufficiently high to legitimate anti-segregation policy. When will segregation become problematic? If segregation is regarded a problem, what, then, would be the best remedy? Spatial intervention? Or broader societal intervention? In this article developments and mechanisms will be discussed that lead to segregation; also political views on segregation and the framing of segregation will be scrutinized. A confrontation of knowledge, insights, visions, and framings offers material for new perspectives on residential segregation and is reason to argue for a more relaxed attitude towards segregation. We should acknowledge that the process of matching households to residential environments results in some – generally unproblematic – segregation. Only if segregation causes problems that pass certain intensity and/or a certain spatial range, non-spatial or spatial interventions are becoming a necessity. Levels of segregation are relatively moderate still. We ought to be more aware of the fact that strong negative framing actually stimulates segregation, social exclusion, division, discrimination, marginalisation, stigmatisation, fear, estrangement, and the development of first- and second-rate citizens. |
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Enerverende tijden |
Auteurs | Dr. Tamara Metze |
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Een ontspannen perspectief op residentiële segregatie |
Trefwoorden | residential segregation, Framing, welfare regimes, structural factors, individual preferences |
Auteurs | Prof. dr. Sako Musterd |
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De energietransitie: wie kunnen, willen en mogen er meedoen? |
Trefwoorden | renewable energy policies, energy poverty, environmental justice, social resilience |
Auteurs | Dr. Sylvia Breukers, Dr. Susanne Agterbosch en Dr. Ruth Mourik |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
In this article we discuss the role and position of different types of low income households in Dutch renewable energy transition processes using the concept of energy poverty. We explore which benefits and/or (dis)advantages (unintentionally) result from energy policies and regulations. And to what extent the distribution of these (dis)advantages benefit the position of different types of households. To this end we present an analytical perspective that enables us to evaluate renewable energy transition policies and governance on procedural and distributional aspects: paying attention to issues of recognition, equity and justice. The perspective draws on ideas in environmental justice literature and on ideas in social resilience literature. Combining these ideas in a new analytical framework proved to be useful in articulating some major policy challenges in relation to energy poverty in the Netherlands today. |
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Moreel persoon of moreel manager?Een kwantitatieve analyse van de aan burgemeesters gestelde integriteitseisen, 2008-2019 |
Trefwoorden | ethical leadership, moral management, Integrity, Mayors, The Netherlands |
Auteurs | Simon Jacobs BSc en Dr. Niels Karsten |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
Dutch mayors are expected to act both as moral person and as moral managers. However, the extent to which council members express such requirements when selecting candidates remains underexplored. To identify possible changes in these expectations following the implementation of a 2016 integrity law, which made the mayor responsible for ‘advancing the administrative integrity of the municipality’, the current article quantitatively analyses 349 vacancy texts for Dutch mayoralty for the time period 2008-2019. Unexpectedly, the authors find that moral person requirements still feature prominently in job advertisements, but that attention is declining. In addition, they find a significant shift from moral-person requirements to moral-management requirements, which indicates that vacancy texts mirror the increasing importance of moral leadership requirements for Dutch mayors. Further, whereas the complex integrity concept requires tailoring to the unique circumstances in municipalities, the authors find that councilors make little effort to provide their own definition of integrity in vacancy texts, which leaves ample room for local customization. |
Dossier |
Introductie: perspectieven op ruimtelijke segregatie |
Auteurs | Dr. Cody Hochstenbach |
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Dossier |
Een ander perspectief op het spreidingsbeleid voor statushouders |
Auteurs | Dr. Emily Miltenburg |
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Dossier |
Vechten tegen het monsterConcentratie van deprivatie en deviantie in steden |
Auteurs | Prof. dr. Jack Burgers |
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Dossier |
Introductie: persoonsgegevens in een digitaliserende samenleving |
Auteurs | Dr. Myrte Hoekstra |
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Wat is rechtvaardige AI?Een kader voor het ontwikkelen en toepassen van algoritmes voor automatische besluitvorming |
Auteurs | Dr. Tjerk Timan en Dr. Francisca Grommé |
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Eigendoms- en gebruiksrechten van genetische informatie |
Trefwoorden | genetic information, genoeconomics, insurance of longevity risk, risk selection, Regulation |
Auteurs | Prof. dr. Frank den Butter |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
In 2003, the WRR suggested in the ‘Deciding on Biotechnology’ report that individuals should not be given ownership of their personal genetic information (DNA) to prevent risk selection and exclusion. Yet, that does not seem politically and ethically feasible. From that perspective, the research question of this article is how to regulate ownership and use of genetic information. Better predictability of health and longevity risk, through genetic information and thanks to new developments in geno-economics, possibly in combination with ‘big data’, makes risk selection by insurance companies attractive. That holds more specifically for the pension system. In addition to insurance for investment risk, the pension system also offers insurance for longevity risk. In itself, selection for longevity risk via premium setting is not unwarranted since the ‘bad risks’ with long life expectancy are the highly educated, so that the current implicit risk solidarity in pension insurance in The Netherlands, unlike in health insurance, brings about more inequality. But an unrestricted risk selection does raise ethical and social questions and does not fit into the new pension system in the Netherlands. That is why good and extensive legislation is needed for property rights and the utilization of genetic information of individual citizens. A similar focus on regulation is also in order for the use of DNA information of the government in criminal cases. Here the question is what additional options the government should have to use the information to solve crimes. |
Dossier |
Beter beschermd tegen biometrie |
Auteurs | Mr. Joost Gerritsen, Dr. mr. Jurriën Hamer, Linda Kool MSc MA e.a. |
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Dossier |
Een procesrecht voor de 21ste eeuw |
Auteurs | Dr. Bart van der Sloot |
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Boekensignalement |
The Triumph of Injustice |
Auteurs | Drs. Martin Wörsdörfer |
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Boekensignalement |
De zoektocht naar een nieuwe gemeenschap |
Auteurs | Dr. Fabian Dekker |
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Boekensignalement |
‘Polderen’: radicale of stapsgewijze veranderingen |
Auteurs | Dr. Jan Kees van Donge |
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De blinde vlek |
Onzichtbaar conflict |
Auteurs | drs. Marije van den Berg |
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