Scale is an important topic in the fields of public administration, political sciences, and environmental sciences. How scales are defined, studied, and dealt with varies substantially within and across these fields. This article aims to reduce the existing conceptual confusion regarding scales by disentangling three representative approaches that address both governance and scaling: monocentric governance, multilevel governance, and adaptive governance. It does so by analyzing the differences in underlying views on governing, assumptions about scales, dominant problem definitions regarding scales, and preferred responses for dealing with multiple scales. Finally, this article identifies research opportunities within and across these approaches. |
Zoekresultaat: 150 artikelen
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Schaalvraagstukken in bestuurskundig onderzoekEen vergelijking van monocentrisch, multilevel en adaptief bestuur |
Tijdschrift | Bestuurskunde, Aflevering 4 2011 |
Trefwoorden | scales, monocentric governance, multilevel governance, adaptive governance |
Auteurs | Art Dewulf en Catrien Termeer |
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Inleiding themanummer schaalsensitief bestuur |
Tijdschrift | Bestuurskunde, Aflevering 4 2011 |
Trefwoorden | ideal scale, government, scale sensitive governance |
Auteurs | Catrien Termeer en Trui Steen |
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Scale is one of the classic themes in the study of Public Administration. Despite much research and debate, a lot of questions remain open. This special issue introduces scale sensitive governance as an alternative concept. It relates to taking into account the context, departing from dogma's or illusions about the ideal scale, and looking for new ways to deal with issues of scale. |
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Schaaldenken is ‘schraal’ denkenIn netwerkbestuur is de schaal van het bestuur minder relevant |
Tijdschrift | Bestuurskunde, Aflevering 4 2011 |
Trefwoorden | scale, local government, performance, democratic legitimacy |
Auteurs | Linze Schaap |
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In the Netherlands there is an ongoing discussion on the preferred or even necessary scale of government. Basic assumption in this decades-long discussion is that the mere seize of government affects the functioning and quality of government. This article questions that specific assumption, by applying two criteria; government performance and democratic legitimacy. It is concluded that the supposed relationship between seize and quality hardly exists, theoretically nor empirically. Recent government proposals for further up-scaling are being critically assessed. Main conclusion is that thinking in terms of scale and seize is no longer feasible in a modern network society. |
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Vertrouwen in governance netwerkenEen empirische studie naar het belang van vertrouwen voor het boeken van resultaten in governance netwerken |
Tijdschrift | Bestuurskunde, Aflevering 3 2011 |
Trefwoorden | governance networks, trust, policy outcomes, environmental policy |
Auteurs | Jurian Edelenbos, Erik-Hans Klijn en Bram Steijn |
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Governance networks are characterized by complex interaction and decision making, and much uncertainty. Surprisingly, there is very little research on the impact of trust in achieving results in governance networks. This article asks two questions: (a) Does trust influence the outcomes of environmental projects? and (b) Does active network management improve the level of trust in networks? The study is based on a web-based survey of respondents involved in environmental projects. The results indicate that trust does matter for perceived outcomes and that network management strategies enhance the level of trust. |
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Het onaangename en het nuttige: Over nieuwsmedia en bestuur |
Tijdschrift | Bestuurskunde, Aflevering 3 2011 |
Trefwoorden | news media, government, mediatisation, monitory democracy, journalism |
Auteurs | Sandra Jacobs en Thomas Schillemans |
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Relations between government and news media are often complex and contradictory. In order to shed light on their interactions, this review essay discusses four recent books on the tensions between government and the media. Discussed are Schudson's Why Democracies Need an Unlovable Press, Prenger et al's Gevaarlijk spel, Cook's Governing with the News and Keane's Life and Death of Democracy. Three general issues are discussed: the ways in which journalists and policy actors behave towards each other; the implications for the daily practices of journalists and policy actors and, on a more abstract level, the implications for the democratic system. It is argued that critical and inconvenient news media fulfil a crucial role in a vital democracy, as essential checks for those in power. The news media facilitate the interaction between the fragmented parts of a monitory democracy and thus enhance a well-functioning government. In order to cope with media pressure, government pr-officials try to pacify journalists, but at the same time, government and public organizations should be wary of the incorporation of media rules in their own processes as this may lead to a mediatisation of politics. |
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Deliberative policy analysis: Understanding governance in the Network Society |
Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 2 2004 |
Auteurs | Karin Geuijen en Sebastiaan Princen |
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Botsende publieke waarden bij publiek-private samenwerkingDimensies en dilemma's van juridisch-bestuurskundige legitimiteit, in het bijzonder bij openbaar gezag |
Tijdschrift | Bestuurskunde, Aflevering 2 2011 |
Trefwoorden | Good governance, public-private partnerships, legitimacy |
Auteurs | Michiel Heldeweg en Maurits Sanders |
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Public Private Partnerships (PPP), especially those geared to exercise public legal powers (‘Authoritative PPP’), are suggestive of tensions between private party involvement and public legitimacy. Hence, public legitimacy is analyzed primarily on the basis of work done by David Beetham, and complemented with Public Law legitimacy considerations concerning the exercise of legal powers and law on public organizations. The findings project that there is room to convincingly frame legitimate PPP involving public authority, but that the scope is restricted both in terms of legal constraints and of political sensitivity.As a result of this, truly wicked policy projects, which in theory stand to gain most by PPP, in practice seem to be considered less suited for Authoritative PPP (and probably more for Network PPP). |
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Goed bestuur: Kiezen of delen? |
Tijdschrift | Bestuurskunde, Aflevering 2 2011 |
Trefwoorden | Good governance, public values, public management |
Auteurs | Leo Huberts en Eelco van Hout |
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Good governance is a contested concept in public administration theory and practice. This concluding article builds on the presented contributions as well as on additional research. First, we summarize the diversity, leading to a sketch of two basic approaches towards good governance (organizational and value oriented). Additionally questions concerning the normativity, the pluralism of values and the object of good governance (process or policy) are addressed. Second, attention is paid to strategies to cope with values in governance, acknowledging the tensions between those values. Basic strategies aim at ‘choosing’ between values, ‘accommodating’ (in time, project, context) and ‘connecting’ values (through institutions or hybridization). |
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Privaat beheerde woondomeinen: beloftevol of beangstigend fenomeen? |
Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 1 2011 |
Trefwoorden | housing enclave, gated community, Netherlands, local government |
Auteurs | Jasper Eshuis, Erik-Hans Klijn en Mark van Twist |
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In recent years the Netherlands have seen an upsurge of housing enclaves. The enclaves are often built as courtyards, castles, estates or apartment complexes. The growing number of people living in housing enclaves indicates a demand for this kind of living areas. However, the motivations behind the increasing popularity of housing enclaves are unclear. Is this a reflection of a long standing tradition of people staying in their own social group, seeking for belonging and sociability? Or does it fit in a global trend of searching for security in gated communities? This paper presents empirical research in the Netherlands that addresses peoples’ motives for living in housing enclaves, as well as the role of the local government in relation to housing enclaves. The research shows that residents of housing enclaves seek a pleasant living environment in the first place, while security is a less important motive. The study gives reason for planners and developers outside the US not to assume that fear of crime and a wish for security are the main reasons for moving to housing enclaves. Further, the study shows that housing enclaves are not completely privatized areas. Local government still has an important role to play. |
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’t Schap als ’n Schip van Staat in de Markt?De Publiekrechtelijke Bedrijfsorganisatie (PBO) vergeleken met de Territoriale (gemeenten) |
Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 3 2011 |
Auteurs | Prof. dr. Frans van Waarden |
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In this feature authors discuss recent research findings that are of interest to readers of Beleid en Maatschappij. |
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Decentralisatie: maatwerk of uniformiteit?Het Wmo-beleid van Nederlandse gemeenten |
Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 3 2011 |
Trefwoorden | decentralization, local government, social care |
Auteurs | Judith van der Veer MSc., Jelmer Schalk MSc. en Dr. Rob Gilsing |
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A main motive for policy decentralization is the belief that municipalities are better able to customize public policy to local circumstances, and to realize made-to-measure service provision. In this respect, the introduction of the Social Support Act (Wmo) is an interesting example. With the lack of ‘vertical’ accountability obligations to the national government, the Wmo is governmentally innovative. Whether the decentralization results in customized forms of social support is a fascinating one because a detailed reading of the Wmo and its implementation displays possible incentives as well as barriers to made-to-measure service provision. The empirical exploration in this article uses data from the 2007-2009 evaluation of the Wmo conducted by the Netherlands Institute for Social Research (SCP). The evaluation shows that municipalities involve diverse stakeholders in formulating Wmo policy, and that their involvement seems to lead to customized service provision. At the same time, municipalities follow nationwide models, and information provided by the central government seems to have a major impact on local social care policy. The article concludes with an outlook on future directions in local debates on social care and the recommendation to give time for major decentralization trajectories such as the Wmo. |
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Werk in een wantrouwende wereldOmvang en oorzaken van een uitdijende controle-industrie |
Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 4 2006 |
Auteurs | Frans van Waarden |
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Fraud seems to be on the rise. That feeds a demand for controls. This paper sketches the diversity of supply in reaction to this demand: public regulators of course, but also commercial information providers and benchmarkers, self-regulating associations, hallmark producers, certification and accreditation bodies, and internal business management control systems, whereby ever more levels of control are piled on top of each other. More than a million Dutchmen earn a living in this booming control-industry, or 14% of the working population. In addition to fraud, other causes of this trend are being discussed, among them, paradoxically, neo-liberalist deregulation policies. All these causes contribute to a sense of risk and uncertainty. Although this trend has a number of negative consequences, it has a major benefit: jobs! Economists may have long thought that transaction costs are there for the transactions. But it looks as if transactions exist to produce transaction costs. |
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De governance van klimaatadaptatieNaar een legitieme balans tussen daadkracht en draagvlak |
Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 1 2010 |
Auteurs | Arwin van Buuren en Geert Teisman |
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The problem of climate change is high on the various political-administrative agendas, both national and international. At the same time the problem is full of uncertainties and controversies. Adaptation to climate change asks for adjustments in our spatial planning, but can also necessitate changes in the distribution of public and private responsibilities. A crucial question is how the legitimacy of adaptation measures can be organized in a context surrounded with uncertainties, controversies and conflicting interests. In this paper we introduce the central theme of this special issue and the various contributions. |
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Inleiding: Klimaatbestendigheid als ruimtelijke en maatschappelijke opgaveBouwstenen voor legitieme adaptatiestrategieën |
Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 1 2010 |
Auteurs | Arwin van Buuren, Peter Driessen en Geert Teisman |
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The problem of climate change is high on the various political-administrative agendas, both national and international. At the same time the problem is full of uncertainties and controversies. Adaptation to climate change asks for adjustments in our spatial planning, but can also necessitate changes in the distribution of public and private responsibilities. A crucial question is how the legitimacy of adaptation measures can be organized in a context surrounded with uncertainties, controversies and conflicting interests. In this paper we introduce the central theme of this special issue and the various contributions. |
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De bekostiging van klimaatadaptatieArrangementen voor een legitieme balans van baten en lasten |
Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 1 2010 |
Auteurs | Peter Driessen en Tejo Spit |
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The extent to which the implementation of adaptation strategies is effective is determined by the availability of suitable financial instruments. The Dutch spatial planning system consists of several instruments for financing and implementing spatial development plans. The central question of this article is: which insights from the present financing system could be relevant for an effective and legitimate climate adaptation policy in the near future? |
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Ontwikkelingshulp die verschil maakt |
Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 1 2010 |
Auteurs | Peter van Lieshout, Monique Kremer en Robert Went |
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De verplaatsing van de 'Vierde Macht'Inleiding op het themanummer |
Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 1 2008 |
Auteurs | Paul 't Hart, Sebastiaan Princen en Kutsal Yesilkagit |
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A large number of Dutch policy areas is governed by institutionalized European policy networks and European laws and rules. Various forms of multi-level governance have emerged that were seemingly unforeseen at the time when the field of European integration studies was preoccupied by the fierce debates between intergouvernmentalists and supernationalists. Nevertheless, the field has hitherto given little attention to how europeanisation has affected national civil service systems. This article kicks off this special issue with an overview of the recent literature on the effects of Europeanisation on national civil service systems. |
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Slot: Klimaatbestendigheid: tussen ordening en adaptiviteitEen kritische slotbeschouwing over de legitimiteit van klimaatadaptatie |
Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 1 2010 |
Auteurs | Arwin van Buuren, Peter Driessen en Geert Teisman |
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The problem of climate change is high on the various political-administrative agendas, both national and international. At the same time the problem is full of uncertainties and controversies. Adaptation to climate change asks for adjustments in our spatial planning, but can also necessitate changes in the distribution of public and private responsibilities. A crucial question is how the legitimacy of adaptation measures can be organized in a context surrounded with uncertainties, controversies and conflicting interests. In this paper we introduce the central theme of this special issue and the various contributions. |
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Paradoxen van publieke en private keuzen en kanalen |
Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 1 2007 |
Auteurs | Frans van Waarden |
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Klimaatverandering en waterveiligheid, tussen ernst en enthousiasmeDe discursieve framing van bedreigingen en kansen |
Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 1 2010 |
Auteurs | Arwin van Buuren en Jeroen Warner |
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