In this contribution, three entrepreneurs indicate how they are actively involved in the processes of re-designation of churches. Based on a number of tools, they try to offer prospects for the future of churches in close consultation with the parties involved. This is by no means easy and requires strategic, tactical and open action to bridge existing contradictions and guarantee a future for the religious heritage. |
Zoekresultaat: 63 artikelen
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Tijdschrift | Bestuurs­wetenschappen, Aflevering 3 2020 |
Auteurs | Sander Ummelen, Ankie Petersen MA en Stephan Ummelen |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
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Naoorlogs universalisme in het huidige socialezekerheidsdebat |
Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 2 2020 |
Trefwoorden | Social security system, welfare state, Universalism, public advisory agencies, working poor |
Auteurs | Dr. Barbara Brink en Prof. dr. Gijsbert Vonk |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
The Western European social security systems are founded on the need to offer universal social protection, as was for example advocated in the Beveridge report of 1942. The universalistic endeavour has led to the development of the all-embracing welfare states of today, but already for many decades dissatisfaction with the direction of the welfare state has led to a diversion of the universalistic pretention. In the current debate, universalism seems to be on the rise again. The Dutch think tanks CPB, WRR and SCP increasingly pay attention to the divide that is becoming manifest between those with better chances in the society and who are left behind. The think tanks have all formulated policy options in order to address this divide by offering better social security protection for excluded groups. In this article we discuss whether the options presented fall back upon the post-war notion of universality. |
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Diversiteit en inclusie in verschillende typen kindercentraErvaringen van managers en medewerkers |
Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 2 2020 |
Trefwoorden | Diversity, Inclusion, Privatization, Organizational climate, Childcare centers |
Auteurs | Drs. Willeke van der Werf, Dr. Pauline Slot, Prof. dr. Patrick Kenis e.a. |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
Childcare centers are organizations that differ in structural and cultural characteristics. The present comparative case study examined how Dutch childcare centers match different organization types and related the identified organization types to the implementation of diversity and inclusion policy. Diversity and inclusion in organizations concerns climate-dimensions, such as providing equal opportunities, allowing influence on decision-making and stimulating professional development for all staff. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 13 managers and 24 pedagogical practitioners in 13 childcare centers. Content-analysis of the interviews showed that employees in all centers experience equal opportunities, however the content and form of these opportunities differed according to the type of organization. Employees in childcare centers with a comparatively strong orientation on professional performance reported positive experiences with group-collaboration, team-professionalization and collective decision-making. Employees in childcare centers with a comparatively strong market orientation reported positive experiences with possibilities for individual development and autonomy in their daily work. The experiences of the employees match the differences in organizational climate as reported by the location managers, emphasizing either collaboration in teams or employees’ individual responsibility, depending on the type of organization. |
Van Slingelandtlezing |
Een korte samenvatting van het WRR-rapport ‘Voorbereiden op digitale ontwrichting’ |
Tijdschrift | Bestuurskunde, Aflevering 1 2020 |
Auteurs | Erik Schrijvers |
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Van Slingelandtlezing |
Digitale ontwrichting en een ontwrichtende overheid?Een debat ten tonele van de Van Slingelandtlezing 2019 |
Tijdschrift | Bestuurskunde, Aflevering 1 2020 |
Van Slingelandtlezing |
Zonder overheid gaat het niet |
Tijdschrift | Bestuurskunde, Aflevering 1 2020 |
Auteurs | Dr. Erik Schrijvers |
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Over zelfredzame burgers gesprokenHoe ambtenaren een buigzaam burgerschapsideaal vormgeven |
Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 4 2019 |
Trefwoorden | Interactional framing, Self reliance, Silent ideologies, Micro frames, Self referentiality |
Auteurs | Drs. Harrie van Rooij, Dr. Margit van Wessel en Prof. dr. Noelle Aarts |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
The concept of self-reliant citizens reflects an ideology of citizenship that is multiple and flexible. It could be regarded as a ‘plastic’ word, malleable and adjustable according to convictions, needs and purposes. This study shows the importance of considering the way in which ideological views on citizenship are transferred, adjusted and enacted in an organizational context. On the basis of a case study at the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration (DTCA), we contribute to knowledge on the way processes of framing interrelate on micro, meso and macro levels. We found that frames on self-reliance are enacted in a way that tensions and dilemmas are neutralized or reduced. In a dynamic context of conflicting goals and limited resources, DTCA-employees create meanings of self-reliance which legitimate practices and policies. By doing this they reproduce both organizational and social perspectives. Accounts of citizenship play an important role in this process. Self-reliant citizens are presented as active and responsible. The need of help is imagined as a normal and yet an atypical situation. This study promotes attention to the possibility that organizational systems reproduce perspectives in a way that alternative views remain unnoticed, whereas organizational choices are silently accepted as natural facts. |
Reflectie & debat |
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Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 2 2019 |
Auteurs | Miguel Heilbron |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
Reflection and debate initiates academically inspired discussions on issues that are on the current policy agenda. |
Reflectie & debat |
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Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 2 2019 |
Auteurs | Dr. Karin Lurvink en Drs. Tamira Combrink |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
Reflection and debate initiates academically inspired discussions on issues that are on the current policy agenda. |
Essay |
Kantelt de stad?Alles verandert, maar … blijft toch niet alles hetzelfde? |
Tijdschrift | Bestuurs­wetenschappen, Aflevering 4 2018 |
Auteurs | Prof. dr. Nico Nelissen |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
It may seem obvious to say that society changes and that this is happening at an increasing speed. But not everyone fully realizes that society as a whole is undergoing fundamental changes and that this will lead to a complete transformation and structural change of society over a longer period of time. Some think that tomorrow is a multitude of today, others think that the present is not really a good compass for what tomorrow and especially the day after tomorrow will be. In this respect, municipalities are faced with the considerable task of making a ‘future-proof’ diagnosis of ‘municipal reality’ and of forming a picture of what that future will be, or should be. Municipalities differ considerably in the way in which they deal with these aspects administratively: from ‘government as usual’ on the one hand to ‘complete tilt’ on the other side of the continuum. Much municipal policy is a slightly adapted version of what they have been doing for a long time. The real initiatives to ‘fundamentally tilt’ systems have yet to reach many municipalities. In other words: everything changes, but… have things not remained the same? In this essay the author discusses these issues in the context of his hometown Maastricht (in the south of the Netherlands) as an example. |
Symposium |
Helt de ivoren toren naar links? |
Tijdschrift | Res Publica, Aflevering 2 2018 |
Auteurs | Pieter Pekelharing, Louise Hoon en Soumia Akachar |
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Uitdagingen voor bestuur en politiek op gemeenteniveau: het burgerperspectief |
Tijdschrift | Bestuurs­wetenschappen, Aflevering 3 2017 |
Auteurs | Dr. Jeroen van der Waal, Babs Broekema MSc en Dr. Eefje Steenvoorden |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
For the legitimacy and ability of governments it is crucial to have insight in the worries of citizens about society and politics. In the Netherlands these worries are at the national level systematically mapped by the Dutch Social and Cultural Planning Agency (SCP) through their Continuous Research Citizen Perspectives (COB) for almost ten years now. At the local level there is a lack of information about what worries citizens. Insight in locally experienced problems will probably become even more important in the coming years because of the recent decentralizations of national governmental tasks to the municipalities. This article investigates which problems citizens perceive in their municipalities based on an analysis of data from the Local Electoral Research (LKO). The authors find a number of striking differences with the problems that are perceived at the national level in the same period. The municipal issues citizens mention offer opportunities, but they also point to the limited impact force of the municipal level of government. All in all the research findings are indicative of a substantial added value of the LKO with respect to the already longer running COB. |
Boekbespreking |
De brandende kampongs van generaal Spoor |
Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 2 2017 |
Auteurs | Ineke Fritschij BSc |
Samenvatting |
In this feature authors review recently published books on subjects of interest to readers of Beleid en Maatschappij. |
Redactioneel |
Bestuurswetenschappen 70 jaar: de mannen (en een vrouw) van het eerste uur |
Tijdschrift | Bestuurs­wetenschappen, Aflevering 4 2016 |
Auteurs | Dr. Rik Reussing |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
This year we are celebrating volume 70 of the Dutch magazine ‘Bestuurswetenschappen’ (Administrative Sciences in English). The first complete volume was published in 1947, but the first issue had already appeared in November 1946, so last month our magazine had its 70th anniversary. It is an appropriate age to reflect for a moment on the launch of our magazine in this anniversary issue, because 70 is rapidly becoming the new 65. It is also an opportunity for us to pay respect in this editorial to those people who were involved at the launch of the magazine which happened under difficult circumstances (because of the consequences of the Second World War and the huge task of rebuilding the Netherlands). At the same time this homage is an impressive ‘who’s who’ of Dutch (and also partly the international) administrative sciences at that time, with many remarkable and influential characters playing a role. Apart from all the male authors and editors, one woman (Hermine Revers) was the editorial secretary of the magazine. Chief editor was Gerrit van Poelje, who is considered by many to be the founder of Public Administration in the Netherlands. |
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De slag om duurzaamheid in de polycentrische regio’s Randstad en Rijn-Roergebied |
Tijdschrift | Bestuurs­wetenschappen, Aflevering 3 2016 |
Auteurs | Simon Goess MSc, Prof. dr. Ellen van Bueren en Prof. dr. Martin de Jong |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
In polycentric urban regions one can find different, mutually related cities without a clear centre. In these regions cities cooperate to attract inhabitants and employment, but at the same time they are each other’s competitors. The Randstad (Netherlands) and the Rhine-Ruhr area (Germany) both can be seen as polycentric regions. The authors explore to what extent these regions possess a common identity and common agenda and to what extent this promotes the sustainability and energy transition of these regions. In both regions identity appears to have grown especially at subregional level, by historically developed spatial-economic profiles of the different cities or suburban regions. In addition the cities in these regions more and more wish to distinguish themselves in the area of sustainability. Every city wants to be the smartest, greenest and healthiest, and to be at the forefront in energy transition and climate mitigation. In the Dutch Randstad this competitive drive especially seems to contribute to the realization of sustainability projects at the local level. And that is exactly why regional cooperation is important: to allocate resources as well as possible and to avoid transfer to others. This can be improved by the development of subregional or regional sustainability visions. |
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Systematisch leren van evaluerenWaarden, effectiviteit, onafhankelijkheid en kwaliteit als pijlers voor de brug tussen wetenschap en politiek |
Tijdschrift | Bestuurskunde, Aflevering 2 2016 |
Trefwoorden | Policy, Evaluation, Accountability, Learning, Values |
Auteurs | Prof. Dr. André Knottnerus, Dr. Peter de Goede en Dr. Peter van der Knaap |
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Policy evaluation has two main functions: it should lead to policy oriented learning and facilitate accountability. Rendering account is considered an important democratic duty but is not very popular with politicians and, hence, public officials. Learning is popular, but in practice it is often difficult to organize or, indeed, witness. |
Praktijk |
Ambtelijk statuut met een pluspakketReactie uit de bestuurlijke praktijk |
Tijdschrift | Bestuurs­wetenschappen, Aflevering 2 2016 |
Auteurs | Drs. Marcel van Bijnen |
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Tijdschrift | Beleidsonderzoek Online, mei 2016 |
Auteurs | André Knottnerus |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
Een lerende overheid heeft behoefte aan beleidsevaluaties die niet alleen van betekenis zijn voor het onderwerp waarop deze primair gericht zijn, maar ook bijdragen aan bredere, systematische opbouw van kennis en ervaring. Het interdepartementaal verbinden van expertise verruimt daarbij het zicht op factoren die het leren bevorderen of belemmeren. |
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Het verband tussen publiek belang en ontwerp bij het internet der dingen |
Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 1 2016 |
Trefwoorden | public economics, big data, Privacy, industrial design, agency theory |
Auteurs | Prof. dr. Frank Den Butter en Ir. Gijs Den Butter |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
The Internet of Things generates a wealth of data (big data) about personal behaviour, which can be used for marketing purposes. It brings about both benefits and costs in terms of societal welfare. Various forms of government intervention are needed to safeguard the public interests associated with these welfare effects. These public interest relate, on the one hand, to public availability of data and information, to repairing informational asymmetries, and on the other hand to providing personal security and privacy protection. This article discusses, from the perspective of the principal/agent approach to regulation, how the design of applications and systems in the Internet of Things can best be shaped. The example of the smart thermostat Toon® of the Dutch energy provider Eneco shows how an intensive collaboration between designers and software engineers may contribute to both proper data protection and to provide an incentive to save energy. |
Essay |
Wat te zeggen?Tolerantie en vrijheid van meningsuiting na Parijs |
Tijdschrift | Res Publica, Aflevering 1 2016 |
Auteurs | Floris Mansvelt Beck |
Auteursinformatie |