Research into successful alderman is scarce. Scientifically less is known about the perspective of residents and council members on (successful) aldermen. A recent study investigated the sources of legitimacy that successful aldermen draw on. In addition, the contribution of characteristics of local political leadership to successful alderman has been examined. Based on a survey of residents, councilors and aldermen, differences in opinions about aldermen, aspects and indicators of legitimacy and personal characteristics were uncovered. There are clear differences in judgment, indicators and personal characteristics that are considered important and another source on which the judgment is based. This provides interesting and new research material for public administration literature as well as for administrative practice. The view of residents learns us that the distance to aldermen must be reduced, more connection must be made, a more outside view must be taken and an addition to the management style of councilors with responsive qualities is required. |
Zoekresultaat: 30 artikelen
Dossier |
Wat is rechtvaardige AI?Een kader voor het ontwikkelen en toepassen van algoritmes voor automatische besluitvorming |
Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 4 2020 |
Auteurs | Dr. Tjerk Timan en Dr. Francisca Grommé |
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Succesvol wethouderschap onder de loepBronnen van legitimiteit in de ogen van inwoners, raadsleden en wethouders |
Tijdschrift | Bestuurskunde, Aflevering 2 2020 |
Trefwoorden | Aldermen, Local government, Success, Politics, Legitimacy |
Auteurs | Drs. Peter Verheij |
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Essay |
Geschiedenis van de (lokale) bestuurswetenschappen: politicologie, beleidswetenschap en public choice |
Tijdschrift | Bestuurs­wetenschappen, Aflevering 1 2020 |
Auteurs | Dr. Rik Reussing |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
From 1964 until roughly 1990, political science would become the dominant approach within the (local) administrative sciences in the Netherlands. This central position was taken over from the legal approach. Important impulses from political science for Public Administration came only from the second-generation political scientists: Gijs Kuypers at the Free University Amsterdam, Hans Daudt at the University of Amsterdam and Hans Daalder at the University of Leiden. In their footsteps, a political scientist emerged who, through his contribution to several universities (the Free University, the University of Nijmegen and the University of Twente), had a great deal of influence on the further development of Dutch Public Administration: Andries Hoogerwerf. Two other approaches emerged from political science that were important for the development of modern public administration in the Netherlands, namely policy science and the new political economy (public choice). In this essay the author outlines the input of the main figures from political science, policy science and public choice until 1990 in various stages that are most relevant to Public Administration. These stages take us to various cities and universities in the Netherlands. In addition, we see important cross-fertilization between the institutions through the transfer of people from one university to another. After 1990 however, Public Administration would increasingly profile itself as an independent inter-discipline. |
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Deliberation Out of the Laboratory into DemocracyQuasi-Experimental Research on Deliberative Opinions in Antwerp’s Participatory Budgeting |
Tijdschrift | Politics of the Low Countries, Aflevering 1 2020 |
Trefwoorden | Deliberative democracy, mini-publics, participatory budget, social learning, deliberative opinions |
Auteurs | Thibaut Renson |
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The theoretical assumptions of deliberative democracy are increasingly embraced by policymakers investing in local practices, while the empirical verifications are often not on an equal footing. One such assertion concerns the stimulus of social learning among participants of civic democratic deliberation. Through the use of pre-test/post-test panel data, it is tested whether participation in mini-publics stimulates the cognitive and attitudinal indicators of social learning. The main contribution of this work lies in the choice of matching this quasi-experimental set-up with a natural design. This study explores social learning across deliberation through which local policymakers invite their citizens to participate in actual policymaking. This analysis on the District of Antwerp’s participatory budgeting demonstrates stronger social learning in real-world policymaking. These results inform a richer theory on the impacts of deliberation, as well as better use of limited resources for local (participatory) policymaking. |
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Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 2 2019 |
Trefwoorden | Neoliberalism, The Netherlands, Intellectual history, Political history, Essentially contested concepts |
Auteurs | Dr. Merijn Oudenampsen en Dr. Bram Mellink |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
The word neoliberalism has often been the object of fierce controversy in the Dutch public debate. Prominent intellectuals have equated neoliberalism with extremism and fundamentalism, with some going as far as calling it a ‘totalitarian faith’. The opposite camp in the debate has argued that neoliberalism is largely a self-invented bogeyman of the left, a swearword used by critics to engage in an intellectual witch-hunt. Of course, neoliberalism is not the only social science term suffering from a polemical status. Common concepts such as populism, socialism, nationalism or conservatism have given rise to similar lasting disagreements and comparable accusations of their derogatory use. What does appear to be exceptional about neoliberalism in the Dutch debate, is that very few conceptual and historical studies have been published on the subject. While the word neoliberalism is commonly employed in Dutch mainstream social science, many scholars seem to use the term without much further qualification. This paper explores the controversy and looks for ways to proceed beyond it. Drawing on a recent wave of international scholarship, it outlines an ideational approach to neoliberalism. After tracing the origins of the term neoliberalism, it closes with a preliminary example of an ideational analysis of Dutch neoliberalism. |
Essay |
Geschiedenis van de (lokale) bestuurswetenschappen: sociografie, sociologie en bestuurskunde |
Tijdschrift | Bestuurs­wetenschappen, Aflevering 1 2019 |
Auteurs | Dr. Rik Reussing |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
A large number of people, institutions, journals and approaches have contributed to the history of (local) administrative sciences in the Netherlands. Initially (around 1914) the legal approach was dominant; from 1964 onwards, political science would become the dominant approach; and from 1990 onwards, Public Administration would increasingly profile itself as an independent discipline. This essay concentrates on the influence on this development of sociology and its, typically Dutch, predecessor sociography. The starting point here is the promotion tree of the founder of the Dutch sociology Sebald Steinmetz. Through him various lines (via his doctorates Nicolaas ter Veen and Jakob Kruijt) go to modern Public Administration. This essay tells the story of the influence of sociography and sociology on the development of the administrative sciences and modern Public Administration in six acts, in which two persons from the promotion tree are discussed (via Sjoerd Groenman, who is promoted by Nicolaas ter Veen there are two different lines again). The line via Jakob Kruijt contains Aris van Braam (he wrote in 1957 what is considered the first Dutch empirical study in Public Administration) and Jos Raadschelders. The first line via Sjoerd Groenman contains Henk Brasz (the first full-time professor in Public Administration in the Netherlands), Fred Fleurke and Ko de Ridder. The second line via Sjoerd Groenman contains Joop Ellemers, Geert Braam (professor at the first regular Dutch Public Administration programme in Twente) and Wim Derksen. These acts are framed with short intermezzos about the other sociological key figures who played an important role in the story of sociography, sociology and Public Administration. In conclusion, the author of this essay discusses the continuing relevance of sociology for modern Public Administration. |
Symposium |
Over het belang van een interpersoonlijk ethos |
Tijdschrift | Res Publica, Aflevering 4 2017 |
Auteurs | François Levrau |
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Artikel |
Welvaart gemeten, verdeeld en verduurzaamd |
Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 4 2016 |
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. |
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Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 3 2016 |
Trefwoorden | Derde Weg, Sociaaldemocratie, Partij van de Arbeid, Communitarisme, Ideologie, Nederlandse politiek |
Auteurs | Drs. Merijn Oudenampsen |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
In the 1990’s, the Dutch social democrats were trailblazers of what became known internationally as the politics of the Third Way, a new middle course between social democracy and neoliberalism. From the start, the Dutch Third Way distinguished itself from its Anglo-Saxon counterparts by its implicit character. The Dutch social democrat party (Partij van de Arbeid, PvdA) never fully embraced the Third Way and has sought to downplay the idea of a break with traditional social democratic thinking, combining Third Way practice with more classical social democratic rhetoric. The resulting political ambiguity, this paper argues, is at the centre of the present identity crisis of the social democrat party. Even though Third Way ideology has at times been declared dead, the range of attitudes, strategies and policy proposals that were introduced under its banner, still play a vital and prominent role in Dutch politics. While in the UK and the US, communitarianism was from the very beginning a defining feature of the Third Way, in the Netherlands this only came to the fore in 2012 under the leadership of Samsom and Asscher, and in the plea for a participation society under the Rutte II government. Leading us to conclude that the reports of the Third Way’s death are greatly exaggerated. |
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Ambtenaren en levensbeschouwelijke tekens – een pleidooi voor inclusieve neutraliteit |
Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 2 2016 |
Trefwoorden | Inclusieve neutraliteit, hoofddoekendebat, ambtenarij, multiculturele samenleving, levensbeschouwelijke diversiteit |
Auteurs | dr. François Levrau |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
Every now and then the question whether or not civil servants are allowed to wear religious and ideological signs divides the minds of the people, and leads to societal and political controversy. In this article we examine this controversy by contrasting two different conceptions of neutrality, an inclusive and an exclusive account. We illustrate why the former is to be preferred and hence that a neutral government should not necessarily ask its servants to abstract from religious and cultural expressions. This however does not imply that all kinds of expressions should be allowed. In order to prevent a slippery slope, we formulate a number of formal criteria that can help to separate the proverbial wheat from the chaff: (1) the interpretation of neutrality in relation to a minimum and objective review; (2) the proportionality criterion; (3) the functionality criterion; and (4) the criterion of contact with the public. |
Essay |
De kwetsbaarheid van de democratie: collectief zelfbestuur in een tijdperk van internationalisering |
Tijdschrift | Res Publica, Aflevering 2 2016 |
Auteurs | Ben Crum |
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Links-libertarisme als aantrekkelijke theorie van sociale rechtvaardigheid |
Tijdschrift | Res Publica, Aflevering 2 2016 |
Trefwoorden | left-libertarianism, justice, self-ownership, Lockean proviso, liberty, equality |
Auteurs | Kasper Ossenblok |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
Left-libertarianism is a marginal theory in the debate on social justice. In this article, I argue that this peripheral status is a mistake. The two basic principles of left-libertarianism, the full self-ownership principle and an egalitarian interpretation of the worldownership principle, are sufficiently attractive and sound for the theory to be taken seriously. I introduce the two principles, explain their attractiveness and argue for their plausibility by contrasting them to the right-libertarian theory of Robert Nozick and the liberal egalitarian theory of John Rawls. I conclude that left-libertarianism has some considerable advantages over both those theories. |
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Impact en haalbaarheid in politieke theorieën |
Tijdschrift | Res Publica, Aflevering 1 2016 |
Trefwoorden | feasibility, impact, theory parts, practical application of theory |
Auteurs | Stijn Koenraads |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
Feasibility considerations are important for political theories. An infeasible theory may contain valuable ideals, but is not suited to reality. Utilizing a precise and complete conceptualization of feasibility is essential to considering the feasibility of theories. An existing definition of feasibility is presented here. It is argued that this conception of feasibility is incomplete. The impact of parts of a theory as well as the feasibility of the parts of a theory themselves should be considered as well – something that has not been addressed in the literature thus far. A new feasibility framework is developed, in which the impact of parts of a theory, the feasibility of the parts of a theory as well as the feasibility of the preferred outcome of a theory have a place. Thus, the notion of feasibility is conceptualized in a more complete way. |
Casus |
Het basisinkomen en libertarische rechtvaardigheid |
Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 3 2015 |
Auteurs | Prof. dr. Martin van Hees |
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Essay |
Godsdienst- en onderwijsvrijheid in België anno 2015 |
Tijdschrift | Res Publica, Aflevering 4 2015 |
Auteurs | Leni Franken |
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Symposium |
Hoe nu verder? Over de politieke theorie in Nederland en Vlaanderen |
Tijdschrift | Res Publica, Aflevering 4 2014 |
Auteurs | Roland Pierik, Patrick Overeem en Tim Heysse |
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Discussie |
Wordt het europeanisering, detachering, mobilisering of doe-het-zelven? |
Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 3 2013 |
Auteurs | Prof. dr. Ewald Engelen, Dr. Rodrigo Fernandez en Monique Kremer |
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Rawls en Regime ChangeEen onderzoek naar de interne rechtvaardiging van de Amerikaanse inval in Irak van 2003 |
Tijdschrift | Res Publica, Aflevering 2 2013 |
Trefwoorden | United States, Iraq, democratic peace, regime change, Rawls |
Auteurs | Femke Avtalyon-Bakker |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
This article analyzes the US internal justification to invade Iraq in 2003 through a study of the ‘Bush Doctrine’ of 2002, several Congressional acts and resolutions on Iraq, and Presidential speeches before and during the mobilization of US forces. It argues that in order to find domestic support, regime change was one of the main goals, despite the references the US made to UN resolutions. Second, this paper uses Rawls’ ideas to analyze the US decision to democratize Iraq. The results of this study show how political philosophy can be used and abused to shape foreign policy. Rawls’ theory could have provided the US with a moral justification based on the liberal peace assumptions that were underlying their foreign policy. However, the US did not make a consistent appeal to those assumptions and acted like a Rawlsian ‘outlaw state’ instead. Therefore, this paper argues, the US lost the liberal justification to overthrow Saddam Hussein’s regime in favor of democracy. |
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Redactioneel |
Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 1 2013 |
Auteurs | Ewald Engelen |
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Boekbespreking |
Markten zijn overal |
Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 4 2012 |
Auteurs | Dr. Rutger Claassen |
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