Information platforms can facilitate data sharing and make new applications possible. It is essential to connect a wide range of both public and private parties to a platform if real data-based transformation is to get off the ground. However, organizations are reluctant to share data if they do not know exactly what it can be used for or if they have no direct interest in it. Achieving a good solution requires a lot from the innovation process itself and the way it is managed. This article uses three innovation perspectives for the analysis of a logistics information platform. This analysis shows that different stages in the development of an information platform can be distinguished, each with its own dynamic. For local government the involvement of and connection to local parties is important, while innovation as a whole benefits from the link with an overarching agenda that transcends the local level. |
Zoekresultaat: 104 artikelen
Thema |
Sturen op het delen van data: tussen lokale oplossingen en een nationaal platform |
Tijdschrift | Bestuurs­wetenschappen, Aflevering 4 2019 |
Auteurs | Prof. dr. Bram Klievink |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
Essay |
Regionale ontwikkeling: opgavegericht (samen)werkenVan Poelje-lezing 2019 |
Tijdschrift | Bestuurs­wetenschappen, Aflevering 4 2019 |
Auteurs | Dr. Rik Reussing |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
On 1 April 2019 in the town hall of the Dutch municipality Zwolle the second Van Poelje lecture (named after the founder of Dutch Public Administration, Gerrit van Poelje) was held. The lecture is organized by the Department of Public Administration of the Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences (BMS) of the University of Twente, in close cooperation with BMC advice, the municipality of Zwolle and the province of Overijssel (of which Zwolle is the capital). The subject of this second lecture was ‘Regional development: task-oriented operating and cooperating ’. The keynote speech of the lecture was delivered by the minister of Home Affairs Kajsa Ollongren. The coreferents were Andries Heidema (the King’s Commissioner in the province of Overijssel) and Bas Denters (professor of Public Administration at the University of Twente). Marcel Boogers (the new chief editor of this magazine, Bestuurswetenschappen) acted as chair of the day and as moderator of the discussion between the attendees and the speakers. In his opinion a clearly different wind is blowing from the Home Office, with more attention for regional differences, which demands more tailor-made work from municipalities and provinces. The minister’s main message was that, because not all provinces have the same position and the problems also differ per province, the tasks must be the guiding principle and the scale must be adjusted accordingly. Therefore, administrative culture and style must be central in the present discussion in her opinion, and not so much the administrative structure. |
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Open data ecosystemen: een kwalitatief vergelijkend onderzoek naar open data van lokale en regionale overheden |
Tijdschrift | Bestuurs­wetenschappen, Aflevering 4 2019 |
Auteurs | Rik Wijnhof MSc, Jochem van den Berg MSc en Dr. Erna Ruijer |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
More and more government organizations are making data public with the aim of promoting innovation and democratic processes. But open data does not always lead to the desired impact. In this study the authors analyze why some organizations are successful in exploiting the potential of open data and others are not. This research uses an ecosystem approach to investigate similarities and differences between four organizations that use open data. This has revealed three factors that promote the ecosystem, namely the influence of other organizations that are also involved with open data such as the motivation for open data, the important role of innovation champions and the utilization of the user perspective. Three barriers have also emerged: the preparation of a suitable case question for open data, the difficult relationship between obtaining capacity and the expected yields and the difference in scale between issues and profitable data sets. |
Research Notes |
Paid Digital Campaigning During the 2018 Local Elections in FlandersWhich Candidates Jumped on the Bandwagon? |
Tijdschrift | Politics of the Low Countries, Aflevering 3 2019 |
Trefwoorden | local elections, candidates, campaign spending, digital campaigning |
Auteurs | Gunther Vanden Eynde, Gert-Jan Put, Bart Maddens e.a. |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
This research note investigates the role of paid digital campaigning in the 2018 local elections in Flanders. We make use of the official declarations which candidates are legally required to submit. In these declarations, candidates indicate whether and how much they invested in online campaigning tools during the four months preceding the elections. We collected data on a sample of 3,588 individual candidates running in the 30 municipalities of the Leuven Arrondissement. A multilevel logistic regression model shows that the odds of spending on digital campaigning increases among incumbent aldermen and local councillors. The latter finding supports the normalization thesis of digital campaigning. The results also show that scale is important – the more potential voters a candidate has, the higher the odds that the candidate invests in digital tools. |
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Split-Ticket Voting in BelgiumAn Analysis of the Presence and Determinants of Differentiated Voting in the Municipal and Provincial Elections of 2018 |
Tijdschrift | Politics of the Low Countries, Aflevering 3 2019 |
Trefwoorden | split-ticket voting, local elections, voting motives, Belgium, PR-system |
Auteurs | Tony Valcke en Tom Verhelst |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
This article tackles the particular issue of split-ticket voting, which has been largely overlooked in Belgian election studies thus far. We contribute to the literature by answering two particular research questions: (1) to what extent and (2) why do voters cast a different vote in the elections for the provincial council as compared to their vote in the elections for the municipal council? |
Lokaal internationaal |
Internationale tijdschriften en boeken |
Tijdschrift | Bestuurs­wetenschappen, Aflevering 3 2019 |
Auteurs | Dr. Rik Reussing |
Auteursinformatie |
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Split Offer and Homogeneous Response in BelgiumThe Conceptual and Empirical Limitations of (De)Nationalization |
Tijdschrift | Politics of the Low Countries, Aflevering 2 2019 |
Trefwoorden | (de-)nationalization, voting behaviour, party offer, voter response, methodological nationalism |
Auteurs | Luana Russo, Kris Deschouwer en Tom Verthé |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
By examining the Belgian case, this article aims to show that methodological nationalism is strongly present in the literature on nationalization of party offer and voting behaviour. In nationalization studies, Belgium is often presented as a typical example of a denationalized country. This is true for the party offer, as it is de facto split between the two language groups since the 1980s, and therefore also voter response at the national level. However, voter response within each separate subnational party system is very homogeneous and shows interesting differences between these party systems that inform us about important electoral dynamics. We argue, on the basis of our results, that rather than stretching the concept of nationalization, it is preferable and justified to treat the concepts of nationalization of the party offer and homogenization of voter response as analytically distinct and not as two sides of the same coin. |
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Tijdschrift | Politics of the Low Countries, Aflevering 2 2019 |
Trefwoorden | radical right-wing populist parties, economic policies, welfare chauvinism, populism, deserving poor |
Auteurs | Simon Otjes |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
This article examines the economic agenda of the Dutch Freedom Party. It finds that this party mixes left-wing and right-wing policy positions. This inconsistency can be understood through the group-based account of Ennser-Jedenastik (2016), which proposes that the welfare state agenda of radical right-wing populist parties can be understood in terms of populism, nativism and authoritarianism. Each of these elements is linked to a particular economic policy: economic nativism, which sees the economic interest of natives and foreigners as opposed; economic populism, which seeks to limit economic privileges for the elite; and economic authoritarianism, which sees the interests of deserving and undeserving poor as opposed. By using these different oppositions, radical right-wing populist parties can reconcile left-wing and right-wing positions. |
Thema-artikel ‘Uitgesproken Bestuurskunde’ |
Management van stedelijke ontwikkelingBeleid, sturing en institutionele veranderingen voor duurzame steden |
Tijdschrift | Bestuurskunde, Aflevering 2 2019 |
Trefwoorden | sustainable urban development, governance, institutional innovation, socio-technical-ecological system |
Auteurs | Ellen van Bueren |
Samenvatting |
With her chair in urban development management, Ellen van Bueren investigates policy, governance and management issues. Cities, as economic and cultural centres in our society, are major consumers of resources. They not only contribute to problems such as climate change, but also experience the risks and consequences thereof. Technological solutions to these problems are difficult to implement. They require larger-scale system changes, or encounter resistance. Making cities sustainable not only requires technical solutions, but also institutional innovation. A socio-technical-ecological system approach to cities shows the coherence and complexity of issues. Issues play on multiple scales, are cross-sectoral, and require an interaction of citizens, companies, and governments. Moreover, the playing field between these groups of actors is changing rapidly, technological empowerment in particular has made the citizen a much more equal player alongside the government and business. Existing instruments and approaches are not sufficient to approach sustainability issues. To identify and address these issues, cooperation between science and society is necessary. Multi- and transdisciplinary learning environments enable researchers and students to identify issues, to answer questions and to try out solutions together with stakeholders. Such environments are indispensable for the development of sustainable cities. |
Thema-artikel ‘Uitgesproken Bestuurskunde’ |
Gedragen gedragsverandering |
Tijdschrift | Bestuurskunde, Aflevering 2 2019 |
Trefwoorden | public administration, public management, psychology, behavioral public administration, behavior change, design science |
Auteurs | Prof. dr. Lars Tummers |
Samenvatting |
Changing behavior is often necessary to tackle societal problems. Governments can change behavior via economic incentives (such as subsidies for electric cars), bans/mandates (such as prison sentences for drug smuggling), communication (for example information campaigns) and nudges (for example, being a donor by default). However, the government should not be a manipulator that applies the latest behavioral tricks without societal support. Public administration research shows that support cannot be taken for granted. If there is no support for behavioral change, well-intended interventions can even be counterproductive. I therefore develop a model for supported behavioral change. I provide five criteria that indicate when there is supported behavioral change: if the behavioral change is both effective (1) and efficient (2), and when there is support for behavioral change among politicians (3), among implementing organizations (4), and among citizens (5). |
Serie |
Ambitieuze en ambivalente vernieuwing van de lokale democratie in Nederland |
Tijdschrift | Bestuurs­wetenschappen, Aflevering 2 2019 |
Auteurs | Dr. Linze Schaap, Prof. dr. Frank Hendriks, Dr. Niels Karsten MA e.a. |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
In this article in the series on the local democratic audit, the authors argue that municipal democracy in the Netherlands has become a multiple democracy. Within the formal framework of representative democracy, numerous democratic arrangements have emerged that may be referred to as participatory, direct and also what the authors call ‘do-democracy’. Additions to representative democracy did not come without reason: representative democracy is not a perfect system, either in theory or in practice. Efforts have been made to improve the functioning of representative democracy in a number of ways. Three of these are discussed in this article. The authors note that these three reforms do not solve the problems in representative democracy. So the Dutch municipalities have started looking for additions to representative democracy. In this article various forms of participatory, do-it-yourself and direct democracy are discussed. Many effects of these reforms are still unknown and knowledge about them has crumbled, but one conclusion can be drawn: people with a low education are not inclined to take part, even with arrangements that are easily accessible. Striving for a more vital local democracy seems meaningful; the authors formulate a number of ways of thinking about this. |
Serie |
Decentralisatie, schaalvergroting en lokale democratie |
Tijdschrift | Bestuurs­wetenschappen, Aflevering 2 2019 |
Auteurs | Prof. dr. Marcel Boogers en Dr. Rik Reussing |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
In this article in the series on the local democratic audit, the authors discuss the relationship between decentralization, scaling-up and local democracy. Decentralizations and scaling-up operations have changed the face of local government in the Netherlands considerably in recent decades. What have the consequences for the functioning of local democracy been? Although decentralizations aim to increase democratic control of government tasks, decentralizations appear to have weakened local democracy in two ways. First of all, they have led to a substantial scaling-up of the local government, through municipal amalgamations and especially through the formation of regional partnerships. Regionalization in particular has had all kinds of negative consequences for the functioning of local democracy. Decentralization policy itself has also weakened the steering and controlling role of the city council – certainly in the short term – while decentralization presupposes that the city council has a strong role in coordinating decentralized policy with local wishes and circumstances. We can speak of a ‘double decentralization paradox’ that entails both bottlenecks and opportunities. From the legislator’s side, therefore, an integral vision for the organization of domestic governance is needed. |
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Strategische planning en fusies in Vlaamse gemeentenEen essay over Vlaamse ervaringen met New Public Management-hervormingen |
Tijdschrift | Bestuurskunde, Aflevering 1 2019 |
Trefwoorden | new public management, local government, strategic planning, municipal mergers, Flemish municipalities |
Auteurs | Bert George PhD |
Samenvatting |
In the past years, Flemish municipalities have been confronted with a plethora of new public management reforms. The two probably most salient reforms include the introduction of a strategic planning system entitled the policy and management cycle (PMC) as well as the provision of financial incentives for municipalities that undertake a merger. These reforms are not unique to the Flemish context. Indeed, similar reforms took place in the Netherlands, where policy and management instruments (PMI) – a strategic planning system – were introduced in the eighties and municipal mergers have been part of the political agenda for several decades. But similar reforms also took place in, for instance, the United Kingdom (i.e. the best value regime in 1999) as well as Denmark (i.e. the municipal mergers in 2007). In this essay, these Flemish reforms are critically evaluated, taking into account following question: which public values are triggered through these reforms, and what might this imply for the Flemish and Dutch local public sector? This essay uses new public governance principles such as strategic thinking and the learning organisation to answer this question. |
Boekensignalement |
Neoliberalen stellen een heel belangrijke vraag |
Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 1 2019 |
Auteurs | Dr. Duco Bannink |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
In this feature authors review recently published books on subjects of interest to readers of Beleid en Maatschappij. |
Dossier |
De aanpak van belastingontwijking door de EU: gerichte maatregelen zonder structurele verandering. |
Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 1 2019 |
Trefwoorden | Tax, EU/European Union, Corporate taxation, Tax avoidance, Tax policy |
Auteurs | Indra Römgens |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
According to the outgoing European Commissioner Pierre Moscovici, the European Union (EU) has made more progress in tackling tax avoidance and evasion in the last five years than in the twenty years before that. This article argues that although several targeted measures have indeed been adopted, such as automatic exchange of tax rulings and limitations on interest deductions, this has not led to a structural change in EU corporate tax policies, nor in underlying power relations. The article discusses the politics of a number of recent policy developments related to tax avoidance and evasion by transnational corporations. It argues that the adoption of targeted measures, and the simultaneous stalling of more comprehensive approaches – in terms of tax transparency or a common consolidated corporate tax base – can be explained by recent tax controversies, international politics, and the dynamics within and between EU institutions. Particular attention is paid to the role of the European Parliament that is formally limited, but still houses progressive forces that have continuously pushed for a clampdown on tax avoidance. Finally, the article pleads for more transparent EU decision-making, specifically concerning discussions with and within the Council, in order to improve the democratic legitimacy of EU corporate tax policies and processes. |
Dossier |
De schuldencrisis in de eurozone: oorzaken, aanpak en implicaties |
Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 1 2019 |
Trefwoorden | Eurozone crisis, Financialization, Bail-outs, Austerity, Banking union, Quantitative easing |
Auteurs | Dr. Henk Overbeek |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
Ten years ago, now, the Eurozone began to shake on its foundations. This article traces the genesis of the crisis and the present state of affairs. As to the causes of the global financial crisis in 2008, I argue that contrary to common understanding, the financial crisis had its deeper causes in a decades old tendency towards crisis in the real economy, produced by the continuous overaccumulation of capital which can only return profits by undertaking speculative short-term investments (a phenomenon known as ‘financialisation’). I then trace how the global financial crisis morphed into a crisis of public deficits and debt in 2010-2011, particularly in the Eurozone. Three factors are shown to be responsible: financialization, design faults in the European monetary union, and the neo-mercantilist strategy of especially Germany and the Netherlands. The paper next looks at the five main traits of the policy responses in the Eurozone: bailing out governments and banks through creating emergency funds; imposition of austerity and budget discipline for member state governments; attempting to create and complete a Eurozone banking union; subsequently the European Central Bank engaged on an unprecedented scale in ‘quantitative easing’; and finally, institutional reform in an attempt to repair the most pressing design faults of the EMU. The paper concludes that the underlying structural factors leading up to the crisis have only been addressed incompletely: the overaccumulation of capital continues, the completion of the banking union is in an impasse, quantitative easing has mostly just intensified financialization by pushing up asset prizes, and institutional reform has taken the form of a fundamentally undemocratic attempt at monetary and political union by stealth. The broader legitimacy of the European project has been substantially undermined, and Europe is not in a better position than eight years ago in case of a new global crisis. |
Article |
Consensus Democracy and Bureaucracy in the Low Countries |
Tijdschrift | Politics of the Low Countries, Aflevering 1 2019 |
Trefwoorden | consensus democracy, bureaucracy, governance system, Lijphart, policymaking |
Auteurs | Frits van der Meer, Caspar van den Berg, Charlotte van Dijck e.a. |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
Taking Lijphart’s work on consensus democracies as our point of departure, we signal a major shortcoming in Lijphart’s focus being almost exclusively on the political hardware of the state structure, leaving little attention for the administrative and bureaucratic characteristics of governance systems. We propose to expand the Lijphart’s model which overviews structural aspects of the executive and the state with seven additional features of the bureaucratic system. We argue that these features are critical for understanding the processes of policymaking and service delivery. Next, in order to better understand the functioning of the Netherlands and Belgium as consensus democracies, we provide a short analysis of the historical context and current characteristics of the political-administrative systems in both countries. |
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Tijdschrift | Politics of the Low Countries, Aflevering 1 2019 |
Trefwoorden | Belgium, political parties, party membership, political participation, political representation |
Auteurs | Emilie Van Haute en Bram Wauters |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
Belgium has long been described as a typical case of a consociational or consensus democracy. This article aims at identifying whether political parties in Belgium share the internal characteristics of parties in consensus democracies: passive mass memberships, the importance of purposive and material incentives for joining, and representation of a clear subculture in the social and attitudinal profiles of their members and via overlapping memberships with related organizations. We mobilize longitudinal party membership data and party member surveys conducted in three different time periods. We show that pillar parties still exercise their role of mobilization and representation of societal segments, but these segments tend to become smaller over time. New parties offer alternative options of mobilization and representation, although not always in line with the specific institutional arrangements of consociational democracy. |
Editorial |
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Tijdschrift | Politics of the Low Countries, Aflevering 1 2019 |
Article |
Transformative Welfare Reform in Consensus Democracies |
Tijdschrift | Politics of the Low Countries, Aflevering 1 2019 |
Trefwoorden | consensus democracy, welfare state, social investment, transformative reform, Belgium and the Netherlands |
Auteurs | Anton Hemerijck en Kees van Kersbergen |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
This article takes up Lijphart’s claim that consensus democracy is a ‘kinder, gentler’ form of democracy than majoritarian democracy. We zoom in on contemporary welfare state change, particularly the shift towards social investment, and argue that the kinder, gentler hypothesis remains relevant. Consensus democracies stand out in regard to the extent to which their political institutions help to overcome the politically delicate intricacies of governing for the long term. We theorize the features that can help to solve the problem of temporal commitment in democracy through processual mechanisms and illustrate these with short case studies of the contrasting welfare state reform experiences in the Netherlands and Belgium. |