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? |
Zoekresultaat: 145 artikelen
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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 |
Thema-artikel |
‘Meedoen is belangrijker dan winnen’Prijzen als exponent van de positieve bestuurskunde? |
Tijdschrift | Bestuurskunde, Aflevering 3 2019 |
Trefwoorden | Positive Public Administration, prizes, successes |
Auteurs | Dr. Tom Overmans, Prof. dr. Mirko Noordegraaf en Prof. dr. Filip De Rynck |
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Positive Public Administration (PPA) encourages scholars to examine governance success. The appreciation of successes, however, is not new. During previous decades, awards were bestowed for exceptional performance. We analyse whether two important awards in the Netherlands and Flanders are an expression of PPA. Firstly, we find that successes are interpreted differently: in the Netherlands, one-off, trendy performances are rewarded, while in Flanders the focus is on consolidated results of long-term change processes. Secondly, we see that ‘clean’ success criteria promote a suggestion of ‘control’, whilst public settings are ambiguous and unpredictable. Finally, we conclude that prizes are primarily celebrations; little evidence is found of systematic knowledge exchange, learning and professionalisation. |
Lokaal internationaal |
Internationale tijdschriften en boeken |
Tijdschrift | Bestuurs­wetenschappen, Aflevering 3 2019 |
Auteurs | Dr. Rik Reussing |
Auteursinformatie |
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Tijdschrift | Beleidsonderzoek Online, juni 2019 |
Auteurs | Frans L. Leeuw |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
Overheidsbeleid heeft steeds meer te maken met digitalisering en data-ificering van de samenleving en het menselijk gedrag. Dat betekent uitdagingen voor beleidsevaluatoren. In dit artikel gaat het om éen van de daarmee gepaard gaande verschijnselen: Big Data en Artificiële Intelligentie (BD/AI). Het artikel stelt, na erop gewezen te hebben dat de evaluatieprofessie langere tijd niet erg actief op digitaal gebied is geweest, ten eerste de vraag wat BD/AI te bieden hebben aan evaluatieonderzoek van (digitaal) beleid. Vijf toepassingsmogelijkheden worden besproken die de kwaliteit, bruikbaarheid en relevantie van evaluatieonderzoek kunnen bevorderen. De tweede vraag is wat evaluatieonderzoek te bieden heeft, als het gaat om het analyseren/onderzoeken van de betrouwbaarheid, validiteit en enkele andere aspecten van Big Data en AI. Ook daar worden verschillende mogelijkheden (en moeilijkheden) geschetst. Naar het oordeel van de schrijver is het enerzijds dienstig (meer) gebruik te maken van BD/AI in evaluatieonderzoek, maar doen onderzoekers er ook goed aan (meer) aandacht uit te laten gaan naar: de assumpties die aan BD/AI ten grondslag liggen (inclusief het ‘black box’-probleem); de validiteit, veiligheid en geloofwaardigheid van algoritmes; de bedoelde en onbedoelde consequenties van het gebruik ervan; én de vraag of de claims dat digitale interventies die mede gebaseerd zijn op BD/AI effectief (of effectiever zijn dan andere), onderbouwd en valide zijn. |
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. |
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. |
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Tijdschrift | Bestuurskunde, Aflevering 1 2019 |
Trefwoorden | bestuurlijke hervormingen, bestuurlijke ontwikkeling, internationale vergelijking, New Public Management, New Public Governance |
Auteurs | Prof. dr. Joop Koppenjan en Dr. Willemijn Dicke |
Samenvatting |
In this special issue, recent public sector reforms in South Africa, Denmark, Belgium, Mexico, Singapore and Denmark are analysed. Reforms in the public sector are by and large explained as a chronological development from traditional bureaucracy, via New Public Management to New Public Governance. This is also the way the many administrative reforms in the Dutch public sector are often explained. |
Dossier |
De Europese vakbeweging en de vormgeving van sociaal beleid |
Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 1 2019 |
Trefwoorden | Social Europe, European Union, Social policy, Trade unions, ETUC |
Auteurs | Drs. Saskia Boumans |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
The European project currently faces not only an economic crisis, but a moral one as well. The economic growth model of social justice combined with market-oriented policies, also referred to as the European social model has lost much of its meaning after ten years of austerity and financial calamities. In 2012 ECB President Draghi says in the Wall Street Journal that the European social model is “gone”, a thing of the past. While only a couple of years later the European Pillar of Social Rights is put in place. What is happening with ‘Social Europe’? And how do trade unions, as a historical motor of social policy in the member states, relate to the European social model, especially since the financial crisis. This article deals with the position of trade unions vis-à-vis European social policy and the European institutions. The European social model, economic governance and the collective bargaining system are discussed as examples of post-crisis European social policy. It will be argued that although the European Commission gives institutional space to social policy and to a role for trade unions, it has always been subordinate to economic integration. And moreover that the recent economic crisis is used at the European level to obtain almost complete control over social policy in the member states. |
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. |
Literature review |
Consensualism, Democratic Satisfaction, Political Trust and the Winner-Loser GapState of the Art of Two Decades of Research |
Tijdschrift | Politics of the Low Countries, Aflevering 1 2019 |
Trefwoorden | consensualism, majoritarianism, political trust, satisfaction with democracy, Lijphart |
Auteurs | Tom van der Meer en Anna Kern |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
Lijphart (1999) argued that citizens tend to be more satisfied with democracy in consensual democracies than in majoritarian democracies and that the gap in democratic satisfaction between the winners and the losers of elections is smaller under consensualism. Twenty years on since then, this article takes stock of the literature on consensualism and political support. We find considerable ambiguity in the theoretical arguments and empirical evidence provided in this literature. Finally, we speculate on possible reasons for this ambiguity. |
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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. |
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De opkomst van voedselbeleid: voorbij de tekentafel |
Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 4 2018 |
Trefwoorden | Food policy, Food system, Agricultural policy, Policy integration, Policy instruments |
Auteurs | Dr. Jeroen Candel |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
To address a range of interconnected food-related challenges, Dutch policymakers have invested in the development of integrated food policy in recent years. This article discusses this development in two parts. The first part contains a detailed description of the main events and lines of thinking that characterized the food policy process. From this description it becomes clear that food policy has been gradually developing towards a separate institutionalized policy domain. In the second part, this development is analysed from a policy integration perspective. This analysis shows that although considerable steps towards strengthened policy integration have been made, the Dutch ‘Food agenda’ does not yet proceed beyond symbolic levels. This particularly shows in the absence of concrete policy goals and in a policy instrument mix that has not been adjusted to strengthen consistency and effectiveness. In addition, the involvement of relevant ministries gradually decreased after the initial stages. The article concludes that the food policy process has arrived at a critical juncture: the next steps of the new government will prove decisive for whether food policy integration intentions will advance beyond the drawing board. Political and administrative leadership are identified as key conditions for such further steps to occur. |
Research Note |
Het potentieel van denktanks als strategische partner in beleidsvorming |
Tijdschrift | Res Publica, Aflevering 4 2018 |
Auteurs | Bert Fraussen en Darren Halpin |
Auteursinformatie |
Symposium |
De revolutie eet haar eigen kinderen op |
Tijdschrift | Res Publica, Aflevering 4 2018 |
Auteurs | Marc Hooghe |
Auteursinformatie |
Dossier |
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Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 3 2018 |
Trefwoorden | Housing, Financialization, Private investors, Buy-to-let, Private rent |
Auteurs | Jelke Bosma MSc, Dr. Cody Hochstenbach, Dr. Rodrigo Fernandez e.a. |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
In this feature authors discuss recent research findings that are of interest to readers of Beleid en Maatschappij. |
Dossier |
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Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 3 2018 |
Trefwoorden | Buy-to-let, House price bubbles, Private rental sector, Housing policy, International trends |
Auteurs | Dr. ir. Maartje Martens |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
The Socialist Party commissioned this academic study into the scale and impact of the recent rise of buy-to-let transactions in Dutch urban housing markets. The study focusses, however, on the rise of private rental housing. This definition of buy-to-let is challenged in this review, as is the impact of the recent rise of buy-to-let on the Dutch owner occupied housing market. |
Symposium |
Is regulering van lobbyen nodig, nuttig of symboliek? |
Tijdschrift | Res Publica, Aflevering 3 2018 |
Auteurs | Rinus van Schendelen |
Auteursinformatie |
Artikel |
Slanker maar topzwaar, meer vrouwen maar vergrijsd: het veranderende gezicht van de rijksoverheid 2002-2015 |
Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 1 2018 |
Trefwoorden | Cutbacks, Government spending, Civil servants, Public service, Open data |
Auteurs | Dr. Dimiter Toshkov, Eduard Schmidt MSc en Prof. dr. Caspar van den Berg |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
This article analyses the transformations of the Dutch civil service over the last 15 years, during which numerous cutbacks and reorganizations took place. While existing research predominantly focused on changes in the total number of civil servants, we examine how the distribution of civil servants changed in terms of rank, gender and age. We theorize four methods for shrinking the government apparatus, and for each method, we identify the possible consequences for the composition of the central civil service in terms of hierarchical make-up and of age. Our results indicate that the total number of civil servants only slightly decreased, but the decrease affected differentially the various ranks of the civil service. While at the lower ranks the number of civil servants decreased strongly, at the upper ranks the number actually increased slightly. The number of women in the civil service increased, also in the higher echelons. Regarding the age distribution, we found considerable changes, with the modal age shifting upwards with up to ten years. Altogether, the civil service has become slightly smaller, more gender-balanced, and significantly more senior (both in terms of ranks and age). The results of this study show that it is important for researchers and practitioners to look beyond the trends in the total number of civil servants and explore the deeper changes within the civil service. |
Artikel |
Verantwoordelijkheid en voorzorg bij ‘de overgewichtepidemie’Onzekerheid en transparantie bij preventief leefstijlbeleid |
Tijdschrift | Bestuurskunde, Aflevering 1 2018 |
Trefwoorden | prevention, precaution, lifestyle policy, obesogenic society, obesity epidemic |
Auteurs | Dr. Roel Pieterman |
Samenvatting |
Since the start of the 21st century, most nations have followed the lead of the World Health Organization and developed specific policies to tackle the ‘global obesity epidemic’. The medical reasoning is that non-contagious diseases are the most important causes of mortality and morbidity, especially in prosperous nations. As these diseases are conceptualized as ‘caused’ by ‘unhealthy lifestyle choices’, there is dire need for preventive lifestyle policies that help people make ‘the healthy choice’. Seen from this perspective the distribution of responsibilities between governments and their citizens is made in accordance to the ‘intervention ladder’, which has been developed from a stewardship model. |
Praktijk |
Internationale tijdschriften en boeken |
Tijdschrift | Bestuurs­wetenschappen, Aflevering 1 2018 |
Auteurs | Rik Reussing |
Auteursinformatie |