It has been claimed by politicians as well as researchers that economic openness poses a threat to the welfare state. This article investigates whether there is such a threat. Based on the literature four different hypotheses are distinguished; economic openness is negatively, positively, curvilinear or not related to the welfare state. The first and the third hypothesis state that economic openness does threaten the welfare state, whereas the other two hypotheses argue that this is not the case. The empirical studies investigating the relationship between economic openness and the welfare state are systematically reviewed in this article. The analysis shows that economic openness does not threaten the welfare state. |
Zoekresultaat: 25 artikelen
Jaar 2007 xArtikel |
Bedreigt economische openheid de verzorgingsstaat, of niet?Een synthese van internationaal vergelijkend onderzoek |
Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 3 2007 |
Auteurs | Ferry Koster |
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Leren over biotechnologieBesluit biotechnologie bij dieren als arrangement voor maatschappelijk leren |
Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 3 2007 |
Auteurs | Albert Meijer, Frans Brom, Gerolf Pikker e.a. |
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The application to animals of biotechnological techniques raises moral dilemmas and requires collective agreements. Under what circumstances, for example, are applications permissible? The technological and ethical complexity of biotechnology makes it difficult to arrive at such agreements. With the recent Animal Biotechnology Act, the Dutch Minister of Agriculture has created an arrangement that should facilitate social learning. Did the arrangement work out as planned? This evaluation study demonstrates that very little substantive learning has taken place: positions have become more rigid and antagonists continue to contest one another in a legal discourse. The legalization has hindered learning processes but presents the opportunity for a polarized debate to be conducted within the same institutional framework. |
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100 dagen onder het volk |
Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 3 2007 |
Auteurs | Len de Klerk |
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Met recht risico's reduceren |
Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 3 2007 |
Auteurs | Bert Niemeijer en Peter van Wijck |
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The degree to which individuals accept to face risks appears to be declining. Therefore, individuals put pressure on the government to take measures to reduce risks. The risk society tends to be associated with an instrumental view on criminal law, i.e. risk reduction is considered the main goal of criminal law. In this article factors that may cause a reduction in risk acceptance are investigated. Moreover, implications in the field of civil and administrative law are discucced. |
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A Global, Community Building Language? |
Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 4 2007 |
Auteurs | Amitai Etzioni |
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Although long recognized as beneficial, a global language has not come to fruition despite considerable past efforts. A major reason is that many policy makers and citizens fear that such a universal language would undermine the particularistic, constituting primary languages of local and national communities. This dilemma can be greatly diminished by a two tier approach, in which efforts to protect the primary language will be intensified but all the nations involved would agree to use the same second language as the global one. Although theoretically the UN or some other such body could choose such a language, in effect English is increasingly occupying this position. However, policies that are in place slow down the development of a global language, often based on the mistaken assumption that people can readily gain fluency in several languages. |
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Overheid, sociale partners en representatie in een veranderende wereldEen historisch perspectief |
Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 1 2007 |
Auteurs | Karel Davids |
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Verticale politiek in horizontale beleidsnetwerken: kaderstelling als koppelingsarrangement |
Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 4 2007 |
Auteurs | Joop Koppenjan, Mirjam Kars en Haiko van der Voort |
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Horizontal governance arrangements potentially conflict with the very principles of representative democracy and, likewise, with the existing political institutions. This conflict manifests itself in the interaction between representatives and the executive power: although the former have the formal power, the latter participates in horizontal networks and therefore has the resources that are necessary to form good policy. This erodes the power position of representatives. Frame work setting is commonly suggested as an arrangement for representatives to enhance their grip on policy processes in network-settings. The authors of this contribution examine the effects of frame setting as coupling mechanism between horizontal networks and vertical politics in six policy processes in a Dutch Province. Based on both theory and research findings they redefine the concept of framework setting in order to make it more attuned to the complex, interdependent and dynamic nature of policy-making in networks. |
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De wankele evenwichten van het corporatisme |
Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 1 2007 |
Auteurs | Jelle Visser |
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De verzorgingsstaat herwogenHet gelijk van de verzorgingsstaat |
Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 2 2007 |
Auteurs | Paul de Beer, Jelle van der Meer en Pieter Pekelharing |
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De verzorgingsstaat herwogenVerbinden als machtspolitieke opdracht |
Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 2 2007 |
Auteurs | Barbara Vis en Kees van Kersbergen |
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De verzorgingsstaat herwogenMensen zonder verdienste verdienen een fatsoenlijk leven |
Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 2 2007 |
Auteurs | Geert de Vries |
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De verzorgingsstaat herwogenRechtvaardigheid en de verzorgingsstaat |
Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 2 2007 |
Auteurs | Ingrid Robeyns |
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De verzorgingsstaat herwogenDe verzorgingsstaat herwogen: naar een zachtmoedige meritocratie |
Tijdschrift | Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 2 2007 |
Auteurs | Marcel Hoogenboom |
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Professionals en managers: Waarden in een hybride praktijk |
Tijdschrift | Bestuurskunde, Aflevering 4 2007 |
Auteurs | Zeger van der Wal, Eelco van Hout, Arie-Jan Kwak e.a. |
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Klasse is niet dood – Zij is levend begravenKlassengebonden stemgedrag en cultureel stemgedrag in westerse samenlevingen (1956-1990) |
Tijdschrift | Res Publica, Aflevering 4 2007 |
Auteurs | Jeroen van der Waal, Peter Achterberg en Dick Houtman |
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By means of a re-analysis of the most relevant data source (Nieuwbeerta & Ganzeboom 1996), this paper criticizes the newly grown consensus in political sociology that class voting has declined since World War II. An increase of crosscutting cultural voting, rooted in educational differences, rather than a decline of class voting proves responsible for the decline of the traditional class-party alignments. Moreover, income differences have not become less, but more consequential for voting behavior during this period. It is concluded that the new consensus has been built on quicksand. Class is not dead – it has been buried alive under the increasing weight of cultural voting, systematically misinterpreted as a decline of class voting, due to the widespread application of the Alford index. |
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Coalitiesteun in Antwerpen, Hasselt en OostkampDe invloed van politieke ontevredenheid, politiek wantrouwen en etnocentrisme vergeleken |
Tijdschrift | Res Publica, Aflevering 4 2007 |
Auteurs | Marc Swyngedouw, Koen Abts en Jarl Kampen |
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In this paper we investigate the effects of political dissatisfaction, political distrust and ethnocentrism on support to the incumbent coalition in three different municipalities in Flanders. Theoretically, we define the concept of political trust, at which it is differentiated from political satisfaction and political alienation. At the same time, four dimensions of political distrust are disentangled: competence, integrity, responsiveness and justice. Empirically, four research questions may be distinguished. First, we investigate whether political satisfaction, political trust and ethnocentrism have an independent effect on support to the ruling majority. Second, we check whether there are differential effects of the dimensions of political trust on the dependent variable in the different municipalities.Third, we try to connect the micro-level data with macro-level, by linking the results with the characteristics of the local government and the party system. Fourth, we examine the influence of the presence of extreme right. |
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NAFTA versus NAALC: de mediërende rol van de sociale clausule ten aanzien van de effecten van vrijhandel |
Tijdschrift | Res Publica, Aflevering 4 2007 |
Auteurs | Montserrat González Garibay |
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La parité linguistique au sein du conseil des ministres |
Tijdschrift | Res Publica, Aflevering 4 2007 |
Auteurs | Min Reuchamps |
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Belgian Politics in 2006 |
Tijdschrift | Res Publica, Aflevering 2-3 2007 |
Auteurs | Sam Depauw en Mark Deweerdt |
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De gemeenteraadsverkiezingen van 8 oktober 2006Evolutie sinds 1976 |
Tijdschrift | Res Publica, Aflevering 2-3 2007 |
Auteurs | Johan Ackaert, Herwig Reynaert, Koenraad De Ceuninck e.a. |
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The 2006 local elections in Belgium were the first one organised after the transfer of the local authorities competences from the federal to the regional level. This means by consequence that the different regions have as well the competence in designing the institutional framework of local government as the competence of changing electoral rules. The same elections were also the first ones after drastic reforms in the national political landscape (eg., the democratic Flemish nationalist party split in different groups, nearly all the parties changed their name and particularly in the Flemish part of the country, different kinds of alliances between parties emerged). |