This book presents a classic legal study of banning organisations in Dutch law. One of the main research questions is when, according to our law, an organisation is right for a ban. Must the organisation commit criminal offences, or are there other starting points for banning it? Another key question is what kind of organisations can be banned. Are, for example, political parties and denominations excluded, given the special function of these organisations in our society? Other important questions are how the procedure works, which body is authorised to ban and how legal protection against a ban is designed. In answering these questions, the author focuses on the fundamental question of the extent to which the regulation complies with the requirements arising from the freedom of association enshrined in our Constitution and treaties binding under international law. By no means all regulations meet these requirements. With a comparative law analysis of German and French law, the author makes recommendations to improve our prohibition regime on these issues
Juist in de tijd dat de 'toetscultuur' in het onderwijs publiekelijk kritisch wordt beschouwd (NRC Handelsblad 19 januari 2019, p. 2-3 en 22-24) en de Onderwijsraad het veld adviseert om op zoek te gaan naar andere, meer formatieve en kwalitatieve manieren van toetsen (Onderwijsraad, 2018), wordt ons langzaamaan duidelijk dat mensen niet zoveel leren van toetsen. Toetsen voor een cijfer maakt het leren oppervlakkig en docenten en leerlingen 'toetsmoe'. In deze context zoeken de auteurs Vegter en Vonk naar een andere manier om kwaliteit die in het onderwijs geleverd wordt te verbeelden. In hun essayistische artikel lees ik een voor mij bekende zoektocht. Hun werk is niet alleen te generaliseren naar andere sectoren in de publieke sector, maar naar alle terreinen waar we willen dat er geleerd wordt. De auteurs zoeken naar manieren om de kwaliteit van publieke dienstverlening enerzijds grijpbaar of zichtbaar te maken en anderzijds te beïnvloeden. De publieke dienstverlening waar zij zich op richten, is het onderwijs. Zij geven aan dat onderwijs een grillig, complex, gesitueerd en vaak niet voorspelbaar proces is. Pogingen om dit proces grijpbaar te maken waren in het verleden vooral gericht op een reductie van deze complexiteit.
This book fits into the (limited in scope) Dutch tradition of university research and publications on 'good lawmaking'. It takes into account the specific needs and possibilities of 'small island countries' with a limited administrative system and where the language of the legal regulations is different from the colloquial language of the majority of the population and civil servants. It builds on an earlier, somewhat similar work by the author, 100 Ideas for the Municipal Regulator (3rd Dr. 2018).
Le suprême hommage studies the handling of dying, burial and commemoration of royal and political elites in Belgium in the 19th and first half of the 20th century. This innovative historical research takes place at the interface of cultural history and political history. The reader not only gains insight into the impact of social class, status and religion on funerary culture, but also into the influence of media culture on the perception of death, mourning and memory. Within a selection of 170 cases, the author discusses in words and images the mediatised deaths and no less than imposing funerals of Belgium's first kings and queens and their families. The evolving practices surrounding the deaths of (former) heads of government, (former) presidents of parliament and mayors of major cities are also discussed in detail. Finally, the genesis of Belgium's most famous urban (park) cemeteries, and the funerary heritage in these cities of death, is also brought to life through the analysis of eye-catching funeral monuments. This book is a richly illustrated survey work on the social, political and cultural dimensions of the death of high-ranking figures in 19th- and 20th-century Belgian society.