Domestic Change and EU Compliance in the Netherlands: Policy Feedback during Enforcement
In: Journal of European integration: Revue d'intégration européenne, Band 31, Heft 3, S. 349-367
ISSN: 1477-2280
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In: Journal of European integration: Revue d'intégration européenne, Band 31, Heft 3, S. 349-367
ISSN: 1477-2280
In: Journal of European integration, Band 31, Heft 3, S. 349-368
ISSN: 0703-6337
In: Bestuurskunde, Band 32, Heft 3, S. 77-89
In: Local government studies, Band 41, Heft 1, S. 20-43
ISSN: 0300-3930
In: Local government studies, Band 41, Heft 1, S. 20-43
ISSN: 1743-9388
This article provides an analysis of the allocation of attention to policy problems on the local level, focusing on the executive agenda of six municipalities in the Netherlands over a 25-year period. It reveals that there is specifically a local politics of attention, showing differences between national and local policy agendas in specific policy areas. We did not find evidence that the political composition of the local executive coalitions leads to agenda differences, revealing the more problem-oriented and pragmatic nature of local politics. We did find evidence of an effect of institutional arrangements between national and local government on shifting patterns of attention, such as due to decentralisation. This shows that the local politics of attention is limited in scope and conditioned by the functions of local government and the institutional arrangements of policy making in the Dutch decentralised unitary state and that rearrangements affect these patterns of attention. Adapted from the source document.
In: Local government studies, Band 41, Heft 1, S. 20-43
ISSN: 1743-9388
In: Climate change governance, S. 27-39
"Climate change adaptation has been called a 'wicked problem par excellence.' Wicked problems are hard to define because the formulation of the problem is the problem; they are considered a symptom of another problem; they are highly resistant to solutions and extremely interconnected with other problems. Climate change problems are even more complex because they lack a well-structured policy domain, and knowledge about climate change is uncertain and contested. Given the wicked characteristics of the climate issue and its particular challenges, the question is which theories are useful starting points for the governance of climate adaptation? The chapter distinguishes between theories and concepts that focus on reflexivity, on resilience, on responsiveness and on revitalization. Instead of integrating these theories in one overarching governance approach, the chapter suggests an approach of theoretical multiplicity. It proposes that exploiting the variety of concepts and strategies based on the different theories can increase the governance capacity to deal with climate change. Finally, it addresses the moral dimension of wicked problems, which suggests that it is unacceptable to treat a wicked problem as though it were a tame one. Governance scholars nowadays risk raising expectations far beyond their ability to deliver, and thus enhance confusions over whether wicked problems are in fact tame ones." (author's abstract)
In: Climate Change Management; Climate Change Governance, S. 27-39
In: Journal of European public policy, Band 23, Heft 6, S. 789-813
ISSN: 1466-4429
In: Environmental innovation and societal transitions, Band 45, S. 36-51
ISSN: 2210-4224
In: Journal of European public policy, Band 23, Heft 6, S. 789-813
ISSN: 1350-1763
World Affairs Online
In: Administration & society, Band 47, Heft 6, S. 680-710
ISSN: 1552-3039
This article explores an integrative approach for dealing with wicked problems. Wicked problems not only require alternative action strategies but also alternative ways of observing and enabling. Four governance capabilities are essential: (a) reflexivity, or the capability to deal with multiple frames; (b) resilience, or the capability to adjust actions to uncertain changes; (c) responsiveness, or the capability to respond to changing agendas and expectations; (d) revitalization, or the capability to unblock stagnations. These capabilities form the basis for achieving small wins in wicked problems. We illustrate our argument with examples from sustainable food production of the Common Agricultural Policy.
In: Acta politica: AP ; international journal of political Science, Band 44, Heft 1, S. 1-1
ISSN: 1741-1416
In: Acta politica: AP ; international journal of political science ; official journal of the Dutch Political Science Association (Nederlandse Kring voor Wetenschap der Politiek), Band 44, Heft 1, S. 1-27
ISSN: 0001-6810
In: Comparative political studies: CPS, Band 44, Heft 8, S. 973-1000
ISSN: 1552-3829
At the beginning of each parliamentary session, almost all European governments give a speech in which they present the government's policy priorities and legislative agenda for the year ahead. Despite the body of literature on governments in European parliamentary democracies, systematic research on these executive policy agendas is surprisingly limited. In this article the authors study the executive policy agendas—measured through the policy content of annual government speeches—over the past 50 years in three Western European countries: the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Denmark. Contrary to the expectations derived from the well-established "politics matters" approach, the analyses show that elections and change in partisan color have little effect on the executive issue agendas, except to a limited extent for the United Kingdom. In contrast, the authors demonstrate empirically how the policy agenda of governments responds to changes in public problems, and this affects how political parties define these problems as political issues. In other words, policy responsibility that follows from having government power seems much more important for governments' issue agendas than the partisan and institutional characteristics of governments.