scholarly journals Informalisation of international volunteering: A new analytical framework explaining differential impacts of the ‘orphanage tourism’ debate in the Netherlands

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Kinsbergen ◽  
Esther Konijn ◽  
Simon Kuijpers‐Heezemans ◽  
Gabriëlle Hoog ◽  
Dirk‐Jan Koch ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
International Volunteering

Fighting or fumbling with the beast? The mediatisation of public sector agencies in Australia and the Netherlands

2019 ◽  
pp. 101-122
Author(s):  
Thomas Schillemans
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Public Agencies ◽  
Media Management ◽  
Daily News ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Internal Structures ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Systems

Public agencies are the objects of a large share of the daily news and devote substantial resources to media management and monitoring. This paper analyses how public agencies have adapted their internal structures and processes in order to meet the demands from their media environment. To this end, an analytical framework for the analysis of organisational mediatisation – the adaptation of internal structures and processes to external media demands – is developed. This is the first framework available for empirical analyses of organisational mediatisation. Its use is then demonstrated in a comparative analysis of the mediatisation of public agencies in Australia and the Netherlands; countries with contrasting political and media systems. An explorative, multimethod study describes how Australian agencies go to greater lengths in accommodating their media environment – they fight the media beast – whereas Dutch agencies are more hesitant; they are fumbling with the beast.

scholarly journals Contrast between Spain and the Netherlands in the hidden obstacles to re-entry into the labour market due to a criminal record

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 505-521 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elina Kurtovic ◽  
Marti Rovira
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Criminal Record ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Individual Choices

This article aims at analysing the differences between European countries in the obstacles ex-offenders face due to having a criminal record. First, a comparative analytical framework is introduced that takes into account all the different elements that can lead to exclusion from the labour market by the dissemination of criminal record information. This model brings together social norms (macro level), social actors (meso level) and individual choices (micro level) in the same framework. Secondly, this model is used to compare the different impact of having a criminal record in Spain and the Netherlands. This comparison highlights three important findings: (1) the difference between norms of transparency/privacy and inclusive/exclusive ideals, (2) the significant role of social control agents, such as probation agencies and the ex-offenders’ social network, in shaping the opportunities that they have, and (3) self-exclusion seems to be a key mechanism for understanding unsuccessful re-entry into the labour market.

scholarly journals Strategies for Dealing with Uncertainties in Strategic Environmental Assessment: An Analytical Framework Illustrated with Case Studies from The Netherlands

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 2463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maartje Bodde ◽  
Karin van der Wel ◽  
Peter Driessen ◽  
Arjan Wardekker ◽  
Hens Runhaar
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Environmental Assessment ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Strategic Environmental Assessment ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Multiple Strategies ◽  
Policy Tool ◽  
Aid Decision

Strategic environmental assessment (SEA) is a widely applied policy tool that aims to aid decision-makers in making informed, higher-quality decisions that minimize negative environmental impacts. However, different types of uncertainties complicate the ex ante assessment of environmental impacts. Literature suggests uncertainties are often not well addressed, resulting in inaccurate and even unreliable SEAs. At the same time, SEA literature offers limited guidance in how to systematically identify and deal with uncertainties. Therefore, in this paper, we present an analytical framework for characterizing and classifying different forms of uncertainty in SEA, and for identifying strategies for dealing with these uncertainties. The framework is based on literature on uncertainties in other subdomains of the environmental sciences. The framework is applied to five case studies of SEAs for spatial planning in The Netherlands in order to illustrate and critically reflect on our framework, and to bridge the gap between theory and practice. Based on these case studies we concluded the following: (1) The framework is useful for identifying uncertainties in SEA in a systematic way; (2) There is a discrepancy between how uncertainties are dealt with in theory and in practice; (3) In practice, uncertainties seem to be dealt with in a rather implicit way. The framework may help dealing with uncertainties more systematically and more proactively; (4) The most successful way of coping with uncertainties seems to be the application of multiple strategies.

scholarly journals Regional design: Discretionary approaches to regional planning in The Netherlands

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 332-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Verena Elisabeth Balz
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Regional Planning ◽  
Design Theory ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Spatial Context ◽  
Creative Design ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Theoretical Terms ◽  
Planning Decision ◽  
Regional Design

In recent decades, The Netherlands has seen an increase in the use of regional design-led practices in national indicative planning. Despite this, the interrelations between design and planning decision making are not well understood, and attempts to involve the expertise and ambition of designers in planning have had unclear outcomes. This article elaborates on the role and position of regional design in indicative planning. It is argued that design in this realm resembles discretionary action, implying that design both influences, and is influenced by, prevailing planning rationales. An analytical framework is developed on these grounds and applied to a set of regional design initiatives that evolved in the context of Dutch national plans between 1988 and 2012. Significantly, the analysis reveals forms of discretional control that shape the creative design practice, of particular importance being the flexibility of planning guidance and the resulting room for interpretation. In theoretical terms, the article contributes to the discussion of how design – as an explorative search for solutions to problems in a particular spatial context – and design theory can contribute to an understanding of the multiple planning experiments emerging in this post-regulative era.

Discourse, Politics and Policy: The Dutch Parliamentary Debate about Voting Rights for Foreign Residents

1998 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 350-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dirk Jacobs
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Voting Rights ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
The Political ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Story Line ◽  
Political Field ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Parliamentary Debate ◽  
Political Interests

This article contains the results of research concerning parliamentary debate about voting rights for foreign residents in the Netherlands (1970–1996) using a discourse analytical framework. Due to the characteristics of the Dutch political field, a large majority of the political actors has to be willing and able to combine political interests and ideological narratives into one story line propagating franchise for foreign residents in order to grant voting rights to nonnationals. It is claimed that the success and failure of policy changes regarding the political participation of nonnationals is foremost determined by the extent of the discursive affinity of argumentative clusters used by parties of the “center-right” with the (leftist) discourse which propagates enfranchisement.

scholarly journals Live-in migrant care worker arrangements in Germany and the Netherlands: motivations and justifications in family decision-making

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent Horn ◽  
Cornelia Schweppe ◽  
Anita Böcker ◽  
María Bruquetas-Callejo
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Private Households ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Family Decision Making ◽  
Care Worker

Private households in ageing societies increasingly employ live-in migrant carers (LIMCs) to care for relatives in need of 24/7 care and supervision. Whilst LIMC arrangements are a common practice in Germany, they are only recently emerging in the Netherlands. Taking this development as a starting point, this study uses the countries’ different long-term care (LTC) regimes as the analytical framework to explore and compare the motivations and justifications of German and Dutch family carers who opt for an LIMC arrangment. Findings show that Dutch and German LTC regimes impact differently the decision-making processes of families, as well as on patterns of justification, through a combination of policies and social norms and their related expectations towards care and care work in old age.

Fortress Europe or Europe of Rights? The Europeanisation of Family Migration Policies in France, Germany and the Netherlands

2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Block ◽  
Saskia Bonjour
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Policy Transfer ◽  
Family Migration ◽  
Migration Policies ◽  
The Family ◽  
Parallel Dynamics ◽  
Fortress Europe ◽  
National Governments

Abstract Are the restrictive reforms of family migration policy recently implemented in France, Germany and the Netherlands a result of the introduction of the Family Reunification Directive in 2003? Most existing literature on the Europeanisation of migration policies suggests that restriction-minded national governments shift decision-making to the EU level to escape domestic political and judicial constraints. However, as the Treaties of Amsterdam and Lisbon have empowered the Commission and Court to constrain restrictive reform, this perspective is losing analytical validity. Also, this perspective fails to capture the intensifying processes of policy transfer among Member States, which have inadequately been labelled ‘horizontal’ Europeanisation. We therefore propose a new, actor-centred analytical framework of Europeanisation. We show that contrasting yet parallel dynamics of Europeanisation may emanate from a single legislative instrument and may constrain and empower national governments at the same time.

Trade Unions and Immigration in the Netherlands

2019 ◽  
pp. 55-78
Author(s):  
Heather Connolly ◽  
Stefania Marino ◽  
Miguel Martínez Lucio
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Institutional Embeddedness ◽  
Logic Of Action ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Minority Workers

This chapter focuses on trade union strategies to represent immigrant and ethnic minority workers in the Netherlands. Since the early 1990s, trade unions in the Netherlands countries started developing policies to better represent the rights of immigrant and ethnic minority workers. Trade unions focused on the labour market inclusion of ethnic minority workers by promoting and supporting initiatives related to education and training, and measures aimed at fighting labour market discriminations. These initiatives were mainly developed through tripartite and bipartite negotiations within an industrial relations system characterised by a strong tradition of social dialogue which also guaranteed a high degree of institutional embeddedness in trade unions. According to the analytical framework presented in Chapter 1, the dominant logic of action of Dutch trade unions was between race/ethnicity and social rights.

scholarly journals Understanding Dutch film culture

2013 ◽  
pp. 23-36
Author(s):  
Judith Thissen
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Mass Medium ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Mining District ◽  
Film Culture ◽  
Film Exhibition ◽  
Regional Dynamics ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Cultural Infrastructure

In terms of cinema attendance, the Netherlands has always differed from other European countries. During the first decade of permanent film exhibition "a crucial phase in cinema's development as a mass medium" the movies failed to gain a firm foothold in Dutch society. After a discussion of the prevailing explanations for the low provision of cinemas in the Netherlands, this article develops a comparative analytical framework to better assess the regional dynamics at work within Dutch film culture. In particular, it looks at cinemagoing in the industrialised countryside, combining a qualitative examination of the local social and cultural infrastructure with a quantitative analysis of census data. The agro-industrial North Eastern part of Groningen and the mining district in the South of Limburg are singled out because in both regions we witness a very high density of film venues, suggesting metropolitan patterns in cinema attendance.

Dual Welfare and Sex Segregation of Access to Social Benefits: Income Maintenance Policies in the UK, the US, the Netherlands and Sweden

1993 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane Sainsbury
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Insurance Benefits ◽  
The Us ◽  
Income Maintenance ◽  
Maintenance Policies ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Country Specific

ABSTRACTIn examining the sex of beneficiaries of income maintenance programmes, several country-specific studies suggest a pattern of segregation between women and men in access to types of benefit. Men are more likely to be recipients of social insurance benefits, whilst women often must rely on means-tested programmes, and frequently their claims to insurance benefits are via their husband. This conclusion is re-examined through a comparison of insurance and means-tested programmes in the UK, the US, the Netherlands, and Sweden. The purpose is to determine, first, to what extent such a pattern of segregation emerges in the four countries and, second, what mechanisms operate to exclude or include women. The comparison reveals that the Swedish case deviates from the other three countries, and policy constructions inhibiting and promoting greater equality between women and men in access to social benefits are discussed. The results also have theoretical implications for dual welfare as an analytical framework and feminist thinking about the welfare state.

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