As the state retracts further in the Netherlands, the role of civil society increases. Only now the impact becomes visible due to changing arrangements in the social domain. Since enormous cuts in the welfare budgets have been implemented; creative innovations by civil initiatives are much needed to …

Faculty of civil and environmental engineering - Department of transportation and geo-information engineering

Het doel van deze studie was om inzicht te verkrijgen in de resultaten van de activiteiten binnen het programma Allemaal Opvoeders. In dit programma hebben elf pilotgemeenten – in lijn met de transities in het sociale domein– verkend hoe de actieve rol van de civil society bij het grootbrengen van jeugdigen …

The objective of this dissertation is to investigate the reasons for a low political participation in Czechoslovakia in the wake of the Velvet Revolution, which started on 17 November 1989, by a literature review. The Czechoslovak citizens reacted on several developments in their surrounding countries, …

This article provides a description of the emergence of the Spanish ‘Occupy’ movement, Democracia real ya. The aim is to analyse the innovative discursive features of this movement and to connect this analysis to what we consider the innovative potential of the critical sciences. The movement is the …

The successful policy intervention of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement was the result of a combination of public and institutional advocacy. ACTA aimed to harmonise the combating of copyright infringements in the digital environment, which are believed to have been left out by the former agreements. …

This paper presents how the application of the STPA method might support the evaluation of fighter pilots training programs and trigger procedural and technological changes. We applied the STPA method by considering the safety constraints documented in the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) of a South …

Met de decentralisaties in het sociaal domein wil de overheid ruimte maken voor meer zelfredzaamheid in de samenleving. De gedachte achter de participatiesamenleving is dat als de overheid zich terugtrekt, de civil society deze ruimte zal opvullen. Of dat echt zo werkt, is nog nauwelijks door onderzoek …

In het derde en laatste hoofdstuk, schrijft Dr. Jeannette Doornenbal (lector Integraal Jeugdbeleid aan de Hanzehogeschool Groningen), samen met senior onderzoeker Dr. Annelies Kassenberg dat de overheid en instellingen niet in staat zijn de pedagogische civil society vorm te geven. Daarom is het volgens …