Verkennende analyse van de sociale kwaliteit van de lokale samenleving van de gemeente Zwartewaterland. Dergelijke analyses zijn belangrijk in het licht van de nieuwe taken die de Wet Maatschappelijke Ondersteuning aan gemeenten toekent. Om te kunnen bepalen op welke wijze men de lokale civil society …

In the past years there have been many affairs involving ministerial responsibility. Sometimes the ministers had to resign and sometimes they resigned themselves. The fire at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport which caused two ministers to resign, gave me reason to do research on this subject and to find out …

This article analyzes negative externalities that policymakers in one region or group may impose upon the citizens of neighboring regions or groups. These externalities may be material, but they may also be psychological (in the form of envy). The latter form of externality may arise from the production …

De scriptie beantwoord de hoofdvraag: is er ruimte voor veranderingen in het Haags Verdrag van 1980 omtrent Internationale Kinderontvoeringen. In de scriptie wordt een uitgebreide uitleg gegeven over welke aspecten belangrijk zijn bij dit soort ontvoeringen, welke internationale verdragen er zijn, welke …

Jan Hylén also attending the Surf Education Days 2005, held a presentation about Open Source Software and Open Content (such as the MIT Open Courseware project and the Open Access initiative). Jan Hylén is working at the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) of the Organization of Economic …

On the eve of the twenty-first century, it is a scandal that there are still people sleeping rough on our streets. This is not a situation we can continue to tolerate in a modern and civil society. These were the words of Tony Blair in his foreword to the policy document Rough Sleeping, The Government’s …

The gradual aging of western society during the twentieth century, including its causes and consequences, has become one of the dominant themes of demography and sociology. This study tries to shed more light on the recent past of older individuals emphasizing the socio-economic strategies they employed …