Opleiding is de nieuwe verzuiling. Academisch geschoolden en praktisch geschoolden leven in gescheiden werelden. Ze hebben andere zorgen en andere opvattingen over de grote kwesties van onze tijd. Maar in de politiek trekken de academici aan het langste eind. Nederland is een diplomademocratie – een land waarin de hoogste diploma’s het voor het zeggen hebben. Die ongelijke vertegenwoordiging is een bron van politiek wantrouwen en vormt een grote bedreiging voor onze democratie.Dit ...

Lay politics lies at the heart of democracy. Political offices are the only offices for which no formal qualifications are required. Contemporary political practices are diametrically opposed to this constitutional ideal. Most democracies in Western Europe are diploma democracies - ruled by those with the highest formal qualifications. Citizens with low or medium educational qualifications currently make up about 70 percent of the electorates, yet they have become virtually absent from alm...

This open access book is looking into ways to achieve just climate policy within a country. The authors of this monograph share a unique, timely and original vision: continuous support for climate policy is more likely to emerge when citizens find that the distribution of the bill for climate costs is fair. But what is a fair distribution of climate costs? This is an important question because financial costs of mitigation (reducing greenhouse gases), adaptation (adapting to climate change...

Hoogmoed, narcisme en eenzaamheid aan de top van bedrijfsleven en politiek Een onbedwingbare behoefte om te ontdekken waarom sommige karakters geschikter zijn om leiding te geven dan andere. Een combinatie van bewondering en afkeer voor dominante narcisten, bloeddorstige dictators, door testosteron gedreven CEO's en Nobelprijswinnaars, meedogenloze (bier)koningen en monomane geniën. In deze verkapte autobiografie laat Mark Blaisse zich niet verleiden tot platte roddels, maar schetst hij do...

The Real World of EU Accountability reports the findings of a major empirical study into patterns and practices of accountability in European governance. The product of a 4-year, path-breaking project, this book assesses to what extent and how the people that populate the key arenas where European public policy is made or implemented are held accountable. Using a systematic analytical framework, it examines not just the formal accountability arrangements but also documents and co...

This open access book shows policymakers which initiatives work when responding to the increasing diversity in cities, towns and neighborhood's. In recent times, policymakers have grappled with ways of responding to this increase, which has resulted in a plethora of policy initiatives, some more effective than others. Bringing together a large amount of research and evidence-based policy recommendations, this book offers both a sense of strategic direction as well as more specific, actiona...

Over the past two decades public accountability has become not only an icon in political, managerial, and administrative discourse but also the object of much scholarly analysis across a broad range of social and administrative sciences. This handbook provides a state of the art overview of recent scholarship on public accountability. It collects, consolidates, and integrates an upsurge of inquiry currently scattered across many disciplines and subdisciplines. It provides a one-stop-shop o...

This open access book sets out to explain the reasons for the gap between “knowing” and “doing” in view of self-reliance, which is more and more often expected of citizens. In today’s society, people are expected to take responsibility for their own lives and be self-reliant. This is no easy feat. They must be on constant high alert in areas of life such as health, work and personal finances and, if things threaten to go awry, take appropriate action without further ado.What does t...