Policy, Design and Use of Police-Worn Bodycameras in the Netherlands

Abstract Background: While differences in population health across neighborhoods with different socioeconomic characteristics are well documented, health disparities across neighborhoods with similar socioeconomic characteristics are less well understood. Studying the determinants of variation of health among neighborhoods with similar socio-economic characteristics is pivotal for gaining insight into where health potential lies. We aimed to estimate population health inequalities, both within and between neighborhoods with similar socio-economic status, and assessed the association of neighborhood characteristics and socio-economic spillover effects from adjacent neighborhoods. Methods: Based on whole-population data from the Netherlands we determined the percentage of inhabitants with good/very good self-assessed health (SAH) as well as the percentage of inhabitants with at least one chronic disease (CD) in 11,504 neighborhoods. Neighborhoods were classified by quintiles of a composite NSES score. Spatial models were estimated by including the spatially weighted NSES of adjacent neighborhoods. Results: Substantial population health disparities in SAH and CD both within and between neighborhoods NSES quintiles were observed, with the largest SAH variance in the lowest NSES group. These differences were partially explained by neighborhood density and the percentage of inhabitants ≥65 years old. Neighborhoods adjacent to higher SES neighborhoods showed a higher SAH and a lower prevalence of CD, adjusted for other explanatory variables. Policy simulations indicate how modest changes in NSES among groups of neighborhoods with similar socio-economic characteristics can contribute to population health, partially due to spatial spillovers. Conclusion: Population health differs substantially among neighborhoods with similar socioeconomic characteristics, which can partially be explained by a spatial socio-economic spillover effect. This provides interesting leads to policy design aimed at improving population health outcomes of deprived neighborhoods focusing on health potential.

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Policy design dynamics: fitting goals and instruments in transport infrastructure planning in the Netherlands

Policy Design and Practice ◽

10.1080/25741292.2019.1678232 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2 (4) ◽

pp. 324-358

Author(s):

Marijn Thomas van Geet ◽

Sander Lenferink ◽

Wim Leendertse

Keyword(s):

The Netherlands ◽

Policy Design ◽

Transport Infrastructure ◽

Infrastructure Planning

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Pressing, repressing and accommodating: local modes of governing social assistance recipients in welfare to work programmes in the Netherlands

Welfare to Work in Contemporary European Welfare States ◽

10.1332/policypress/9781447340010.003.0010 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 211-236

Author(s):

Josien Arts

Keyword(s):

The Netherlands ◽

Policy Design ◽

Social Assistance ◽

Case Managers ◽

Ethnographic Research ◽

Welfare To Work ◽

Discretionary Power ◽

Local Modes ◽

Local Practices ◽

Republican Theory

This chapter shows the differences between local welfare-to-work programmes in the Netherlands in terms of the ways in which social assistance recipients are directed towards paid labour: through pressing, repressing and accommodating modes of governing. Based on 13-month ethnographic research in three Dutch social assistance offices, this chapter argues, first, that the observed local differences result from decentralisation of policy design and implementation as well as increased discretionary power for case managers. Second, that the different local practices can be understood as varieties of neoliberal paternalism legitimised through various forms of stigmatisation of social assistance recipients that leave little room for them to revolt against disfunctioning policy and wrongful treatment. Third, by means of using the republican theory of non-domination, this chapter argues that the observed local differences (between as well as within municipalities) and limited room for social assistance recipients to voice their concerns indicate that Dutch welfare-to-work policies work partly in arbitrary ways and are insufficiently democratically controlled.

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Risk communication policy design: Cyprus compared to France and the Netherlands

Journal of Risk Research ◽

10.1080/13669877.2015.1100656 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 20 (4) ◽

pp. 533-550 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sophie Tourenq ◽

George Boustras ◽

Jan M. Gutteling

Keyword(s):

The Netherlands ◽

Risk Communication ◽

Policy Design ◽

Communication Policy

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Policy design spaces in reforming governance in higher education: the dynamics in Italy and the Netherlands

Higher Education ◽

10.1007/s10734-017-0158-5 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 75 (4) ◽

pp. 675-694 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

Giliberto Capano

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

The Netherlands ◽

Policy Design ◽

Governance In Higher Education

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The local governance of prostitution: regulatory drift and implementation capture

10.1332/policypress/9781447324249.003.0003 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Hendrik Wagenaar ◽

Helga Amesberger ◽

Sietske Altink

Keyword(s):

The Netherlands ◽

Policy Design ◽

Local Governance ◽

Local Level ◽

Policy Instruments ◽

Implementation Process ◽

Gradual Change ◽

Implementation Level ◽

And Control ◽

Agency Capture

In this chapter we discuss the implementation of prostitution policy in Austria and the Netherlands. It introduces three key analytic concepts: policy implementation, policy design and policy instruments. Both Austria and the Netherlands initially had pragmatic, and in the case of the latter, progressive, national laws. Through analysis of the design and instruments by which these laws were put into effect at the local level, we observed a gradual change towards a more punitive, regressive approach. In the Netherlands this occurred through a process of regulatory drift, a gradual change in the focus and goals of a policy as the result of a succession of small decisions at the implementation level, without any formal decision at higher levels of political authority. In Vienna the mechanism was agency capture, the appropriation of the implementation process by one agency, the police, that imposes its own goals and operating procedures on the policy process. In both cases, the implementation process was driven by a logic of combatting trafficking that led to ever more intrusive measures to incapacitate and control an opponent that was perceived as powerful and devious.

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