The Mediation of Bureaucratic-Professional Influence: Decentralization in Dutch Housing Policy

1986 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 607-619 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Flynn
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Housing Policy ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
The State ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Housing System ◽  
Bureaucratic Autonomy ◽  
Dutch Housing ◽  
Professional Power

The influence of state bureaucrats and professionals on public policy is empirically and theoretically problematic. Recent work concerning the ‘dual politics thesis' has suggested that bureaucratic autonomy will flourish particularly at the regional level of the state. Evidence about decentralization in the Dutch housing system is reviewed which generally supports this thesis. However, it is argued that regional bureaucratic and professional power in housing policy, and the specific institutional arrangements for decentralization, must also be explained in terms of the distinctive nature of Dutch pillarized society and politics.

Housing Policy: Towards a Public Choice Perspective

1981 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 501-522 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Ricketts
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Housing Market ◽  
Housing Policy ◽  
Market Failure ◽  
The State ◽  
Housing Service ◽  
State Involvement ◽  
Public Choice Perspective ◽  
The Uk

Few commentators on the state of the housing market in the UK express satisfaction at the outcome of public policy in this field. From widely differing ideological presuppositions and with divergent views as to causes and cures, researchers nevertheless tend to agree that past policies have failed. This dissatisfaction arguably stems from the departure of housing policy from commonly held views about appropriate objectives. Housing policy is usually viewed as a response to some variety of ‘market failure’ or as a means of income redistribution. In the nineteenth century, externalities of a public health nature were important in encouraging the state to concern itself in the housing market, while the twentieth century has seen growing state involvement ostensibly as a response to so-called ‘distributional externalities’ or possibly on the grounds that housing service represents a ‘merit good’.

scholarly journals THE INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENT OF COLLECTIVE ACTIONS OF CITIZENS (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE ACTIVITIES OF SOCIALLY ORIENTED NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS)

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-76
Author(s):  
Ksenia E. Kosygina
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
The State ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
State Funding ◽  
Collective Actions ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Non Profit Organizations

The study analyzes the institutional environment of associated collective actions of citizens on the example of the functioning of organizations of the non-profit sector, which is formed by the state and affects their work. Using the methods of economic-statistical, comparative and structural-logical analysis, the main trends in the provision of financial and property state support to socially oriented non-profit organizations at the federal, regional and municipal levels of government are identified.  The study showed that state funding is carried out in two major areas – industry and grant (competitive). Problems of implementation of these directions are noted. It is determined that at the regional level, the form of competitive subsidies from the budgets of the subjects of the Russian Federation for the implementation of social projects by non-profit organizations prevails. In terms of state property support, it was found that more than half of the registered organizations do not have premises for carrying out their activities, while only 13% received it for free use from the state.  The results of this discussion can be used by the authorities to make management decisions in the implementation of public policy aimed at the development of the non-profit sector.

Cutback Contradictions in Dutch Housing Policy

1986 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Flynn
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Housing Policy ◽  
Housing System ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Dutch Politics ◽  
Social Cleavages ◽  
Housing Subsidies ◽  
Dutch Housing ◽  
Levels Of Support ◽  
The Welfare State

ABSTRACTThis paper describes housing policy in the Netherlands and the current crisis over subsidies. It argues that the development of the welfare state, the housing system, and recent retrenchment contain contradictions which reflect the distinctive nature of Dutch politics and social structure. In particular, it suggests that the existence of pillarized social cleavages has been influential in the growth of a progressive welfare state, in providing a secure base for social rented housing, and in sustaining high levels of support for spending on housing subsidies. Expenditure cutbacks and measures for administrative rationalization are outlined, and some of the contradictory effects on housing policy are examined.

An Introduction to the Special Issue on Energy and the Environment

Commonwealth ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Borick
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
The State ◽  
Special Issue

“An Introduction to the Special to the Special Issue on Energy and the Environment” provides an overview of the state of the literature relating to Pennsylvania in these areas of public policy. It then introduces each of the articles in this issue of the journal. 

A Better Solution to the General Problem of Creation

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-162
Author(s):  
Jeremy W. Skrzypek
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
General Problem ◽  
The State ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Better Than

It is often suggested that, since the state of affairs in which God creates a good universe is better than the state of affairs in which He creates nothing, a perfectly good God would have to create that good universe. Making use of recent work by Christine Korgaard on the relational nature of the good, I argue that the state of affairs in which God creates is actually not better, due to the fact that it is not better for anyone or anything in particular. Hence, even a perfectly good God would not be compelled to create a good universe.

Environmentalists, Nuclear Waste, and the Politics of Passive Exclusion in Germany

2001 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 43-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Hunold
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Nuclear Waste ◽  
Environmental Movement ◽  
The State ◽  
Radioactive Wastes ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
Democratic State ◽  
Ecological Democracy ◽  
Over Time

In this essay I examine the dispute between the German GreenParty and some of the country’s environmental nongovernmentalorganizations (NGOs) over the March 2001 renewal of rail shipmentsof highly radioactive wastes to Gorleben. My purpose indoing so is to test John Dryzek’s 1996 claim that environmentalistsought to beware of what they wish for concerning inclusion in theliberal democratic state. Inclusion on the wrong terms, arguesDryzek, may prove detrimental to the goals of greening and democratizingpublic policy because such inclusion may compromise thesurvival of a green public sphere that is vital to both. Prospects forecological democracy, understood in terms of strong ecologicalmodernization here, depend on historically conditioned relationshipsbetween the state and the environmental movement that fosterthe emergence and persistence over time of such a public sphere.

Understanding Bayesianism: Fundamentals for Process Tracers

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Andrew Bennett ◽  
Andrew E. Charman ◽  
Tasha Fairfield
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Bayesian Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
The State ◽  
Process Tracing ◽  
Bayesian Reasoning ◽  
Mutual Exclusivity ◽  
Positive View

Abstract Bayesian analysis has emerged as a rapidly expanding frontier in qualitative methods. Recent work in this journal has voiced various doubts regarding how to implement Bayesian process tracing and the costs versus benefits of this approach. In this response, we articulate a very different understanding of the state of the method and a much more positive view of what Bayesian reasoning can do to strengthen qualitative social science. Drawing on forthcoming research as well as our earlier work, we focus on clarifying issues involving mutual exclusivity of hypotheses, evidentiary import, adjudicating among more than two hypotheses, and the logic of iterative research, with the goal of elucidating how Bayesian analysis operates and pushing the field forward.

scholarly journals Restructuring the State: Policy Transition of Construction Land Supply in Urban and Rural China

Land ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Renhao Yang ◽  
Qingyuan Yang
Keyword(s):  
Rural China ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
The State ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
Central State ◽  
Land Supply ◽  
Reform Era ◽  
Construction Land ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
State Functions

Encountering the articulation of the strongness of local authorities and market forces in China’s development, attention has been paid to the changing central state which recentralised the regulation capability of localities which has more discretional power on resources utilisation, land for example, in the post-reform era. Yet it is still not clear-cut what drives the state rescaling in terms of land governance and by what ways. After dissecting the evolving policies and practices of construction land supply in China with the focus on the roles of state, we draw two main conclusions. First, the policy trajectory of construction land supply entails a complicated reconfiguration of state functions, which is driven by three interwoven relations: land–capital relation, peasant–state relation and rural–urban relation. Second, state rescaling in terms of the governance of construction land provision works via four important approaches: limited decentralism, horizontal integralism, local experimentalism and political mobilisationism. By reviewing the institutional arrangements of construction land provision and the state rescaling process behind them, this article offers a nuanced perspective to the state (re)building that goes beyond the simplified (vertical or horizontal) transition of state functions.

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