scholarly journals How Can Social Branding Mitigate Racism Among Fans in Sports? A Q-sort Analysis on the Value of Social Branding Campaigns as Vehicles for Reducing Racism Among Soccer Fans

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 316
Author(s):  
Vidar Stevens ◽  
Rens Cremers
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Target Group ◽  
Professional Sport ◽  
New Governance ◽  
Sport Clubs ◽  
Governance Strategy ◽  
Perceptions Of Racism ◽  
Soccer Fans ◽  
National Governments ◽  
Q Sort

Social branding is a new governance strategy in the field of sport. National governments and sport associations, for instance, use branding to reach out to fans and alter their perceptions of racism in sport. But how do fans, as a target group, actually value this governance strategy? This article zooms in on the purpose of social branding, as perceived by fans as a target group in a social branding campaign on racism in soccer in the Netherlands. The Q-sort methodology was used to study the subjective viewpoints of 29 soccer fans of different professional sport clubs. The analysis reveals that soccer fans prefer a transparent branding process in which they are recognized as coproducers of the brand and can add their story to the brand message that is conveyed to target audiences.

Asylum-seekers falsely implicating themselves in international crimes: Should they be informed of the existence of Article 1F of the Refugee Convention?

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-101
Author(s):  
Brian Moore ◽  
Joris van Wijk
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Refugee Convention ◽  
International Crimes ◽  
Refugee Claim ◽  
The Uk ◽  
National Governments

Case studies in the Netherlands and the UK of asylum applicants excluded or under consideration of exclusion pursuant to Article 1Fa of the Refugee Convention reveal that some applicants falsely implicated themselves in serious crimes or behaviours in order to enhance their refugee claim. This may have serious consequences for the excluded persons themselves, as well as for national governments dealing with them. For this reason we suggest immigration authorities could consider forewarning asylum applicants i.e. before their interview, about the existence, purpose and possible consequences of exclusion on the basis of Article 1F.

Sport Clubs in The Netherlands

2015 ◽  
pp. 271-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold van der Werff ◽  
Remco Hoekman ◽  
Janine van Kalmthout
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Sport Clubs

Summaries

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Editorial Staff ◽  
Target Group ◽  
Investigative Journalism ◽  
Media Agenda ◽  
Setting Theory ◽  
The University ◽  
News Services

Joline Cramer, Jaap de Jong & Frank Nuijens University media in The Netherlands: threats and opportunitiest University media in The Netherlands face a number of risks. This study explores which changes chief editors of Dutch college media and media experts foresee to deal with these threats and what opportunities they see to make university media future-proof for the next ten years. Threats are: the editorial staff is confronted with a growing international target group that is not served optimally, faces competition from numerous internal news services of the university and in some situations the editorial independence of editors is called into question. Opportunities: critical journalism is the oxygen for university democracy; critical news on all subjects and at all levels remains the raison d’être for the university media. Investigative journalism is seen as an important opportunity to set the university agenda and stay relevant. Connecting the international members of the academy to the university is the greatest challenge and opportunity. Keywords: university media, agenda-setting theory, network theory, innovation, investigative journalism

Return, Relief, and Rehabilitation

2015 ◽  
pp. 22-72
Author(s):  
David H. Weinberg
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Jewish Communities ◽  
Community Agencies ◽  
Initial Strategy ◽  
Post War ◽  
National Governments ◽  
Relief Efforts ◽  
Jewish Survivors

This chapter discusses the start of the relief effort for the Jews of post-war France, Belgium, and the Netherlands after the Second World War. The initial strategy devised by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) and other international Jewish organizations in 1945 in France, Belgium, and the Netherlands was to leave relief efforts to others. While working to secure Jewish representation on local aid committees that had been created by Christian charities, the Red Cross, and individual political parties, they would piggyback on the numerous relief efforts that Jewish communities in the three countries had themselves established during the war or had initiated at the time of liberation. Where possible, they would also demand that national governments assist Jewish survivors. In the absence of support from private aid groups and despite their weakened condition, a variety of local Jewish community agencies did what they could to aid survivors. Ultimately, in the first two decades after the war, American and other international organizations would be only partially successful in restructuring the Jewish communities of western Europe.

scholarly journals Tailoring basemaps for color vision impaired people

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Jennifer M. Misiukas ◽  
Vincent van Duijnhoven ◽  
Rick A. Klöpping ◽  
Gerard Porras Cantons
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Color Vision ◽  
Target Group ◽  
Topographic Map ◽  
Impaired People

Abstract. Widely used basemaps are not particularly inclusive when it comes to color vision impaired users. The use of colors, even though perfect for the representation of features, does not always account for color vision impairments. Certain combinations of colors in basemaps are indistinguishable for colorblind people. With the awareness that those disabilities should be considered when designing a basemap, Esri Nederland and Kadaster instigated the research on the topic, aiming to create a methodology on how to optimize the basemaps for color vision impaired users. The methodology developed was applied in the assessment of six basemaps and improvements were performed in the two most commonly used basemaps in the Netherlands, the Esri World Topographic Map, and the BRT Achtergrondkaart Standaard. Suitable shades were selected to replace the problematic ones in the original basemaps, and the target group evaluated the improvements through surveys. The results showed that the commonly used basemaps are able to well represent the features in a colorblind-friendly way. However, there is room for improvements in order to achieve more suitable and inclusive basemaps.

scholarly journals A New Democratic Norm(al)? Political Legitimacy Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 189-195
Author(s):  
Tim Reeskens ◽  
Quita Muis
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Political Legitimacy ◽  
Period Effect ◽  
Representative Data ◽  
European Values ◽  
European Values Study ◽  
National Governments ◽  
Pharmaceutical Interventions

AbstractThe worldwide COVID-19 pandemic has granted national governments far-reaching political powers to implement drastic non-pharmaceutical interventions to curtail the spread of the virus. For these measures to be effective, governments should be granted widespread political legitimacy. This is established when populations’ expectations from governments are in line with public support for these governments. In this chapter, we investigate changes in political legitimacy during the coronavirus crisis in the Netherlands. Amidst of the pandemic, we collected unique, representative data among LISS-panel respondents that supplemented the European Values Study 2017. We demonstrate that the Dutch public (temporarily) lowered their democratic aspirations thereby longing for strong leadership while simultaneously increasing their trust in the incumbent Government, which, combined, resulted in more political legitimacy. Because of an outspoken period effect, expectations are, however, that this legitimacy will not be long-lived in the new common.

scholarly journals Corporate governance reforms in banks: Lessons from Nigeria?

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-50
Author(s):  
Emeka Offor
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
New Governance ◽  
Base Reference ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
National Governments ◽  
Governance Architecture ◽  
Corporate Governance Reforms ◽  
Governance Reforms

In Sub-Saharan Africa, and indeed in most emerging economies, national governments have in one way or the other (in varying degrees) intervened in the running of corporations. These interventions (usually referred to as reforms) have been eliciting discourses on whether Governments should show interest, be involved in the running of corporations, and also on the effectiveness of those interventions. This paper reviews the subject of this discourse with base reference on banking reforms initiated by various administrations in Nigeria over the decades, articulates lessons from the reforms, raises questions for further research and argues that corporations and markets should be self regulated. National governments should provide operational guidelines, enabling framework and put in place a sustainable mechanism for monitoring, and intervene only when the need arises. The paper also calls for the development of new governance architecture for banks and corporations in order to address emerging corporate governance realities.

Identifying the Different Approaches in Use of Social Media Outlets: A Case Study of German Professional Sport Teams

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-261
Author(s):  
Fabian Kautz ◽  
Michael Schaffrath ◽  
Alex C. Gang
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Ice Hockey ◽  
Professional Sport ◽  
Sport Teams ◽  
Sport Industry ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Effective Instrument ◽  
Sport Clubs ◽  
Use Of Social Media

The sport industry has long used social media as an effective instrument of communication. In the framework of the current study, a content analysis investigated how professional sport clubs in Germany use Facebook and Twitter. The study covers the entire 2015–16 season, which was illustrated via selectively choosing 2 weeks for data analysis; four clubs each from basketball, ice hockey, football, and handball were collected as a sample. All Facebook posts and Twitter tweets published by the 16 clubs during the 2 weeks, a total of 3,412 contributions (Facebook 717, Twitter 2,695), were included in the analysis. The codebook contained 57 variables, and this article presents the results on the identified topics of the published contents on the two social media platforms. On both platforms, the clubs under examination primarily issued statements regarding themselves and their sport-related activities. Twitter is predominantly used as a live medium during games, whereas Facebook allows for significantly greater reach. However, no sport-related differences were found between the two social media platforms.

scholarly journals Contextualizing the Dutch drop in political trust: connecting underlying factors

2009 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 473-491 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Hendriks
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Political Trust ◽  
The Other ◽  
Risk Society ◽  
Consensus Democracy ◽  
Emotional Culture ◽  
The One ◽  
High Level ◽  
National Governments

How can it be that a country — one that was envied until the very end of the twentieth century for its enduring high level of trust in the political system — could have suffered so much damage in just a few years at the beginning of the new century when it comes to reported rates of trust in political institutions? This article maps the loss of political trust in the Netherlands and sets out to explain the developments that the statistics describe. A thought-provoking article that Bovens and Wille published in this journal names a number of temporary factors (fluctuations in the national economy and incumbent national governments) to explain the Dutch drop. This article points to the influence of more structural, systematic factors or underlying ‘currents’ that are concealed behind the factors that Bovens and Wille address: the persistence of consensus democracy on the one hand and the surge of the emotional culture and the risk society on the other. The accumulation and interaction of these three currents form the basis for the explication of the declining levels of trust in politics. Points for practitioners This article maps the loss of political trust in the Netherlands at the beginning of the new millennieum, and sets out to explain this phenomenon. The analysis points to the influence of more structural and systematic factors — the persistence of consensus democracy on the one hand and the surge of the emotional culture and the risk society on the other — concealed behind the more temporal and transitory factors that Bovens and Wille have highlighted in an earlier issue of this journal. Restoring trust is contingent on the accumulation and interaction of these three currents.

scholarly journals THE EFFECT OF SAME-AGE AND MIXED-AGE GROUPING IN DAY CARE ON PARENT-CHILD ATTACHMENT SECURITY

2000 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 595-602 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina M. Pool ◽  
Catrien C.J.H. Bijleveld ◽  
Louis W.C. Tavecchio
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Attachment Security ◽  
Attachment Relationships ◽  
Daycare Centers ◽  
Child Attachment ◽  
Age Range ◽  
Mixed Age ◽  
Q Sort ◽  
Parent Child

This pilot study investigates the effect on parent-child attachment relationships of same-age versus mixed-age grouping in daycare centers in the Netherlands. For 45 children in the age range of 2 to 6 years, parent-child attachment relationships were assessed by means of the Attachment Q-Sort. It was found that attachment security did not differ significantly for children who had been in mixed-age or in same-age grouping, or who had experienced a change of daycare center.

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