Nowadays, municipalities form strategies and interact with the challenges and opportunities offered by the context in which they operate. From now on, Flemish municipalities are even obliged by the municipal decree to draw up a multiannual strategic plan (albeit in a transitory phase for the current legislature). That plan must formulate a coordinating strategy for the municipality and must contain guidelines for policy. In our contribution we want to examine on the one hand the particular meaning of this strategic plan for local governments. Which contents are given to these plans? How did these plans came about? What is the further course of these plans? What is the possible infl uence of local finances? Etc. On the other hand, we also want to take a broader look: how do we place the strategic plan in the light of the challenge of broader strategy formulation and decision-making which plays a vital role in contemporary local government? |
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Falende of veranderde representatie in West-Europa? |
Journal | Res Publica, Issue 4 2014 |
Authors | Jacques Thomassen and Carolien van Ham |
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De perceptie van etnische diversiteit en negatieve houdingen ten opzichte van immigrantenEen multilevelanalyse van Belgische gemeenten |
Journal | Res Publica, Issue 2 2014 |
Authors | Marc Hooghe and Thomas de Vroome |
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Iet, wiet, waait, ... weg? De afname van partijlidmaatschap in hedendaags Europa |
Journal | Res Publica, Issue 3 2012 |
Authors | Ingrid van Biezen, Peter Mair and Thomas Poguntke |
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De permanente crisis van de democratie |
Journal | Res Publica, Issue 2 2011 |
Authors | Jacques Thomassen |
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Tactisch steekspel of tijdverspilling? Strategische meerjarenplanning in Vlaamse gemeenten |
Journal | Res Publica, Issue 4 2008 |
Keywords | Strategic planning, local government, rationalism, logic incrementalism |
Authors | Thomas Block, Koenraad De Ceuninck, Herwig Reynaert e.a. |
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Het gebruik van de meervoudige voorkeurstem bij de parlementsverkiezingen van 21 mei 1995 |
Journal | Res Publica, Issue 1 1998 |
Authors | Jozef Smits and Inge Thomas |
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In Belgium the multiple preferential voting system was for the first time applied to parliamentary elections in 1995. Since then the electorate has the possibility to cast a vote for several candidates figuring on the same party list. As a result of this voting system change, more voters used the possibilities offered by the preferential voting system than during the 1991 elections: almost 57% of the electorate of 1995 cast a multiple vote on candidates for the House of Representatives - this was an increase of 8,6% compared to the 1991 results. For the Senate, the trend is even clearer: 59% of the electorate expressed their preference for one or more candidates of the Senate, resulting in an increase of 18,3% compared to 1991. Though one has to add that the above mentioned increases are only partly due to the election system change. Part of the increase is actually also due to a more accurate handling by the Ministery of Internal Affairs of the multiple preferential voting data figuring on the ballot-papers. Compared to previous elections the use of preferential voting was for the first time higher for the Senate than for the House of Representatives. Furthermore, the analysis showed that the use of the multiple preferential vote is varying from one constituency to another, from Flemings to Walloons and from one political party to another. |
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La "Citoyenneté" au niveau de l'Union Européenneprolégomènes d'une problématique |
Journal | Res Publica, Issue 2 1997 |
Authors | Julian Thomas Hottinger |
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Citizenship is a multiform concept that still needs to be cleared. This is necessary because various authors try to understand this concept so that they can define the future model of European citizenship. If there exist different forms of citizenship, one of the tasks of investigation is to determine reasons for these differences. This article redraws the history of this current thoughts in a comparative perspective to be able to deal with its meaning in the context of the European construction. This attitude obliges us to mark out the different contextual models white showing consideration for the real historical and political situations. |