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    <title>Veen, R.J. van der</title>
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      <title>An institutional embeddedness of welfare opinions?  The link between public opinion and social policy in the Netherlands (1970-2004) (Article)</title>
      <link>http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/19960/</link>
      <pubDate>2011-04-01T00:00:00Z</pubDate>
      <description>Abstract A major shortcoming in the existing literature on welfare state legitimacy is that it cannot explain when social policy designs follow public preferences and when public opinion follows existing policy designs and why. Scholars examining the influence of public opinion on welfare policies as well as scholars investigating institutional influences on individual welfare attitudes find empirical evidence to support both relationships. While a relationship in both directions is plausible, scholars have yet to thoroughly investigate the mutual relationship between these two. Consequently, we still do not know under which circumstances welfare institutions invoke public approval of welfare policies and under which circumstances public opinion drives welfare policy. Taking a quantitative approach to public opinion and welfare state policies in the Netherlands, this paper addresses this issue in an attempt to increase our understanding of welfare state legitimacy. The results show that individual opinions influence relatively new policies, policies which are not yet fully established and where policy designs are still evolving and developing. Social policy, on the other hand, is found to influence individual opinions on established and highly institutionalised policies, but does not influence individual opinions in relatively new areas of social policy.</description>
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      <title>An Institutional Embeddedness of Welfare Opinions? The Link between Public Opinion and Social Policy in the Netherlands (1970-2004) (Article)</title>
      <link>http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/20582/</link>
      <pubDate>2010-07-01T00:00:00Z</pubDate>
      <description>A major shortcoming in the existing literature on welfare state legitimacy is that it cannot explain when social policy designs follow public preferences and when public opinion follows existing policy designs and why. Scholars examining the influence of public opinion on welfare policies, as well as scholars investigating institutional influences on individual welfare attitudes, find empirical evidence to support both relationships. While a relationship in both directions is plausible, scholars have yet to thoroughly investigate the mutual relationship between these two. Consequently, we still do not know under which circumstances welfare institutions invoke public approval of welfare policies and under which circumstances public opinion drives welfare policy. Taking a quantitative approach to public opinion and welfare state policies in the Netherlands, this paper addresses this issue in an attempt to increase our understanding of welfare state legitimacy. The results show that individual opinions influence relatively new policies, policies which are not yet fully established and where policy designs are still evolving and developing. Social policy, on the other hand, is found to influence individual opinions on established and highly institutionalised policies, but does not influence individual opinions in relatively new areas of social policy.</description>
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      <title>From Welfare to Workfare. The Implementation of Activation and Reintegration Policies (Miscellaneous)</title>
      <link>http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/17446/</link>
      <pubDate>2009-11-12T00:00:00Z</pubDate>
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      <title>De legitimiteit van de verzorgingsstaat (In Proceedings)</title>
      <link>http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/19963/</link>
      <pubDate>2009-01-01T00:00:00Z</pubDate>
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      <title>Innovatie via decentralisatie: doorwerking van beleidsveranderingen en het risico van ontkoppeling: de casus van de Wet Werk en Bijstand (Research Paper)</title>
      <link>http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/7706/</link>
      <pubDate>2006-05-09T00:00:00Z</pubDate>
      <description>De vraag naar mechanismen van doorwerking van beleid staat centraal in deze beschouwing. Hoe kan bewerkstelligd worden dat beleidsveranderingen ook echt doorwerken bij het verantwoordelijke bestuur of in de betreffende uitvoeringsorganisatie? Deze vraag lijkt op het eerste gezicht wellicht van ondergeschikt belang, maar is dat niet. Al te vaak wordt door de wetgever verondersteld dat juridische en beleidsmatige wijzigingen als vanzelf vertaald worden in de beleids- en uitvoeringspraktijk. Maar wijzigingen in beleidspraktijk of uivoeringsorganisaties vinden niet vanzelfsprekend plaats. De recente historie van herzieningen in de Bijstandswet maar ook van de Arbeidsongeschiktheidsverzekering illustreren dit. Achter de vraag naar doorwerking gaat het verschijnsel van ontkoppeling schuil. Het begrip ontkoppeling is afkomstig uit de organisatiesociologie en staat voor het verschijnsel dat zich voordoet wanneer het management van de organisatie de richting, het beleid van de organisatie wijzigt, terwijl er op de werkvloer verder weinig verandert. Processen van ontkoppeling maken het het management van organisaties mogelijk –naar buiten toe- snel in te springen op veranderingen in de omgeving van de organisatie en schermen tegelijkertijd de werkvloer in organisaties af van deze veranderingen. Ontkoppeling komt binnen uitvoeringsorganisaties als Sociale Diensten of het UWV zeker voor en maakt de uitvoering tot op zekere hoogte resistent voor beleidsverandering.</description>
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