During the elections of 2002, Pim Fortuyn managed to win 26 seats in Parliament with his party LPF (Lijst Pim Fortuyn), even after his tragic death, and established a new record in the political history of The Netherlands. His extensive use of the mass media had a significant role in contributing to …

Promotion of a healthy pregnancy is a top priority of the health care policy in many European countries. Perinatal mortality is an important indicator of the success of this policy. Recently, it was shown that the Netherlands has relatively high perinatal death rates when compared to other European countries. …

“Municipal Youth Work taken over by Christians”. (Binnenlands Bestuur, 2009) This heading refers to the work of Youth for Christ in an Amsterdam neighbourhood. This organisation, successful in Youth Work nationwide, last year came out first in an open competition of the Amsterdam district De Baarsjes. …

Nicaragua is the second poorest country in Latin America and the Northern Hemisphere. The country is in this bad position due to military conflicts in the past, corrupt and dubious politics in the past and present, a weak economy, and bad quality education and low school enrolment rates. The accumulation …

Door de komst van steeds meer contractvormen in de GWW- sector (grond-, wegen- en waterbouw) is het voor veel opdrachtgevers en aannemers niet meer duidelijk wanneer welke contractvorm het beste toegepast kan worden. Om hier wat meer duidelijkheid in te krijgen zijn wij dit gaan onderzoeken. Na een uitgebreide …

This final paper focuses on municipal international cooperation (MIC) with developing nations. MIC can be defined as international decentralised cooperation or the term "town twinning" (Boven, 2007, "what is town twinning" section). It is an agreement between two or more municipalities from different …

Before the change of the system in 1989 decisions were made by the communist state-party and all citizens of Hungary had to do was simply obeying these decisions; publicly questioning the communist rule was not done. What followed in the years after was a somewhat passive state of mind. Consequently, …

The aim of this thesis is to explain the conflict between local and national government about crisis shelters for ex-asylum seekers, asylum seekers and those in regular procedures. In this thesis laws and regulations are explained to identify the groups of asylum seekers and ex-asylum seekers which have …

In 1999 the Gele Rijders (Yellow Riders), the traditional name for the soldiers of 11 Battalion Horse Artillery, and with them soldiers, hussars, and gunners of numerous other units, were deployed to the municipality of Orahovac in Kosovo. In the evaluation report the Secretary of Defence sent to Parliament …