Monitoring in beeld: een studie naar de doorwerking van monitors in interbestuurlijke relaties
Year: 2007
Type: dissertation
Abstract: textabstractMonitoring in the Dutch public sectorAn increasing stream of monitoring activities has entered the public sector. A lot of
different monitors have been implemented in the Netherlands, like the police monitor,
drugs monitor, integration monitor and the emancipation monitor. Although monitoring
of policy processes is quite prevalent in the public sector, monitoring still remains an
unexplored scientific theme, while most of the scientific attention is restricted to
performance systems. In the current mode of monitoring is often approached in a rational
way. Within the rational approach monitoring is seen as an objective search for facts in
order to improve policy. The aim of this study however, is to widen this narrow focus and
include two other perspectives as well, namely a political and cultural approach of
monitoring. These three perspectives are not mutually exclusive.
One of the assumptions of this study is that monitoring activities have impacts on
intergovernmental relationships, this because monitors are used on different
governmental levels. The impacts of monitors on intergovernmental relationships have
not been studied as of yet. This is surprising, because in policy documents monitoring is
connected with intergovernmental relationships.
Research questions
The main research question is formulated as followed: what are the impacts of monitors
on intergovernmental relationships? This main question is divided into seven research
questions.
Author: Dennis de Kool
Language: Dutch
Subfield: Public Administration
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W128108438