Hendrik Wagenaar
Biographic Data
| ID | 317319 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hendrik Wagenaar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hendrik |
| FAMILY NAME | Wagenaar |
| SIGNATURE | WAGENAAR H |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7275-6761 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 350 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
The Necessity of Associative Democracy: Bringing Corporatism Back In
Liberal electoral democracies face serious intrinsic as well as external problems that threaten their viability. Associative democracy (AD) holds the promise of alleviating them. I argue that a long but currently strangely ignored tradition of (neo-)corporatism has demonstrated the feasibility of associative governance arrangements. Nothing prevents governments to push corporatism into domains other than labor relations, such as education, health…
The Essential Tension: Patsy Healey’s Conception of Democracy in Planning and Public Policy
Patsy Healey was a major democratic theorist. Although often implicit, it is easy to discern in her work a normative-empirical theory of democracy that is characterized by a focus on improving state institutions and leveraging the experiential knowledge of affected citizens with the issue at hand. Two features distinguish Patsy’s approach to democratic governance. Her refusal to vacate the essential tension between an institutional and a particip…
The WHO Pandemic Agreement should be more specific about when and how to enable global access to technology
The article considers synchronicity as a crucial component of health policymaking. • An analysis of the pandemic agreement draft highlights opportunities and risks. • The draft invokes ‘timeliness’ but leaves its definition open to interpretation. • Global equity and solidarity can only be achieved through enabling synchronicity. Timeliness is repeatedly referenced in the World Health Organization (WHO) Pandemic Agreement negotiation draft, publi…
Introduction: Advancing the Commonsverse: The Political Economy of The Commons
This introductory article sets out the twin goals of this special issue: “Advancing the Commonsverse: The Political Economy of the Commons”. The first is to introduce the innovative work of David Bollier and Silke Helfrich in theorizing and researching the commons. The second is to explore the possibilities and constraints of the commons and the process of commoning as they unfold in real-world political-economic settings. Bollier and Helfrich ha…
Deliberative Policy Analysis
Deliberative Policy Analysis (DPA) integrates the process of public participation into policy analysis, and seeks to address the complexity, uncertainty, and divergence of values and understandings which characterize contemporary policy arenas. It emphasizes deliberation between citizens and officials as a strategy of policy inquiry and an orientation towards practice as the key component of policy analysis. The chapter considers the development …
Collaborative comparisons: A pragmatist approach towards designing large-scale, comparative qualitative research
This article draws lessons for organizing and designing large-scale qualitative comparative research in turbulent, rapidly evolving, real-world settings. The challenge to the researcher is that such studies need to meet conflicting requirements of rigor, relevance, and responsiveness. Recognizing that in such settings scientific research cannot be insulated from its environment, the article discusses a pragmatist approach to comparative research …
Democratic research: Setting up a research commons for a qualitative, comparative, longitudinal interview study during the Covid-19 pandemic
The sudden and dramatic advent of the COVID-19 pandemic led to urgent demands for timely, relevant, yet rigorous research. This paper discusses the origin, design, and execution of the SolPan research commons, a large-scale, international, comparative, qualitative research project that sought to respond to the need for knowledge among researchers and policymakers in times of crisis. The form of organization as a research commons is characterized …
Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy
Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy is the first book that brings together a wide range of methods used in the study of deliberative democracy. It offers thirty-one different methods that scholars use for theorizing, measuring, exploring, or applying deliberative democracy. Each chapter presents one method by explaining its utility in deliberative democracy research and providing guidance on its application by drawing on examples from prev…
Discretion and Street-Level Practice
Symposium: Revisiting the three pillars of Deliberative Policy Analysis
This mini-symposium revisits the three pillars of Deliberative Policy Analysis (DPA): deliberation, interpretation and practice. DPA was originally intended as a moral-analytical programme that integrated these pillars, but policy analysts working in this tradition seem to have mainly been guided by one specific pillar, interpretation We believe this has not only confounded the nature and potential of DPA but has also limited the knowledge and im…
Introduction: Towards deliberative policy analysis 2.0
The purpose of this second special issue is to build on and extend the development of Deliberative Policy Analysis (DPA) 2.0 that was set in motion by the first special issue on DPA in this journal. It is set up around a symposium focused on integrating DPA’s pillars of interpretation, practice, and deliberation. We identify three key threads for interweaving these three pillars and advancing DPA 2.0 and introduce the five other contributions to …
Deliberative policy analysis, interconnectedness and institutional design: Lessons from “Red Vienna”
Complexity poses challenges to policy makers who intervene in the world. Interconnectedness, a key aspect of complexity, requires that policy makers acknowledge the compounded nature of policy problems in their design of a robust, differentiated policy. Deliberative Policy Analysis recommends small group deliberation to address interconnectedness. However, higher-order phenomena that emerge through interactions in a complex system have properties…
Assessing Prostitution Policies in Europe
Once again, prostitution occupies a prominent position on public and political agendas, both nationally and internationally. A topic of concern and interest within social and academic realms, it is a highly moralised, contested issue that is at the centre of heated and drawn-out debates. With each chapter dedicated to a separate country and written by a national authority on the subject, Assessing European Prostitution Policies seeks to explore h…
Introducing a practice perspective on monitoring for adaptive management
Adaptive management (AM) is one of the most prominent ways ecologists contribute to ecosystem management, policy, and planning. AM treats management actions as experiments to monitor and learn from, creating a central role for ecologists in constructing the monitoring programs intended to guide learning. Yet, ecologists have found monitoring for AM challenging. They face a daunting series of dilemmas: How to produce monitoring programs that are r…
Beyond “linking knowledge and action”: Towards a practice-based approach to transdisciplinary sustainability interventions
The imperative to “link knowledge and action” is widely invoked as a defining characteristic of sustainability research. The complexities of sustainability challenges such as climate change and biodiversity loss mean that linear models of knowledge and action, where knowledge is produced first (by researchers) then “applied to” action (by policy actors), are considered insufficient. Researchers have developed more dynamic, open-ended and collabor…
Revisiting deliberative policy analysis
It has been 15 years since Hajer and Wagenaar published Deliberative Policy Analysis (hereafter DPA). The book’s publication was one of the major developments in the post-positivist policy movement
Conclusion: Building new momentum for deliberative policy analysis
As we showed in the Introduction to this special issue (Li and Wagenaar 2019), since the publication of the seminal work (Hajer and Wagenaar 2003), Deliberative Policy Analysis (DPA) has enjoyed co
The Precarious Politics of Public Innovation
This article argues that debates about public innovation among governance scholars risk essentialising the concept. Rather than recognise the inherently normative content of public innovation, some scholars have created taxonomies that conflate very different forms of ‘innovation’ in the public and private sectors, the latter of which is deeply contradictory to public values. We re-think public innovation as both a pragmatic process, a way of res…
Authoritarian deliberation revisited
This introductory paper reviews the origin and development of the concept of authoritarian deliberation, and highlights the importance of culture and cultural tradition associated with public consultation. This paper summarizes and illustrates six key features of authoritarian deliberation in China. First, deliberation in China is a precarious balance between legal rule and state intervention. Second, the Party appeals to public reason to address…
The limits of authoritarian rule: Policy making and deliberation in urban village regeneration in China
The subject of this paper is the role of democratic deliberation as a policy instrument for district and local administrations in the urban village regeneration process. This paper contributes to a better understanding of the relationship between democratic deliberation and public policy making, and the theory of deliberative systems. Deliberation in the context of urban village regeneration is part of a complex, scalar, political-administrative …
Doubt and excitement: An Experiential Learning Approach to Teaching the Practice of Qualitative Research
This article diagnoses that qualitative research (QR) methods courses and literature often remain silent on how to actually do QR and explores how practice theory can improve learning and teaching the practice of QR. It develops an experiential learning approach of turning experiences and emotions of doubt and excitement into a dialogical process of asking creative questions, imagining new ideas, and animating a practical relationship to the worl…
Designing Prostitution Policy: Intention and Reality in Regulating the Sex Trade
Prostitution is a complex, contested, sensitive and fast-moving field, and this is a large and comprehensive book.It could not have been written without the generous support of a number of people.We thank Joyce Outshoorn and the anonymous reviewer of Policy Press for their extensive and constructive comments on the manuscript.They urged us to restructure the design of the book and to rethink some of our arguments.Without them the message of the b…
Designing prostitution policy
Chapter Six argues for collaborative governance as an effective response to the domain-specific challenges of prostitution policy, as well as to the inadequacy of the traditional policy responses of adversarial interest group policy and managerialist policy implementation. Collaborative governance is a mode of governance in which public agencies engage with various stakeholders to jointly deliberate about public problems in a carefully designed a…
Designing Prostitution Policy: Intention and Reality in Regulating the Sex Trade
In policy terms, social order is seen as the outcome of the more or less orchestrated practices of a large number of actors who ... Second, because prostitution in contemporary society is so entangled with public policy, it is essential that we
Why Prostitution Policy (Usually) Fails and What to Do about It
This article describes and discusses the results of two comparative studies of prostitution policy in Europe that are complementary in their design and methodology. One is a comparison of 21 countries using a most different systems design; the other an in-depth comparison of Austria and The Netherlands, using a most similar systems design. The two studies found a remarkable continuity in the inherent approach to the regulation of prostitution and…
Governance, Complexity, and Democratic Participation: How Citizens and Public Officials Harness the Complexities of Neighborhood Decline
This article applies complexity theory to urban governance. It is argued that expert-based, hierarchical-instrumental policy making encounters insurmountable obstacles in modern liberal democracies. One of the root causes of this erosion of output legitimacy is the complexity of social systems. Complexity is defined as the density and dynamism of the interactions between the elements of a system. Complexity makes system outcomes unpredictable and…
Navigating the Eternally Unfolding Present: Toward an Epistemology of Practice
The topic of the article is practice theory. Using a detailed example from public administration, we first discus the shortcomings of the model of practice as applied knowledge that we have dubbed the Received View. The first half of the article is a chronology of successive adaptations of the Received View. These adaptations have gradually brought the Received View more in accordance with the practice-oriented critique in social theory and resea…
Prostitution as Morality Politics or Why It Is Exceedingly Difficult To Design and Sustain Effective Prostitution Policy
Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy
Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy is the first book that brings together a wide range of methods used in the study of deliberative democracy. It offers thirty-one different methods that scholars use for theorizing, measuring, exploring, or applying deliberative democracy. Each chapter presents one method by explaining its utility in deliberative democracy research and providing guidance on its application by drawing on examples from prev…
Authoritarian deliberation revisited
This introductory paper reviews the origin and development of the concept of authoritarian deliberation, and highlights the importance of culture and cultural tradition associated with public consultation. This paper summarizes and illustrates six key features of authoritarian deliberation in China. First, deliberation in China is a precarious balance between legal rule and state intervention. Second, the Party appeals to public reason to address…
Value Pluralism in Public Administration
Traditional approaches to administrative ethics lament the absence of a comprehensive framework to guide research and practice. This article argues that the search for such a framework is achimera. Irresolvable value conflict, a condition that in moral philosophy is called value pluralism, is intrinsic to contemporary political and administrative life in liberal societies. The article argues that value pluralism should be the starting point of ad…
Why Prostitution Policy (Usually) Fails and What to Do about It
This article describes and discusses the results of two comparative studies of prostitution policy in Europe that are complementary in their design and methodology. One is a comparison of 21 countries using a most different systems design; the other an in-depth comparison of Austria and The Netherlands, using a most similar systems design. The two studies found a remarkable continuity in the inherent approach to the regulation of prostitution and…
Beyond “linking knowledge and action”: Towards a practice-based approach to transdisciplinary sustainability interventions
The imperative to “link knowledge and action” is widely invoked as a defining characteristic of sustainability research. The complexities of sustainability challenges such as climate change and biodiversity loss mean that linear models of knowledge and action, where knowledge is produced first (by researchers) then “applied to” action (by policy actors), are considered insufficient. Researchers have developed more dynamic, open-ended and collabor…
Enacting Resilience: A Performative Account of Governing for Urban Resilience
Resilience is an increasingly important urban policy discourse that has been taken up at a rapid pace. Yet there is an apparent gap between the advocacy of social-ecological resilience in scientific literature and its take-up in policy discourse on the one hand, and the demonstrated capacity to govern for resilience in practice on the other. This paper explores this gap by developing a performative account of how social-ecological resilience is d…
Dwellers on the threshold of practice: The interpretivism of Bevir and Rhodes
Mark Bevir and Rod Rhodes' interpretive political science hardly needs an introduction to policy scholars. Their approach, philosophically sophisticated and grounded in a realistic appraisal of the nature of governing in modern liberal democratic societies, is of considerable significance to anyone in political science, public administration or planning with an interest in interpretive methods. Focusing on the concepts of meaning holism, anti-rep…
Democracy and Prostitution: Deliberating the Legalization of Brothels in the Netherlands
This article discusses democratic deliberation as a core element of public administration in today's decentered world of governance. The juxtaposition of hierarchy and deliberation in policy networks is illustrated with the case of the legalization of brothels in the Netherlands. The case shows that despite distrust and conflict, the actors managed, through deliberative elements in negotiations, to attain the transformation of the prostitution se…
The limits of authoritarian rule: Policy making and deliberation in urban village regeneration in China
The subject of this paper is the role of democratic deliberation as a policy instrument for district and local administrations in the urban village regeneration process. This paper contributes to a better understanding of the relationship between democratic deliberation and public policy making, and the theory of deliberative systems. Deliberation in the context of urban village regeneration is part of a complex, scalar, political-administrative …
Revisiting deliberative policy analysis
It has been 15 years since Hajer and Wagenaar published Deliberative Policy Analysis (hereafter DPA). The book’s publication was one of the major developments in the post-positivist policy movement
The Necessity of Value Pluralism in Administrative Practice: A Reply to Overeem
Overeem and Verhoef’s critique of my understanding of value pluralism (VP) in public administration boils down to two points. First, VP is a meta-ethical position that has little or no truck with the practical field of public administration. And, second, as they argue, even if we granted that VP might be relevant to real-world events, it would be impossible to infer from it the kind of choices that I suggest, as is allegedly demonstrated by the “…
The push and pull of the world: How experience animates practice
A refreshed and expanded understanding of experience can contribute to a relevant reassessment of the nature of practice and its relationship with knowledge and context. We characterise experience as essentially transactional, as entailing constitutive interaction with the elements of the social, institutional and physical world. It is within this transactional experience – within the push and pull of the world – that practice addresses the const…
A Beckon to the Makings, Workings and Doings of Human Beings”: The Critical Pragmatism of John Forester
John Forester's important research project of developing a critical pragmatist approach to planning and policy analysis now spans two decades. Common themes that give direction and coherence to his project are, first, a new view of public planning as the restructuring of communication between stakeholders with divergent and conflicting interests and large inequalities in power and influence; second, a redefinition of the role of the planner away …
Conclusion: Building new momentum for deliberative policy analysis
As we showed in the Introduction to this special issue (Li and Wagenaar 2019), since the publication of the seminal work (Hajer and Wagenaar 2003), Deliberative Policy Analysis (DPA) has enjoyed co
Doubt and excitement: An Experiential Learning Approach to Teaching the Practice of Qualitative Research
This article diagnoses that qualitative research (QR) methods courses and literature often remain silent on how to actually do QR and explores how practice theory can improve learning and teaching the practice of QR. It develops an experiential learning approach of turning experiences and emotions of doubt and excitement into a dialogical process of asking creative questions, imagining new ideas, and animating a practical relationship to the worl…
Systematic improvisation. Some misunderstandings in Boswell and Corbett’s ‘Embracing impressionism’
Boswell and Corbett’s ‘Embracing Impressionism’ is at heart a spat about authoritativeness. Yanow, others and I have repeatedly argued that interpretive knowledge has its place in the sun next to q
Introduction: Towards deliberative policy analysis 2.0
The purpose of this second special issue is to build on and extend the development of Deliberative Policy Analysis (DPA) 2.0 that was set in motion by the first special issue on DPA in this journal. It is set up around a symposium focused on integrating DPA’s pillars of interpretation, practice, and deliberation. We identify three key threads for interweaving these three pillars and advancing DPA 2.0 and introduce the five other contributions to …
Deliberative policy analysis, interconnectedness and institutional design: Lessons from “Red Vienna”
Complexity poses challenges to policy makers who intervene in the world. Interconnectedness, a key aspect of complexity, requires that policy makers acknowledge the compounded nature of policy problems in their design of a robust, differentiated policy. Deliberative Policy Analysis recommends small group deliberation to address interconnectedness. However, higher-order phenomena that emerge through interactions in a complex system have properties…
The Münchhausen Movement: Improving the Coordination of Social Services Through the Creation of a Social Movement
In February 2006 a group of social service executives in the Dutch city of Rotterdam founded what they called the Münchhausen Movement. This movement is an initiative to improve collaboration between public institutions that service vulnerable members of society, such as the homeless, addicts, people with mental health impairments, and frequent recidivists. The members of the Münchhausen Movement explicitly refer to their collaboration as a “Move…
Symposium: Revisiting the three pillars of Deliberative Policy Analysis
This mini-symposium revisits the three pillars of Deliberative Policy Analysis (DPA): deliberation, interpretation and practice. DPA was originally intended as a moral-analytical programme that integrated these pillars, but policy analysts working in this tradition seem to have mainly been guided by one specific pillar, interpretation We believe this has not only confounded the nature and potential of DPA but has also limited the knowledge and im…
Introduction: Advancing the Commonsverse: The Political Economy of The Commons
This introductory article sets out the twin goals of this special issue: “Advancing the Commonsverse: The Political Economy of the Commons”. The first is to introduce the innovative work of David Bollier and Silke Helfrich in theorizing and researching the commons. The second is to explore the possibilities and constraints of the commons and the process of commoning as they unfold in real-world political-economic settings. Bollier and Helfrich ha…
Telling Tales: On Evaluation and Narrative
Using Health Status Measures with the Seriously Mentally Ill in Health Services Research
Changes in the delivery of mental health care have prompted interest in using generic health status measures to test the effect of system change on those receiving treatment. Of special concern are those with serious and persistent mental illness who may be neglected when cost containment efforts reduce the availability of treatment services. This population may be affected by these changes, which might go undetected if investigators use scales t…
Value Pluralism in Public Administration
Traditional approaches to administrative ethics lament the absence of a comprehensive framework to guide research and practice. This article argues that the search for such a framework is achimera. Irresolvable value conflict, a condition that in moral philosophy is called value pluralism, is intrinsic to contemporary political and administrative life in liberal societies. The article argues that value pluralism should be the starting point of ad…
Telling Tales: On Evaluation and Narrative
Understanding policy practices: Action, dialectic and deliberation in policy analysis
From its inception in August Comte's positive social philosophy, policy analysis has been a vanguard of the modernist project, the pervasive cultural programme characteristic of the western world, to take rational, scientific control over the social and physical environment and shape it according to a preconceived ideal. One of the cornerstones of the modernist programme in public policy and social reform, specifically, is the opposition between …
Knowing” the Rules: Administrative Work as Practice
This article presents a theory of administrative work as practice. Building on a rich narrative of a mid‐level administrator in the Dutch Immigration Office, four core elements of administrative practice are identified: contextuality, acting, knowing, and interacting. Taking cues from practice theory and ethnomethodology, the author argues that the visible aspects of administrative work (decisions, reports, negotiations, standard operating proced…
Democracy and Prostitution: Deliberating the Legalization of Brothels in the Netherlands
This article discusses democratic deliberation as a core element of public administration in today's decentered world of governance. The juxtaposition of hierarchy and deliberation in policy networks is illustrated with the case of the legalization of brothels in the Netherlands. The case shows that despite distrust and conflict, the actors managed, through deliberative elements in negotiations, to attain the transformation of the prostitution se…
Governance, Complexity, and Democratic Participation: How Citizens and Public Officials Harness the Complexities of Neighborhood Decline
This article applies complexity theory to urban governance. It is argued that expert-based, hierarchical-instrumental policy making encounters insurmountable obstacles in modern liberal democracies. One of the root causes of this erosion of output legitimacy is the complexity of social systems. Complexity is defined as the density and dynamism of the interactions between the elements of a system. Complexity makes system outcomes unpredictable and…
Deliberative Policy Analysis: Understanding Governance in the Network Society
The push and pull of the world: How experience animates practice
A refreshed and expanded understanding of experience can contribute to a relevant reassessment of the nature of practice and its relationship with knowledge and context. We characterise experience as essentially transactional, as entailing constitutive interaction with the elements of the social, institutional and physical world. It is within this transactional experience – within the push and pull of the world – that practice addresses the const…
Navigating the Eternally Unfolding Present: Toward an Epistemology of Practice
The topic of the article is practice theory. Using a detailed example from public administration, we first discus the shortcomings of the model of practice as applied knowledge that we have dubbed the Received View. The first half of the article is a chronology of successive adaptations of the Received View. These adaptations have gradually brought the Received View more in accordance with the practice-oriented critique in social theory and resea…
A Beckon to the Makings, Workings and Doings of Human Beings”: The Critical Pragmatism of John Forester
John Forester's important research project of developing a critical pragmatist approach to planning and policy analysis now spans two decades. Common themes that give direction and coherence to his project are, first, a new view of public planning as the restructuring of communication between stakeholders with divergent and conflicting interests and large inequalities in power and influence; second, a redefinition of the role of the planner away …
Dwellers on the threshold of practice: The interpretivism of Bevir and Rhodes
Mark Bevir and Rod Rhodes' interpretive political science hardly needs an introduction to policy scholars. Their approach, philosophically sophisticated and grounded in a realistic appraisal of the nature of governing in modern liberal democratic societies, is of considerable significance to anyone in political science, public administration or planning with an interest in interpretive methods. Focusing on the concepts of meaning holism, anti-rep…
Prostitution as Morality Politics or Why It Is Exceedingly Difficult To Design and Sustain Effective Prostitution Policy
The Münchhausen Movement: Improving the Coordination of Social Services Through the Creation of a Social Movement
In February 2006 a group of social service executives in the Dutch city of Rotterdam founded what they called the Münchhausen Movement. This movement is an initiative to improve collaboration between public institutions that service vulnerable members of society, such as the homeless, addicts, people with mental health impairments, and frequent recidivists. The members of the Münchhausen Movement explicitly refer to their collaboration as a “Move…
Practices of Freedom: Decentred Governance, Conflict and Democratic Participation
The shift from government to governance has become a starting point for many studies of contemporary policy-making and democracy. Practices of Freedom takes a different approach, calling into question this dominant narrative and taking the variety, hybridity and dispersion of social and political practices as its focus of analysis. Bringing together leading scholars in democratic theory and critical policy studies, it draws upon new understanding…
The Necessity of Value Pluralism in Administrative Practice: A Reply to Overeem
Overeem and Verhoef’s critique of my understanding of value pluralism (VP) in public administration boils down to two points. First, VP is a meta-ethical position that has little or no truck with the practical field of public administration. And, second, as they argue, even if we granted that VP might be relevant to real-world events, it would be impossible to infer from it the kind of choices that I suggest, as is allegedly demonstrated by the “…
Transforming perspectives: The critical functions of interpretive policy analysis
The political process of policymaking. A pragmatic approach to public policy, by Philippe Zittoun
With The Political Process of Policymaking, Philippe Zittoun espouses a tradition in policy theory that describes and explains policy-making not as a primarily technical endeavor but as a political...
Systematic improvisation. Some misunderstandings in Boswell and Corbett’s ‘Embracing impressionism’
Boswell and Corbett’s ‘Embracing Impressionism’ is at heart a spat about authoritativeness. Yanow, others and I have repeatedly argued that interpretive knowledge has its place in the sun next to q
Administrative Decision Making: A Practical Clarification
We make values explicit when routines break down. I do not deduct a particular pragmatic way of dealing with such conflicts from a position of value pluralism, something that seems to have attracted the ire of my learned colleagues in this debate. Instead, it is the other way around. I used value pluralism to explain not only how administrators dealt with difficult choices but also that, in the large majority of cases, they managed to arrive at d…
Enacting Resilience: A Performative Account of Governing for Urban Resilience
Resilience is an increasingly important urban policy discourse that has been taken up at a rapid pace. Yet there is an apparent gap between the advocacy of social-ecological resilience in scientific literature and its take-up in policy discourse on the one hand, and the demonstrated capacity to govern for resilience in practice on the other. This paper explores this gap by developing a performative account of how social-ecological resilience is d…
Designing Prostitution Policy: Intention and Reality in Regulating the Sex Trade
Prostitution is a complex, contested, sensitive and fast-moving field, and this is a large and comprehensive book.It could not have been written without the generous support of a number of people.We thank Joyce Outshoorn and the anonymous reviewer of Policy Press for their extensive and constructive comments on the manuscript.They urged us to restructure the design of the book and to rethink some of our arguments.Without them the message of the b…
Designing prostitution policy
Chapter Six argues for collaborative governance as an effective response to the domain-specific challenges of prostitution policy, as well as to the inadequacy of the traditional policy responses of adversarial interest group policy and managerialist policy implementation. Collaborative governance is a mode of governance in which public agencies engage with various stakeholders to jointly deliberate about public problems in a carefully designed a…
Designing Prostitution Policy: Intention and Reality in Regulating the Sex Trade
In policy terms, social order is seen as the outcome of the more or less orchestrated practices of a large number of actors who ... Second, because prostitution in contemporary society is so entangled with public policy, it is essential that we
Why Prostitution Policy (Usually) Fails and What to Do about It
This article describes and discusses the results of two comparative studies of prostitution policy in Europe that are complementary in their design and methodology. One is a comparison of 21 countries using a most different systems design; the other an in-depth comparison of Austria and The Netherlands, using a most similar systems design. The two studies found a remarkable continuity in the inherent approach to the regulation of prostitution and…
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