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100	1		_aGROOT, Merel de _942261
245	1	0	_aStrengthening the councillor as a representative and scrutiniser : _bthe effects of institutional change on councillors' role orientations in the Netherlands
260			_aOxfordshire : _bRoutledge, _cApril 2010
520	3		_aIn 2002 the Dutch Ministry of the Interior enacted a new Local Government Act. The introduction of the new legislation was supported by a large-scale Innovation Program. The main objective of this institutional reform in local government was to improve the responsiveness and democratic accountability of municipalities by changing the role orientations and role behaviour of local councillors. The first question we address in this paper is whether these institutional reforms have indeed changed the relevant role orientations of the councillors. Despite widespread scepticism about the impact of institutional change, on the basis of surveys conducted before and after the reforms we found that the Dutch reforms may have been successful in changing some relevant role orientations of councillors. The second question in this paper is whether such possible changes in role orientations can be explained as the result of processes of (1) socialisation of councillors and (2) their selection
700	1		_942262 _aDenters, Bas
700	1		_aKLOK, Pieter-Jan _932069
773	0	8	_tLocal Government Studies _g36, 3, p. 401-424 _dOxfordshire : Routledge, April 2010 _xISSN 03003930 _w
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998			_a20100921 _b1034^b _cDaiane
998			_a20100921 _b1447^b _cCarolina
999			_aConvertido do Formato PHL _bPHL2MARC21 1.1 _c36317 _d36317
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