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Hoe belangrijk achten burgemeesters het initiëren van leerprocessen na afloop van een crisis? En waar hangen deze keuzes mee samen? In maart 2019 publiceerde het internationale wetenschappelijke tijdschrift Safety Science een artikel van Wout Broekema, Jan Porth, Trui Steen en René Torenvlied over de leeractiviteiten van burgemeesters na afloop van een crisis. Hieronder bespreken wij enkele bevindingen van het onderzoek. De resultaten zijn gebaseerd op een statistische analyse van de gegevens uit een enquête die is afgenomen onder alle Nederlandse burgemeesters in het najaar van 2015.

Freedom of information (FOI) laws aim to improve the public’s opportunities to access official information from public authorities and hence to increase the level of transparency. Thus, it is important to know whether and to what degree the effects intended by establishing FOI laws are achieved and how their implementation could be improved. In order to answer these questions, FOI laws have to be evaluated.

Governments and energy operators are frequently confronted with opposition to the construction of new highvoltage transmission lines. In this context, a recent experiment by Mueller et al. (2017) tested the so-called proximity hypothesis and found that spatial proximity to proposed transmission line corridor route alternatives significantly affected residents' likelihood of having negative risk expectations, showing low levels of support, and engaging in protest against the planned facility.

Policymakers and transmission system operators frequently face problems when planning and constructing new high-voltage transmission lines because of opposition among local residents. Protest varies due to attributes of the transmission lines (e.g., length and size), site-specific characteristics, and the extent of consternation among local residents. The most controversially discussed grid expansion project in Germany is the SuedLink, which has been causing severe protest among groups of local residents.

Against a background of extensive literature examining how digital platforms are regulated through ‘soft’ mechanisms, this paper analyses the ‘hard law’ techniques, such as sanctions, which are also very much used on digital platforms to police undesirable behaviours.

Die Personalwirtschaft des öffentlichen Dienstes steht in Zeiten eines „geräumten“ Arbeitsmarkts, hoher Ersatzbedarfe infolge von Renten- bzw. Pensionseintritten sowie des Nachrückens vergleichsweise geburtenschwacher Jahrgänge in den Arbeitsmarkt vor großen Herausforderungen.