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De beleidsvoering vanuit een ‘evidence-based' perspectief is de jongste decennia aan een opmars bezig. De vraag waar de beleidsvoerders de mosterd halen, treedt daarbij steeds prominenter op de voorgrond. In deze masterproef bekijken we twee administratieve hervormingen, namelijk Copernicus en Beter Bestuurlijk Beleid respectievelijk op federaal en Vlaams niveau. We trachten na te gaan waar de beleidsvoerders de nodig informatie halen tijdens de beleidsvoorbereidende fase om aan beleidsvoering te doen. Gezien het beperkte karakter van deze masterproef beperken we ons zowel in tijd als naar inhoud. Wat het tijdselement betreft beperken we ons tot de beleidsvoorbereidende fase, naar inhoud toe bestuderen we enkel het aspect van de structuurhervorming. In eerste instantie gaan we na of Copernicus en BBB ‘evidence-based' administratieve hervormingen zijn. Onderzoek naar het gebruik van wetenschappelijke studies, overleg met deskundigen en gebruik van beleidsevaluatie maakt het mogelijk te bepalen of beide hervomringen al dan niet evidence-based waren. Zowel tijdens de beleidsvoorbereidende fase voor de structuurhervormingen van Copernicus en BBB blijken diverse bronnen van ‘evidence' aangewend. Beide hervormingen vonden plaats in een context van specifieke gebeurtenissen, in de tijdsgeest van nieuwe managementideeën en met nieuwe partijen in de regering. Deze componenten van externe (maatschappelijke) druk bleken slechts gedeeltelijk een verklaring te zijn voor ‘evidence-based' administratieve hervormingen. Deze resultaten vloeien voort uit kwalitatieve onderzoeksmethoden, waarbij we ons enerzijds op documentanalyse baseerden en anderzijds op semi-gestructureerde diepte-interviews met kabinetsmedewerkers, ambtenaren, deskundigen en initiators van de hervormingen. Verder onderzoek moet het mogelijk maken ‘evidence-based' policy-making (EBPM) beter te begrijpen en verklarende factoren voor het leergedrag van beleidsvoerders te ontleden.
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After completing the transition from military to civilian rule, Nigeria began a comprehensive anti-corruption campaign in 1999. Some of the reforms included the establishment of new anti-corruption agencies, a comprehensive reform of the public sector, and a global search for (looted) funds stashed away in other countries. Despite being unprecedented in many ways, the implementation of these programmes soon faced numerous challenges. Among the most obvious was the lack of capacity among some of the major institutions charged with the implementation of the reforms due to inadequate financial support, limited human resources, legal lacunas, an ineffective criminal justice system and constitutional immunity granted to key officials. To this can be added a weak civil society and the non-engagement of sub-national authorities (states and local governments), that together suggest the glaring absence of an internal political coalition against corruption.
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After the Battle of Trafalgar, the navy continued to be the major arm of British strategy. Decades of practice and refinement had rendered it adept at executing operations - fighting battles, blockading and convoying - across the globe. And yet, as late as 1807, fleets were forced from their stations due to an ineffective provisioning system. 'The Transformation of British Naval Strategy' shows how sweeping administrative reforms enacted between 1808 and 1812 established a highly-effective logistical system, changing an ineffective supply system into one which successfully enabled a fleet to remain on station for as long as was required. James Davey examines the logistical support provided for fleets sent to Northern Europe during the Napoleonic War and shows how this new supply system successfully transformed naval operations, enabling the navy to pursue crucial objectives of national importance, protect essential exports and imports and attack the economies of the Napoleonic Empire. 'The Transformation of British Naval Strategy' is a detailed study of national policy, administrative and political reform and strategic viability. It delves into the nature of the British state, its relationship with the private sector and its ability to reform itself in a time of war. Bureaucratic restructuring represented the last stage in a century-long process of logistical improvement. As a result of the reforms, the navy was able to conduct operations beyond the realms of possibility even twenty years earlier and saw the reach of its power transformed. Military and Napoleonic historians will find this book invaluable. JAMES DAVEY is Research Curator at the National Maritime Museum and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Greenwich, where he teaches British naval history.
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