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  1. academic.oup.com

    This article discusses the Dutch government system, its efforts of reforming subnational democracy and reinventing interactive policy-making, and local politics. Of its efforts to reform the democracy at the local and regional level, the most significant move of the Dutch government is the reinvention of interactive policy-making or network ...
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  3. arl-international.com

    The Netherlands is a parliamentary representative democracy, a constitutional monarchy, and a consociational state (the term consociational refers to power sharing arrangements between different social and/or political groups). The Netherlands was one of the founding members of the European Coal and Steel Community, which started the process of ...
  4. everyculture.com

    The Netherlands is famous for tolerance toward ethnic minorities. Since World War II, Dutch society has developed into a multiethnic society. The persistent flood of allochthonous People, coupled with a growing unemployment rate, however, causes more and more tension and conflict. Political Organization.
  5. migrant-integration.ec.europa.eu

    An important focus will be to explain how the image of the Netherlands as a 'guiding country of tolerance' has changed so dramatically over the past decade or so. We analyse distinctive elements of Dutch political culture and institutional arrangements through which the Netherlands seeks to govern pluralism.
  6. britannica.com

    4 days agoNetherlands - Politics, Constitution, Government: The Second Chamber, the provincial councils, and the municipal councils are elected according to a system of proportional representation. In general elections for the Second Chamber, it can take as little as 0.66 percent of the overall vote to get one of the seats in the chamber. As a result, a large number of parties and political movements ...
  7. academic.oup.com

    The governing culture of the republic was one of improvisation, horizontal consultation between partners who were very dependent upon each other. Both 'priest' (referring to the dominant Calvinist ethos) and 'merchant' (referring to the Dutch spirit of commercialism) were influential in this political culture.
  8. eurydice.eacea.ec.europa.eu

    Mar 31, 2024The Netherlands has almost 18 million inhabitants (2024), who live on an area of 41,543 square kilometers. With A population density of 416 inhabitants per square kilometers. This makes the Netherlands the fifteenth most populous country in the world; The language spoken in the Netherlands is generally Dutch, a Germanic language.
  9. regions.regionalstudies.org

    The biggest controversy in Dutch regional politics is about the contrast between, on the one hand, a densely populated, urbanized and economically prosperous Randstad region and, on the other hand, some peripheral regions in the south, east and north of the country. After a period in which regional policy was mainly focused on stimulating urban agglomeration economics and thus 'making ...
  10. The current administrative structure of the Netherlands consists of three levels: central government, provinces and municipalities. The administrative set-up of the Dutch nation state has been rather stable since 1830 and changes to the territorial structure of the provinces have been marginal (as opposed to the municipal level where restructuring and merging has been a constant).
  11. link.springer.com

    The Dutch have a 'delta culture' as determined by its position at the mouths of two major European rivers. This delta culture has given a specific flavour to both economy and society. Sociologist Anton Zijderveld ( 1999 ) compared 'island cultures' (such as the British and Japanese) with 'delta cultures' as the Dutch.
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