This article examines the institutionalization of policy evaluation in Belgium. In comparison to other western democracies, policy evaluation is an underdeveloped tool of Belgian public governance. Among the explanatory factors of the laggard situation of Belgium, we focus on the all-pervasive phenomenon of partitocracy, on the relative weakness of Parliament vis-à-vis the government, and on the federalization process that is characteristic of the recent institutional evolution of the country. These three peculiarities of the Belgian polity and politics jeopardize the development of a mature evaluation culture. Finally, the empirical evidence for the Belgian case also calls into question several of the theoretical hypotheses that have been ...
Regionalization has been a defining feature of European politics since the 1970s. Previous work has ...
The key focus of MIRA-PE 2007 is the way environmental policy evaluation has evolved over the past f...
Although systematic policy evaluation has been conducted for decades and has been growing strongly w...
This article examines the institutionalization of policy evaluation in Belgium. In comparison to oth...
This article examines the institutionalization of policy evaluation in Belgium. In comparison to oth...
This volume seeks to provide an integrated understanding of the Belgian political system through the...
For too long Belgium remained an unexplored terrain by comparative political scientists. Belgium's p...
In this article three cases of territorial reform affecting the local tier of government in Belgium ...
Evaluation practice and culture have spread rather slowly and unevenly among European countries. Bel...
Despite a general and increased consensus about the intrinsic value of policy evaluation for profess...
In this article three cases of territorial reform affecting the local tier of government in Belgium ...
This paper confronts two models of policy: the party model states that policy-making is an orderly p...
Loved by some for its “unique federalism” (Fitzmaurice 1996), disliked by others because of its “Byz...
Swenden, W., Brans, M., De Winter, L. “The Politics of Belgium: Institutions and Policy under Bipola...
Although systematic policy evaluation has been conducted for decades and has been growing strongly w...
Regionalization has been a defining feature of European politics since the 1970s. Previous work has ...
The key focus of MIRA-PE 2007 is the way environmental policy evaluation has evolved over the past f...
Although systematic policy evaluation has been conducted for decades and has been growing strongly w...
This article examines the institutionalization of policy evaluation in Belgium. In comparison to oth...
This article examines the institutionalization of policy evaluation in Belgium. In comparison to oth...
This volume seeks to provide an integrated understanding of the Belgian political system through the...
For too long Belgium remained an unexplored terrain by comparative political scientists. Belgium's p...
In this article three cases of territorial reform affecting the local tier of government in Belgium ...
Evaluation practice and culture have spread rather slowly and unevenly among European countries. Bel...
Despite a general and increased consensus about the intrinsic value of policy evaluation for profess...
In this article three cases of territorial reform affecting the local tier of government in Belgium ...
This paper confronts two models of policy: the party model states that policy-making is an orderly p...
Loved by some for its “unique federalism” (Fitzmaurice 1996), disliked by others because of its “Byz...
Swenden, W., Brans, M., De Winter, L. “The Politics of Belgium: Institutions and Policy under Bipola...
Although systematic policy evaluation has been conducted for decades and has been growing strongly w...
Regionalization has been a defining feature of European politics since the 1970s. Previous work has ...
The key focus of MIRA-PE 2007 is the way environmental policy evaluation has evolved over the past f...
Although systematic policy evaluation has been conducted for decades and has been growing strongly w...