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3. Speyerer Weintagung
(2011)
4. Speyerer Weintagung
(2012)
Europeanisation situates local governments in a constantly changing environment, bringing challenges, opportunities, and constraints. These circumstances raise the question, how
local authorities adapt to the process of European integration, face its challenges, and use
its diverse opportunity structures. The article explores four dimensions, through which Europeanisation hits the ground of local government: downloading, uploading, dissemi-nation, and horizontal networking. It examines the distribution of different types of Europe-related activities at the local level using data from a survey sent to all 396 independent cities, towns, and municipalities in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Our empirical analysis provides an overview of the most and least frequent Europe-related activities within the different types of local authorities. The findings of our multivariate analysis shows that next to the direct affectedness by Europeanisation, the municipalities’ capacities in terms of financial and institutional resources have a major influence on their efforts towards Europe.
This study explores public leaders’ organizational learning orientation in the wake of a crisis. More precisely, we study the association between public leaders’ public service motivation and their learning orientation (instrumental versus political). This research addresses the lack of systematic empirical data on crisis-induced learning and provides a first systematic operationalization of this important concept. We analyze survey data collected from 209 Dutch mayors on their learning priorities in responding to a hypothetical crisis situation in their municipality. The mayors’ response patterns reveal (1) “cognitive”, (2) “behavioral”, (3) “accountability”, and (4) “external communication” dimensions of crisis-induced learning. We find that mayors with a stronger public service motivation put more effort into instrumental learning (dimensions 1 and 2), and surprisingly, also into political learning (dimensions 3 and 4). Mayoral experience in previous crises is positively associated with accountability-related learning after a crisis. However, mayoral tenure is negatively associated with crisis-induced behavioral learning.
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.