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A Difficult Mission: Dutch Austerity measures on the municipal level

Austerity measures taken by local governments can scarcely be called a recent phenomenon. Every year the expenses go up, while revenue, especially revenue coming from the State level, goes down. This is true during the financial crisis we are in, but has been a trend before as well.

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Additional Anaylsis on the THGQ austerity Survey - Short paper series

Introduction
1: Recent Austerity Measures
2: Expected Austerity Measures
3: Preferred Austerity
4: Methods of Savings
5: Municipality Size & Austerity Measures
6: Political Party Majority & Austerity Measures

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The new safety regions and the impact on public management

Historically, Dutch local government was responsible for the preparation of crises and disasters. In 2010, due to austerity measures, this responsibility was transferred to hybrid regional governments called safety regions. This article examines the impact of this on the safety concerns of Dutch citizens.
Author: Erik van Wijngaarden

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What Factors influence the Use of open source in Municipalities?

Open source software (OSS) provides many benefits that closed source (proprietary) software does not. Users have the freedom to study, change and redistribute OSS. It cannot be the exclusive property of a single software vendor and it is often available without license costs; the market for OSS has therefore been growing. Author: Alexander van Loon

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Additional Articles

THGQ also commits to providing relevant articles from beyond this journal's explicit scope. For this first volume, we present two studies on austerity procedures by the Dutch Central Planning Bureau and Binnenlands Bestuur (in Dutch).
1: Decentralisaties In Het Sociaal Domein
2: Coevorden Liet Burgers Digitaal Schuiven Met Miljoenen

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