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About citizen participation, Welfare policy and the “wmo”. Historiography of the Dutch welfare work called “maatschappelijk activeringswerk”
Starting at January, 2007 the Netherlands have new legislation that has high expectations of social support by the civil society. Central question in this article is where the appeal on the Dutch civil society comes from and how it is related to national social policy. This question is answered by a historiography of the relatively unknown, specific kind of Dutch welfare work,
2009 – Volume 18, Issue 2, pp. 61–83URN:NBN:NL:UI:10-1-100066 ISSN: 1876-8830
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Publisher: Igitur, Utrecht Publishing & Archiving Services in cooperation with Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Society and Law Copyright: this work has been published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Netherlands License
Onderzoekcentrum Drechtsteden in the Netherlands. She participates in research, advice and education in the domains of welfare work, civil society, participation, professionalisation, diversity and methodology. Correspondence to:
Onderzoekcentrum Drechtsteden, Postbus 619, 3300 AP Dordrecht,
E-mail: JW.Metz@drechtsteden.nl
Received: 4 December 2008 Accepted: 8 May 2009 Review category: Theory
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