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MODES OF GOVERNANCE IN THE DUTCH SOCIAL HOUSING SECTOR
Author(s) -
RUYS Pieter H.M.,
BRUIL Jan,
DIX Henry
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
annals of public and cooperative economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.526
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1467-8292
pISSN - 1370-4788
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8292.2007.00339.x
Subject(s) - corporate governance , social welfare , business , coercion (linguistics) , welfare , european union , domain (mathematical analysis) , embedding , economic system , economics , industrial organization , market economy , political science , computer science , finance , economic policy , mathematics , artificial intelligence , law , mathematical analysis , linguistics , philosophy
** : We describe and analyze five consecutive modes of governance in the Dutch social housing sector. We compare these institutional forms with the five policy values that the sector was assumed to realize. For that purpose we propose and use a new, analytical framework based on a separation principle that is applied to the coercion domain (the governance of transactions) as well as to the interaction domain (the welfare values). The consecutive modes of governance were introduced to cope with the changing welfare policies, but with varying results. In this paper we show that the implemented modes of governance in the Dutch social housing sector did not always realize the values that the sector was supposed to deliver. The framework we propose also facilitates the discussion about the concept of a social enterprise and the embedding of a service of general interest in the European Union.