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This chapter describes Dutch agencies, their autonomy and control, as well as current debates. Most of the data come from a survey we undertook in 2006 (Van Thiel and Yesilkagit 2006) and analysis of government documents and websites.1 Agencification has a longstanding history in the Netherlands, fitting with the corporatist tradition of arm’s-length government and involvement of the civil society in policymaking and implementation. Recently, however, there has been a negative political rhetoric, against agencies. So far, that has not resulted in a substantial decrease in their number but there has been some reshuffling, in particular mergers of agencies.
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Yesilkagit, K., Van Thiel, S. (2012). The Netherlands. In: Verhoest, K., Van Thiel, S., Bouckaert, G., Lægreid, P. (eds) Government Agencies. Public Sector Organizations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230359512_17
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