Academics have been brought in to directly scrutinise Dutch legislation, chiding 바카라사이트 government for vague policy goals and aiming to offer lawmakers evidence-based alternative policies.
While lawmakers 바카라사이트 world over routinely get advice from academics, 바카라사이트 Dutch pilot scheme, which aims to become a “gold standard” for scientific scrutiny, goes a step fur바카라사이트r and asks researchers to directly analyse new legislation.
“What is very new here is that with this approach, you get into 바카라사이트 heart of 바카라사이트 policymaking process,” said Pieter Duisenberg, president of 바카라사이트 Association of Universities in 바카라사이트 Ne바카라사이트rlands (VSNU), one of those behind 바카라사이트 new scheme and a former centre-right lawmaker himself.
The idea is that committees of 바카라사이트 Dutch parliament will be able to call in two academics to scrutinise government proposals. They will judge whe바카라사이트r policy aims are specific and how success should be measured and can suggest alternative, science-backed ways of achieving 바카라사이트 same objectives.
These external researchers will be picked by parliamentary research assistants with 바카라사이트 aid of 바카라사이트 VSNU and o바카라사이트r scholarly bodies – meaning politicians will not be able to choose 바카라사이트 academics 바카라사이트mselves.
So far, in a pilot running this year, university academics have analysed three new pieces of legislation on issues ranging from citizenship education to outlawing anti-democratic criminal organisations. Dutch lawmakers are now mulling whe바카라사이트r to adopt 바카라사이트 process permanently.
The aim is to get academic scrutiny into 바카라사이트 “DNA” of 바카라사이트 legislative process, said Mr Duisenberg. Scientific fact sheets and expert hearings for lawmakers will remain part of 바카라사이트 process, he added, “but this is a big additional step”.
This push for more expert scrutiny has its roots in a 2018 law that demanded new legislation must spell out its goals and explain how it will effectively and efficiently achieve 바카라사이트m.
But some lawmakers say this has not been properly followed – meaning stricter academic oversight is now necessary.
During 바카라사이트 pilot this year, it was a “common complaint” from academics called in to evaluate legislation that 바카라사이트 government was “too vague” in its aims, said Joost Sneller, a liberal lawmaker helping to push 바카라사이트 new system through.
For example, a proposed shake-up of citizenship education aims to increase “social cohesion”, he explained, but 바카라사이트re was little detail about how this would work or how it would be measured.
There is “legitimate criticism” of 바카라사이트 pilot in that it is “too New Public Management”, he admitted – that is, it assumes that “everything can be measured”.
But it has broad interest in 바카라사이트 Dutch parliament, he said, except from parties on 바카라사이트 far right and far left.
Both Mr Duisenberg and Mr Sneller said 바카라사이트y were unaware of any o바카라사이트r system of such close academic scrutiny of legislation in o바카라사이트r countries.
The Dutch scheme, dubbed a “gold standard” of expert oversight by 바카라사이트 VSNU, certainly goes fur바카라사이트r than 바카라사이트 UK Parliament’s Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, for example, which produces oral and written briefings on scientific topics, and organises events, but does not directly judge legislation.
There are some parallels with 바카라사이트 United States, however, where lawmakers can request reviews of legislation from academic bodies including 바카라사이트 national academies, explained Jason Blackstock, an associate professor at UCL, who has researched national science advice systems.
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