Master thesis | Crisis and Security Management (MSc)
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This study focuses on the changing legislation towards protecting national security and the consequences of those changes regarding the legal protection of civil rights. Through an analysis of a...Show moreThis study focuses on the changing legislation towards protecting national security and the consequences of those changes regarding the legal protection of civil rights. Through an analysis of a longitudinal case study (1987-2021), the question has been answered what the possible consequences will be for the legal protection of civil rights after the last revision of the Dutch Intelligence and Security Service Act 2017 (Wiv 2017) which took place in 2021. This revision contains extensions regarding intelligence sharing operations of the Dutch intelligence and security services. This means that fundamental civil rights stated in the European Convention of Human Rights could be more easily affected than before. This will be the case when foreign intelligence and security services share the received intelligence with third parties without consent from the Dutch intelligence and security agencies. Additionally, shared intelligence might thus be more easily used by the receiving agency for harmful purposes that do not correspond with the interest of the Dutch intelligence and security services and the Dutch state. Moreover, the receiver agency might interpret the intelligence regarding a citizen that this person is perceived as serious terrorist threat by the sending agency and therefore affect the life of the person in question. Thus, incorporating the ex-ante review of the Review Committee on the Deployment of Powers (TIB) besides the authorization of the appointed minister and ex-post review of the Intelligence and Security Services Oversight Committee (CTIVD) might improve the actual legal protection of the fundamental civil rights in the Dutch society.Show less
Research master thesis | Political Science and Public Administration (research) (MSc)
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In the literature it is argued that the relationship between parliament and government has changed due to increased polarization and party competition. In the Netherlands this change occurred from...Show moreIn the literature it is argued that the relationship between parliament and government has changed due to increased polarization and party competition. In the Netherlands this change occurred from the mid-1960s onwards (Bovend’Eert and Kummeling, 2010; Andeweg, 1995). Party lines have become the main lines of political conflict, thus making the main form of executive-legislative interaction along party lines. According to scholars, commentators and the parliament itself, this has led to changed patterns of legislative oversight. This paper has two explicit goals: it offers a behavioral operationalization of King’s (1976) executive-legislative (party) modes and tests the hypothesis that executive-legislative relations have changed in the Netherlands. Contrary to the expectations, based on quantitative analysis of written questions in the period 1960-2011, no support is found for the hypothesis that the interparty modes have increased in this period in the Netherlands.Show less
