Local Councillors and Citizens. An exploratory study of the interaction between councillors and citizens in 4 municipalities in the Meuse-Rhine Euregion

Peters, Klaartje; Bellino, Yannic; Berghen, Sander Van; Franzkowiak, Sebastian; Krumm, Elisabeth; Langlet, Arne; Marenbach, Richard; Wejmelka, Helena

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“…When drawing a comparison with last year's MaRBLe report, which focused on the role and behaviour of local politicians, it became apparent that most councillors find that citizens tend to contact them only for minor individual issues (Peters et al, 2015), whereas this study showed that that is not always the case. Many respondents stated that municipal politics should be aimed towards achieving a common goal for the municipality or at least a group of its inhabitants, rather than serve personal interests.…”

Section: Figure 63: Reasons Why Citizens Were Contacted By Local Polmentioning

confidence: 73%

“…At this point, a comparison can be drawn between the results obtained in this survey and the findings of last year's MaRBLe report (Peters et al, 2015), which examined the methods of communication used by local politicians in Visé to interact with their citizens. In doing so, the authors decided to make a distinction between the means used to receive the citizens' input and those used to explain the council's output.…”

Section: Figure 610 Citizens' Preferred Means Of Communication For Bmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In last year's MaRBLe report, a study by Maastricht University (Peters et al 2015), it proved not to be easy for councillors to grasp this concept of interaction with the purpose of explaining output. If this is also true for citizens, this would challenge Easton's model of the cycle of input and output related issues.…”

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“…Two 14 As opposed to what some local politicians in Übach-Palenberg may believe being an attractive communication channel for citizens, such as Facebook pages and groups, citizens do not find appealing at all. See last year's MaRBLE report (Peters et al, 2015), for comparison.…”

Section: Preferred Means Of Communication Of Citizens For Contacting mentioning

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“…We created a simple framework, based on Easton's model of the political system. We have also added some more elements based on last year's MaRBLe project (Peters et al, 2015).…”

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Section: Figure 63: Reasons Why Citizens Were Contacted By Local Polmentioning

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Introduction………………………………………………………………………………. p.55 6.2 Description of the sample………………………………………………………….p.56 6.3 Actual interaction between citizens and local politicians………… p.57 6.4 Expectations concerning the interaction between citizens and local politicians ………………………………………………………………………….p.61 6.5 Expectations and actual interaction…………………………………………. p.71 6.6 Conclusions………………………………………………………………………………..p.71 Chapter 7 _ Übach-Palenberg: empirical findings 7.1 Introduction………………………………………………………………………………. p.73 7.2 Description of the sample………………………………………………………….p.74 7.3 Actual interaction between citizens and local politicians………… p.75 7.4 Expectations concerning the interaction between citizens and local politicians…………………………………………………………………………. p.80 7.5 The literature on local politics……………………………………………………p.90 7.6 Conclusion and recommendations…………………………………………….p.91 Chapter 8 _ Valkenburg: empirical findings 8.1 Introduction………………………………………………………………………………. p.95 8.2 The Case Study of Valkenburg aan de Geul-a Dutch Municipality………………………………………………………………………………..p.95 8.3 Description of the Sample………………………………………………………… p.97 8.4 Actual Interaction between Citizens and Local Politicians………. p.98 8.5 Expectations concerning interaction between citizens and local politicians………………………………………………………………………… p.101 8.6 Expectations and Actual Interaction………………………………………. p.109 8.7 Conclusion………………………………………………………………………………. p.111 Chapter 9 Conclusions…………………………………………………………………………. p.113 References………………………………………………………………………………………………p.119 Annex 1.…….……………………………………………………………………………………………p.125 This booklet is devoted to the relationship between citizens and local councillors in four municipalities in the Meuse-Rhine Euregion. Eight Bachelor students of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of Maastricht University conducted the research, in collaboration with Professor of Local and Regional Governance Klaartje Peters. We are grateful for the help of all participating citizens in the four municipalities and we are thankful for the hospitality of the municipalities. We also would like to thank the mayors and all other local politicians, and City Inspector Thomas de Jong who invited us to present the results of our research on June 27, 2016, in Übach-Palenberg. Finally, we want to thank the institutions that made this project possible, not the least the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of Maastricht University, Sabine Kuipers for her help with the editing and Dr. Pieter Caljé, who deserves our gratitude for organizing and coordinating MaRBLe projects at our faculty, and offering Bachelor students a chance to learn how to do research.

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Local Councillors and Citizens. An exploratory study of the interaction between councillors and citizens in 4 municipalities in the Meuse-Rhine Euregion

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