Political Hue and Able- Bodied Citizens

Abstract

With the implementation of the Wmo in 2007, Dutch municipalities received more responsibilities concerning care and social support. With a bigger policy freedom they are obliged to make more political choices than before. These choices concern able- bodies citizens as well, since they are the citizens expected to provide in care. In this thesis an quantitative analyses will be conducted to the differences between municipalities and to what extent these differences might be explained by political ideologies of the Executive board, the responsible body for the Wmo implementation. Political hue is defined by using a social- economic dimension, a cultural dimension and the combination of the two. There is a significant relationship between the cultural dimension and the support of volunteers. Furthermore there are relations found in the expected direction. A better applied dataset would offer a huge improvement to this research.