Safety First : How Local Processes of Securitization Have Affected the Position and Role of Dutch Mayors.

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Cover; TABLE OF CONTENTS; Chapter 1 Introduction; 1.1 Providing Local Order and Safety: A Mayor's Responsibility; 1.2 A Changing Perspective on Public Safety; 1.3 Securitization and the Power of Problem Definition; 1.4 Research Questions and Scope; 1.5 Relevance for Theory; 1.6 Relevance for Practice; 1.7 Structure of the Book; Chapter 2 Local Safety Governance and the Dutch Mayor between 1990 and 2010This chapter is strongly based on several publicati ... ; 2.1 Local Safety Governance in the Netherlands; 2.2 A Short History of Local Safety Governance in the Netherlands.

2.2.1 Societal Changes Fueling the Need for Policy and Collaboration2.2.2 The Entrance of Multiple New Providers of Local Safety; 2.2.3 The Need for Policy Planning; 2.2.4 Towards Local Safety Policies: A Series of Policy Plans; 2.2.4.1 1984: The Roethof Committee; 2.2.4.2 1985: Society and Crime; 2.2.4.3 1993: Integral Safety Report; 2.2.4.4 1994: Step-by-Step Plan for Integral Safety; 2.2.4.5 1994: Integral Safety Report; 2.2.4.6 1995: Pubic Safety Policy 1995-1998; 2.2.4.7 1999: Integral Safety Program; 2.2.4.8 2002: Towards a Safer Society; 2.2.4.9 2007: Safety Starts with Prevention.

2.2.5 The Integral Policy Ambition2.2.6 Local Government's Coordination of Local Safety Governance; 2.3 Dutch Mayors and Local Safety; 2.3.1 The Mayor's Role in Local Governance; 2.3.2 The Mayor's Contemporary Playing Field; 2.3.2.1 Trends in Local Society; 2.3.2.2 Trends in Local Government; 2.3.2.3 Trends Regarding the Mayor's Function; 2.3.3 The Mayor's Formal Powers and Responsibilities for Local Order and Safety; 2.3.4 The Public Debate: From Shepherd to Local Sheriff?; 2.4 Summary; Chapter 3 The Power of Problem Definition; 3.1 Problem Definition; 3.1.1 From Conditions to Problems.

3.1.2 How Problem Definitions Structure Public Policy3.2 Framing Theory; 3.2.1 What is a Frame?; 3.2.2 Two Core Functions of Frames; 3.2.3 Framing Public Problems: Discourses and Alignment; 3.2.3.1 Discourse Coalitions; 3.2.3.2 Frame Alignment; 3.3 Securitization: Framing in Terms of Safety Problems; 3.4 Summary; Chapter 4 The Position and Role of State Actors in Policy Networks; 4.1 A Short History of the Concept of Governance; 4.1.1 The Shift from Government to Governance; 4.1.2 State Actors in Networked Governance; 4.1.3 A Call for Local Leadership.

4.2 Tackling Public Problems in Policy Networks4.2.1 Networks as a Response to Complexity; 4.2.2 Policy Networks: A Framework for Action; 4.2.3 Context Matters: Supra-Local Institutional Arrangements; 4.3 Conceptualizing Roles and Positions in Networked Governance; 4.3.1 Social Structure, Position and Role; 4.4 Summary; Chapter 5 Conceptual Model; 5.1 Towards a Conceptual Model; 5.1.1 Phase A: Framing Safety Problems in Local Policy Networks; 5.1.2 Phase B: The Institutionalization of Shared Problem Frames into Public Policy.

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