@inbook{6c1923ba0cd74ab8a05afda6f49a2067,
title = "Advisory boards and planning bureaus",
abstract = "The Netherlands has developed a relatively extensive and strong system of advisory bodies. A very specific phenomenon in the Dutch setting involves the so-called {\textquoteleft}planning bureaus{\textquoteright}, a specific form of advisory body that not so much actually plans policies but provides policy-relevant knowledge on developments in society, nature or the economy. This chapter takes a closer look at the origin, practice and impact of this advisory bodies and planning bureaus in the Netherlands. It reconstructs the origin and development of this system, in order to understand why advisory boards and planning offices evolved as such a powerful factor in the Netherlands and to be able to position the Dutch case in a comparative perspective. The chapter focuses on four key advisory boards: the Central Planning bureau (CPB), the Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR), the Social and Cultural Planning bureau (SCP) and the Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL).",
author = "Peter Scholten and {van Nispen tot Pannerden}, Frans",
year = "2014",
doi = "10.2307/j.ctt1t89169.16",
language = "English",
series = "International Library of Policy Analysis",
publisher = "The Policy Press",
pages = "139--154",
editor = "{van Nispen}, F.K.M. and P.W.A. Scholten and I. Geva-May and M. Howlett",
booktitle = "Policy Analysis in the Netherlands",
address = "United Kingdom",
}