Using methods that are developed in Discourse Historical Analysis this case-study on Dutch life course policy, suggests that analysis of (the interrelationship between) rhetoric and affect can contribute to a post structuralist explanation of policy change. It is argued that the catachretic act...

Since the rise of the activation paradigm in the 1990s, the duty to work without a wage has become widespread in European social assistance legislation. This paper investigates in a precise way the extent to which the duty to work without a wage follows the legal logic of a contractual...

The goal of this paper is to assess how recent reforms in social security and labour law have affected individual right claims in the Netherlands. We describe reforms of several welfare state programs such as unemployment, disability and social assistance benefit schemes. The Dutch welfare state...