Lifting the ban on Dutch brothels: do local social needs and local political demands matter for municipal prostitution policies?
研究了2000年荷兰卖淫政策权力下放后，各市在多大程度上根据地方需求和诉求调整了法规，发现多数市照搬全国模板，地方需求影响不大，但政治碎片化和资源规模解释了差异。
This article examines to what extent Dutch municipalities have adapted new local prostitution regulations to local needs and demands following decentralisation in 2000. We examined the extent to which a national template is locally adapted, and which factors inspired such adaptations. We found that many municipalities extensively copied the regulatory template developed by the Dutch Association of Municipalities. Our analyses show that – unexpectedly and contrary to popular arguments on the merits of decentralisation – local needs and demands played no major role in explaining local policy-adaptations. Political fragmentation and size-related municipal resources however do explain differences in local adaptations.