Policy effectiveness of Dutch National Prevention Agreement

The study consists of two sub-studies. The first sub-study examines the effectiveness of the measures against obesity in the National Prevention Agreement according the criteria of the Ideal Type Model for Public Policymaking (Houppermans, 2011), in terms of efficiency, effectiveness, feasibility and acceptability. The second sub-study concerns a historical descriptive review of influential developments in the run-up to the development of National Prevention Agreement in terms of how the issue of obesity was dealt with politically and administratively in the Netherlands. The first sub- study is conducted as a master’s thesis under the supervision of prof. dr. L. Lechner and prof. dr. C. Bolman. The second sub- study is conducted as research internship under the supervision of prof. dr. L. Lechner.