Inside Europe: The Polder Model and Dutch decision-making
Politics
Stefan Bos
October 20, 2017
In the Netherlands, a four-party, center-right, coalition has been formed after a record-setting 209 days. Such long negotiations are not totally unusual for the Dutch. That’s because the country follows a so called Polder model, to build consensus in government. But as Stefan Bos has been finding out in The Hague, not everyone is entirely happy with it.