De Midasmoorden (Van In, Book 2) by Pieter Aspe

By Pieter Aspe

Paniek en chaos in het toeristische Brugge wanneer de stad door een reeks schijnbaar losstaande misdaden wordt opgeschrikt. Tussen de persoonlijke bezittingen van een vermoord Duits zakenman wordt een vreemde foto gevonden van de madonna van Michelangelo. Een kneedbom vernielt even later het standbeeld van de dichter Guido Gezelle.

Een aartsmoeilijke opdracht voor adjunct-commissaris Pieter Van In, die in het kluwen van misdaden naar de motieven en de daders zoekt. Wat heeft de madonna van Michelangelo te maken met de nakende fusie van twee touroperators? Wat is de hyperlink tussen een onopgeloste bomaanslag in 1967 en de Nibelungenschat? De waarheid achter de feiten blijkt gruwelijker dan verwacht...

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Accountable autonomy offers deliberative problem-solving to citizens and public servants as a method for reconstructing their trust in one another and modifying their respective behavior in ways that warrant trust (Sabel 1993). In contrast to the bureaucratic separation of state from society, it throws citizens and their agents together at the grassroots level. Joint problem-solving is an occasion for participants to probe each others’ agendas, motives, and commitments and to identify and expand real regions of overlap.

Teachers enjoyed tenure privileges, but three thousand jobs in clerical, maintenance, and janitorial duties were available for patronage functions. When the depression years brought a fiscal crisis for the Chicago school system, Thompson’s board responded by cutting instructional services while leaving most of the nonteaching patronage jobs intact (Herrick 1971, 187–90; 209–25). From 1933 until 1947, Chicago politics was dominated by the KellyNash machine, named for its principals Mayor Edward J.

Policing situations are just as diverse—residents of some communities may perceive the police as little more than an occupying army, while residents from other neighborhoods might see them as an ally against encroaching disorder. Such variation makes it difficult for a centralized body of experts or managers to accurately specify a uniform set of tasks or procedures that will effectively advance even the most general of public ends. Due in part to these complications of diversity, hierarchical attempts to direct streetlevel actors frequently cannot guide action because their rules are either overdeterminant and contradictory or underdetermined and dependent upon the skillful use of discretion.

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