The Re-Bel e-book series aims to publicize innovative reform proposals for Belgium's institutional structure and to foster open and well-informed discussion about them. Click on the e-book title below to access the e-book's webpage, where the e-book can be downloaded in full or in separate chapters.
E-book 5: Towards a more efficient and fair funding of Belgium’s regions?
Lead pieces: Robert Deschamps, Christophe Ernaelsteen, Michel Mignolet, Marie-Eve Mulquin and Alexandre de Streel (FUNDP) and Dirk Heremans, Theo Peeters, and Annelore Van Hecke (KULeuven)
Editors: Paul De Grauwe (KULeuven) and Mathias Dewatripont (ULB)
Published in August 2010, 45 pages.
E-book 4: Electoral engineering for a stalled federation
Lead piece: Kris Deschouwer (VUB) and Philippe Van Parijs (UCLouvain)
Published in July 2009, 53 pages.
Subsequent reactions to the e-book by Rudy Andeweg, Laurent de Briey, Bart Maddens.
E-book 3: Is democracy viable without a unified public opinion?
Lead piece: Nenad Stojanovic (Universität Zürich)
Editors: Dave Sinardet (UA) and Marc Hooghe (KULeuven)
Published in June 2009, 61 pages.
E-book 2: Does it make sense to regionalize labour market institutions?
Lead piece: Jean-Claude Marcourt and Frank Vandenbroucke (employment ministers for Wallonia and Flanders, respectively)
Editors: Bart Cockx (UGent) and Bruno Van der Linden (UCLouvain)
Published in April 2009, 36 pages.
Subsequent reactions to the e-book by Koen ALGOED and Frank VANDENBROUCKE.
E-book 1: On the interaction between subsidiarity and interpersonal solidarity
Lead piece: Jacques Drèze (UCLouvain)
Editor: André Decoster (KULeuven)
Published in April 2009, 54 pages.