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Institutional innovation also requires bottom-up involvement

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Tomorrow there will be elections in The Netherlands.  You can choose from 21 parties. Will there be some real (needed) change? As there will not be one party to gain the majority of the votes, there will always has to be a coalition of parties formed. This will be extremely challenging. Out of these 21 parties there will only be 5/6 parties who will deal the cards among themselves. This is really nothing new. We have had these coalitions for many years now, so the expected changes will be rather limited. There will not be a huge change in the political and governmental landscape. However, a huge change is required in many different areas like education, healthcare, employment, social welfare, sustainability, and traffic. There are some very interesting new parties who have real innovating plans and insights, but there voice is just not being heard. They are not featured in the big debates on TV and they don’t have the funds to run large-scale multimedia campa