Current members
The contact details and main research interests of the members of Politics & Public Governance are listed below. You can find more information on each member's specific research interest, projects and academic bibliography on their personal page.
Professors
Prof. dr. Koen Verhoest (spokesperson)
Research interests: public administration & management; organization and governance of public tasks; with a special focus onautonomy and control of agencies; regulation of liberalized markets; public private partnerships; coordination of wicked issues
Prof. dr. Hans Bruyninckx
Research interests: environmental governance, European and international environmental policy, the effects of globalisation on the management of environmental issues, sustainable development
Prof. dr. Peter Bursens
Research interests: European decision-making; Europeanization; federalism; democratic legitimacy of multi-level political systems; skills teaching in political science
Prof. dr. emeritus Ria Janvier
Research interests: public administration & management; working conditions; public sector; labor unions; HR management; psychological contract; diversity management; workforce; administrative law
Prof. dr. Petra Meier
Research interests: political representation; equality policies; gender issues: social groups; the reproduction of inequality; discursive approaches to the study of normativity in policies; ethnofederations
Prof. dr. Wouter Van Dooren
Research interests: public administration & management; performance; performance management; performance measurement; collaboration complexity; accountability
Affiliated professors
Prof. dr. Dirk De Bièvre
Research interests: international cooperation and trade policies; trade policy of the EU, USA, Canada and China; transatlantic relations; World Trade Organization (WTO); interest groups in the EU; European Banking Union; German politics
Prof. dr. Marijn Hoijtink
Research interests: digitalisation, security and military technology
Prof. dr. Bernardo Rangoni
Research interests: public policy, political economy, regulatory governance
Prof. dr. Jan Wynen
Research interests: the way public sector organisations react, or can be organised to adapt, to changing environments
Prof. dr. Frédérique Six
Research interests: trust and distrust in public governance; trust and regulation; trust and control; trust-based governance
Prof. dr. Dominika Latusek-Jurczak
Research interests: management practices in interorganizational relations, the theory of social networks, and trust
Part-time and Guest professors
Prof. dr. Eric Fabri
Research interests: Political Theory, Distributive Justice, Inheritance Taxation, Justice in Transfers, Environmental Philosophy, Political Economy and Republicanism, Economic philosophy, the Right of Private Property, Theories of Democracy, John Locke, Cornelius Castoriadis, Utopianism
Prof. dr. Bjorn Kleizen
Research interests: public management, citizen-government encounters, trust in government, digitalisation in government, organisational reform, organisational psychology, EU external relations, EU law
Prof. dr. Maja Sahadzic
Research interests: multilevel governance, dynamic legitimacy, dynamic stability, asymmetries, “post” systems, alternative conflict solutions, constitutionalism under extreme measures, authoritarianism, constitutional values and principles, fundamental rights
Prof. dr. Heleen Touquet
Research interests: gender and conflict, masculinities, conflict-related sexual violence, nationalism, transitional justice, Southeastern Europe
Prof. dr. Davide Vittori
Research interests: public opinion, voting behaviour, political parties, candidate selections, primaries, populism, technocracy, European political systems, democracy, democratization, platform politics
Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr. Chesney Callens
Research interests: collaborative innovation; networks and partnerships; ICT-enabled service delivery
Dr. Andreas Corcaci
Research interests: Multilevel (Judicial) Governance, Policy Implementation, Environmental, Energy, and Climate Policy, Concept Structures and Set Theoretic Multi-Method Research (SMMR)
Dr. Serena D'Agostino
Research interests: Anti-(Roma) Racism, Civil Society, Europe, Europeanization, (In)equality & Non-discrimination, Intersectionality, Intersectional Activisms, Minority Politics, Queer Politics & Theory, Romani Politics & Roma Rights, Social Movements
Dr. Susana Duarte Coroado
Research interests: good governance; non-majoritarian institutions; corruption; regulatory capture; lobbying; comparative politics
Dr. Steven De Vadder
Research interests: performance-satisfaction gap; reputation; trust in government; social media communication by public sector organisations; automated text analysis
Dr. Inger De Wilde
Research interests: public administration; contractual and statutory employment; management and law; labour law and HRM; personnel management; industrial relation
Dr. Lise Frehen
Research interests: evidence-based policymaking; Better Regulation; goal-based regulation; stakeholder inclusion; policy formulation; impact assessment
Dr. Rik Joosen
Research interests: Regulatory governance; bureaucratic politics; stakeholder engagement; EU administration; multilevel governance
Dr. Bjorn Kleizen
Research interests: public management, citizen-government encounters, trust in government, digitalisation in government, organisational reform, organisational psychology, EU external relations, EU law
Dr. Tom Langbroek
Research interests: innovation; collaboration; coordination; metagovernance; network management
Dr. Christoph Niessens
Research interests: multi-level governance; deliberative citizen participation; sub-state autonomy
Dr. Sophie Op de Beeck
Research interests: public administration & management; trust in multi-level governance; public personnel administration; HRM implementation
Dr. Dominika Proszowska
Research interests: vaccine hesitancy; political trust; trust in multi-level governance; political attitudes; EU attitudes; EU legitimacy
Dr. Bernardo Rangoni
Research interests: public policy, political economy, regulatory governance
Dr. Bastiaan Redert
Research interests: interest representation; European decision-making; democratic legitimacy of political systems; trust and regulation; LGBTQ+ interest groups
Senior Researcher
Lieven Janssens
Research interests: local government; local governance; organization and governance of local government; public service delivery; local policy
Researchers
Simon Demuynck
Research interests: public administration; alternative financing mechanisms; accountability; agency theory; nature-based solutions
Lisa De Roeck
Research interests: policymaking and productive conflict; participation; urban planning; theatre-based methods
Jakob Frateur
Research interests: democratic legitimacy of multi-level political systems; Political Trust; Multilevel Governance; (Belgian) Federal System(s); Crisis governance
Belén Garcia-Guisasola
Research interests: e-governance; goal-based regulation; environmental and welfare sector
Erasmus Häggblom
Research interests: Welfare state politics; education and health policy; public service provision; interactions between civil society and armed forces; citizen engagement with national defence; social data science
Cato Janssen
Research interests: Crisis governance; participation and collaboration; societal resilience; ethnographic filmmaking; creative methods
Lea Kleinsorg
Research interests: gender based violence; female genital mutilation; othering; discourse research; regional focus: West Africa (especially The Gambia); fragile statehood
Danika Pieters
Research interests: public management; organizational reform; organizational psychology; job satisfaction
Chiara Russo
Research interests: regulatory governance; expert knowledge and policy-making; crisis management; EU institutions and accountability
Frederik Stevens
Research interests: Interest Groups, Lobbying, European Public Policy, Agenda-Setting, climate and environmental politics
Rozemarijn van Dijk
Research interests: political representation; gender and politics; political parties; candidate selection; dutch politics
Amber van Heerebeek
Research interests: regulatory governance; stakeholder involvement; democratic legitimacy; compliance; trust and regulation
Rylan Verlooy
Research interests: anti-gender movement; transgender studies; intersectionality; feminisms; sexuality
Willems Cassandra
Research interests: regulatory governance; public administration; interest group politics; trust and regulation; policy design
Affiliated members
Sharon Belli
Research interests: interest groups; revolving door between government and Brussels 's lobbying profession; European Parliament; voting and legislative behavior
Lode De Waele
Research interests:
Stephanie Verlinden
Research interests: public sector innovation; collaborative innovation; public service-design; public-private partnership
Dries Van Doninck
Research interests: Organizational psychology; leadership; organizational reform; stress and coping
Voluntary members
Sigrid Aelterman
Clara Affun-Adegbulu
Ekval Asa
Marsida Bandilli
Jan Boon (Hasselt University)
Lucas Brants (Hasselt University)
Laura Cleton (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Emmanuel Dockx (Provincie Antwerpen)
Elena Escalante Block (ARENA, University of Oslo)
Monika Glavina (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Camilo Ignacio Gonzalez (Universidad de los Andes)
Astrid Molenveld
Giuseppe Montalbano
Raden Murwantara
Coline Rondiat
Ana Paula Salej Gomes
Lucía Verónica Sánchez Varas
Veronika Valkovicová
Job Vossen
Former members
Aerts Elisabeth
Aerts Sophie
Ahrens Petra
Amin Nurul
Baller Inger
Baller Wilhelmina Gerry
Carbajal Reyes Rosa Sunen
Debusscher Petra
De Azevedo Domingues Antonio Sergio
De Caluwé Chiara
de Cock Luuk
De Roover Jolijn
Dejaeghere Yves
Delafortry Anita
Dierckx Myrte
Dorothy Duchatelet
Dorren Lars
Echelpoels Hans
Emery Laura
Gillis Kristien
Gommers Babette
Hoffmann Cornelia
Hueskes Marlies
Husain Syed Omer
Huysentruyt Heleen
Kempeneer Shirley
Kozubík Jan
Lambrechts Bart
Lang Florian
Lievens Kim
Liu Xuanhui
Maggetti Martino
Montalbano Giuseppe
Motmans Joz
Nicotina Alberto
Op De Beeck Liesbeth
Palinckx Sarah
Peeters Nele
Rys Sabine
Sadeghi Atefeh
Schram Frankie
Seale Wesley
Sempiga Olivier
Sevenans Annick
Severs Eline
Sliwa Sandra
Song Seunghyn
Stevens Vidar
Thijs Nick
Valkeneers Rob
Vandeleene Audrey
Vandergraesen Joachim
Vanhoutte Lieselot
van den Hurk Martijn
Van den Langenbergh
Van den Putte Lore
Van Hellemont Carine
Van Praet Marc
Van Tilborg Robbert
Van Wymeersch Jana
Voorspoels Jolien
Wauters Benedict
Willems Evelien
Willems Tom
Wolf Eva