Professor of Public Policy & Administration @GovPA_UGent
Joined December 2020
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Interested in subnational government in(ter)action? If so, join our Panel IV on Regional and Local Governance at the EGPA Annual Conference 2025, hosted by the University of Glasgow from August 26–29!
Abstracts are expected by March 28. More info via: iias-iisa.org/egpa-2025-conf…
Better understand how and why policies are diffused and spread all over the public sector? Join our panel T01 – P10: Putting policy diffusion (further) in process at the ICPP7 Chang Mai 2025 – conference. Abstract deadline is January, 31! See
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How can we better understand and explain diffusion processes in the public sector? Come and join panel T01P10: Putting Policy Diffusion (Further) in Process, co-organized by @Youlang Zhang and myself at ICPP7 to find out more! Call for papers open until the end of January!
Want to better understand the essence of digital government diffusion? Read about its key attributes as explored by Lingyun Lan and myself in this open access book chapter Understanding the Essence of Digital Government Diffusion: A Systematic Literature Review | IntechOpen
Our new book “New Perspectives on Intergovernmental Relations: Crisis and Reform” (edited by Kuhlmann/Laffin/Wayenberg/Bergström) is out, which assesses the consequences of contemporary economic and political crises for IGR in Europe! Open access via doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61…
Glad to share that one of our articles on policy learning is part of the Policy & Politics journal annual reading list. Free access until the end of October 2024 via policyandpoliticsblog.com/20…
We are enjoying wonderful papers and discussions during our annual meeting of the EGPA study group on regional and local gov in Zagreb!
a great time with a great UGent delegation at a great ICPP6 conference! oh, almost forgot to mention great location!
Interested in how European regional and local governments transform due to the poly-crisis and digitalization? Then join our Permanent Study Group sessions (PSG IV) at the upcoming EGPA -conference (Zagreb, 5-8 Sept 2023)! Abstracts by the 17th of May. egpa-conference2023.org/
Today, we welcomed Prof. Dr. Sabine Kuhlmann at UGENT for an amazing lecture and debate on 'Local government in Europe: Administrative cultures and reform trajectories from a comparative perspective.' Thank you, Sabine for sharing your great knowledge and work!
In one tweet 🙃? There are several great books out there to start, including Paul's Understanding public policy
What is essential reading in policy process research? A clear answer might still be lacking but we did have a interesting, first discussion during our COPPR2023 - roundtable. Thanks to chair Paul Cairney and co-panel members Laura De Vito, Kaushiki!Sanyal and all others present.
Just attended (from Belgium) a wonderful workshop on Policy Diffusion at the COPPR2023 in Denver, US. Thanks to the organizers of the conference and panel!
ugent.be/eb/nl/actueel/nieuw… Playing policy games - a wonderful experience for staff and students from UGent! Thanks to @ProfCRadaelli for the inviteI
Just attended 2 roundtables on “Expertise in Policy-Making in Times of Crisis: Lessons learned from COVID-19”, organized by the EUI and the EPRS. Thank you, especially Gaby Umbach, for this great initiative and the opportunity to present findings from our research here at UGent!
Great to have been part of this research with @Bishoy_Louis and @PattynValerie, putting yet another perspective on the Belgian COVID-19 case
War refugees, climate adaptation,COVID-19, … various subcentral challenges are thoroughly debated during the Lisbon meeting of our EGPA SG on Regional and Local Governance. With special thanks to all participants and co-chairs Tomas Bergstrom, Martin Laffin and Sabine Kuhlmann!
