Biography
Academic Positions
2008-present
Research Director Centre for Governance Studies, The Hague Campus, Leiden University
1991-present
Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration, Leiden University, The Netherlands
2000 -2006
Senior Researcher, Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement, Leiden, the Netherlands.
1990 -1991
Lecturer in Public Policy; Law, Policy, and Society Program Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts
1987-1991
Instructor/Research Associate, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts.
1982 -1987
PhD in Urban Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge Massachusetts, USA. (Dissertation: Virtual Institutions: Community Relations and Hospital recidivism in the Life of the Mental Patient. Advisor: Martin Rein)
1976-1982
Executive staff member, Foundation for Educational Research, The Hague, the Netherlands.
EXPERTISE
Policy Science
» Participatory democracy and local governance
» Interpretive policy analysis in the fields of: urban governance, prostitution policy, social welfare.
» Policy implementation and the (unintended) consequences of public policy making.
» Comparative Prostitution Policy
Research Methods
» Qualitative interviewing and analysis of qualitative research data (“Grounded Theory”).
» Action research with citizens and policy makers
» Interpretive theory and methods.
» Practice theory in policy making and public administration: practical judgment, narrative and discourse analysis.
Extensive teaching experience in all of the above areas, with a wide variety of audiences.
Extensive consulting and brokering expertise in the fields of democratic governance and public administration.