Wouter Van Dooren

Wouter Van Dooren

Professor of Public Administration

University of Antwerp

Biography

Wouter Van Dooren is a professor of public administration in the Research Group Politics & Public Governance and the Antwerp Management School. His research interests include public governance, performance information, accountability and learning, and productive conflict in public participation. He is member of the Urban Studies Institute and the GOVTRUST Centre of excellence.

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Interests
  • Public governance
  • Performance indicators
  • Learning and accountability
  • Productive conflict
Education

  • PhD in Social Sciences, 2006

    KULeuven

  • MSc in Political Science, 2000

    KULeuven

Blog Posts

Bezwaarschrift aanvraag omgevingsvergunning Oosterweelverbinding
Als inwoner van Antwerpen teken ik bezwaar aan tegen de Oosterweelverbinding. Het is een duur project dat noch Antwerpen, noch Vlaanderen veel te bieden heeft.
Jul 3, 2020 9 min read
From messy Excel data to a tidy dataframe: a script for the Flemish municipal monitor data
Data stored in excel is often not ready for research. With some R scripting, you can save yourself a good deal of clicking, copying and pasting
Feb 27, 2020 5 min read
Hebben we Oosterweel nodig? Het rapport van het Milieueffectenrapport
Het Milieueffectenrapport toont aan dat we de Oosterweelverbinding niet nodig hebben. Tenminste, als we het menen met de modal shift
Feb 9, 2020 13 min read
Een ontgoocheling: Oosterweel en het toekomstverbond
Met veel hoop keek ik uit naar het resultaat van het toekomstverbond over de Antwerpse ring. Twee jaar later overheerst het gevoel van ontgoocheling.
Last updated on Apr 23, 2019 18 min read
Choropleth maps with R - the Belgian edition
R has great packages to make your own maps. An example with Belgian data
Last updated on Feb 26, 2019 10 min read
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Publications

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Simon Demuynck, Wouter Van Dooren (2025). Financialization beyond partnerships: Real estate investment trusts in elderly care. In International Review of Administrative Science.

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Stephan Grimmelikhuijsen, Marija Aleksovska, Judith van Erp, Sharon Gilad, Libby Maman, Tobias Bach, Moritz Kappler, Wouter Van Dooren, Rahel M. Schomaker, Heidi Houlberg Salomonsen (2025). Does enforcement style influence citizen trust in regulatory agencies? An experiment in six countries. In Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.

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Lisa De Roeck, Wouter Van Dooren (2024). Performing policy conflict: A dramaturgical analysis of public participation in contentious urban planning projects. In Policy Sciences.

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Bjorn Kleizen, Wouter Van Dooren, Koen Verhoest, Evrim Tan (2023). Do citizens trust trustworthy artificial intelligence? Experimental evidence on the limits of ethical AI measures in government. In Government Information Quarterly.

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Bjorn Kleizen, Wouter Van Dooren (2023). Is everything under control? An experimental study on how control over data influences trust in and support for major governmental data exchange projects. In Information polity.

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Wouter Van Dooren, Morten Hjortskov, Steven F. De Vadder, Koen Verhoest (2023). The consistency of question-order bias in a changing political context: Six large-scale surveys on trust and perceptions of pandemic governance effectiveness. In Governance.

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Bjorn Kleizen, Wouter Van Dooren (2023). Is everything under control? An experimental study on how control over data influences trust in and support for major governmental data exchange projects. In Information Polity.

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Wouter Van Dooren, Sebastian Jilke (2022). No evidence for ethnic discrimination in the nonprofit sector: an audit study of access to nursing homes. In International Public Management Journal.

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