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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Eva Wolf, Wouter Van Dooren (2021). Fatal remedies. How dealing with policy conflict can backfire in a context of trust-erosion. In Governance.

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Patricia Popelier, Bjorn Kleizen, Carolyn Declerq, Monika Glavina, Wouter Van Dooren (2021). Health Crisis Measures and Standards for Fair Decision-Making: A Normative and Empirical- Based Account of the Interplay Between Science, Politics and Courts. In European Journal of Risk Regulation.

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Lars Dorren, Wouter Van Dooren (2021). Chameleonic knowledge: a study of ex ante analysis in large infrastructure policy processes. In Policy Sciences.

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Wouter Van Dooren, Mirko Noordegraaf (2020). Staging Science: Authoritativeness and Fragility of Models and Measurement in the COVID-19 Crisis. In Public Administration Review.

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Shirley Kempeneer, Wouter Van Dooren (2019). Using numbers that do not count: how the latent functions of performance indicators explain their success. In International Review of Administrative Sciences.

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Shirley Kempeneer, Wouter Van Dooren (2019). The Incommensurables: The arduous art of making a regulatory indicator. In Critical Policy Studies.

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Jan Wynen, Wouter Van Dooren, Jan Mattijs, Carl Deschamps (2018). Linking turnover to organizational performance: the role of process conformance. Public Management Review.

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Tom Coppens, Wouter Van Dooren, Peter Thijssen (2018). Public opposition and the neighborhood effect: How social interaction explains protest against a large infrastructure project. Land Use Policy.

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