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Martin Bækgaard – Curriculum Vitae

June 2020

Contact information Department of Political Science Tel: +45 87 16 57 24

Aarhus University Fax: +45 86 13 98 39

Bartholins Allé, Building 1331 MartinB@ps.au.dk

8000 Aarhus C, Denmark http://person.au.dk/da/martinb@ps

Education

Ph.D. in Political Science, Aarhus University, December 17 2010.

M.Sc. in Political Science (cand.scient.pol), Aarhus University, April 24 2007.

B.Sc. in Political Science, Aarhus University, June 2004.

Academic employment

Professor (full) Department of Political Science and Government, Aarhus University, April

2019-present.

Associate professor, Department of Political Science and Government, Aarhus University,

February 2014-April 2019.

Assistant professor, Department of Political Science and government, Aarhus University,

November 2010-February 2014 (half time).

Applied researcher, KREVI and KORA, November 2010-February 2014 (half time).

On paternal leave for 28 weeks in total in the period 2012-2016:

(04.06 2012 – 17.06 2012; 18.02 2013 – 15.05 2013; 16.10 2015 – 29-10 2015; 29.06 2016 –

20.09 2016).

Ph.D. candidate, Department of Political Science and Government, Aarhus University,

September 2007-August 2010.

Other academic activities

Visiting scholar, School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University, August 2008-December

2008

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles in international journals

35. Kjaergaard, Mette, Martin Baekgaard, and Ulrich Thy Jensen (forthcoming). “The

Psychological Costs of Citizen Coproduction”, Journal of Public Administration Research and

Theory.

34. Moynihan, Donald P., Martin Baekgaard, and Mads Leth Jakobsen (forthcoming). “Tackling

the Performance Regime Paradox: A Problem Solving Approach Engages Professional Goal-

Based Learning”, Public Administration Review. https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13142

33. Van Loon, Nina, Martin Baekgaard, and Donald P. Moynihan (forthcoming). “Stability Not

Change: Improving Frontline Employee Motivation Through Organizational Reform is Harder

than it Looks”. Public Administration.

32. Baekgaard, Martin, Oliver James, Søren Serritzlew, and Gregg G. Van Ryzin (forthcoming).

“Citizens’ Motivated Reasoning about Public Performance: Experimental Findings from the US

and Denmark”, International Public Management Journal. 23(2): 186-204. https://doi.org/10.1080/10967494.2019.1659891

31. George, Bert, Martin Baekgaard, Mieke Audenaert, Adelien Decramer and Stijn Goeminne

(2020). “Institutional isomorphism, negativity bias and performance information use by

politicians: A survey experiment”, Public Administration. 98(1): 14-28. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/padm.12390

30. Baekgaard, Martin and Søren Serritzlew (2020). “Those who understand it will not be

persuaded: A performance information paradox”, International Public Management Journal,

23(1): 138-160. https://doi.org/10.1080/10967494.2018.1461152.

29. Christensen, Julian, Donald P. Moynihan, Pamela Herd, Lene Aarøe & Martin Baekgaard

(2020). “Human Capital and Administrative Burden: The Role of Cognitive Resources in

Citizen-State Interactions.” Public Administration Review, 80(1): 127-136.

Acknowledged with diploma as being among the top 10% downloaded papers in Public

Administration Review in 2018 and 2019 combined. The paper was published online

November 2019.

28. Jilke, Sebastian and Martin Baekgaard (2020). “The Political Psychology of Citizen

Satisfaction: Does Functional Responsibility Matter?”, Journal of Public Administration

Research and Theory, 30(1): 130-143.

27. Baekgaard, Martin, Nicola Bellé, Søren Serritzlew, Mariafrancesca Sicilia, and Ileana

Steccolini (2019). “Performance Information in Politics: How Framing, Format, and Rhetoric

Matter for Politicians’ Preferences”, Journal of Behavioral Public Administration, 2(2): 1-12.

Best paper award in Journal of Behavioral Public Administration 2019.

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26. Baekgaard, Martin, Søren Kølbæk and Peter Bjerre Mortensen (2019). “Negative Feedback,

Political Attention, and Public Policy”, Public Administration, 97(1): 210-225.

25. Baekgaard, Martin, Julian Christensen, Casper Mondrup Dahlmann, Asbjørn Mathiasen, and

Niels Bjørn Grund Petersen (2019). “The Role of Evidence in Politics: Motivated Reasoning and

Persuasion among Politicians”, British Journal of Political Science, 19(3): 1117-1140.

In the top five per cent of all research output scored by Altmetric as of August 22 2017 and #1

in BJPS of all times.

Covered in Quartz Media August 23 2017: https://qz.com/1059352/researchers-have-shown-

that-politicians-dont-let-facts-get-in-the-way-of-their-beliefs/

24. Baekgaard, Martin and Bert George (2018). “Equal Access to the Top? Representative

Bureaucracy and Politicians’ Recruitment Preferences for Top Administrative Staff”, Journal of

Public Administration Research and Theory 28(4): 535-550.

23. Baekgaard, Martin, Henrik Bech Seeberg and Peter Bjerre Mortensen (2018). “The

Bureaucracy and the Policy Agenda”, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory,

28(2): 239-253.

22. Jakobsen, Mads Leth, Martin Baekgaard, Nina Van Loon, and Donald P. Moynihan (2018).

“Making Sense of Performance Regimes: Rebalancing External Accountability and Internal

Learning”, Perspectives on Public Management and Governance, 1(2): 127-141.

21. Baekgaard, Martin (2017). “Prospect Theory and Public Sector Outcomes: Examining Risk

preferences in Relation to Public Sector Reforms”, Public Administration, 95(4): 927-942.

20. George, Bert, Sebastian Desmidt, Poul Aaes Nielsen and Martin Baekgaard (2017). “Rational

Planning and Politicians’ Preferences for Spending and Reform: Replication and Extension of a

Survey Experiment”, Public Management Review, 19(9): 1251-1271.

Runner up award in the competition for the best paper published in Public Management

Review 2017.

19. Blom-Hansen, Jens, Martin Bækgaard and Søren Serritzlew (2016). ”Causes of Fiscal

Illusion: Lack of Information or Lack of Attention?”, Public Budgeting & Finance, 36 (2): 26-44.

18. Baekgaard, Martin and Marie Kjaergaard (2016). “Intergovernmental Grants and Public

Expenditures: Evidence from a Survey Experiment”, Local Government Studies, 42 (2): 189-207.

17. Blom-Hansen, Jens, Martin Bækgaard and Søren Serritzlew (2016). ”Shaping Political

Preferences: Information Effects in Political-Administrative Systems”, Local Government

Studies, 42 (1): 119-138.

16. Bjørnholt, Bente, Martin Bækgaard and Kurt Houlberg (2016). “Does Fiscal Austerity Affect

Decision Makers’ Use and Perception of Performance Information”, Public Performance and

Management Review, 39 (3): 560-580.

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15. Baekgaard, Martin and Søren Serritzlew (2016). “Interpreting Performance Information:

Motivated Reasoning or Unbiased Comprehension?”, Public Administration Review, 76 (1): 73-

82.

14. Baekgaard M., Baethge C., Blom-Hansen J., Dunlop C., Esteve M., Jakobsen M., Kisida B.,

Marvel J., Moseley A., Serritzlew S., Stewart P., Thomsen M., and Wolf P (2015). “Conducting

Experiments in Public Management Research: A Practical Guide.” International Public

Management Journal, 18 (2): 323-342.

13. Bækgaard, Martin (2015). “Performance Disclosure and Citizen Service Attitudes: Do Cost

Information and Service Use Affect the Relationship?”, International Public Management

Journal, 18 (2): 228-245.

12. Nielsen, Poul Aaes and Martin Bækgaard (2015). “Performance Information, Blame

Avoidance, and Politicians’ Attitudes to Spending and Reform”. Journal of Public

Administration Research and Theory, 25(2): 513-544.

2016 and again in 2017: Highlighted as one of five new highly cited articles in JPART – free

access to the article granted at:

http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/jopart/impactfactor.html

11. Bækgaard, Martin, Jens Blom-Hansen and Søren Serritzlew (2015). “When Politics Matters:

The Impact of Politicians’ and Bureaucrats’ Policy Preferences on Salient and Non-Salient Policy

Areas”, Governance, 28 (4): 459-474.

10. Bækgaard, Martin (2014). ”Within-Party Allocation of Committee Seats: Evidence from

Danish Local Elections”, Scandinavian Political Studies, 37(4): 385-405.

9. Blom-Hansen, Jens, Martin Bækgaard and Søren Serritzlew. (2014). ” Tax Limitations and

Revenue Shifting Strategies in Local Government”. Public Budgeting & Finance, 34 (1): 64-84.

8. Bækgaard, Martin, Carsten Jensen, Peter Bjerre Mortensen and Søren Serritzlew (2014).

“Local News Media and Voter Turnout”, Local Government Studies, 40 (4): 518-532.

7. Bækgaard, Martin and Carsten Jensen (2012) “Mass Media and Party Divergence in multi-

party systems”, Scandinavian Political Studies, 36 (2): 137-152.

Winner of the Harrison Prize 2013 for the best article published in Political Studies 2012.

6. Bækgaard, Martin and Ulrik Kjær (2012) “The Gendered Division of Labor in Assignments to

Political Committees: Discrimination or Self-Selection in Danish Local Politics?”, Politics &

Gender, 8 (4): 465-482.

5. Bækgaard, Martin and Carsten Jensen (2012) “The Dynamics of Competitor Party Behaviour”,

Political Studies, 60 (1): 131-46.

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4. Bækgaard, Martin (2011) “The impact of formal organizational structure on politico-

administrative interaction. Evidence from a natural experiment”, Public Administration, 89 (3):

1063-80.

3. Bækgaard, Martin (2011). “Committee Bias in Legislatures with a High Degree of Party

Cohesion: Evidence from Danish Municipalities”, European Journal of Political Research, 50

(3): 315-35.

2. Bækgaard, Martin (2010). “Self-selection or Socialization? A Dynamic Analysis of Committee

Member Preferences”, Legislative Studies Quarterly, 35 (3): 337-359.

1. Bækgaard, Martin (2009). “Organizational Change in Local Governments: The Impact of the

Danish Local Government Reform”, World Political Science Review, 5 (1).

Peer reviewed articles in Danish journals

7. Blom-Hansen, Jens and Martin Bækgaard (2015). ”Kan borgerne motiveres til at

samproducere ved hjælp af information om performance?”, Politica, 47 (2): 144-163.

6. Bækgaard Martin, Morten Jakobsen and Ulrik Kjær (2013). “Kommunalpolitikernes

frustrationer (og glæder) ved arbejdet i kommunalbestyrelsen”, Økonomi og Politik, 86 (4): 3-17.

5. Bækgaard Martin, Morten Jakobsen and Ulrik Kjær (2013). “Kommunalpolitikernes samspil

med administrationen – er der forskel på frontbenchers og backbenchers?”, Økonomi og Politik,

86 (4): 48-59.

4. Bækgaard, Martin (2013). “Afhænger politikernes indflydelse af den administrative

organisering? Anvendelsen af direktions- og forvaltningsmodeller i de danske kommuner”,

Politica, 45 (2): 159-177.

3. Bækgaard, Martin (2010). “Skolelukninger i Kommunalreformens skygge? En analyse af

Kommunalreformens policy-konsekvenser”. Tidsskriftet Politik, 13 (3): 28-37.

2. Bækgaard Martin, Thomas Frank and Søren Serritzlew (2009). “Ceremoni eller strategi?

Reformers formål og sideformål”, Politica - Tidsskrift for Politisk Videnskab, 41 (2): 215-230.

1. Bækgaard, Martin (2008). “Politisk og administrativ organisering i danske kommuner:

Strukturreformens betydning”, Politica - Tidsskrift for Politisk Videnskab, 40 (3): 349-368.

Award for best article published in Danish in 2008.

Books

2. Andersen, Lotte Bøgh, Stefan Boye, Martin Bækgaard, Christian Bøtcher Jacobsen and

Asbjørn Sonne Nørgaard (2019). Politisk og administrative ledelse: Roller, relationer og

personlighed i toppen af de danske kommuner, København: DFØJ Forlag.

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1. Bækgaard, Martin (2010). Udvalgsmedlemskab, organisering og præferencer: Analyser af

sektorisering i danske kommuner, Århus: Politica.

Book chapters

10. Bækgaard, Martin, Jens Olav Dahlgaard og Kasper Møller Hansen (2020). ”Eksperimentelle

forskningsdesign”, chapter 5 in Kasper Møller Hansen, Lotte Bøgh Andersen and Sune Welling

Voigt (eds): Metoder i statskundskab, 3rd ed., Hans Reitzels Forlag.

9. Jakobsen, Mads Leth Felsager and Martin Bækgaard (2019). “Bureaukrati og hierarki”, in

Peter Munk Christiansen, Jens Blom-Hansen and Søren Serritzlew (eds): Offentlig forvaltning –

et politologisk perspektiv, 2nd ed., Hans Reitzels Forlag.

8. Blom-Hansen, Jens and Martin Bækgaard (2019). “Forvaltning i kommuner og regioner”, in

Peter Munk Christiansen, Jens Blom-Hansen and Søren Serritzlew (eds): Offentlig forvaltning –

et politologisk perspektiv, 2nd ed., Hans Reitzels Forlag.

7.Bækgaard, Martin, Jørgen Elklit and Ulrik Kjær (2017). ”Den stadig ikke helt fuldendte

landspolitisering af de lokale partisystemer”, Kommunalvalget 2013.

6. Tonurist, Piret and Martin Bækgaard (2017). “Economics and PA: Public choice theory,

transaction costs theory, theory of expectations, and the enduring influence of economics

modelling on PA – comparing the debate in the US and Europe”, in Edoardo Ongaro and Sandra

Van Thiel (eds.): Public administration and public management in Europe, Palgrave Macmillan.

5. Jakobsen, Mads Leth Felsager and Martin Bækgaard (2014). “Bureaukrati og hierarki”, in

Peter Munk Christiansen, Jens Blom-Hansen and Søren Serritzlew (eds): Offentlig forvaltning –

et politologisk perspektiv, Hans Reitzels Forlag.

4. Blom-Hansen, Jens and Martin Bækgaard (2014). “Forvaltning i kommuner og regioner”, in

Peter Munk Christiansen, Jens Blom-Hansen and Søren Serritzlew (eds): Offentlig forvaltning –

et politologisk perspektiv, Hans Reitzels Forlag.

3. Blom-Hansen, Jens, Martin Bækgaard and Søren Serritzlew (2013). ”Do Local Tax

Limitations Work? Evidence from Danish Local Government”, pp. 175-195 in Junghun Kim,

Jørgen Lotz, and Niels Jørgen Mau (eds.): Balance between Decentralization and Merit. The

Copenhagen Workshop 2011, Seoul and Copenhagen: Korea Institute of Public Finance and

Danish Ministry for Economic Affairs and Interior.

2. Bækgaard, Martin (2013). “Partiernes fordeling af udvalgsposter”, pp. 283-302 in Elklit,

Jørgen and Kjær, Ulrik (eds.): Analyser af kommunalvalget 2009, Odense: Syddansk

Universitetsforlag.

1. Pilegaard, Maria and Martin Bækgaard (2006). “Overlever lokallisterne kommunalreformen?”,

in Jens Blom-Hansen et al.: Kommunalreformens konsekvenser, Århus: Academica.

PhD Dissertation

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Bækgaard, Martin (2010). Udvalgsmedlemskab, organisering og præferencer: Analyser af

sektorisering i danske kommuner, Århus: Politica.

Book reviews

4. Bækgaard, Martin (2017).”Anmeldelse af Peter Hall (red.): The Politics of Representation in

the Global Age: Identification, Mobilization, and Adjudication”, Politica 49 (1): 88-89.

3. Bækgaard, Martin (2013). ”Anmeldelse af Jacob Torfing (red.): Ledelse efter

kommunalreformen – sådan tackles de nye udfordringer”, Politica, 45 (1): 106-109.

2. Bækgaard, Martin (2008). “Anmeldelse af: "Velfærdsledelse: Ledelse og styring i den

selvstyrende velfærdsstat"”, Tidsskriftet Politik, 11 (3): 100-101.

1. Bækgaard, Martin (2008). “Anmeldelse af Rikke Berg og Ulrik Kjær: Lokalt politisk

lederskab, 2007.”, Kandestøberen, no. 1

Other publications (news media articles not included)

14. Bækgaard, Martin, Julian Christensen og Lene Aarøe (2020). ”Velfærdsstatens regler gør især

ondt på de borgere, der har mest brug for hjælp”, pp. 42-46 i Caroline Howard Grøn, Anders

Høeg Lammers, Frederik Appel Olsen og Anne Sophie Thingsted (red). Politologisk årbog

2019-2020, København: Djøf Forlag.

13. Madsen, Jonas Krogh, Kim Sass Mikkelsen, Julian Christensen og Martin Bækgaard (2020).

Nedlukningen af Danmark styrkede lediges tillid til de politiske institutioner (Danish lockdown

strengthened unemployed citizens’ political trust). Faktaark publiceret online.

12. Bollerup Stina, Jensen Lotte G., Burau Viola, Søgaard Rikke, Klausen Morten, Bossen Claus,

Danholt Peter, Jakobsen Mads L., Bækgaard Martin, Palmhøj Nielsen Camilla. (2018). Ny

styring i et patientperspektiv. Resultater fra følgeforskning. Aarhus: DEFACTUM, Region

Midtjylland.

11. Bækgaard, Martin (2015). ”Benchmarks og ranglister. Dine forventninger farver din

opfattelse af fakta.”, pp. 42-44 i Carsten Jensen (red.) Politologisk årbog, København: Hans

Reitzels Forlag.

10. Nøhr, Katrine, Camilla Dalsgaard, Hans Kloppenborg, Jonas Meldgaard and Martin

Bækgaard (2012). Sådan passer kommunerne børn, research report, København: KORA.

9. Bækgaard, Martin and Søren Teglgaard Jakobsen (2011). Ekskluderende specialundervisning:

Kortlægning af området, research report, Aarhus: KREVI.

8. Bækgaard, Martin (2011). Frit valg i ældreplejen, research report, Aarhus: KREVI.

7. Bækgaard, Martin, Hans Kloppenborg, Simon Østergaard Møller and Marianne Schøller

Kollin (2011). Kommunernes udgifter til anbringelser af børn og unge, research report, Aarhus:

KREVI.

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6. Bækgaard, Martin (2010). Geographical representation in local government: Evidence from

Danish municipalities, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University.

5. Bækgaard, Martin (2010). Undersøgelse af byrådskandidater ved kommunalvalget 2009 med

fokus på motiver bag opstillingen, lokal tilknytning og ønskede udvalgsposter. Dokumentation og

svarfordelinger, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University.

4. Bækgaard, Martin (2008). Undersøgelse af kommunale politikeres og embedsmænds

udgiftspræferencer samt af kommunale organisationsforhold, Department of Political Science,

Aarhus University.

3. Bækgaard, Martin (2004). ”Aktindsigt i EU’s hektarstøtte”, Miljøsk no. 37, December 2004.

2. Bækgaard, Martin (2004). ”Råd om databaseadgang”, i Miljøsk no. 37, December 2004.

1. Bækgaard, Martin and Nils Mulvad (2004). ”Behov for elektronisk aktindsigt”, Administrativ

Debat no. 4, November 2004.

Honours and awards

2020 Outstanding Reviewer Award for the Journal of Public Administration Research and

Theory.

Award for best paper published in Behavioral Public Administration in 2019 (with Nicola Bellé,

Søren Serritzlew, MariaFrancesca Sicilia, Ileana Steccolini)

Runner up award in the competition for the best paper published in Public Management Review

2017 (with Bert George, Sebastian Desmidt and Poul Aaes Nielsen).

Nominated for the Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences Researcher of the year price

2017.

2016 and again in 2017: Article with Paul Aaes Nielsen in JPART highlighted as one of five new

highly cited articles in JPART – free access to the article granted at:

http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/jopart/impactfactor.html

The Harrison Prize 2013 for the best article (with Carsten Jensen) published in Political Studies

2012.

Nominated for the Aarhus University Research Foundation’s PhD Price 2011.

Award for best article published in Danish in 2008; selected to be republished in English in

World Political Science Review, (Danish title: “Politisk og administrativ organisering i danske

kommuner: Strukturreformens betydning”).

Invited research presentations

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“The relationship between politicians and top bureaucrats – images from local politicians in four

countries”, Oslo University, 28.11 2019.

”Politicians and Bureaucrats: reassessing the Power Potential of Bureaucracy”, University of

Minho, Portugal, 10.11 2017.

“On the Role of Evidence in Politics: Motivated Reasoning and Persuasion among Politicians”,

Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, 30.10.2017.

“The relevance of motivated reasoning theory to the field of public administration”, Colloquium

at the Royal Dutch Academy for the Sciences (KNAW), Amsterdam, 04.11.2016

”The role of evidence in political decision making”, Rutgers University, New York, 08.09.2015.

“The relationship between committee membership and politicians’ preferences: An analysis of

changes in committee member preferences”, AKF, København, 22.01 2010.

“Politician preference changes”, School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University, 04.11 2008.

Conference presentations

Baekgaard, Martin, Donald P. Moynihan, and Mette Kjærgaard Thomsen. ”Why Do Politicians

Support Administrative Burdens? Conceptualizing and Explaining Burden Tolerance”, The 2019

EGPA Conference, Belfast, Northern Ireland, September 2019.

Kjeldsen, Anne Mette and Martin Baekgaard. ”Initiating Successful Collaboration? Collaborative

Governance Impacts of Being European Capital of Culture”, The 2019 EGPA Conference,

Belfast, Northern Ireland, September 2019.

Bækgaard, Martin, Pamela Herd, and Donald P. Moynihan. “Welfare Queens and Poor Carinas:

Social Constructions and the Mental Health of Welfare Clients”. The 2019 PMRA Conference,

Chapel Hill, North Carolina , USA, June 2019.

Thomsen, Mette Kjærgaard, Martin Bækgaard, and Ulrich Thy Jensen. “The Administrative

Burdens of Coproduction”, The 2018 EGPA Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland, September

2018.

Bækgaard, Martin and Sebastian Jilke. “The Political Psychology of Citizen Satisfaction. Does

Functional responsibility Matter?”, The 2018 IRSPM Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, April

2018.

Bækgaard, Martin and Bert George. “Equal Access to the Top? Representative Bureaucracy and

Politicians’ Recruitment Preferences for Top Administrative Staff”, The 2017 EGPA Conference,

Milan, Italy, August 2017.

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Bækgaard, Martin. “The Psychology of Administrative Burden”, Administrative Burdens

Workshop, Barcelona, Spain, June 2017.

Blom-Hansen, Jens, Martin Bækgaard, Julian Christensen and Søren Serritzlew. “Politicians and

Bureaucrats. Reassessing the power potential of bureaucracy”, The 2017 IRSPM Conference,

April 2017.

Bækgaard, Martin. “Prospect Theory and Public Service Outcomes: When do Citizen Prefer

Risky Reforms to Reforms with Certain Outcomes?.”. The 2016 EGPA Conference, August,

Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Bækgaard, Martin, Mads Leth Felsager Jakobsen, and Donald Moynihan. “Managerial

performance information use and employee involvement”, The 2016 PMRC Conference, June

22-24, Aarhus, Denmark.

Bækgaard, Martin. “Prospect Theory and Public Service Outcomes: When do Citizen Prefer

Risky Reforms to Reforms with Certain Outcomes?.”. The 2016 TAD Conference, June 8-10,

Ghent, Belgium.

Bækgaard, Martin and Søren Serritzlew. “Those who understand it will not be persuaded: A

paradox of performance information”. The 2015 APSA Conference, September 3-6, San

Francisco, California, USA.

Bækgaard, Martin and Søren Serritzlew. “Diversity in the Interpretations of and Responses to

Performance Information”. The 2015 PMRC Conference, June 10-13, Minneapolis, Minnesota,

USA.

“Interpreting Performance Information: Motivated Reasoning or Unbiased Comprehension”. The

2014 EGPA Conference, September 10-12, Speyer, Germany.

“Fiscal Ignorance and the Tradeoff between Services and Taxes: Would Citizen Preferences be

any Different if They were Fully Informed?”. The IIAS Study Group on Trust and Public

Attitudes, September 9-10, Speyer, Germany.

“Fiscal Ignorance and Citizen Preferences for Tax-Service Packages: Would Citizen Preferences

be any Different if They Were Fully Informed?”. The 2014 NOPSA Conference, August 12-15

2014, Gothenburg Sweden.

“When Performance Concerns Meet Blame Avoidance: Performance Budgeting in Political

Decision.-Making”. The 2013 EGPA Conference, September 11-13 2013, Edinburgh, UK.

“Performance Disclosure and Spending Preferences: How Citizens' Preferences for Spending are

Shaped by Performance Information”, the 2013 Public Management Research Conference, June

20-22 2013, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.

“Performance Information, Blame Avoidance, and Politicians’ Attitudes to Spending and

Reform”, the 2013 Public Management Research Conference, June 20-22 2013, Madison,

Wisconsin, USA (co-authored with Poul Aaes Nielsen).

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“Causes of Fiscal Illusions: Incomplete Information or Lack of Attention?”, the 2013 Public

Management Research Conference, June 20-22 2013, Madison, Wisconsin, USA (co-authored

with Jens Blom-Hansen and Søren Serritzlew).

”Who’s Partner?”, Dansk Selskab for Statskundskabs årsmøde 2012, Vejlefjord (co-authored

with Morten Jakobsen and Ulrik Kjær).

“Political Control versus Bureaucratic Values: Reframing, but Reconfirming the Debate?”,

12.01.2012-14.01-2012, New Orleans, USA, (co-authored with Jens Blom-Hansen and Søren

Serritzlew)

“Is there a gendered division of labor in committee assignments to political committees?”, VI

ECPR General Conference, 25.08.2011 – 27.08.2011, Reykjavik, Iceland. (co-authored with

Ulrik Kjær)

“Do tax limitations work? Evidence from Danish municipalities”, XVI NOPSA Conference,

09.08.2011 - 12.08.2011, Vaasa, Finland. (co-authored with Jens Blom-Hansen and Søren

Serritzlew)

“Within-Party Allocation of Committee Seats: Evidence from the Danish Municipal Elections in

2009”, Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting 2010, 1.4.2010 - 3.4.2010, San

Francisco, USA.

“The Dynamics of Competitor Party Behaviour”, Nordisk Kommunalforskerkonference 2009,

26.11.2009 - 28.11.2009, Åbo, Finland.

”The reorganization of administrative leadership in Danish municipalities”, XV NOPSA

Conference, 6.8.2008 - 9.8.2008, Tromsø, Norway.

”Organisatorisk segmentering i de danske kommuner: Har Strukturreformen haft en effekt?”,

Nordisk Kommunalforskerkonference 2007, 23.11.2007 - 25.11.2007, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Professional activities

Editorial tasks

Editorial board member Journal of Behavioral Public Administration 2018-.

Editor of special issue of Politica (45:2).

Reviewer (peer reviewed journals)

American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, Australian Journal of

Public Administration, British Journal of Political Science; British Journal of Sociology,

European Journal of Political Research, European Political Science Review, European Union

Politics, Governance, International Journal of Health Policy and Management, International

Journal of Public Sector Management, International Political Science Review, International

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Public Management Journal, Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, Journal of

Behavioral Public Administration, Journal of Politics, Journal of Public Administration Research

and Theory, Journal of Public Policy, Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, Legislative Studies

Quarterly, Local Government Studies, National Tax Journal, Perspectives on Public management

and Governance, Politica, Political Communication, Politics & Gender, Politik, Public

Administration; Public Administration Quarterly; Public Administration Review, Public Choice,

Public Finance and Management, Public Finance Review, Public Governance Research, Public

Management Review, Public Performance and Management Review, Public Policy and

Administration, ROPPA, Scandinavian Political Studies, The Social Science Journal.

Other review activities

KORA/VIVE; The Danish Productivity Commission; TrygFonden, PUMA - the Austrian

Platform for Surveys, Methods and Empirical Analyses; Research Foundation Flanders; Oxford

Research Encyclopedia of Politics; The European Research Council (ERC) – Consolidator grant

application; KU Leuven.

Administrative services

Member of the education committee for the bachelor education in administrative sciences

(Administrationsbacheloruddannelserne at VIA Aarhus) 2018-?

Member of the senior college (an advisory body at Department of Political Science, Aarhus

University) 2018-2019.

Chair of the public administration section and part of “medarbejderrådet” at Department of

Political Science, Aarhus University. 2015.

Other activities

Assessment committees

Chair of assessment committee for the position as professor with special responsibilities (MSO)

and member of the hiring committee (The Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde

University), autumn 2019.

Member of post doc assessment committee (Dep. of political Science, Aarhus), spring 2019.

Member of doctoral committee for PhD candidate Marius Ibsen, fall 2016.

Chair of doctoral committee for PhD candidate Ulrik Hvidman, fall 2015.

Organizing conferences and workshops

Chair and organizer of workshop on Administrative Burden at the NOPSA Conference in

Reykjavik, Iceland. August 2020. (with Lene Holm Pedersen and Helena Stensöta).

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Co-organizer, the 2018 Nordic local government conference, Aarhus University, November

2018.

Chair and organizer of workshop on Legitimacy, Performance Management, Citizen Satisfaction

& Trust at the TAD 12 Conference in Ghent, Belgium June 2016. (with Gregg G. Van Ryzin).

Co-convenor and co-organizer of permanent study group on Behavioral Public Administration at

the annual EGPA conferences 2016-2019 (with Lars Tummers, Sebastian Jilke, and Piret

Tonurist).

Research grants & projects

Major projects

The Psychology of Administrative Burden, project running from 2019-2023 (both years included)

ERC Starting Grant 2018 ≈ 1,500,000 euros. Principal investigator.

The Core of the Union: The EU Commission and the Regulation of Europe, project running from

December 1 2016-November 30 2020. Research grant from the Danish Council for Independent

Research. Co-applicant. Principal investigator: Jens Blom-Hansen.

The Impact of Hard and Soft Performance Systems in the Public Sector, project running from

2014-2018. Grant from Region Midtjylland and ongoing application process at the Danish

Council for Independent Research. Co-applicant and co-principal investigator (together with

Mads Leth Felsager Jakobsen).

Causes and Policy Consequences of Agenda-Setting (CAPCAS). Project running from 2014-

2017. Research grant from the Danish Council for Independent Research. Co-applicant.

Principal investigator: Peter Bjerre Mortensen.

Improving Public Service Provision: The Causal Effect of Endogenous Institutions (IMPUSE).

Project running from 2011-February 2017. Research grant from the Danish Council for

Independent Research. Co-applicant. Principal investigator: Søren Serritzlew.

Local Public Sector Reforms: An International Comparison. Project running from 2013-2017.

COST Action IS1207 granted from the European Commission. Co-applicant. Main Applicant:

Sabine Kuhlmann.

Other research grants

The Psychological Costs of Complex Rules. December 2017. Granted DKK 35,000 from The

Department of Political Science, Aarhus University. PI (other participants: Donald P. Moynihan

and Pamela Herd).

Partisan bias and functional responsibility in citizen satisfaction evaluations with municipal

services. April 2017. Granted DKK 45,000 from The Department of Political Science, Aarhus

University. PI. (co-applicant: Sebastian Jilke: Rutgers University, Newark)

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Comparing Motivated Reasoning of Politicians and Citizens. November 2016. Granted DKK

20,000 from the AUFF supplementary pool with additional DKK 10,000 co-funding from

Department of Political Science at Aarhus University. Main applicant and PI

Training in research applications

Participation in workshop at Yellow Research, Amsterdam, May 9 2018: “ERC Interview

Training: Starting Grants 2018”

Teaching and supervision

Spring 2020: Teaching a course at the Flexible Master of Public Management. Title: “New

forms of organization in the public sector” (26 students).

Fall 2019:

Teaching a master’s class entitled “Kommunerne i et forvaltnings- og ledelsesperspektiv”. (29

students).

Spring 2019:

Teaching a master’s class (“core course”) entitled “Advanced public administration”. With Matt

Loftis and Morten Jakobsen (25 students).

Spring 2018:

Teaching a bachelor seminar (including supervision of bachelor theses) Entitled: Experimental

approaches to public administration research (15 students).

Fall 2017:

Teaching a master’s class (“core course”) entitled “The interplay between citizens and the public

administration”. With Mette Kjærgaard Thomsen and Morten Hjortskov Larsen (21 students).

Spring 2017:

Teaching a project seminar entitled “The relevance of social network analysis to public

administration questions”. (4 students).

Fall 2016

Teaching a course at the Flexible Master of Public Management. Title: “Change Management

and Reorganization”. With Anne Bøllingtoft. (43 students).

Spring 2016:

Teaching a bachelor seminar (including supervision of bachelor theses) entitled: Citizens and

their relations to the public administration (15 students).

Fall 2015:

Lectures in Public Administration (approx. 260 students). Coordination among student

instructors. With Jens Blom-Hansen.

Spring 2015:

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Teaching a master’s class in a course entitled “Advanced Public Administration”. With Anne

Mette Kjeldsen (approx. 20 students).

Fall 2014:

Lectures in Public Administration (approx. 260 students). Coordination among student

instructors. With Helle Ørsted Nielsen.

Fall 2013:

Teaching classes in Public Administration at Department of Public Health, Aarhus University.

Summer 2013:

Teaching a Master’s class in a course entitled: Citizens Perceptions of Public Services.

Spring 2013:

Teaching a PhD-course in quantitative statistics.

Spring 2012:

Teaching a master’s class in a course entitled: Central-local government relations”.

Fall 2011:

Teaching a master’s class in a course entitled: “Local government politics after the municipal

amalgamations in 2007”.

Spring 2011

Teaching a master’s class in a course entitled: “New methods in political science” (with Søren

Serritzlew).

Fall 2009

Instructor in Public Administration at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University.

Spring 2009

Teaching a master’s class in a course entitled “Attitudes and Roles in Public Organizations: The

Case of Danish Municipalities”

Fall 2006

Instructor in methodology at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University.

Fall 2005

Instructor in an introductory course in political science at Department of Political Science,

Aarhus University.

Spring 2005

Instructor in social science at the Danish School of Journalism.

Fall 2004

Instructor in social science at the Danish School of Journalism.

Supervision

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PhD-supervision:

Main supervisor:

-Rasmus Schjødt (began September 17 2019; expected completion Sept. 2022)

-Frederik Godt Hansen (began Sept. 2017; expected completion August 2021)

-Aske Halling (began February the 15th 2019; expected completion February 2022)

Co-supervisor: Lene Odgaard Hellmund (completed 2016), Søren Kølbæk Larsen (completed

2019), Rebecca Risbjerg Nørgaard (expected completion August 2021)

Visiting Phds: Jonas Krogh Madsen, Roskilde University (October-November 2019), Mirijam

Böhme, University of Bamberg (May-June 2018), Chenzhou Zhang, Xiamen University

(October 2017 – January 2019)

Master theses supervised as of November 2019 (finalized): 36.

Bachelor theses supervised as of July 2018: 28.

Pedagogical/popular lectures

”Hvorfor er det vigtigt at stemme til kommunalvalg?”, Demokratiets dag, 27.10. 2017.

”Oplysning til borgerne om samfundet? Om benchmarks og ranglister som borgerinformation”,

Aarhus Seminarerne, 20.08.2015.

”Status på følgeforskning om ”Ny Styring i et patientperspektiv””, Tværfagligt Forum

(deltagelse af afdelingsledelser på udvalgte sygehuse samt koncernøkonomi i Region

Midtjylland), 21.01.2015.

”Borgerinddragelse og lokaldemokrati”, KMD Netværksmøde for kommunale sekretariatschefer,

10.10.2013.

”Det lokale demokratis tilstand efter kommunalreformen”, Frit Oplysningsforbund, Århus, 2.4 og

16.4. 2009.

Numerous internal presentations at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, 2007-

present.

Research areas:

Administrative burden; performance management; performance information; citizen satisfaction

surveys; Local politics, -democracy, and -administration, EU administration (comitology); hiring

discrimination.

Areas of teaching and supervision:

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Public administration; Performance management; Administrative burden; Citizen satisfaction;

Prospect theory; Local politics, -democracy and -administration; Municipal organization;

Experimental methods; municipal elections; hiring discrimination; street level bureaucracy.