Research Group Public Governance
In the last few decades, the powers of many national governments have shifted to other parties. There has been an upwards shift towards international organisations such as the European Union, the World Bank, the IMF and the OECD, but also a sideways shift towards (partly) privatised or independent parts of the national government and a downward shift towards lower levels of government and public organisations, such as schools and hospitals. In brief, there has been a shift from government to governance.
In this new administrative situation, the government no longer holds a monopoly on power, with priorities, direction and accountability now spread across complex networks.
The Public Governance research group is investigating how governance can be organised effectively in these complex networks, with a particular focus on the role of national government. The research group analyses trends, develops conceptual frameworks and carries out empirical research into actual governance situations, to find out how priorities, direction and accountability are organised in a number of policy fields and the kinds of demands this places on policymakers and national civil servants.
Team
Marieke Breed
Antonio Frank
Rosa Groen
Pieter Huisman
Arjan Mulder
Catharina Angelique Ruiter
Agota Szabo
Lecturer, Business Management
Ayse Terzi
Theo Zijderveld
Rosa Groen
Rosa Groen is completing a PhD project at Leiden University on how cities and host countries attract International Organizations. What determines the successes of medium-sized Western European cities to attract international organizations (IOs)? She selected 6 cases of IOs in 4 cities (Geneva, The Hague, Vienna, Copenhagen) of which half were successfully attracted. The working title of her thesis is: 'Local challenges in a rapidly changing world’. Rosa works as a lecturer on Public Management, globalisation and research skills, is a country tutor for Spain, and the secretary for the Business Administration Degree Programme Advisory Committee (Faculty of Management & Organisation). Rosa’s research project is aimed at qualitative study involving students of the Business Organisation program who will be interviewing youths in disadvantaged areas and refugee status holders in The Hague specifically about SDG 16 and the perceived implications of this SDG for them. How can the words ‘Peace and Justice’ be of made of more value to these two groups? The research also explores through interviews with status holders just how to realise ‘inclusive societies for sustainable development, providing access to justice for all’ as part of SDG 16 and highlights the different ways EU countries act to address the refugee crisis.
r.s.groen@hhs.nlCatharina Angelique Ruiter
Lecturer, Business Management
Agota Szabo
Dr. Agota Szabo is a passionate and highly-motivated academic and business professional who believes in the power of good leadership and transparent governance systems. She spends most of her academic work understanding how top management teams make decisions, design their organizational governance systems and implement good governance practices to their organizations. As a lecturer, her goal is to educate the next generation of students to become ethical leaders of their organizations and to introduce change for a more transparent governance system. In 2019, she was invited as a visiting scholar to the George Washington University, in Washington D.C. Agota holds a Ph.D degree in Organizational governance from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and a Global Business and Stakeholder Management degree from Erasmus University.
a.szabo@hhs.nlAyse Terzi
About the professor
dr. Henno Theisens
Henno studied European Politics and Policy at the London School of Economics, and Public Administration at the University of Twente. In 2004, he earned a doctorate from the Center for Higher Education Policy Studies with a comparative research paper on policy change in higher education in the Netherlands and in England. As a researcher in Enschede, he carried out international consultancy work in particular. Starting from 2005, he worked as an analyst at the Education Directorate of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris. In 2012, Theisens was appointed a lector at The Hague University of Applied Sciences.
+31 (0) 70 - 445 70 26h.c.theisens@hhs.nl