Public Management
Professors and research topics
Bram Verschuere has been focusing on
- Management of public and non-profit organizations,
- Government-civil society relations,
- Coproduction,
- Welfare policy (organisation of the welfare policy sector) and
- Local social policy.
Joris Voets is doing research on
- Strategic management and government capacity of local governments and
- The governance, management, and performance of collaborative arrangements and networks, applied in different sectors like welfare and spatial planning.
Filip De Rynck has developed a track record in the reviewed period on several topics:
- Local government, especially focusing on Urban Policy, organization and functioning of the city administration;
- Local and regional networks, mainly working together with J. Voets;
- Citizen participation;
- Intergovernmental relations and the internal organization of the Flemish region (decentralization, intergovernmental management);
- Local egovernment and ICT - policies.
Ellen Wayenberg specializes in public policy and public administration with a specific interest for
- Multilevel governance (MLG),
- Intergovernmental relations (IGR) and
- Local government.
Marleen Easton has built her own research team ‘Governing & Policing Security’ (GaPS, www.gaps-ugent.be) which generated research on public management and governance in the policy field of safety and security. Research topics are
- The changing nature of security challenges and the changing nature of the actors providing security and control (eg public / private, administrative / judicial),
- The blurring boundaries between these actors and their power on a policy and operational level,
- The implementation of security policies and its implications for the security actors, their partners and citizens.