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Research Victor Bekkers

During 2003 en 2004 Prof. Bekkers has been or is engaged in the following contract research projects, which have been carried out by the Departement of Public Administration or the Center for Public Innov@tion:

• Research into the development and implementation of integral forms of rule-enforcement policies at the local government level (Ministry of Justice).
• Research into the process management of large ICT information systems, which cross organizational boundaries (Program on Streamlining Basic Information, ICTU).
• Research into the governance of risks related to the interconnectedness of socio-organizational, physical and ICT-networks and infrastructures (Departments of Internal Affairs and Housing and Urban Planning).
• Research into the utilization process of the advices of the so-called strategic policy advisory boards in the Netherlands in the policy-making process of Dutch departments (multi-client research)
• Research, focused on the exploration of ICT innovation challenges in order to increase the social cohesion and safety of neighborhoods in local government (Department of Internal Affairs).
• Research related to flexibility of information architectures in relation to policy implementation chains (Department of Internal Affairs).
• Research related to the process management of the developing information architectures in urban planning (ICES/KISS Basic-program).

Fundamental research:
Within the broader research program on ‘Public governance and policy dynamics’ of the Center for Public Gov ernance, I am responsible for the program as such as the academic director. An important project within this program is the writing of an edited volume on ‘Governance and the democratic deficit’.

• Within the program there is a research cluster on public innovation. Within this cluster the following projects can be distinguished which ask most of my attention:
• The utilization of information and knowledge which are produced by the introduction of policy monitors in multi-layer government (Ph.D. thesis of Dennis de Kool);
• The development of an information ecological approach of e-government (together with Vincent Homburg);
• Knowledge/expert centers and the transfer and diffusion of innovations in public administration (together with Menno Fenger and Henk Koerten);
• The transfer and diffusion of innovations in public administration (Ph.D Thesis of Evelien Korteland);
• The assumptions which lay behind reinventing government and public innovation programs in several European countries: a comparative approach (together with Menno Fenger).

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