The changing face of local democracy? The impact of citizen participation on attitudes, roles, relationships and legitimacy perceptions of democratic institutional stakeholders

Actionable Advocacy? How poverty NPOs influence Flemish local policymakers’ willingness to act

Better together? Exploring public value co-creation in public services

Doctoral project Björn Carré

‘Of course, it’s not a good way to make decisions, but it works to put stuff on the agenda’. Civil society organisations’ perceptions of participation modes in policymaking.

Doctoral project Adinda van Gaalen

Doctoral project Elien Coppens

Doctoral project Mansur Muhammad Bello

Doctoral project Toon Benoot

Essays in Local Public Finance - An Empirical Analysis of Pork Barrel Politics in Flanders

Politico-Administrative Relations in Urban Governance - An examination of Policy Integration, Political Advisers, and Crisis Management

Towards Local Participatory Governance: Local Executive Politicians' and Civil Servants’ Perspectives and Roles.

With or without you ? Exploring the effects of local participatory governance and their conditionality

A Matter of Context? A Cross-Country Analysis of the Conditions under which Business Practices ‘Work’ in Nonprofit Organizations

Civil society Innovation in Flanders - investigating and designing new models of social - CSI-Flanders

Evaluation of the way in which local government implements a participatory governance for elderly people.

Marketization of care and social justice: a public administration – social work perspective on the meaning of personal care budgets in care for mentally disabled people.

Policy Research Center Welfare, Public Health and Family - EF62 Care and support in the Scandinavian countries as a reference for integrated care and support for people with disabilities in Flanders

Research local democracy and citizen participation

Investigation of the financial and organisational needs of child care in Flanders related to the BOA-Decree goals.

Understanding Democratic Innovations for Rapid and Just Sustainable Transitions in the European Union