Public Administration

The Department of Public Administration addresses societal and governance challenges. The department of Public Administration seeks to enable students, governments, and (semi-)public organizations to understand, contribute to and reflect on processes of public governance aimed at addressing complex societal challenges. To that end, staff integrate adjacent disciplines in their education and research, such as law, economics, political science, psychology, and sociology. Read more about the story of Nijmegen School of Management.

Research

The Department of Public Administration conducts cutting edge research into the challenges that policymakers face today. Our research programme is embedded in the Institute for Management Research. View all publications here.

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Some of the research of the Department of Public Administration is featured below. View the full news overview and all ongoing projects here.

Collage van medewerkers project Wiseshift

WISESHIFT

The project WISESHIFT aspires to advance the EU’s social economy strategy by highlighting the tangible contributions of WISEs to systemic change and sustainable development.

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RADAR (Renewing Administration through Democratic Anchorage Reforms)

The project focuses on the question of how European civil servants can counter the decline of democratic standards by shaping policy in a different way.

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Psychological safety of frontline workers: towards better service delivery

This project combines different theoretical perspectives and methods (ethnography, questionnaire research and vignette experiment) to study the psychological safety of frontline workers in order to improve public service delivery.

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What is the government doing after tragic fireworks disasters like Culemborg and Enschede? Is it making improvements in its legislation and policies? Is it drawing lessons from what went wrong? Matthijs Moorkamp, Associate Professor of Governance of Safety at the Public Administration department, as a member of the University of Twente's research team, analyzed together with the other members 250,000 pages of documentation and released the report 'Lessons from two fireworks disasters'. Matthijs has been interviewed in the NSM Focus.

Read here the interview

Contact information

Visiting address
Heyendaalseweg 141
6525AJ Nijmegen
06-21837498
Postal address
Postbus 9108
6500HK NIJMEGEN