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2026
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2023

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53
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Political Science in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Political Science in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Law and Political Science in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Law and Political Science in Denmark Leader Award

Overview

Eva Sørensen is affiliated with Roskilde University in Denmark, focusing their research primarily within the fields of Social Sciences and Business, Management and Accounting. Their work spans several subfields, including Public Administration, Political Science and International Relations, Management of Technology and Innovation, Sociology and Political Science, and Marketing.

The main topics covered in Sørensen's research include Public Policy and Administration Research, Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development, E-Government and Public Services, Service and Product Innovation, Management and Organizational Studies, Policy Transfer and Learning, and Social Policy and Reform Studies.

Recently published papers by Sørensen demonstrate a focus on governance, public administration, and political science intersections. Notable recent works include:

  • The COVID-19 pandemic as a game changer for public administration and leadership? The need for robust governance responses to turbulent problems, 2020, Public Management Review
  • Public administration and politics meet turbulence: The search for robust governance responses, 2022, Public Administration
  • Rising to Ostrom's challenge: an invitation to walk on the bright side of public governance and public service, 2021, Policy Design and Practice
  • Understanding Collaboration: Introducing the Collaborative Governance Case Databank, 2020, Policy and Society
  • Bringing political science back into public administration research, 2022, Governance

Sørensen collaborates frequently with other scholars in their field. Key co-authors include Jacob Torfing, Christopher Ansell, Jon Pierre, Asbjørn Roiseland, and Baron Peters.

Their academic output has appeared repeatedly in distinguished journals and venues such as Public Administration, Policy and Society, Public Management Review, Policy & Politics, and Public Policy and Administration, illustrating a consistent engagement with top-level scholarly platforms.

The scientist has also contributed several books published by major academic presses. These include works with Edward Elgar Publishing, such as Handbook of Collaborative Public Management (2021), Advancing Co-creation in Local Governance (2024), and How collaborative governance can make political systems more democratic and effective (2022). Additionally, Robust Governance in Turbulent Times was published by Cambridge University Press in 2024.

Best Publications

  • Theories of democratic network governance

    Eva Sørensen;Jacob Torfing

  • Making governance networks effective and democratic through metagovernance

    Eva Sørensen;Jacob Torfing

  • Enhancing Collaborative Innovation in the Public Sector

    Eva Sørensen;Jacob Torfing

  • Interactive Governance: Advancing the Paradigm

    Eva Sørensen;Jacob Torfing;B. Guy Peters;Jon Pierre

  • The Democratic Anchorage of Governance Networks

    Eva Sørensen;Jacob Torfing

  • Metagovernance The Changing Role of Politicians in Processes of Democratic Governance

    Eva Sørensen

  • Collaborative innovation: A Viable Alternative to Market Competition and Organizational Entrepreneurship

    Jean Hartley;Eva Sørensen;Jacob Torfing

  • Interactive GovernanceAdvancing the Paradigm

    Jacob Torfing;B. Guy Peters;Jon Pierre;Eva Sørensen

  • Transforming the Public Sector Into an Arena for Co-Creation: Barriers, Drivers, Benefits, and Ways Forward

    Jacob Torfing;Eva Sørensen;Asbjørn Røiseland

  • Towards a multi-actor theory of public value co-creation

    John M Bryson;Alessandro Sancino;John Benington;Eva Sørensen

  • Network Governance and Post-Liberal Democracy

    Eva Sørensen;Jacob Torfing

  • Introduction: Collaborative innovation in the public sector

    Eva Sørensen;Jacob Torfing

  • The COVID-19 pandemic as a game changer for public administration and leadership? The need for robust governance responses to turbulent problems

    Christopher Ansell;Eva Sørensen;Jacob Torfing

  • Democratic Theory and Network Governance

    Eva Sørensen

  • Introduction: Governance Network Research: Towards a Second Generation

    Eva Sørensen;Jacob Torfing

  • Network Politics, Political Capital, and Democracy

    Eva Sørensen;Jacob Torfing

  • Improving policy implementation through collaborative policymaking

    Christopher Ansell;Eva Sørensen;Jacob Torfing

  • Metagoverning Collaborative Innovation in Governance Networks

    Eva Sørensen;Eva Sørensen;Jacob Torfing;Jacob Torfing

  • Netværksstyring: fra government til governance

    Eva Sørensen;Jacob Torfing

  • Public administration and politics meet turbulence: The search for robust governance responses

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  • Theoretical Approaches to Metagovernance

    Eva Sørensen;Jacob Torfing

Frequent Co-Authors

Jacob Torfing
Jacob Torfing Roskilde University
B. Guy Peters
B. Guy Peters University of Pittsburgh
Jon Pierre
Jon Pierre University of Gothenburg
Christopher Ansell
Christopher Ansell University of California, Berkeley
Chris Skelcher
Chris Skelcher University of Birmingham
Paul 't Hart
Paul 't Hart Utrecht University
Erik-Hans Klijn
Erik-Hans Klijn Erasmus University Rotterdam
Jurian Edelenbos
Jurian Edelenbos Erasmus University Rotterdam
Donald P. Moynihan
Donald P. Moynihan University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Patsy Healey
Patsy Healey Newcastle University

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