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2023

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D-Index
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Citations
12431
World Ranking
214
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Law in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2008 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration
  • Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration
  • Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration

Overview

Mark Bovens is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands and specializes in social sciences, with a particular focus on sociology and political science. Their academic work spans several subfields, including political science and international relations, strategy and management, global and planetary change, and public administration.

The topics addressed in their research include:

  • Migration, Refugees, and Integration
  • Migration and Labor Dynamics
  • Regulation and Compliance Studies
  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • Social Capital and Networks
  • Public Policy and Administration Research
  • Ombudsman and Human Rights

Recent publications by Mark Bovens cover issues related to accountability, education, and political behavior. Notable papers include:

  • Indexing watchdog accountability powers: a framework for assessing the accountability capacity of independent oversight institutions, 2020, Regulation & Governance
  • Education, Inequality, and Political Behavior, 2021, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics

Bovens has produced work published in journals such as Regulation & Governance, Journal of European Integration, Bestuurskunde, and Politics and Governance. Frequent publication venues also include Beleid en Maatschappij.

Collaborators frequently working with Bovens include:

  • Roel Jennissen
  • Meike Bokhorst
  • Gijsbert D. A. Werner
  • Victor Toom
  • Suzanne J.M.H. Hulscher

Mark Bovens has authored books released by Springer Nature (Netherlands), with titles including:

  • Migration Diversity and Social Cohesion, 2022
  • Justice in Climate Policy, 2024

Recognized within academic circles, Bovens holds fellowships and awards such as membership in the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2008 and fellowship status within The National Academy of Public Administration.

Best Publications

  • Analysing and Assessing Accountability: A Conceptual Framework†

    M.A.P. Bovens

  • The Quest for Responsibility: Accountability and Citizenship in Complex Organisations

    M. A. P. Bovens

  • Two Concepts of Accountability: Accountability as a Virtue and as a Mechanism

    M.A.P. Bovens

  • From Street‐Level to System‐Level Bureaucracies: How Information and Communication Technology is Transforming Administrative Discretion and Constitutional Control

    Mark Bovens;Stavros Zouridis

  • Does Public Accountability Work? An Assessment Tool

    Mark Bovens;Thomas Schillemans;Paul ’T Hart

  • The Oxford Handbook of Public Accountability

    M. A. P. Bovens;Robert E. Goodin;Thomas Schillemans

  • New Forms of Accountability and EU-Governance

    M.A.P. Bovens

  • Success and failure in public governance : a comparative analysis

    M. A. P. Bovens;Paul 't Hart;B. Guy Peters

  • Analysing and Assessing Public Accountability. A Conceptual Framework.

    M.A.P. Bovens

  • Success and Failure in Public Governance

    Mark Bovens;Paul ‘t Hart;B. Peters

  • Revisiting the study of policy failure

    Mark Bovens;Paul ‘t Hart

  • Deciphering the Dutch drop: ten explanations for decreasing political trust in The Netherlands

    Mark Bovens;Anchrit Wille

  • Diploma Democracy: The Rise of Political Meritocracy

    Anchrit Wille;Mark Bovens

  • The Politics of Policy Evaluation

    Mark Bovens;Paul 't Hart;Sanneke Kuipers

  • Accountability as a Cultural Keyword

    Melvin J. Dubnick

  • The real world of EU accountability: what deficit?

    M. A. P. Bovens;Deirdre Curtin;Paul 't Hart

  • The education gap in participation and its political consequences

    Mark Bovens;Anchrit Wille

  • Accountability and Principal–Agent Theory

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  • Public Accountability

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  • Process Versus Outcome Accountability

    Shefali V. Patil;Ferdinand Vieider;Philip E. Tetlock

  • The Challenge of Multiple Accountability: Does Redundancy Lead to Overload?

    M.A.P. Bovens;T. Schillemans

  • Information Rights: Citizenship in the Information Society

    Mark Bovens

  • The politics of blaim avoidance: defensive tactics in a Dutch crime-fighting scenario

    M.A.P. Bovens;P. 't Hart;S. Dekker;G. Verheuvel

  • A COMMENT ON MARSH AND McCONNELL: TOWARDS A FRAMEWORK FOR ESTABLISHING POLICY SUCCESS

    Mark Bovens

  • The end of the Eurocrats dream: adjusting to European diversity

    Damian Chalmers;Markus Jachtenfuchs;Christian Joerges

  • From street level to system level bureaucracies. How ICT is transforming administrative discretion and constitutional control

    Mark Bovens;Stavros Zouridis

  • From financial accounting to public accountability

    M.A.P. Bovens

Frequent Co-Authors

Deirdre Curtin
Deirdre Curtin European University Institute

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