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Martin Baekgaard

Martin Baekgaard

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Political Science

D-Index
29
Citations
2972
World Ranking
1302
National Ranking
27

Martin Baekgaard publication distribution in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Political Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Martin Baekgaard sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 112 publications — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 333 publications or more.

Martin Baekgaard D-index placement in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Political Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Martin Baekgaard sits on this spectrum.

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20 D-Index 62+

This scientist: 29 D-Index — 40th percentile

40% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 62 D-Index or more.

Overview

Martin Baekgaard is affiliated with Aarhus University in Denmark. Their research primarily spans the field of Social Sciences with a significant focus on subfields such as Political Science and International Relations, General Health Professions, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, and Strategy and Management.

The scientist's work covers multiple main topics including Employment and Welfare Studies, Public Policy and Administration Research, Electoral Systems and Political Participation, Regulation and Compliance Studies, Social Policy and Reform Studies, Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems, and Retirement, Disability, and Employment.

Frequent publication venues for Baekgaard include the SSRN Electronic Journal, the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration Review, Public Administration, and the Journal of Behavioral Public Administration.

Notable recent papers authored by Martin Baekgaard include:

  1. Rallying around the flag in times of COVID-19: Societal lockdown and trust in democratic institutions, 2020, Journal of Behavioral Public Administration
  2. Why Do Policymakers Support Administrative Burdens? The Roles of Deservingness, Political Ideology, and Personal Experience, 2020, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
  3. Administrative Burden: Untangling a Bowl of Conceptual Spaghetti, 2021, Perspectives on Public Management and Governance
  4. Reducing Compliance Demands in Government Benefit Programs Improves the Psychological Well-Being of Target Group Members, 2021, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory

In addition to Baekgaard's own publications, collaboration with frequent co-authors is a feature of their research profile. These co-authors include Jonas Krogh Madsen, Donald P. Moynihan, Kim Sass Mikkelsen, Julian Christensen, and Søren Serritzlew.

Best Publications

  • Human Capital and Administrative Burden: The Role of Cognitive Resources in Citizen-State Interactions.

    Julian Christensen;Lene Aarøe;Martin Baekgaard;Pamela Herd

  • Interpreting Performance Information: Motivated Reasoning or Unbiased Comprehension

    Martin Baekgaard;Søren Serritzlew

  • The Role of Evidence in Politics: Motivated Reasoning and Persuasion among Politicians

    Martin Baekgaard;Julian Christensen;Casper Mondrup Dahlmann;Asbjørn Mathiasen

  • Performance Information, Blame Avoidance, and Politicians’ Attitudes to Spending and Reform: Evidence from an Experiment

    Poul Aaes Nielsen;Martin Bækgaard

  • Rallying around the flag in times of COVID-19: Societal lockdown and trust in democratic institutions

    Martin Baekgaard;Julian Christensen;Jonas Krogh Madsen;Kim Sass Mikkelsen

  • Making Sense of Performance Regimes: Rebalancing External Accountability and Internal Learning

    Mads Leth Jakobsen;Martin Baekgaard;Donald P Moynihan;Nina van Loon

  • Rational planning and politicians’ preferences for spending and reform: replication and extension of a survey experiment

    Bert George;Sebastian Desmidt;Poul Aaes Nielsen;Martin Baekgaard

  • Why Do Policymakers Support Administrative Burdens? The Roles of Deservingness, Political Ideology, and Personal Experience

    Martin Bækgaard;Donald P. Moynihan;Mette Kjærgaard Thomsen

  • Reducing Compliance Demands in Government Benefit Programs Improves the Psychological Well-Being of Target Group Members

    Martin Baekgaard;Kim Sass Mikkelsen;Jonas Krogh Madsen;Julian Christensen

  • The Psychological Costs of Citizen Coproduction

    Mette Kjærgaard Thomsen;Martin Baekgaard;Ulrich Thy Jensen

  • The Political Psychology of Citizen Satisfaction: Does Functional Responsibility Matter?

    Sebastian Jilke;Martin Baekgaard

  • Conducting Experiments in Public Management Research: A Practical Guide

    Martin Baekgaard;Caroline Baethge;Jens Blom-Hansen;Claire A. Dunlop

  • Is stress among street‐level bureaucrats associated with experiences of administrative burden among clients? A multilevel study of the Danish unemployment sector

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  • Equal Access to the Top? Representative Bureaucracy and Politicians’ Recruitment Preferences for Top Administrative Staff

    Martin Baekgaard;Bert George

  • Personality and Public Administration: Policymaker Tolerance of Administrative Burdens in Welfare Services

    Lene Aarøe;Martin Baekgaard;Julian Christensen;Donald P. Moynihan

  • Tackling the Performance Regime Paradox: A Problem‐Solving Approach Engages Professional Goal‐Based Learning

    Donald P. Moynihan;Martin Baekgaard;Mads Leth Jakobsen

  • The Gendered Division of Labor in Assignments to Political Committees: Discrimination or Self-Selection in Danish Local Politics?

    Martin Baekgaard;Ulrik Kjær

  • Performance Information and Citizen Service Attitudes: Do Cost Information and Service Use Affect the Relationship?

    Martin Baekgaard

  • The Bureaucracy and the Policy Agenda

    Martin Baekgaard;Peter B Mortensen;Henrik Bech Seeberg

  • Prospect theory and public service outcomes: Examining risk preferences in relation to public sector reforms

    Martin Baekgaard

  • How bureaucrats shape political decisions: The role of policy information

    Jens Blom-Hansen;Martin Baekgaard;Søren Serritzlew

  • Local News Media and Voter Turnout

    Martin Baekgaard;Carsten Jensen;Peter B. Mortensen;Søren Serritzlew

  • Negative feedback, political attention, and public policy

    Martin Baekgaard;Søren K. Larsen;Peter B. Mortensen

Frequent Co-Authors

Søren Serritzlew
Søren Serritzlew Aarhus University
Donald P. Moynihan
Donald P. Moynihan University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jens Blom-Hansen
Jens Blom-Hansen Aarhus University
Patrick J. Wolf
Patrick J. Wolf University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
Claire A. Dunlop
Claire A. Dunlop University of Exeter
Oliver James
Oliver James University of Exeter
Ileana Steccolini
Ileana Steccolini University of Essex
Gregg G. Van Ryzin
Gregg G. Van Ryzin Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Kasper M. Hansen
Kasper M. Hansen University of Copenhagen

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