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Peter Hupe

Peter Hupe

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Political Science

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24
Citations
6292
World Ranking
1645
National Ranking
22

Overview

Peter Hupe is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and has a research profile encompassing public policy, law, and management. Their recent publications focus on topics related to regulation, compliance, judicial systems, and innovations in legal education and practice.

Hupe's research contributions include several papers published in specialized journals, covering aspects of the state, governance, and political processes. Notable recent papers are:

  • Making a Case for the State. Review essay on Paul du Gay and Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth, For Public Service: State, Office and Ethics. Abingdon: Routledge, 2023, published in 2024 in dms - der moderne staat - Zeitschrift für Public Policy Recht und Management
  • Om de toekomst van de polder, 2023, published in Beleid en Maatschappij
  • Vakmanschap in uitvoering, 2023, published in Bestuurskunde
  • Making a Case for the State. Review essay on Paul du Gay and Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth (2023), For Public Service: State, Office and Ethics. Abingdon: Routledge. 183 pp. ISBN: 978-0-415-67879-7., 2024, published in dms - der moderne staat - Zeitschrift für Public Policy Recht und Management
  • Government retrenchment as pacification politics: Understanding the Dutch case / Sparpolitik als Befriedungspolitik: Der niederländische Fall, 2025, published in dms - der moderne staat - Zeitschrift für Public Policy Recht und Management

Frequent publication venues for Hupe include:

  • dms - der moderne staat - Zeitschrift für Public Policy Recht und Management
  • International Review of Public Policy
  • Beleid en Maatschappij
  • Bestuurskunde

Hupe's main research topics cover:

  • Regulation and Compliance Studies
  • Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
  • Legal Education and Practice Innovations

Their subfields of study span:

  • Strategy and Management
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Law

Collaboration is an element of Hupe's research work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Nadine Raaphorst
  • Maaike Breedveld
  • Michael D. Hill

Best Publications

  • STREET-LEVEL BUREAUCRACY AND PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY

    Peter Hupe;Michael Hill

  • Implementing public policy

    Michael Hill;Peter Hupe

  • Implementing public policy : governance in theory and practice

    Michael J. Hill;Peter L. Hupe

  • Talking About Government: The role of magic concepts

    Christopher Pollitt;Peter Hupe

  • Implementing Public Policy: An Introduction to the Study of Operational Governance

    Michael J. Hill;Peter L. Hupe

  • A Public Service Gap: Capturing contexts in a comparative approach of street-level bureaucracy

    Peter Hupe;Aurélien Buffat

  • Understanding street-level bureaucracy

    Peter Hupe;Michael Hill;Aurélien Buffat

  • The multi-layer problem in implementation research

    Michael Hill;Peter Hupe

  • ‘And the rest is implementation.’ Comparing approaches to what happens in policy processes beyond Great Expectations:

    Peter L Hupe;Michael J Hill

  • Serving many masters: Public accountability in private policy implementation

    Eva Thomann;Peter Hupe;Fritz Sager

  • What happens on the ground: Persistent issues in implementation research

    Peter Hupe

  • Dimensions of Discretion: Specifying the Object of Street-Level Bureaucracy Research

    Peter Hupe

  • The Thesis of Incongruent Implementation: Revisiting Pressman and Wildavsky

    Peter L. Hupe

  • Analysing policy processes as multiple governance: Accountability in social policy

    Michael Hill;Peter Hupe

  • Research Handbook on Street-Level Bureaucracy

    Peter Hupe

  • Managing Implementation Processes in Networks

    Laurence J. O'Toole;K.I. Hanf;P.L. Hupe

  • The Three Action Levels of Governance: Re-Framing the Policy Process beyond the Stages Model

    Peter L. Hupe;Michael J. Hill

  • Overheidsbeleid als politiek : over de grondslagen van beleid

    Peter Hupe

  • Studying implementation beyond deficit analysis: The top-down view reconsidered

    Peter Hupe;Michael Hill;Monika Nangia

  • Policy Implementation in an Age of Governance

    Harald Sætren;Peter L. Hupe

  • The accountability of power: Democracy and governance in modern times

    Peter Hupe;Arthur Edwards

  • Comparative Implementation Research: Directions and Dualities

    Peter Hupe;Harald Sætren

  • The sustainable future of implementation research: On the development of the field and its paradoxes:

    Peter Hupe;Harald Sætren

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Hill
Michael Hill Newcastle University
Laurence J. O'Toole
Laurence J. O'Toole University of Georgia
Peter J. May
Peter J. May University of Washington
Fritz Sager
Fritz Sager University of Bern
Erik-Hans Klijn
Erik-Hans Klijn Erasmus University Rotterdam
Joop Koppenjan
Joop Koppenjan Erasmus University Rotterdam
Walter J.M. Kickert
Walter J.M. Kickert Erasmus University Rotterdam

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