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Søren Serritzlew

Søren Serritzlew

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Political Science

D-Index
24
Citations
2604
World Ranking
1701
National Ranking
33

Overview

Søren Serritzlew is affiliated with Aarhus University in Denmark, contributing predominantly to the social sciences with a specialized focus on political science and related subfields. Their work spans multiple areas including political science and international relations, sociology and political science, public administration, strategy and management, as well as economics and econometrics.

The primary research topics covered by Søren Serritzlew involve local government finance and decentralization, electoral systems and political participation, public policy and administration research, policy transfer and learning, nonprofit sector and volunteering, social and intergroup psychology, and political influence and corporate strategies.

They have authored research published in a range of academic venues, including:

  • Journal of European Public Policy
  • Public Performance & Management Review
  • Public Administration
  • Governance
  • European Journal of Political Research

Recent papers by Søren Serritzlew cover themes related to bureaucratic influence, political decision-making, stakeholder consultations, government effectiveness, and organizational reputation. Notable publications include:

  • How bureaucrats shape political decisions: The role of policy information (2020), Public Administration
  • Stakeholder consultations in the EU Commission: instruments of involvement or legitimacy? (2022), Journal of European Public Policy
  • Jurisdiction size and local government effectiveness: Assessing the effects of municipal amalgamations on performance (2020), European Journal of Political Research
  • How politicians see their relationship with top bureaucrats: Revisiting classical images (2020), Governance
  • The core of organisational reputation: taking multidimensionality, audience multiplicity, and agency subunits seriously (2023), Journal of European Public Policy

Søren Serritzlew frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Jens Blom-Hansen, Martin Bækgaard, Anne Skorkjær Binderkrantz, Kurt Houlberg, and Moritz Müller.

In addition to journal publications, Søren Serritzlew has contributed to book literature with the publication of "Offentlig forvaltning - et politologisk perspektiv" released in 2024 by King's College London.

Best Publications

  • Jurisdiction Size and Local Democracy: Evidence on Internal Political Efficacy from Large-scale Municipal Reform

    David Dreyer Lassen;Søren Serritzlew

  • Jurisdiction Size and Local Government Policy Expenditure: Assessing the Effect of Municipal Amalgamation

    Jens Blom-Hansen;Kurt Houlberg;Søren Serritzlew;Daniel Treisman

  • Motivated Reasoning and Political Parties: Evidence for Increased Processing in the Face of Party Cues

    Michael Bang Petersen;Martin Skov;Martin Skov;Søren Serritzlew;Thomas Ramsøy;Thomas Ramsøy

  • Size, Democracy, and the Economic Costs of Running the Political System

    Jens Blom-Hansen;Kurt Houlberg;Søren Serritzlew

  • Interpreting Performance Information: Motivated Reasoning or Unbiased Comprehension

    Martin Baekgaard;Søren Serritzlew

  • Does Public Service Motivation Affect the Behavior of Professionals

    Lotte Bøgh Andersen;Søren Serritzlew

  • The Unintended Effects of Private School Competition

    Simon Calmar Andersen;Søren Serritzlew

  • Experiments in Public Management Research

    Jens Blom-Hansen;Rebecca Morton;Søren Serritzlew

  • Theories of coalition formation: An empirical test using data from Danish local government

    Asbjørn Skjæveland;Søren Serritzlew;Jens Blom-Hansen

  • Ballot position and election results: Evidence from a natural experiment

    Jens Blom-Hansen;Jørgen Elklit;Søren Serritzlew;Louise Riis Villadsen

  • Do Corruption and Social Trust Affect Economic Growth? A Review

    Søren Serritzlew;Kim Mannemar Sønderskov;Gert Tinggaard Svendsen

  • Conducting Experiments in Public Management Research: A Practical Guide

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

  • Special issue on municipal amalgamations: guest editors’ introduction

    Yaniv Reingewertz;Soren Serritzlew

  • Stakeholder consultations in the EU Commission: instruments of involvement or legitimacy?

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  • When Politics Matters: The Impact of Politicians' and Bureaucrats' Preferences on Salient and Nonsalient Policy Areas

    Martin Baekgaard;Jens Blom-Hansen;Søren Serritzlew

  • Explaining Oversized Coalitions: Empirical Evidence from Local Governments

    Søren Serritzlew;Asbjørn Skjæveland;Jens Blom-Hansen

  • Losers lose more than winners win: asymmetrical effects of winning and losing in elections

    Sune Welling Hansen;Robert Klemmensen;Søren Serritzlew

  • 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

  • Linking Budgets to Activity: A Test of the Effect of Output-Purchase Budgeting

    Søren Serritzlew

  • Shaping Local Councillor Preferences: Party Politics, Committee Structure and Social Background1

    Søren Serritzlew

  • Jurisdiction size and local government effectiveness: Assessing the effects of municipal amalgamations on performance

    Jens Blom‐Hansen;Kurt Houlberg;Søren Serritzlew

  • Causes of Fiscal Illusion: Lack of Information or Lack of Attention?

    Martin Baekgaard;Søren Serritzlew;Jens Blom-Hansen

  • Tax Limitations and Revenue Shifting Strategies in Local Government

    Jens Blom‐Hansen;Martin Bækgaard;Søren Serritzlew

Frequent Co-Authors

Jens Blom-Hansen
Jens Blom-Hansen Aarhus University
Martin Baekgaard
Martin Baekgaard Aarhus University
Michael Bang Petersen
Michael Bang Petersen Aarhus University
Gert Tinggaard Svendsen
Gert Tinggaard Svendsen Aarhus University
Patrick J. Wolf
Patrick J. Wolf University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
Claire A. Dunlop
Claire A. Dunlop University of Exeter
Andreas Roepstorff
Andreas Roepstorff Aarhus University
Daniel Treisman
Daniel Treisman University of California, Los Angeles
Oliver James
Oliver James University of Exeter

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