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Steven Van de Walle

Steven Van de Walle

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Political Science
Belgium
2026
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Law and Political Science
Belgium
2023

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Political Science

D-Index
47
Citations
8750
World Ranking
304
National Ranking
4

Business and Management

D-Index
47
Citations
8515
World Ranking
1168
National Ranking
13

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Steven Van de Walle is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and conducts research primarily in the social sciences. Their work spans a range of subfields including sociology and political science, public administration, strategy and management, political science and international relations, as well as economics and econometrics.

The research topics frequently addressed by Van de Walle include public policy and administration research, nonprofit sector and volunteering, public procurement and policy, economic and environmental valuation, social capital and networks, local government finance and decentralization, and e-government and public services.

Van de Walle has authored several papers in well-regarded academic journals. Recent publications include:

  • The effects of new public management on the quality of public services, 2020, Governance
  • Institutional quality, corruption, and impartiality: the role of process and outcome for citizen trust in public administration in 173 European regions, 2020, Journal of Economic Policy Reform
  • A systematic review of the literature on determinants of public managers' attitudes toward public participation, 2021, Local Government Studies
  • Understanding channel choice in users' reporting behavior: Evidence from a smart mobility case, 2020, Government Information Quarterly
  • Goats or wolves? Private sector managers in the public sector, 2020, Governance

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Steven Van de Walle include Amandine Lerusse, Koen Migchelbrink, Zejin Liu, Víctor Lapuente, and Zhao Yang.

Steven Van de Walle has contributed to several publication venues, often appearing in:

  • Governance
  • Local Government Studies
  • Journal of Asian Public Policy
  • Revue Internationale des Sciences Administratives
  • Journal of Economic Policy Reform

Best Publications

  • Comparing measures of citizen trust and user satisfaction as indicators of good governance: difficulties in linking trust and satisfaction indicators

    Geert Bouckaert;Steven Van de Walle

  • Public Service Performance and Trust in Government: The Problem of Causality

    Steven Van de Walle;Geert Bouckaert

  • TRUST IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR: IS THERE ANY EVIDENCE FOR A LONG- TERM DECLINE?

    Steven Van de Walle;Steven Van Roosbroek;Geert Bouckaert

  • New Public Management and Citizens' Perceptions of Local Service Efficiency, Responsiveness, Equity and Effectiveness

    Rhys Andrews;Steven Van de Walle

  • Performance information in the public sector: how it is used

    Wouter van Dooren;Steven Van de Walle

  • The effects of new public management on the quality of public services

    Victor Lapuente;Victor Lapuente;Steven Van de Walle

  • International difference in public service motivation: Comparing regions across the world

    Wouter Vandenabeele;Steven Van de Walle

  • TRUST AND DISTRUST AS DISTINCT CONCEPTS: WHY STUDYING DISTRUST IN INSTITUTIONS IS IMPORTANT

    Steven Van de Walle;Frédérique Six

  • A contingency approach to representative bureaucracy: Power, equal opportunities and diversity

    Sandra Groeneveld;Steven Van de Walle

  • The order of questions in a survey on citizen satisfaction with public services: Lessons from a split-ballot experiment

    Steven Van De Walle;Gregg G. Van Ryzin

  • The Impact of the New Public Management: Challenges for Coordination and Cohesion in European Public Sectors

    Steven Van de Walle;Gerhard Hammerschmid

  • Assessing the Relation Between Satisfaction with Public Service Delivery and Trust in Government. The Impact of the Predisposition of Citizens Toward Government on Evalutations of Its Performance

    Jarl K. Kampen;Steven Van De Walle;Geert Bouckaert

  • Public Administration Reforms in Europe: The View from the Top

    Gerhard Hammerschmid;Steven van de Walle;Rhys Andrews;Philippe Bezes

  • Identity vs performance: an overview of theories explaining trust in government

    Geert Bouckaert;Steven Van de Walle;Bart Maddens;Jarl Kampen

  • Potential for comparative public opinion research in public administration

    Geert Bouckaert;Steven Van de Walle;Jarl K. Kampen

  • The state of the world's bureaucracies

    Steven van de Walle

  • Performance Information in the Public Sector

    Wouter Van Dooren;Steven Van de Walle

  • Perceptions of Administrative Performance: The Key to Trust in Government?

    Steven Van de Walle

  • Extrinsic motivation, PSM and labour market characteristics: A multilevel model of public sector employment preference in 26 countries

    Steven Van de Walle;Bram Steijn;Sebastian Jilke

  • Responses to Decline in Marketized Public Services: An Experimental Evaluation of Choice Overload

    Sebastian Jilke;Gregg G. Van Ryzin;Steven Van de Walle

  • Government performance and trust in government

    Steven Van de Walle;Geert Bouckaert

  • Measuring bureaucratic quality in governance indicators

    Steven Van De walle

  • Generating Usable Knowledge through an Experimental Approach to Public Administration

    Sebastian Jilke;Steven Van de Walle;Soonhee Kim

  • When public services fail: a research agenda on public service failure

    Steven Van de Walle

  • Explaining citizen satisfaction and dissatisfaction with public services

    Steven Van de Walle

  • What services are public? What aspects of performance are to be ranked? The case of "Services of General Interest"

    Steven Van de Walle

  • Comparing the performance of national public sectors: conceptual problems

    Steven Van de Walle

  • Confidence In The Criminal Justice System: Does Experience Count?

    Steven Van de Walle

  • When Will Public Officials Listen? A Vignette Experiment on the Effects of Input Legitimacy on Public Officials’ Willingness to Use Public Participation

    Koen Migchelbrink;Steven Van de Walle

  • Cost-effectiveness, domestic favouritism and sustainability in public procurement: A comparative study of public preferences

    Shelena Keulemans;Steven Van de Walle

  • Assessing the Relation between Satisfaction with Public Service Delivery and Trust in Government: The Impact of the Predisposition of Citizens Toward Government on Evaluations of Its Performance

    Jarl K. Kampen;Steven Van de Walle;Steven Van de Walle;Geert Bouckaert

  • International Differences in Public Service Motivation: Comparing Regions across the World

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  • A signaling perspective on bureaucratic encounters: How public officials interpret signals and cues

    Nadine Raaphorst;Steven Van de Walle

  • Quality of public service delivery and trust in government

    Geert Bouckaert;Steven Van de Walle

  • The role of public services in state- and nation building: Exploring lessons from European history for fragile states

    Steven Van de Walle;Zoë Scott

Frequent Co-Authors

Rhys William Andrews
Rhys William Andrews Cardiff University
Oliver James
Oliver James University of Exeter
Chris Skelcher
Chris Skelcher University of Birmingham
Philippe Bezes
Philippe Bezes Sciences Po
Bram Steijn
Bram Steijn Erasmus University Rotterdam
Per Lægreid
Per Lægreid University of Bergen
Lars Tummers
Lars Tummers Utrecht University
Gregg G. Van Ryzin
Gregg G. Van Ryzin Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Tony Bovaird
Tony Bovaird University of Birmingham

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