Prof. dr Frank Hendriks (1966) is full professor of comparative governance at Tilburg University. He is a member of the Dutch Council for Public Governance, an advisory council for Dutch government. He is Fellow at the Montesquieu Institute in The Hague and was Visiting Fellow at St Edmund's College, Cambridge University, at IDHEAP in Lausanne, Switzerland, Harvard University, USC and UCLA in the US.

His research is focused on the design and quality of democratic governance - on political leadership and active citizenship, on public decisionmaking and participation, on reform and innovation in democratic institutions - at the level of the city and the state at large. A good reflection of his current research agenda is the book Rethinking Democratic Innovation, Oxford University Press, 2023 (forthcoming). This is a sequel to Vital Democracy: A Theory of Democracy in Action, Oxford University Press, 2010.

Other books and publications follow below.

Frank Hendriks (1966) is full professor of comparative governance at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. He is specialised in the comparative study of democracy: mixed models and reform of democracy; transition of democratic institutions and culture; democratic leadership and citizenship in flux.

He obtained his PhD from Leyden University in 1996 with a comparative study of democratic decision-making. The reworked English version was published as 'Public Policy and Political Institutions' (Edward Elgar, 1999), described by Mary Douglas as "an impressive comparison (...) written with admirable clarity (...) likely to be a classic in the field of public policy."

Gegeven onderwijs/ courses taught 

Governance and politics

Vergelijkende democratieleer (Comparative democratic research)

Bestuurlijke netwerken en instituties (Governance networks and institutions)

Methoden en technieken van sociaal-wetenschappelijk onderzoek (Social science research methods)

Atelier mediacratie: media en democratie (Atelier mediacracy: media and democracy)

Inspirerende denkers (Inspiring thinkers)

Inleiding bestuurskunde (Introduction in public administration)

Verschillende werkgroepen in de bestuurskundige bachelor, master en research master, (various working groups in ba, ma and research master, public administration)

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