CURRICULUM VITAE Prof dr Mark Bovens Utrecht School of Governance Utrecht University Bijlhouwerstraat 6 3511 ZC Utrecht The Netherlands 31-30-2537248/8101 mail: m.bovens@uu.nl web: http://www.uu.nl/leg/staff/mapbovens/2 Education 1976-1982 Law (BA 1978; MA 1982), Political Science (BA 1978), Leiden University 1982-1983 LL.M. Columbia University School of Law, New York. 1990 Doctorate Leiden University Academic career 1979-1982 Research and teaching assistantships, Department of Political Science, Leiden University 1983-1989 Lecturer Constitutional Law and Political Theory, Department of Political Science, Leiden University. 1990-1997 Senior Lecturer, Department of Public Administration, Leiden University 1997-2000 Professor of Legal Philosophy, Department of Legal Theory, Utrecht University Law School 1999 - present Professor of Public Administration, Utrecht University 2000 Co-founder of the Utrecht School of Governance 2000-2012 Research Director and chair of the board of the Utrecht School of Governance 2013 present Member Scientific Council for Government Policy, The Hague (0.6)
Visitor & fellowships 1991 Visiting Researcher, Centre for European Studies, Nuffield College, Oxford. 1992 Visiting Research Fellow, University of Western Sydney Nepean, Australia. 1995-1996 Research Fellow, Centre for Law and Public Policy, Leiden University 2006 Academic visitor, London School of Economics, Department of Government 2006 Visiting Professor, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra 2007-2012 Adjunct Professor (honorary), Department of Political Science, RSSS, Australian National University, Canberra 2012 Jacques van Doorn Fellow, NIAS Wassenaar/Jacques van Doorn Honorary Chair Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam Awards and scholarships 1978 Godefroi-award for BA Law. 1982 Fulbright Scholarship. 1982 Scholarship Columbia University Lawschool 1983 Kluwer's Post Scriptum Award for the best MA-thesis in Law in The Netherlands in 1982. 1990 Royald Dutch Academy of Sciences Award for the best reviewessay ('Tussen Kant en conventies'; Acta Politica, 1988/3). 1991 G.A. van Poelje Award (Dutch Association for Public Administration) for the best book in the discipline in 1990 (book: Verantwoordelijkheid en organisatie). 1992 Professional Publication Award (Dutch Council of Public Management Consultants) (essay 'Reflectie in het openbaar bestuur'; Beleid en Maatschappij, 1991/4, with A.H. Berg). 1995 Research Scholarship Netherlands School of Government 2008 PhD Supervisor of the Year Award, Netherlands Institute of Government (National Research School for Public Administration and Political Science)
Memberships of Academies 2008 present Member Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences 2013 present Fellow National Academy of Public Administration, USA 2014 present Member Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities Grants 1996 Translation grant (12.000 euro) Dutch Council for Scientific research (NWO) 2005 Research grant (525.000 euro) Dutch Council for Scientific research (NWO) for the project Multilevel Governance and Public Accountability in Europe (together with Curtin & t Hart). 2007 Research grant (550.000 euro) Dutch Council for Scientific research (NWO) for the project Alternatives of Parliamentary Democracy: The Netherlands in a European Comparative Perspective, 1880 to the Present (together with De Haan & Yesilkagit). 2007 Research grant (12.500 euro) Dutch Council for Scientific research (NWO) for writing an essay on Diploma Democracy. 2017 KNAW Fonds Staatsman Thorbecke (199.787 euro), project Feedback legislative branch and executive branch (with Gerards en Bauw). 2017 SCOOP (18,8 miljoen euro), Zwaartekracht programma NWO (2017, member consortium). Present research interests General Public Accountability Democracy and education Political and constitutional theory Specific Topics Multi-level accountability and democratic governance Education and political participation; political meritocracy Whistle blowing, leaking, and freedom of speech within organizations
Success and failure of governance Selected publications in English Refereed books 1. Mark Bovens & Paul t Hart, Understanding Policy Fiascoes, New Brunswick: Transaction Books 1995, 173 pp. 2. Mark Bovens, The Quest for Responsibility: Accountability and Citizenship in Complex Organizations, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1998, 252 pp. 3. Mark Bovens, Paul t Hart & B. Guy Peters (eds.), Success and Failure in Public Governance; A Comparative Analysis, London: Edward Elgar 2001, 688 pp. 4. Mark Bovens, Deirdre Curtin & Paul t Hart (eds.), The Real World of EU Accountability: What Deficit?, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2010, 222pp. 5. Mark Bovens, Robert E. Goodin & Thomas Schillemans (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Public Accountability, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2014, 717pp. 6. Mark Bovens & Anchrit Wille, Diploma Democracy: The Rise of Political Meritocracy, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2017, 232 pp. Non refereed books 1. M. Bovens, C. Demmke, T. Henökl, & T. Moilanen, Regulating Conflicts of Interest for Holders of Public Office in the European Union, Maastricht: EIPA 2008, 360pp. Articles in refereed journals 1. Mark Bovens, Review Article: The Social Steering of Complex Organizations, British Journal of Political Science, Vol. 20, part 1 (January 1990):91-117. 2. Mark Bovens, Henk Geveke & Jouke de Vries, Open Public Administration in the Netherlands: The Politics of Leaking, International Review of Administrative Sciences, 61 (1995): 17-40. 3. Mark Bovens & Paul t Hart, Frame Multiplicity and Policy Fiascoes: Limits to Explanation, Knowledge and Policy, 8 (Winter 1995-1996) 4:61-82.
4. Mark Bovens, Conflicting Loyalties: Ethical Pluralism in Administrative Life, International Journal of Public Administration, 19 (1996) 11 & 12:2195-2212. 5. Mark Bovens, The Integrity of the Managerial State, Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 4 (September 1996) 3:125-132. 6. Mark Bovens & Stavros Zouridis, From Street-Level to System-Level Bureaucracy: How Information and Communication Technology Is Transforming Administrative Discretion and Constitutional Control, Public Administration Review, vol. 62, nr, 2 (March/April 2002): 174-183. 7. Mark Bovens, Information Rights: Citizenship in the Information Society, The Journal of Political Philosophy, Vol. 10, nr. 3 (September 2002): 317-341. 8. Mark Bovens & Eugene Loos, The digital constitutional state: Democracy and law in the information society, Information Polity, Volume 7 (2002), Number 4: 185-197. 9. Mark Bovens, Analysing and Assessing Public Accountability. A Conceptual Framework, European Governance Papers (EUROGOV) No. C-06-01 (January 16, 2006). 10. Mark Bovens, New forms of accountability and EU-governance, Comparative European Politics, 5, 1 (April 2007): 104-120. 11. Mark Bovens, Analysing and Assessing Accountability: A Conceptual Framework, European Law Journal, 13, 4 (July 2007): 447-468. 12. Mark Bovens, Paul 't Hart & Thomas Schillemans, Does Accountability Work? An Assessment Tool, Public Administration, Vol. 86 (2008), No. 1: 225-242. 13. Mark Bovens & Anchrit Wille, Deciphering the Dutch drop: ten explanations for decreasing political trust in The Netherlands, International Review of Administrative Sciences, (2008); 74; 283-305. 14. Wolfgang.C. Müller, Mark Bovens, Jorgen Gronnegaard Christensen, Marcelo Jenny and Kutsal Yesilkagit, Legal Europeanization: Comparative Perspectives, Public Administration Vol. 88, (2010): 75-87. 15. Mark Bovens & Kutsal Yesilkagit, The EU as Lawmaker: The Impact of EU Directives on National Regulation in the Netherlands, Public Administration, vol. 88 (2010): 57-74. 16. Mark Bovens, Two Concepts of Accountability: Accountability as a Virtue and as a Mechanism, West European Politics, 33, 5 (September 2010): 946-967.
17. Mark Bovens & Anchrit Wille, The education gap in political participation and its political consequences, Acta Politica, 45, (2010) 4: 393-422. 18. Mark Bovens, A Comment on Marsh and McConnell: Towards a Framework for Establishing Policy Success, Public Administration, 88 (2010), 2: 584 585. 19. Mark Bovens & Anchrit Wille, The education gap in participation: A rejoinder, Acta Politica, 47 (2012), 3: 259-271. 20. Mark Bovens, Gijs-Jan Brandsma, & Dick Thesingh, (2014). Political death and survival in the Netherlands: Explaining resignations of individual cabinet members 1946-2010. Acta Politica, 49, 4:1-24. 21. Mark Bovens & Paul t Hart, (2016), Revisiting the study of policy failure. Journal of European Public Policy 23, 5: 653-666. Chapters in refereed books 1. Mark Bovens, Public accountability, in: E. Ferlie, L. Lynne & C. Pollitt (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Public Management, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2005: 182-208. 2. Mark Bovens, Paul t Hart & Sanneke Kuipers, The politics of policy evaluation, in: M. Moran, M. Rein & R. Goodin (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2006: 319-335. 3. Mark Bovens & Margo Trappenburg, Segregation through Anti-Discrimination: How The Netherlands Got Divided Again, in: Marco Verweij and Michael Thompson (eds), Clumsy Solutions for a Complex World, Palgrave MacMillan, (2006). 4. Mark Bovens, Deirdre Curtin & Paul t Hart, The EU s Accountability: Reality or Myth?, in: Mark Bovens, Deirdre Curtin & Paul 't Hart (eds.), The Real World of EU Accountability: What Deficit? Oxford: Oxford University Press 2010: 1-8. 5. Mark Bovens, Deirdre Curtin & Paul t Hart, The Quest for Legitimacy and Accountability in EU Governance, in: Mark Bovens, Deirdre Curtin & Paul 't Hart (eds.), The Real World of EU Accountability: What Deficit? Oxford: Oxford University Press 2010: 9-30. 6. Mark Bovens, Deirdre Curtin & Paul t Hart, Studying the Real World of EU Accountability: Framework and Design, in: Mark Bovens, Deirdre Curtin & Paul 't Hart
(eds.), The Real World of EU Accountability: What Deficit? Oxford: Oxford University Press 2010: 31-62. 7. Mark Bovens, Deirdre Curtin & Paul t Hart, The Real World of EU Accountability: Comparisons and Conclusions, in: Mark Bovens, Deirdre Curtin & Paul 't Hart (eds.), The Real World of EU Accountability: What Deficit? Oxford: Oxford University Press 2010: 174-197. 8. Mark Bovens, Robert E. Goodin & Thomas Schillemans, Public Accountability, in: Bovens, Goodin & Schillemans (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Public Accountability, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2014: 1-20. 9. Mark Bovens & Thomas Schillemans, Meaningful Accountability, in: Bovens, Goodin & Schillemans (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Public Accountability, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2014: 673-682. 10. Mark Bovens, & Deirdre Curtin, An unholy trinity of EU Presidents? Political accountability of EU executive power. In Damian Chalmers, Markus Jachtenfuchs & Christian Joerges (Eds.), The End of the Eurocrats' Dream - Adjusting to European Diversity, Cambridge: Cambridge UP 2016: 190-217. Non refereed articles and chapters 1. Mark Bovens & Paul t Hart, Fiascoes in the Public Sector: Towards a Conceptual Frame for Comparative Policy Analysis, (with P. 't Hart), in: J.J. Hesse & Th.A.J. Toonen (eds.), The European Yearbook of Comparative Government and Public Administration First Volume, Baden-Baden/Boulder: Nomos Verlag/Westview Press 1996: 577-608. 2. Mark Bovens, P. 't Hart, S. Dekker, G. Verheuvel & E. de Vries, Mass Media and Policy Disasters: The Crisis of Crime-Fighting in the Netherlands, in: P. Gray & P. 't Hart (eds.), Policy Disasters in Europe, London: Routledge 1998, pp. 39-58. 3. Mark Bovens, Paul 't Hart & B. Guy Peters, Explaining policy disasters in Europe: Comparisons and reflections, in: P. Gray & P. 't Hart (eds.), Policy Disasters in Europe, London: Routledge 1998, pp. 195-214. 4. Mark Bovens, The Corporate Republic: Complex Organizations and Citizenship, in: E.A. Christodoulidis (ed.), Communitarianism and Citizenship, Aldershot: Ashgate 1998, pp 158-176.
5. Mark Bovens & Andrew Massey, Report of the Working Group on Responsibility, in: A. Hondeghem (eds.), Ethics and Accountability in a context of Governance and New Public Management, EGPA Yearbook 1998, Amsterdam: IOS 1998: 41-43. 6. Mark Bovens, P. 't Hart, S. Dekker & G. Verheuvel, The Politics of Blame Avoidance: Defensive Tactics of Policy Elites, in: H. Anheier (eds.), When Things Go Wrong: Failures and Breakdowns in Organizational Settings, Sage 1999, pp 123-147. 7. Mark Bovens, From financial accounting to public accountability, in H. Hill (ed.) Bestandsaufnahme und Perspektiven des Haushalts- und Finanzmanagements, Baden Baden: Nomos 2005: 183-193. 8. Mark Bovens & Thomas Schillemans, The Challenge of Multiple Accountability: Does Redundancy Lead to Overload?, in: Melvin J. Dubnick & H. George Frederickson (eds.), Accountable Governance: Problems and Promises, New York: M.E. Sharp 2011: 3-21. 9. Mark Bovens & Anchrit Wille, Falling or fluctuating trust levels? The case of The Netherlands, in: Marc Hooghe & Sonja Zmerli (eds.) Political Trust: Why context matters, Colchester: ECPR Press 2011: 47-66. 10. Mark Bovens & Anchrit Wille (2013), Education: The Contours of a New Cleavage? Comparing 23 European Countries, in: Kees Aarts en Marion Wittenberg (eds.), Stabiliteit en Verandering in Europa, DANS Symposium publications nr 7, Amsterdam: Pallas Publications, pp. 35-61. Publications in Dutch Author or editor of about 20 books and edited volumes and approximately 95 articles or book chapters in the fields of law, political theory, and public administration. Selected professional activities 1987-2005 Editor Beleid & Maatschappij (Policy and Society). As of 1998 Chief Editor. 1987-1997 Editor series Recht, Staat and Sturing (Law and Governance), W.E.J. Tjeenk Willink/SDU. 1995-2004 Editorial board Administrative Theory and Praxis: A Journal of Dialogue in Public Administration Theory.
1998-2005 Editorial board Tijdschrift voor Rechtstheorie en Rechtsfilosofie (Journal of Legal Theory and Legal Philosophy 1998-present Editorial board The Journal of Political Philosophy 2006-present International Advisory Board Public Policy and Administration 2004-2006 Chairman of the Advisory Council of the Netherlands Institute of Government (National Research School for Public Administration and Political Science) 2006-2016 Member of the Social Science Council of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences. 2008-2010 Member of the Board of the Netherlands Institute of Government (National Research School for Public Administration and Political Science) 2011-2016 Chairman of the Social Science Council of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences. 2011-2014 Member of the Board, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) Division for the Social Sciences Member of a number of professional associations in the field of Law, Public Administration, and Political Science. Selected consultancy 1994-1995 Senior policy adviser, Ministry of Traffic and Waterworks, Directorate Telecommunications and Postal Services. 1997-1998 Senior Advisor to the Ministry of Justice, (co-author of the Cabinet white paper on Legislation for the Electronic Highway). 1999-2000 Member of the constitutional Committee on Constitutional rights in the Digital Era (Installed by the Cabinet to draft proposals to adapt the Dutch Constitution). 1999-2002 Member of C@tshuis.nl (informal advisory board to Dutch cabinet) 2001-2002 Member of the Committee on ICT and Governance (installed by the minister of the Interior) 2002 Member of the committee Roelvink (Installed by the minister of Justice to advise on the Immunity of the Crown) 2001-2002 Member of the staff of the Parliamentary Inquiry into the Building Industry
2005 Member of the Committee Taakanalyse Andere Overheid (installed by the Prime Minister to evaluate the set up of the ministries of Justice, Interior and the Cabinet Office). 2008/2011 Training sessions on Strategic Crisis management and Political Accountability with various Dutch Cabinets. 2017 Chair, Research assessment Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Antwerp Training and consultancy sessions with a large variety of public organisations (amongst others: various Dutch Cabinets, Amsterdam and Utrecht city councils, Ministries of Justice, Agriculture, Home Department, European Commission). Large variety of contracted research activities.