About Me
Bas Denters (1954) is full professor of Public Administration in the Faculty of Behavioral, Management & Social Sciences at the University of Twente (Enschede, The Netherlands). He is the Scientific Director of the Netherlands Institute for Government (NIG): the KNAW accredited Dutch – Flemish graduate school for Political Science and Public Administration. Since 2013 he is first alternate delegate of the Group of Independent Experts on the European Charter for Local Self-Government of the Council of Europe. From 2000-2010 he was the convener of the Standing Group on Local Politics and Government (LOGOPOL) of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR). He is member of the Board of the European Urban Research Association. He is the managing editor of Bestuurswetenschappen, the oldest Dutch public administration and member of the editorial board of Local Government Studies, the leading European journal in the field of local politics and governance. He has published on issues of urban governance, citizen initiatives, citizen participation and local democracy more generally.
Expertise
Social Sciences
# Citizen
# Democracy
# Governance
# Municipality
# Netherlands
Earth & Environmental Sciences
# Citizen
# Municipality
Business & Economics
# Municipalities
Organisations
Publications
Recent
Vollaard, H., Binnema, H.
, Denters, B.
, & Jansen, G. (2021).
Meer zicht op het democratisch middenbestuur: Het kiezersonderzoek in provincies en waterschappen van 2020. University of Twente.
https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036552776
Jansen, G.
, Denters, B.
, & van Zuydam, S. (2021).
Basismonitor Politieke Ambtsdragers 2020: Volksvertegenwoordigers en bestuurders in provincies en waterschappen over hun ambt. University of Twente.
https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036552752
Proszowska, D.
, Jansen, G.
, & Denters, B. (2021).
Political trust in a multilevel polity: patterns of differentiation among more and less politically sophisticated citizens.
International review of administrative sciences.
https://doi.org/10.1177/00208523211022826
Denters, S. A. H. (2021).
National urban policies in the Netherlands: an urban renaissance? In K. Zimmermann, & V. Fedeli (Eds.),
A Modern Guide to National Urban Policies in Europe (pp. 103–126). (Elgar modern guides). Edward Elgar Publishing.
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839109058
Boogers, M., Peters, K., Vollaard, H.
, Denters, B., & Boogaard, G. (2021).
Te veel van het goede? De staat van het burgemeestersambt anno 2020. University of Twente.
https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/documenten/rapporten/2021/01/31/teveel-van-het-goede-de-staat-van-het-burgemeestersambt-anno-2020
Denters, B., Vollaard, H., & de Bovenkamp, H. V. (2020).
Innovating local representative democracy: How citizens evaluate new roles of elected and non-elected representatives.
Innovation Journal,
25(3), 1-21. [2].
Boogers, M.
, & Denters, S. A. H. (2020).
De regio als bestuurlijke oplossing en democratisch probleem. In H. Reynaert (Ed.),
Wendbare lokale besturen in snel veranderende tijden (pp. 105-116). Vanden Broele.
Proszowska, D. K. (Author)
, Jansen, G. (Author)
, & Denters, B. (Author). (2020).
COVID-19 en de “intelligente lockdown” in de ogen van de burgers: deel 1: Opvattingen van burgers in de eerste weken van de COVID-19 crisis en de “lockdown” over de gevolgen voor hun leven en gezondheid en hun vertrouwen in informatiebronnen. Web publication/site
https://coronapapers.nl/nieuws-1/nieuws/covid-19-en-de-intelligente-lockdown-in-de-ogen-van-de-burgers
UT Research Information System
Contact Details
Visiting Address
University of Twente
Drienerlolaan 5
7522 NB Enschede
The Netherlands
Mailing Address
University of Twente
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands