Walter Julius Michael Kickert (born 1950) is a Dutch academic, and Professor of
Public Management at the department of Public Administration, Erasmus University Rotterdam, known for his work on "Public policy and administration sciences in the Netherlands."
Biography
Kickert obtained his MA in experimental physics from the
University of Utrecht, and his PhD from the
Eindhoven University of Technology
The Eindhoven University of Technology ( nl, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven), abbr. TU/e, is a public technical university in the Netherlands, located in the city of Eindhoven. In 2020–21, around 14,000 students were enrolled in its BSc a ...
in 1980 under supervision of
Albert Hanken with the thesis, entitled "Organisation of Decision-Making."
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After his graduation in Utrecht, Kickert had started his academic career as research assistant at the Queen Mary College, London University in the mid 1970s. There he worked in the field of fuzzy set theory, and published his first book entitled "Fuzzy Theories on Decision-Making." After his graduation in Eindhoven he was appointed lecturer at the
Radboud University Nijmegen. From 1984 to 1990 he worked for the Dutch government in the ministry of Education and Sciences. In 1990 he moved back to the academic world to the
Erasmus University Rotterdam, where he was appointed Professor of public management. He was scientific director of the Netherlands Institute of Government, an inter-university research school, from 2006 to 2013. He retired in 2015.
Selected publications
* Kickert, Walter Julius Michael, and
Frans van Vught, eds. ''Public policy and administration sciences in the Netherlands.'' Prentice Hall, 1995.
* Kickert, Walter JM, Erik-Hans Klijn, and
Johannes Franciscus Maria Koppenjan
Johannes Franciscus Maria (Joop) Koppenjan (born 1955) is a Dutch political scientist, and Professor of Public Administration at the department of Public Administration at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is especially known for work on polic ...
, eds. ''Managing complex networks: strategies for the public sector.'' Sage, 1997.
* Kickert, Walter Julius Michael, and Richard Joseph Stillman, eds. ''The modern state and its study: New administrative sciences in a changing Europe and United States.'' Edward Elgar Pub, 1999.
* Kickert, Walter JM, and
Jacques JA Thomassen
Jacques J.A. Thomassen (born 23 September 1945) is a Dutch organizational theorist, Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Twente, and member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, known for his work on the the ...
.'' Governance in modern society: Effects, change and formation of government institutions.'' Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000.
* Kickert, Walter Julius Michael. ''Public management reforms in the Netherlands: Social reconstruction of reform ideas and underlying frames of reference.'' Eburon, 2000.
* Kickert, Walter Julius Michael. ''The history of governance in the Netherlands: continuity and exceptions.'' Elsevier Overheid, 2004.
Articles, a selection
Google Scholar profile
* Kickert, Walter JM, and Henk Koppelaar. "Application of fuzzy set theory to syntactic pattern recognition of handwritten capitals." IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics 2 (1976): 148-151.
* Kickert, Walter JM. "Public Governance in the Netherlands: An Alternative to Anglo‐American ‘Managerialism’." ''Public administration'' 75.4 (1997): 731–752.
See also
* Policy network analysis
Policy network analysis is a field of research in political science focusing on the links and interdependence between government's sections and other societal actors, aiming to understand the policy-making process and public policy outcomes.
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References
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1950 births
Living people
Dutch business theorists
Utrecht University alumni
Eindhoven University of Technology alumni
Academics of Queen Mary University of London
Academic staff of Radboud University Nijmegen
Academic staff of Erasmus University Rotterdam