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Martin Bækgaard

@martinbaekgaard.bsky.social
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Political scientist at Aarhus University, Denmark.

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Florian Keppeler @flokeppeler.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 knows the drill when entering the dog forest. She's waiting for the person one level higher in the hierarchy to give a signal. 🦮 Public employees also turn to their managers when politicians start bending the rules of democracy. 1/🧵
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Martin Bækgaard @martinbaekgaard.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
1/5 How do civil servants react when politicians aim to challenge democratic institutions? And what role does their manager play in this regard? I study these questions in a new article in academic.oup.com/jpart w @mpvluttervelt.bsky.social @mathiasoestergaard.bsky.social Zuzana Murdoch Benny Geys
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Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory | Oxford Academic
The official journal of the Public Management Research Association. Publishes research with the aim to advance the organizational, administrative, and policy sciences as they apply to government and g...
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Tommaso Pavone @tommasopavone.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘀𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘁 “𝗶𝗻𝗼𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲” 𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘁𝘀 𝘃𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗴𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀? A few months back @movadek.bsky.social & I promised we would try to find out. 𝗪𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗦𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗮: tinyurl.com/2add6c2a (1/7)
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Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
New paper out in Nature Human Behaviour. "Government policy documents across 185 countries largely cite Global North sources" with @seramirezruiz.bsky.social DOI: doi.org/10.1038/s415... Ungated: rdcu.be/fh0Ss
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Government policy documents across 185 countries largely cite Global North sources - Nature Human Behaviour
This analysis of 1.2 million policy documents from 185 countries identifies global inequalities in whose knowledge is cited in policymaking. Governments in the Global South rely more on foreign source...
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Frederik Hjorth @fghjorth.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
FOUR GRAPHS ABOUT 🇩🇰'S GENERAL ELECTION My read of the election in four graphs. First: big urban-rural divide. The two big mainstream parties, Social Democrats and Liberals, are now mainly rural/suburban, with niche parties dominating in cities. (1/4) #polisky
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Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Our article “Unsuccessful Candidates Are More Concerned About Electoral Fairness than Election Winners” is now online @thejop.bsky.social Using RDD and elite survey data from Denmark, we show that losing candidates express greater concern about electoral fairness. 🔗 doi.org/10.1086/734240
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Public Administration @journalpa.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
"Experiences of Administrative Burden in Context: Exploring Differences Across Countries, Policy Domains, and Socio-Demography" by @martinbaekgaard.bsky.social, Lucie Martin, & Niels Bjørn Petersen finds that citizens associate administrative tasks positively. doi.org/10.1111/padm...
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
If you are preparing your bachelor statistics course and would like to add optional material for students to better understand statistics on a conceptual level (see topics in the screenshot) my free textbook provides a state of the art overview. lakens.github.io/statistical_...
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Public Management Review @pmreview.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Open access: @mjinpedersen.bsky.social, Niels Bjørn Grund Petersen, @martinbaekgaard.bsky.social & Jonas Krogh Madsen consider how priming of caseworkers’ agency orientation (citizen-agent vs state-agent) influences their conduct towards clients www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
🚨 New book alert! Policy Preparation Inside the European Commission is out with OUP @oxfordacademic.bsky.social It’s about the behind-the-scenes stage of EU policymaking that shapes everything—yet rarely gets the spotlight: how the Commission prepares its proposals. Link: doi.org/10.1093/9780...
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Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
The super election year is ending, with many winners and losers. Our new @thejop.bsky.social paper, (@henrikseeberg.bsky.social, @martinbaekgaard.bsky.social ) asks: How do winning and losing candidates see elections? Spoiler: Losers are more concerned about fairness. Link: doi.org/10.1086/734240
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Martin Bækgaard @martinbaekgaard.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
In a new article out in @pnas.org w @michaelsvarer.bsky.social @albecknielsen.bsky.social Michael Rosholm. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/..., we explore the long-term unemployment and mental health effects of active labor market programs.
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Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
A perfect day to share that our book, Policy Preparation Inside the European Commission, is coming soon with Oxford University Press! It shows why the European Commission is so vital to EU policymaking. 🇪🇺 #eusky #eursky
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Martin Bækgaard @martinbaekgaard.bsky.social · 05/04/2024
New open access article forthcoming in PAR w @askehalling @donmoyn.bsky.social. We develop a 4-item scale to measure burden tolerance – peoples’ acceptance of state actions that impose administrative burdens on citizens – using data from several countries papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Brad Jones @bradjones.bsky.social · 26/02/2024
Survey researchers of Blue Sky, this is a new initiative of mine, and right now the queue is wide open meaning any new submissions have a high likelihood of acceptance: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #polisci #polisky
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Aske Halling @halling.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
I am really, really happy to share that our (w. Martin Bækgaard) administrative burden lit. review is out in JPART. It's #openaccess, so it is free for anyone to read. For those looking for a brief version, I will share a few key insights below academic.oup.com/jpart/advanc...
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