Now conditionally accepted at Journal of Politics @[email protected]:

'Unsuccessful candidates are more concerned about electoral fairness than election winners'

w/ Martin Bækgaard Henrik Bech Seeberg

tl;dr Losing candidates question electoral fairness, even in strong democracies like Denmark

6/6 In EJPR Nanna Lauritz Schönhage Martin Bækgaard & Geys study responsibility attribution in education amongst politicians. Survey experiment in Norway. Coalition more prone to claim credit for successes, but credit mostly given to parents and school staff: doi.org/kjqb

Second presentation by Martin Bækgaard (@AarhusUni) on 'Health and Employment Effects of Administrative Burden in Unemployment Policies'

I am really, really happy to share that our (w. Martin Bækgaard) administrative burden lit. review is out @JPART1991. 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/advance-…

Replicating and extending Martin Bækgaard og Søren Serritzlew's 2016 study on motivated reasoning and citizen assessment of performance information for public and private providers 👇👇

New research article: It's not merely about the content: How rules are communicated matters to administrative burden by Martin Baekgaard Martin Bækgaard, Matthias Döring Matthias Döring @matdoering.bsky.social, Mette Kjærgaard Thomsen: buff.ly/3toQZYB

Amazing days in the seminar Future Trends for the Public Sector at Leuven University, due to the retirement of prof. Bouckaert. With great scholars, as Don Moynihan Alasdair Roberts , Steven Van de Walle , mary feeney , Asmus Leth Olsen , Martin Bækgaard , Martin Lodge and many others.

Our experiment in PA Journal made 100 citations! With Martin Bækgaard, Adelien Decramer, Mieke audenaert & Goeminne. We used real performance info to identify whether benchmarks increased intended adoption of that info by politicians. Still #OpenAccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

'Administrative Burden in Citizen–State Interactions: A Systematic Literature Review' by Aske Halling & Martin Bækgaard offers an insightful overview of administrative burdens in citizen-state interactions. This comprehensive study confirms that administrative burdens are

Our (w. Martin Bækgaard) lit review on administrative burdens is published in the latest issue of JPART. We read and coded all papers on burdens to take up the (difficult!) task of connecting different streams of research in a theoretical model 👇

Este viernes tendremos una nueva sesión del seminario de la CIDE DAP, en esta ocasión, con la participación del profesor Martin Bækgaard (@AarhusUni_int) y comentarios de la profesora Elizabeth Pérez Chiqués, así como de Adriana, estudiante de nuestro programa.

We demonstrate how to adapt the scale to specific policy areas 3/4

And find that our generic scale correlates highly with the tolerance for burdens in a variety of domains. Conservative beliefs are positively related to burden tolerance (though to different degrees) regardless of domain 4/4

We examine correlates of the scale: Tolerance is higher among males, young adults, less well educated, those with good health, those who trust state actors more, and ideological conservatives. 2/4

🚨New issue alert🚨

Our July 2023 issue is now out!

W/ Åsa von Schoultz @gurirosen Katharina Meissner Benjamin Höhne Jerry Yi-Tzu Lin Patrick Diamond Pedro Perfeito Da Silva Martin Bækgaard Edward Morgan-Jones & others not on Twitter.

👉bit.ly/3N6xtXa

#OpenAccess from our new issue -

Of ‘Welfare Queens’ and ‘Poor Carinas’: Social Constructions, Deservingness Messaging and the Mental Health of Welfare Clients - cup.org/3pbt0dg

- Martin Bækgaard, Pamela Herd 🐀 & Don Moynihan

New publication from PIREAU member Martin Bækgaard. The article finds a positive correlation between stress rates among counsellors and benefit recipients’ experiences of administrative burdens.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pu…

Early View Open Access!
'Anticipated administrative burdens: How proximity to upcoming compulsory meetings affect welfare recipients' experiences of administrative burden' by Martin Bækgaard & @JonasKrogh finds that time to meeting matters to burden!
doi.org/10.1111/padm.1…

New research article out from Matthias Döring @matdoering.bsky.social, Mette K. Thomsen (both assoc. profs Public Adm. SDU), and Martin Bækgaard (from AU) in PAR. Matthias summarizes the findings in the thread below: