Wieke Blijleven
Biographic Data
| ID | 4128603 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wieke Blijleven |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wieke |
| FAMILY NAME | Blijleven |
| SIGNATURE | BLIJLEVEN W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tilburg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0973-3035 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Mundane dynamics
Collaborative approaches to governance, policymaking, and administration are believed to provide means of adequately handling wicked problems. Simultaneously, many scholars have acknowledged the difficulty of collaboration in practice. In this article, we argue that understanding the ‘small’ practices of collaborative governance and actor-positioning processes illuminates why collaborative governance is such a challenging response to wicked probl…
Expert, bureaucrat, facilitator
Public servants in local governments, including policy experts, are increasingly expected to facilitate public participation and citizens’ initiatives. At the same time, critical research points out that their dominant or hesitant attitude and emphasis on rules and expert knowledge might hamper authentic participation. Based on shadowing and in-depth interviews, this article explores what tensions expert public servants (planners, lawyers, design…
Encounters with the organisation
Civil servants in local governments across the globe are increasingly expectedto engage the public. Engagement processes lead to tensions between therising expectation to engage the public on the one hand, and the bureaucraticand managerial expectations, which still largely characterise municipal organisations, on the other. Based on focus groups totalling 73 frontline civil servants in ten Dutch municipalities, this article explores what tension…
How Do Frontline Civil Servants Engage the Public? Practices, Embedded Agency, and Bricolage
Civil servants in local government are increasingly expected to engage and collaborate with citizens and stakeholders. This article takes a practice approach to develop a generic picture of everyday work at the front lines of public engagement, highlighting the relational and improvisational aspects of that work that, to date, have remained understudied. Our data and analyses build on the existing literature and contribute to it by describing fiv…
How Do Frontline Civil Servants Engage the Public? Practices, Embedded Agency, and Bricolage
Civil servants in local government are increasingly expected to engage and collaborate with citizens and stakeholders. This article takes a practice approach to develop a generic picture of everyday work at the front lines of public engagement, highlighting the relational and improvisational aspects of that work that, to date, have remained understudied. Our data and analyses build on the existing literature and contribute to it by describing fiv…
Encounters with the organisation
Civil servants in local governments across the globe are increasingly expectedto engage the public. Engagement processes lead to tensions between therising expectation to engage the public on the one hand, and the bureaucraticand managerial expectations, which still largely characterise municipal organisations, on the other. Based on focus groups totalling 73 frontline civil servants in ten Dutch municipalities, this article explores what tension…
Mundane dynamics
Collaborative approaches to governance, policymaking, and administration are believed to provide means of adequately handling wicked problems. Simultaneously, many scholars have acknowledged the difficulty of collaboration in practice. In this article, we argue that understanding the ‘small’ practices of collaborative governance and actor-positioning processes illuminates why collaborative governance is such a challenging response to wicked probl…
Expert, bureaucrat, facilitator
Public servants in local governments, including policy experts, are increasingly expected to facilitate public participation and citizens’ initiatives. At the same time, critical research points out that their dominant or hesitant attitude and emphasis on rules and expert knowledge might hamper authentic participation. Based on shadowing and in-depth interviews, this article explores what tensions expert public servants (planners, lawyers, design…
How Do Frontline Civil Servants Engage the Public? Practices, Embedded Agency, and Bricolage
Civil servants in local government are increasingly expected to engage and collaborate with citizens and stakeholders. This article takes a practice approach to develop a generic picture of everyday work at the front lines of public engagement, highlighting the relational and improvisational aspects of that work that, to date, have remained understudied. Our data and analyses build on the existing literature and contribute to it by describing fiv…
Encounters with the organisation
Civil servants in local governments across the globe are increasingly expectedto engage the public. Engagement processes lead to tensions between therising expectation to engage the public on the one hand, and the bureaucraticand managerial expectations, which still largely characterise municipal organisations, on the other. Based on focus groups totalling 73 frontline civil servants in ten Dutch municipalities, this article explores what tension…
Expert, bureaucrat, facilitator
Public servants in local governments, including policy experts, are increasingly expected to facilitate public participation and citizens’ initiatives. At the same time, critical research points out that their dominant or hesitant attitude and emphasis on rules and expert knowledge might hamper authentic participation. Based on shadowing and in-depth interviews, this article explores what tensions expert public servants (planners, lawyers, design…
Mundane dynamics
Collaborative approaches to governance, policymaking, and administration are believed to provide means of adequately handling wicked problems. Simultaneously, many scholars have acknowledged the difficulty of collaboration in practice. In this article, we argue that understanding the ‘small’ practices of collaborative governance and actor-positioning processes illuminates why collaborative governance is such a challenging response to wicked probl…
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Public Policy and Administration Research (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Civil servants (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works)