Maarten Hajer

Maarten Hajer (1962) studied Political Science and Urban & Regional Planning at the University of Amsterdam. He obtained a D.Phil. in Politics at the University of Oxford. He was an Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at the Institute of Sociology, Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität, Munich, Germany (1993 - 1996). After that he worked as Senior Researcher at the Wetenschappelijke Raad voor het Regeringsbeleid (WRR), The Hague, Netherlands (1996 - 1998). He holds the chair in Public Policy at the Department of Political Science since 1998. He is head of department since 2003.

His research interests include transnational policy-discourse formations; qualitative methods of public policy analysis; practices of  conflict resolution and governance.

He is the author of The Politics of Environmental Discourse - Ecological Modernization and the Policy Process, Clarendon Press (Academic Imprint of Oxford University Press), Oxford / New York (Hardback 1995, Paperback 1997),  co-editor of Living with Nature - Environmental Discourse as Cultural Politics (edited together with Frank Fischer), Oxford University Press, Oxford 1999 and Der unscharfe Ort der Politik (edited together with Ulrich Beck & Sven Kesselring), Leske + Budrich, Opladen. [Maarten Hajer]   His most recent books are 'In Search of New Public Domain' (co-authored by Arnold Reijndorp, NAi Publishers, Rotterdam 2001) and 'Deliberative Policy Analysis - Understanding Governance in the Network Society' (co-edited by Hendrik Wagenaar, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003).

Since October 2008 he is Director of the Dutch 'Planbureau voor de Leefomgeving', the Cabinet's assessment and policy analysis agency on environment, nature conservation and land use planning.

 

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