Research projects
Ongoing projects
- Collaborative Innovation In the Public Sector (CLIPS)
- Multi-level network governance of employment policy
- Contested administrations - Conflict resolution and the improvemet of democracy
Previous projects
Empowering Danish Regions
Towards Strong Regions: an interactive study of the initiation of new regions in Denmark.
Project coordinator: Eva Sørensen
The research project is a process study of the way, in which region Zealand take on the task of metagoverning the two policy areas of health policy and growth policy. More precisely the aim is to study to which degree and how region Zealand becomes a central metagovernor of the many processes of self-regulation that takes place among various public and private stakeholders.
Facing Europe
Nothern European Central Bankers in Transformation
Project coordinator: Martin Marcussen
The research project is a three year project on central bank networking in Northern Europe. The Danish and Swedish (semi-permanent Euro-outsiders) as well as the Norwegian (EU-outsider) central banks face the dilemma that their area of competence, monetary policy, has been transnationalized while, at the same time, they are excluded from the Euro-area governance system.
New Models for Local Network Democracy
The project focuses on the formation of local governance networks in the municipality of Ny-Holbæk, where public and private actors collaborate on enhancing sustainability of the local community by pooling resources and solving problems. The central research question is how it is possible in the municipalities to create open, broad and active governance networks, and to what extend these can contribute to a more effective and democratic steering.
The New Governance Instruments of the European Union
The research project focuses on the overall impact the new governance instruments are having on the EU system of governance. The project will study in detail three different types governance instruments; the open method of coordination, codes of conducts and harmonized technical standards.