 Maarten Hajer is hoogleraar Bestuur & Beleid aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam sinds 1998 en directeur van het Planbureau voor de Leefomgeving (PBL) sinds 2008. Hij continueert zijn hoogleraarschap parttime [ Lees CV]. Maarten Hajer is professor of Public Policy at the University of Amsterdam since 1998. The Dutch Cabinet appointed him as Director of the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL – Planbureau voor de Leefomgeving) in 2008. He continues his professorship part time [ Read more on CV]. T: + 31 (0) 30 - 2742045 E: m.a.hajer at uva.nl
Forthcoming book:
"Strong Stories. How the Dutch are reinventing spatial planning"
(010 Publishers, to be published September 2010)
Spatial pla  nning in the Netherlands involves a diverse range of partnerships between government bodies, centres of knowledge, the public, and organizations in the private sector. Experiments with interactive, development-oriented planning have been going on for some years, especially at the regional level. The book Tall Stories presents the results. Which coalitions, practices, and forms of collaboration have been successful, and which ones have not? When consultants play a major role, do public authorities outsource a growing number of planning projects, or does their gaze tend to turn inward? Can networks and regional actors supply all the information and expertise that is needed? And what can be done to make sure that the results of public participation are put to good use? [ more info]
Most recent book:
Authoritative Governance: Policy Making in the Age of Mediatization (Oxford University Press, 2009)  The role of the media has become a central part of politics and policy in the twenty-first century. That dominance has led many to suggest a trend of 'dumbing down': the privileging of style over content. In this provocative new book, Maarten Hajer takes issue with the 'dumbing down' thesis both on theoretical and empirical grounds. He aims to show how authoritative governance remains possible in crisis-driven circumstances and a highly 'mediatised' world. The book elaborates a communicative understanding of authority, which, the author argues, can create a new basis for authoritative governance in a world marked by political and institutional fragmentation. The argument of the book is that in the age of mediatisation governance needs to be 'performed'. Hajer describes a genuinely new authoritative governance that breaks with existing interpretations. He demonstrates new ways in which the traditional government of standing institutions and notions of network governance can be combined in actively creating relations with a variety of publics.
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