Professor Jeroen van der Heijden
Victoria University of Wellington
Professor, Public management
New Zealand
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My Publications
The regulatory state in developing countries: Redistribution and regulatory failure in ...
Regulation & Governance
February 2022
How does symbolic commitment strengthen the resilience of sustainability institutions? ...
Sustainable Development
July 2021
Risk as an Approach to Regulatory Governance: An Evidence Synthesis and Research Agenda
SAGE Open
July 2021
Trading off benefits and requirements: How do city networks attract cities to their vol...
Environmental Policy and Governance
May 2021
Why meta‐research matters to regulation and governance scholarship: An illustrative evi...
Regulation & Governance
December 2020
Balancing Narrow and Broad Public Service Professionalism: Experience With the New Zeal...
Administration & Society
August 2020
Environmental regulation in the twenty-first century: a systematic review of (and criti...
Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning
May 2020
Urban Climate Governance Experimentation in Seoul: Science, Politics, or a Little of Both?
Urban Affairs Review
March 2020
Urban climate governance informed by behavioural insights: A commentary and research ag...
Urban Studies
September 2019
Instrument interactions and relationships in policy mixes: Achieving complementarity in...
Energy Research & Social Science
August 2019
Urban climate governance in Russia: Insights from Moscow and St. Petersburg
Journal of Urban Affairs
July 2019
Promises and Concerns of the Urban Century
April 2019
The Politics of Urban Climate Futures
April 2019
Urban Climate Politics
April 2019
Have policy process scholars embraced causal mechanisms? A review of five popular frame...
Public Policy and Administration
April 2019
Avoidance of conflicts and trade‐offs: A challenge for the policy integration of the Un...
Sustainable Development
April 2019
Contradictory but also complementary: National and local imaginaries in Japan and Fukus...
Energy Research & Social Science
March 2019
New directions in earth system governance research
Earth System Governance
January 2019
Studying urban climate governance: Where to begin, what to look for, and how to make a ...
Earth System Governance
January 2019
Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis Logic and Tools for Theory Testing and Developme...
January 2019
Special section: advancing the role of cities in climate governance – promise, limits, ...
Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
December 2018
Learning in urban climate governance: concepts, key issues and challenges
Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning
December 2018
Does the knowledge economy advance the green economy? An evaluation of green jobs in th...
Energy & Environment
August 2018
Assessing Policy Process Knowledge: A Systematic Review of Three Theoretical Approaches...
European Policy Analysis
April 2018
Voluntary urban climate programmes: should city governments be involved and, if so, how?
Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
April 2018
Understanding voluntary program performance: Introducing the diffusion network perspective
Regulation & Governance
March 2018
The city politics of an urban age: urban resilience conceptualisations and policies
Palgrave Communications
March 2018
What Is Known about Punctuated Equilibrium Theory? And What Does That Tell Us about the...
Review of Policy Research
February 2018
The limits of voluntary programs for low-carbon buildings for staying under 1.5 °C
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
February 2018
From leaders to majority: a frontrunner paradox in built-environment climate governance...
Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
July 2017
Integrating Information in Built Environments
July 2017
Innovations in Urban Climate Governance
July 2017
Brighter and Darker Sides of Intermediation
The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
March 2017
Urban sustainability and resilience
February 2017
Studying Incremental Institutional Change: A Systematic and Critical Meta‐Review of the...
Policy Studies Journal
November 2016
Opportunities and Risks of the “New Urban Governance” in India
The Journal of Environment & Development
July 2016
Eco-financing for low-carbon buildings and cities: Value and limits
Urban Studies
June 2016
The new governance for low-carbon buildings: mapping, exploring, interrogating
Building Research & Information
April 2016
Experimental governance for low-carbon buildings and cities: Value and limits of local ...
Cities
April 2016
The enforcement–compliance paradox: Implementation of pesticide regulation in China
China Information
March 2016
Symmetric and asymmetric motivations for compliance and violation: A crisp set qualitat...
Regulation & Governance
August 2015
From mechanism to virtue: Evaluating Nudge theory
Evaluation
July 2015
Contextual Compliance: Situational and Subjective Cost-Benefit Decisions about Pesticid...
Law & Policy
June 2015
What Roles are There for Government in Voluntary Environmental Programmes?
Environmental Policy and Governance
March 2015
THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IN VOLUNTARY ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMMES: A FUZZY SET QUALITATIVE C...
Public Administration
January 2015
On the potential of voluntary environmental programmes for the built environment: a cri...
Journal of Housing and the Built Environment
December 2014
What role is there for the state in contemporary governance?
Recht der Werkelijkheid
November 2014
Voluntary programmes for building retrofits: opportunities, performance and challenges
Building Research & Information
September 2014
Regulatory failures, split-incentives, conflicting interests and a vicious circle of bl...
Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
May 2014
What ‘Works’ in Environmental Policy-Design? Lessons from Experiments in the Australian...
Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning
April 2014
Governance for Urban Sustainability and Resilience
January 2014
Selecting Cases and Inferential Types in Comparative Public Policy Research
January 2014
Coping with Mandated Public Participation: The Case of Implementing the EU Water Framew...
Perspectives on European Politics and Society
December 2013
Is New Governance the Silver Bullet? Insights from the Australian Buildings Sector
Urban Policy and Research
December 2013
Experimentation in policy design: insights from the building sector
Policy Sciences
September 2013
Voluntary Environmental Governance Arrangements in the Australian Building Sector
Australian Journal of Political Science
September 2013
Contrasting stories on overcoming governance challenges: the implementation of the EU W...
Local Environment
May 2013
Regulating sustainable construction in Europe
International Journal of Law in the Built Environment
April 2013
Interacting State and Non-State Actors in Hybrid Settings of Public Service Delivery
Administration & Society
March 2013
Different but equally plausible narratives of policy transformation: A plea for theoret...
International Political Science Review
October 2012
Voluntary environmental governance arrangements
Environmental Politics
May 2012
The Mechanics of Virtue: Lessons on Public Participation from Implementing the Water Fr...
Environmental Policy and Governance
April 2012
Friends, Enemies, or Strangers? On Relationships between Public and Private Sector Serv...
Law & Policy
April 2011
Institutional Layering: A Review of the Use of the Concept
Politics
January 2011
Governing the eco-city utopia
November 2010
Smart Privatization: Lessons from Private Sector Involvement in Australian and Canadian...
Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis Research and Practice
November 2010
One task, a few approaches, many impacts: Private-sector involvement in Canadian buildi...
Canadian Public Administration
September 2010
A short history of studying incremental institutional change: Does Explaining Instituti...
Regulation & Governance
July 2010
On Peanuts and Monkeys: Private Sector Involvement in Australian Building Control
Urban Policy and Research
June 2010
Privatisation of building code enforcement: a comparative study of regimes in Australia...
International Journal of Law in the Built Environment
April 2010
International comparative analysis of building regulations: an analytical tool
International Journal of Law in the Built Environment
April 2009
Towards a Better Understanding of Building Regulation
Environment and Planning B Planning and Design
January 2009
Problems in enforcing Dutch building regulations
Structural Survey
July 2007
City and Subnational Governance
The long, but promising, road from deterrence to networked enforcement
