Nicolaas Stijn Groenendijk
Visiting Professor of European Studies E-mail: nicolaas.groenendijk[at]ut.ee |
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Education | |
1988 |
Doctorate/PhD (Public Administration), cum laude |
1987 |
Doctoral/Master’s degree (Public Administration), cum laude |
Academic career | |
Since 2014 | Visiting professor of European Studies, European College/Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu (Estonia) |
2005-2017 |
(Jean Monnet) professor of European Economic Governance |
2002-2005 |
Associate professor of public finance and European integration |
1994-2002 |
Assistant professor of public finance |
1987-1994 |
(Senior) researcher |
Academic service | |
2004-2017 | Co-Director of the Centre for European Studies (Director of Research), University of Twente (NL) |
2012-2014 | Program Director BSc program in Public Administration, BSc program in European Studies, BSc program in European Public Administration, MSc program in European Studies, University of Twente (NL) |
2006-2014 | Acting professor of General Economics/Public Finance, University of Twente (NL) |
2010-2012 | Chair, Dept. of Legal & Economic Governance Studies , University of Twente (NL) |
2005-2012 | Chair, European Studies Program Committee, University of Twente (NL) |
2008-2010 | Acting project manager new M&G faculty building, University of Twente (NL) |
2006-2010 | Vice-chair, Dept. of Legal & Economic Governance Studies, University of Twente (NL) |
1999-2010 | Member of the Standing Faculty Committee on Education and ICT, chairman as from June 2002, University of Twente (NL) |
2004-2007 | Member, Exam Committee, School of Management & Governance, University of Twente (NL) |
2000-2002 | Vice-chair, Dept. of Economics, Faculty of Public Administration and Public Policy, University of Twente (NL) |
1998-2005 | Initiator & coordinator, BSc & MSc programme in European Studies (University of Twente, NL), including double degree programmes with the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster (Germany) |
Other professional experience | |
Since 2008 | External expert/evaluator EACEA, Jean Monnet Programme (LLP/Erasmus+) |
2006-2017 | Chair, Board of Auditors, City of Hengelo (Netherlands) |
2005-2013 | Member of the Board of Commissioners (RvC) of housing corporation “Beter Wonen” (Almelo, Netherlands) |
2008-2013 | Member, external advisory committee, Innovation Platform & International Agenda, Twente Region, Netherlands |
2012 | Visiting professor, Centre for European & Transition Studies, Faculty of Economics & Management, University of Latvia, Riga (Latvia) |
2008 | Visiting professor, Dept. of Public Sector Economics, Faculty of Economics, University Matej Bel, Banska Bystrica (Slovakia) |
2006 | Visiting professor, Centre for European & Transition Studies, Faculty of Economics & Management, University of Latvia, Riga (Latvia) |
2002-2003 | Visiting senior lecturer, Dept. of Economics, University of Vilnius/Eurofaculty Vilnius (Lithuania) |
1998-2004 | ‘Lehrbeauftragte’ in Public Finance, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität (Germany) |
1998-2003 | Visiting lecturer, Department of Economics, Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences & SATI (Southern African Tax Institute), University of Pretoria (South Africa) |
1983-1984 | Assistant to MPs, Labour Party faction Dutch parliament (PvdA) |
Organisational membership & project involvement | |
Since 2017 | President, European Communities Studies Association – World (ECSA-World) |
Since 2016 | External key staff member, Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, Warsaw School of Economics |
Since 2016 | Member, honorary editorial board, European Studies Journal, ECSA-Moldova |
Since 2015 | Assembly of European Regions (AER), AER Study on Regionalism, expert for the Netherlands |
Since 2015 | Member, Academic Supervisory Board, Jean Monnet Center of Excellence, Aalborg University |
Since 2011 | Member, Research Group on European Policy Studies (Universities of Aalborg, Linköping, Twente |
Since 2005 | Global Jean Monnet Community |
Since 2001 | NISPAcee |
Since 1998 | Various memberships of associations in the field of European Studies and/or public finance (e.g. IIPF, EUSA, ECPR) |
2012-2017 | Member, Research Group on PatentEthics (Oslo and Akershus University College, Nofima & Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway; University of Twente, Netherlands) |
2007-2017 | President, European Union Studies Association -Netherlands (EUSA-NL) |
2000-2017 | Member, Research Group on PatentEthics (Oslo and Akershus University College, Nofima & Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway; University of Twente, Netherlands) |
1998-2017 | Senior fellow of the Netherlands Institute of Government (NIG/NOB, i.e. the Dutch National Research School for Public Administration) |
2011-2014 | Sounding Board ESPON-project TANGO (Territorial Approaches for New Governance) |
2004-2010 | Member of the Network of Excellence CONNEX (“Connecting Excellence on European Governance”) |
2005-2007 | Member, Supervisory Board EuroBaltic Centres of Excellence, Riga (Latvia) |
Academic review activities | |
2016 | Public Finance & Management |
2015 | NWO-MAGW (Dutch Research Council, VENI), Research Promotion Foundation (RPF)-Cyprus, Routledge |
2014 | Routledge, Journal of Common Market Studies, Pearson, Leverhulme Trust UK |
2013 | Routledge, Public Finance & Management, American Political Science Review, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, Beleidsonderzoek Online, European Science Foundation, Public Budgeting & Finance |
2012 | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Pearson UK |
2011 | Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA), Palgrave Macmillan, Journal of Economics and Business |
2010 | Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg (FNR), McGraw-Hill |
2008 | North American Journal of Economics and Finance |
2006 | Current Politics and Economics of Europe |
2004 | NWO (Dutch Research Council, VENI-programme) |
2002 | National Research Foundation South-Africa |
Courses taught | |
Courses taught at University of Tartu The ever-changing EU: challenges to EU governance (14/15-16/17) |
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Courses taught at University of Twente (various academic years in the period 88/89-14/15) Undergraduate courses (economics and governance) Graduate courses (economics and governance) Undergraduate courses (European studies) Graduate courses (European studies) Supervision of BSc and MSc thesis research (appr. 220x) Supervision of annual excursion to Strasbourg, Luxembourg, Brussels & The Hague; excursion to Dublin; excursion to Finland & Latvia; excursion to Indonesia Various seminars, in-house trainings for civil servants, introducing the EU (University of Twente, Instituut Clingendael) |
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PhD supervision (completed) | |
Abdul Rahman, Tax compliance in Indonesia. The role of public officials as taxpayers (defended January 2017) | |
Maaike Damen-Koedijk, EU Cohesion policy & Accountability. Coverage, Context, Content & Costs in the case of ERDF in the Netherlands (defended February 2016) | |
Aline Reichow, Soft regulation of emerging technologies (defended June 2015) | |
Martin Holterman, The Transaction Costs of Semi-Public Institutions: The History of Railways as a Challenge for Coase (defended September 2011) | |
Chris Breuer, The Regional Conundrum. How Regions and Encompassed Actors are involved in EU Regional Policy (defended April 2011) | |
Carlie Geerdink, Regional Economic Development. Games of Competition and Cooperation (defended December 2010) | |
Hans Voogd, Gemeentelijk overheidsbeleid en maatschappelijke welvaart (Municipal policies and collective welfare) (defended March 2006) | |
Publications | |
Peer-reviewed articles and book chapters (selection) | |
Fiscal federalism in transition countries: The three Baltic states compared, in: Public Finance & Management, 2016, 16(3), pp. 255-280 (with A. Jaansoo) | |
Public finance systems for coping with the crises: Lessons from the three Baltic states, in: Public Finance & Management, 2015, 15(3), pp. 257-289 (with A. Jaansoo) | |
The Role of Monitoring Committees in the 2014-2020 Programming Period of EU Cohesion Policy, in: European structural and investment funds journal (Est IF), 2014(3), pp. 212-230 (with M. Korotka) | |
Enhanced cooperation under the Lisbon Treaty, in: S. von Dosenrode (ed.), The European Union after Lisbon: Polity, Politics, Policy, Ashgate, p. 95-110 (2012) | |
The Governance of Patents in Europe: An Improved Patent Impact Assessment for New Technology Developments, in: H. Hveem and C. H. Knutsen (eds), Governance and Knowledge. The politics of foreign investment, technology and ideas, Routledge, 2012, pp. 98-116 (with E. Kica) | |
High-quality patents for emerging science and technology through external actors, in: European Intellectual Property Review, 2012 (4), pp. 221-228 (with E. Kica and V. Rodriguez) |
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The European Patent System: Dealing with emerging technologies, in: Innovation - The European Journal of Social Science Research, 2011(24) (1-2), pp. 85-101 (with E. Kica) | |
Clubs within clubs: The Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) and the Benelux as Macro-regions within the EU, in: European Integration and Baltic Sea Region: Diversity and Perspectives, September 26-27, 2011, Riga, Latvia (pp. pp. 478-487) | |
Federalism, fiscal autonomy and democratic legitimacy in Europe: Towards tax sharing arrangements, in: L’Europe en formation – Journal of Studies on European Integration and Federalism, special issue on Federalism, Democracy and Europe (2011) | |
EU and OECD Benchmarking and Peer Review Compared, in: Finn Laursen (ed.), The EU and Federalism: Polities and Policies Compared, Ashgate (2010) | |
The Netherlands and Norway: Strong in Governance Research. In B. Kohler-Koch & F. Larat (Eds.), European Multi-level Governance. Contrasting Images in National Research (pp. 85-107). (2009), Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (with R. Wessel and others) | |
The use of benchmarking in EU economic and social policies, in: M. Porto (ed) After fifty years: The coming challenges, Almedina: Coimbra, 2008, pp. 5-30 | |
Enhanced cooperation: the way-out or a non-starter?, in: N. Neuwahl & S. Haack (eds.), Unresolved Issues of the European Constitution – Rethinking the Crisis, Montreal: Éditions Thémis, 2007, p. 263-290 | |
Fiscal policy surveillance in the enlarged European Union: Procedural checks or simple arithmetic?, in: J.A. Batten & Colm Kearney (eds), International Finance Review, vol. 6 – Emerging European Financial Markets: Independence and Integration Post-Enlargement, Amsterdam: JAI/Elsevier, 2006, p. 17-45 | |
Assessing Member States' Management of EU Finances: An Empirical Analysis of the Annual Reports of the European Court of Auditors, 1996-2001, Public Administration, 82(3) (2004), p. 701-725 | |
The European Coal and Steel Community: A Laboratory for European Economic Integration, in: A. Prinz, A.E. Steenge, A. Vogel (eds), Grenzüberschreitende Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik. Public Policy across Borders, LIT Verlag, Münster/Hamburg/London, Wirtschaft: Forschung und Wissenschaft Bd. 3, 2003, p. 87-106 (with G.-J. Hospers) | |
Multi-level Governance, Network Governance, and Fiscal Federalism Theory, in: A. Salminen (ed.), Governing networks, EGPA Yearbook 2001, IIAS/IOS Press, Amsterdam (2003), p. 349-370 | |
A requiem for the European coal and steel community (1952-2002), in: De Economist, 150 (2002), p. 601-612 (with G.-J. Hospers) | |
Budgetary Discipline in Brussels: Numerical Targets or Procedural Strategic Dominance?, in: Current Politics and Economics of Europe, 11 (2002), p. 205-224 | |
Tax Co-ordination and the Enlargement of the European Union, in: Journal for Institutional Innovation, Development, and Transition, 3 (1999), p. 55-73 | |
On the Shady Side of Economics, in: South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences, vol. 2 new series (1999), p. 207-221 (with J.N. Blignaut & J.H. van Heerden) | |
A principal-agent model of corruption, in: Crime, Law and Social Change, 27 (1997), p. 207-229 | |
Other publications (selection) | |
Governance Across Regional Borders: Which Models are Best Suited to Central and Eastern Europe?, in: J. Nemec (ed.), Europeanisation in Public Administration Reforms, Bratislava, NISPAcee Press, 2016, p. 23-36 (in English and Russian) | |
AER 2015 Study on the state of regionalism in Europe. Country Report on the Netherlands, Assembly of European Regions, Brussels, 2015 | |
The rise of regionalism in Europe, in: Tales from Regions, The Brussels Europe Press Club Magazine, June 2015, no. 4, special edition on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Assembly of European Regions (AER), p. 20-23 | |
Macro-Regions: Regional Integration Within and Beyond the EU, in: Ilona Palne Kovacs & Constantin Marius Profiroiu (eds), Regionalisation and Regional Policy in Central and Eastern Europe, Bratislava, NISPAcee, 2014, p. 121-146 | |
Views from the capitals – The Hague – “Code Orange” sparks a new Dutch controversy over floods of immigrant workers, in: Europe’s World, October 2013 | |
The next Multiannual Financial Framework: From national interest to building a common future, Policy Brief, Centre for European Studies, Brussels (with Stefaan De Corte, Corina Suceveanu, Pawel Tokarski and Patryk Toporowski, May 2012) | |
New forms of transborder and inter-territorial cooperation at the local and regional level, recommendations. Conference: Innovation for Good Local and Regional Governance, A European Challenge, Enschede (April 2009) | |
Financing techniques for Brownfield Regeneration, in: S. Arnaud et al. (eds), Working towards more effective and sustainable brownfield revitalization policies (REVIT Compendium), Stuttgart: REVIT, p. 4-29 (ISBN978-3-00-022900-8), 2008 | |
Commentary: Why does the European Court of Auditors not deliver?, in: Europe’s World, Spring 2008 | |
“The Revised Lisbon Agenda: Flawed but not yet Failed”, in: EUSA Review Forum, Fall 2006 | |
Inaugural lecture on the Lisbon Agenda, “De Lissabon-strategie: overmoed of onmacht? Concurrentiekracht en het bestuurlijk tekort van de Europese Unie”, Enschede: Universiteit Twente, 15 December 2005 |