Professor of Public Administration, University of Antwerp
Wouter Van Dooren is professor of Public Administration at the Department of Political Science of the University of Antwerp, Belgium. Before, he was postdoctoral fellow of the Flemish Research Foundation at the KULeuven and seconded expert at the Governance Directorate of the OECD in Paris. His main research interests are performance management, indicator-based governance and accountability. He also studies conflict, participation and discrimination in citizen-state interactions.
Privatizing essential human services like the VA can come at a high social cost
May 19, 2018 21:46 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
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