I'm a Professor in Public Administration at the University of Copenhagen in the Department of Political Science. I study how citizens make inferences about public services, how performance data shape their inferences about the world, the role of honesty and discrimination in the citizen-state interactions, and how we can make the field of Public Administration more experimental, more integrated with neighboring fields, and more engaged with solving real-world problems.

Selected works

Correcting Misperceptions about Ethno-Racial Discrimination: The Limits of Evidence-Based Awareness Raising to Promote Support for Equal-Treatment Policies

The Unequal Distribution of Opportunity: A National Audit Study of Bureaucratic Discrimination in Primary School Access

Moral dilemmas and trust in leaders during a global health crisis

Sustaining Honesty in Public Service: The Role of Selection

Reducing Bias in Citizens Perception of Crime Rates: Evidence From a Field Experiment on Burglary Prevalence

Behavioral Public Performance: How People Make Sense of Government Metrics

Behavioral Dishonesty in the Public Sector

Citizen (Dis)satisfaction: An Experimental Equivalence Framing Study

Behavioral Public Administration: Combining Insights from Public Administration and Psychology. — Behavioral Public Administration: Combining Insights from Public Administration and Psychology

Human Interest or Hard Numbers? Experiments on Citizens’ Selection, Exposure, and Recall of Performance Information