Martin Sievert
Assistant professor
- Name
- M.C.G. Sievert
- Telephone
- +31 70 800 9500
- m.c.g.sievert@fgga.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-1331-2439

Martin Sievert studies citizen-state interactions and human resource management in the public sector. His research agenda includes both public management and general management research. Currently, his projects focus on symbolic representation, organizational legitimacy, public sector recruiting, person-environment misfit, and coproduction. Martin's research uses a broad variety of methodological approaches, with a strong focus on experimental methods.
Research output
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Motivational signals in public sector job advertisements and how they relate to attracting and hiring candidates
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Unpacking the effects of burdensome state actions on citizens' policy perceptions
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The incongruity of misfit: A systematic literature review and research agenda
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The Limited Impact of Reference Groups’ Symbolic Gender Representation on Willingness to Coproduce
Assistant professor
- Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
- Institute of Public Administration
- Kang I., Sievert M.C.G. & Na C. (2025), Development of a scale to measure perceived administrative burden, with broad applicability beyond direct policy clients, Governance 38(3): e70026.
- Sievert M.C.G., Pinz A. & Helmig B. (2025), Legitimacy by association?: How citizens form propriety beliefs through horizontal spillovers in public–private partnerships, European Management Journal : 1-15.
- Sievert Martin Buongiorno Sottoriva Claudio van den Bekerom Petra (2025), Who’s Here and Who’s Coming: Rethinking Symbolic Representation in Public Sector Recruitment, Review of Public Personnel Administration 0(0): 1-37 (0734371X251369127).
- Sievert Martin Vogel Dominik Döring Matthias (2025), From Wording to Workforce: Gendered Language in Public Job Advertisements Shapes Gender Diversity in Applicant Pools, Public Administration Review : 1-18 (puar.13965).
- Keppeler F., Sievert M.C.G. & Jilke S. (2025), Increasing COVID-19 vaccination intentions: a field experiment on psychological ownership, Behavioural Public Policy 9(1): 16-35.
- Englert B., Sievert M.C.G., Helmig B. & Jansen K. (2024), The incongruity of misfit: a systematic literature review and research agenda, Human Relations 77(9): 1306-1332.
- Sievert M.C.G. & Bruder J. (2024), Unpacking the effects of burdensome state actions on citizens' policy perceptions, Public Administration 102(3): 915-935.
- Vogel D., Döring M. & Sievert M.C.G. (2024), Motivational signals in public sector job advertisements and how they relate to attracting and hiring candidates, Public Management Review 26 (10): 2868-2900.
- Kalucza J. & Sievert M.C.G. (2024), Alleviating administrative burden through digitalization and redesign: a laboratory experiment on student financial aid in Germany, International Journal of Social Welfare 33(4): 786-805.
- Sievert M.C.G. (2023), The limited impact of reference groups' symbolic gender representation on willingness to coproduce, Public Administration Review 83(3): 587-602.
- Sievert M., Vogel D. & Feeney M.K. (2022), Formalization and administrative burden as obstacles to employee recruitment: consequences for the public sector, Review of Public Personnel Administration 42(1): 3-30.
- Sievert M. (2021), A replication of “Representative bureaucracy and the willingness to coproduce”, Public Administration 99(3): 616-632.
- Sievert M., Vogel D., Reinders T. & Ahmed W. (2020), The power of conformity in citizens’ blame: evidence from a survey experiment, Public Performance & Management Review 43(1): 53-80.