Petra van den Bekerom
Assistant professor
- Name
- Dr. P.E.A. van den Bekerom
- Telephone
- +31 70 800 9500
- p.e.a.van.den.bekerom@fgga.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-0299-5657
Petra van den Bekerom is an Assistant Professor in Public Management at Leiden University and program director of the Bachelor’s program in Public Administration. Her research centers on how public service delivery shapes equity in outcomes and how different groups experience and benefit from public services. Her work focuses in particular on representative bureaucracy, performance management, and network management, often using the education sector as an empirical setting.
Petra van den Bekerom is an Assistant Professor in Public Management at the Institute of Public Administration, Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs, Leiden University. Her research centers on how public service delivery shapes equity in outcomes and how different groups experience and benefit from public services. Her work focuses in particular on representative bureaucracy, performance management, and network management, often using the education sector as an empirical setting.
Her research primarily uses quantitative designs, drawing on experimental approaches, such as survey and field experiments, as well as observational data from surveys and administrative sources. Where relevant, she also uses qualitative or mixed-methods approaches.
She has taught a range of courses, including ‘Introduction to Social Research’, ‘Research in Public Administration’, ‘Strategic Public Management and Collaboration’, and ‘Performance Management’, and has supervised bachelor’s and master’s theses.
In addition to her research and teaching, she is the program director of the Bachelor’s program in Public Administration. She previously served as Chair of the Program Committee of the Bachelor Public Administration and as a member of the Examination Board.
She serves on the Board of Editors of the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (JPART), is a member of the Public Management Research Association (PMRA) Membership Committee, and is affiliated with the Behavioral Public Administration Lab at Leiden University. She also regularly reviews for leading journals in public administration and public management.
Assistant professor
- Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
- Institute of Public Administration
- Staalduinen D.J. van, Bekerom P.E.A. van den, Groeneveld S.M., Stiggelbout A.M. & Akker-van Marle M.E. van den (2025), Leading value-based health care: the role of leadership in integrated practice units, Health Care Management Review 50(2): 130-139.
- Christensen J. & Bekerom P.E.A. van den (2025), Unpacking the influence of policy advice using citation network analysis, Public Administration Review : 1-15.
- Sievert M.C.G., Buongiorno Sottoriva C. & Bekerom P. van den (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).
- Voet J. van der & Bekerom P. van den (2024), Performance information, expectations and satisfaction with public service delivery in the context of co-production initiatives, Public Management Review : .
- Bekerom P.E.A. van den & Voet J. van der (2024), Prestatie-informatie en prestatiemanagement. In: Groeneveld S. Voet J. van der (Ed.), Publiek management: Bewegen tussen bestuur en organisatie: Coutinho.
- Staalduinen D.J. van, Bekerom P.E.A. van den, Groeneveld S.M., Franx A., Stiggelbout A.M. & Akker-van Marle M.E van den (2023), Differing professional perspectives on the interprofessional collaboration in IPUs: a mixed-methods Study, International Journal of Integrated Care 23(3): 1-12.
- Staalduinen D.J. van, Bekerom P.E.A. van den, Groeneveld S.M., Stiggelbout A.M. & Van den Akker-van Marle M.E. (2023), Relational coordination in value-based health care, Health Care Management Review 48(4): 334-341.
- Staalduinen D.J. van, Bekerom P.E.A. van den, Groeneveld S.M., Kidanemariam M., Stiggelbout A.M. & Akker-van Marle M.E. van den (2022), The implementation of value-based healthcare: a scoping review, BMC Health Services Research 22: 270.
- Bekerom P. van den & Voet J. van der (2021), Disentangling the perceived performance effects of publicness and bureaucratic structure: A survey-experiment, Journal of Behavioral Public Administration 4(2): 16.
- Bekerom P. van den, Voet J. van der & Christensen J. (2020), Are Citizens More Negative About Failing Service Delivery by Public Than Private Organizations? Evidence From a Large-Scale Survey Experiment, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory : 1–22.
- Doornkamp L., Bekerom P. van den & Groeneveld S. (2019), The individual level effect of symbolic representation: An experimental study on teacher-student gender congruence and students’ perceived abilities in math, Journal of Behavioral Public Administration 2(2): 1-11.
- Bekerom P. van den, Voet J. van der & Christensen J. (2019), Prestatiepercepties van burgers over publieke en private dienstverlening. Den Haag: Universiteit Leiden.
- Schalk J., Bekerom P. van den & Heijden M. van der (2018), Netwerkmanagement. In: Noort W. van, Groeneveld S., Hoek M. van der, Schalk J. & Voet J. van der (Eds.), Publiek management. Bussum: Uitgeverij Coutinho. 101-115.
- Hoek M. van der & Bekerom P. van den (2018), Prestatiemanagement. In: Noort W. van, Groeneveld S., Hoek M. van der, Schalk J. & Voet J. van der (Eds.), Publiek management. Bussum: Uitgeverij Coutinho. 227-242.
- Bekerom P.E.A. van den, Schmidt J.E.T. & Broekema W.G. (2018), Dynamiek en crisis. In: Noort W. van, Groeneveld S., Hoek M. van der, Schalk J. & Voet J. van der (Eds.), Publiek Management. Bussum: Uitgeverij Coutinho. 131-146.
- Bekerom P.E.A. van den, Schalk J. & Torenvlied R. (2017), Transforming input into output: how downward networking mediates the effect of external networking on organizational performance, Public Performance and Management Review 40(4): 625-651.
- Christensen J., Bekerom P.E.A. van den & Voet J. van der (2017), Representative Bureaucracy and Specialist Knowledge in the European Commission, Public Administration 95(2): 450–467.
- Bekerom P. van den, Torenvlied R. & Akkerman A. (2016), Constrained by Red Tape: How Managerial Networking Moderates the Effects of Red Tape on Public Service Performance, American Review of Public Administration 47(3): 300-322.
- Bekerom P.E.A. van den (8 November 2016), Networking and performance in public organizations : a study of primary schools in the Netherlands (Dissertatie. Institute of Public Administration, Governance and Global Affairs, Leiden University). Supervisor(s): René Torenvlied, Agnes Akkerman & Vincent Buskens.
- Bekerom P. van den, Torenvlied R. & Akkerman A. (2015), Managing All Quarters of the Compass? How Internally Oriented Managerial Networking Moderates the Impact of Environmental Turbulence on Organizational Performance, American Review of Public Administration 46(6): 639 - 659.