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Dr. Joram Feitsma is an Assistant Professor at Utrecht University School of Governance, affiliated with the Department of Public Governance and Management. His research spans crisis management, societal transitions, democratic erosion, and the role of behavioral expertise in policy. He has conducted fieldwork on behavioral insight units in government and held visiting positions at Aberystwyth University and the University of Queensland.
- PhD in Political Science from Utrecht University (2019)
- Seconded to Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management
- Co-founder of NIG colloquium on Critical and Interpretive Public Administration
Research keywords include Behavioral Public Policy, Crisis Governance, and Institutional Change. His 2025 work on AI futures highlights transnational policy challenges, while his 2024 Simple Nudges paper questions ethical implementation barriers. Collaborations with scholars like Mark Whitehead and Thomas Schillemans emphasize policy dynamics across 18+ peer-reviewed articles.
Feitsma applies systems-psychodynamics to analyze organizational behavior, with recent focus on democratic imagination and subtle blame management. His work appears in Policy Studies, Behavioral Public Policy, and Critical Policy Studies, including the acclaimed Brokering Behaviour Change (2019) with 35+ citations. Current projects explore AI governance and the paradoxes of technocratic solutions.
