Dr. Jarl Kampen

Background

• Assistant professor Research Methodology WUR since January 2009
• Methodologist, Statistics Netherlands (Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek), Sector Methodology Heerlen (2007-2008)
• Postdoc researcher, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Department of Political Science (2006-2008)
• Postdoc researcher, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Public Management Institute (2000-2006)
• PhD Thesis The adequacy and interpretation of models for ordinal association, Catholic University of Brussels (2001)
• Research assistant, Catholic University of Brussels (1996-2000)
• MSc Psychology, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (1996)

Research profile 

•  Fields of expertise: Research methodology, applied statistics, instrument development, questionnaire design, good governance
•  Key-concepts: Categorical data analysis, Indicators of government performance, data collection tools 
•  ENP Research Program: Social methodology

Publications

• Kampen, J. K. (2009). Good governance at the local level: toward a global village or a city republic? Economic and Environmental Studies 9(1): 11-29.
• Kampen, J. K. (2009). On the (in)consistency of citizen and municipal level indicators of social capital and local government performance, Social Indicators Research.
• Ploeg, C. van de, F. van de Pol & J. K. Kampen (2009). A comparison of different estimation methods with an application in the Dutch national elections of 2003 and 2006. The Hague/Heerlen: Statistics Netherlands.
• Kampen, J. K. (2007). The impact of survey methodology and context on central tendency, nonresponse and associations of subjective indicators of government performance, Quality & Quantity 41(6): 793-813.
• Kampen, J. K., S. Van de Walle & G. Bouckaert (2006). Assessing the relationship between satisfaction with public service delivery and trust in government: The impact of the predisposition of citizens toward government on evaluations of its performance, Public Performance and Management Review 29(4): 387-405.
• Van de Walle, S., J. K. Kampen & G. Bouckaert (2005). Deep impact for high impact agencies? Assessing the role of bureaucratic encounters in evaluations of government, Public Performance and Management Review 28(4): 532-549.
• Bouckaert, G., S. Van de Walle & J. K. Kampen (2005). Potential for comparative public opinion research in public administration/Les possibilités d'étude comparative de l'opinion publique à l'égard de l'administration publique, International Review of Administrative Sciences/Revue Internationale des Sciences Administratives 71(2): 229-240/237-250. Reprinted (2006) in Journal of the Lithuanian Public Administration Training Association 1 (9): 6-12.
• Kampen, J. K., K. Snijkers & G. Bouckaert (2005). Public priorities concerning the development of e-government in Flanders, Social Science Computer Review 23(1): 136-139.
• Berkhof, J. & J. K. Kampen (2004). The asymptotic effect of a misspecification in the random part of the multilevel model, Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics 29(2): 197-214.
•  Kampen, J. K. & K. Snijkers (2003). e-Democracy: A critical evaluation of the ultimate e-dream, Social Science Computer Review 21(4): 491-496.
• Kampen, J. K. & T. A. B. Snijders (2002). Estimation of Wing & Kristofferson's model for discrete motor responses, British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology 55: 159-168.
• Kampen, J. K. & M. Swyngedouw (2000). The ordinal controversy revisited, Quality & Quantity 34(1): 87-102.

 
Educational tasks

BSc/MSc courses:

• YRM 10306 Research methods in the Social Sciences
• ENP 24306 Social Scientific Analysis of Environmental Issues
• YRM 20306 Research Methods in Environmental Sciences 
• YRM 20806 Research Design and Research Methods

PhD courses:

•  Research methodology: From topic to proposal

Other academic memberships and achievements

• Fellow of the Mansholt Graduate School of Social Sciences (2010)
• Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (2009) 
• Member of Editorial Board, Economic and Environmental Studies (2008)
• Member of Scientific Board of the international conference on “Current Issues of Sustainable Development” hosted by the Opole University and the Polish Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2010