Jasper is especially interested in how residents, businesses and governments can work together based on enthusiasm, "seduction", and nudging, and how this goes hand in hand with classic public policy.
His specific experience, knowledge and affinity lie in governance issues in urban and spatial planning, decentralized energy supply, subsoil, soil and water management and climate adaptation.
How can we generate impact by working on social issues in an entrepreneurial way? What does the hybrid nature of social entrepreneurship and social innovation require from initiators, administrators and society?
Legitimacy of participation and initiatives: the role of official and political leadership
How can and will officials, administrators, and representatives of the people test and guide good participation and citizen collectives? And how, and by whom, is "good" defined?
She researches the ability of parties to contribute to successful collaboration. Jitske focuses on the following areas: space, water safety, climate adaptation, energy and soil.
Sustainability and performance of civic initiatives
To visualize and explain the sustainability and performance of civic initiatives by examining relationships with crucial factors from a mixed methods research strategy.
Vivian Visser focuses her research and advice on how governments can make the best use of the organizing capacity of citizens' initiatives. Her research is positioned at the intersection of public administration and sociology and studies the perspectives of both citizens and civil servants.
