dr. Eva Wolf

Bio

Dr. Eva E. A. Wolf is an assistant-professor at the Tilburg University who specializes in policy conflicts. She has published her work in academic journals, such as Public Administration, Governance and Policy Sciences, and has also written books written for a non-academic audience, such as "De waarde van weerstand", based on her PhD thesis, and "Ontbindend en bindend besturen van de omgeving", based on a research project researching judicialization of environmental conflicts. 

Expertise

Eva is an expert on policy conflicts, ranging from conflicts on intensive livestock farming, to conflicts on wind turbine and highway construction. She is currently the consortium leader and PI of the JPI Urban Europe project Conflict in Transformations (CONTRA), which studies how climate change conflict are dealt with in different institutional environments, what this means for waging productive policy conflicts and how the arts, and specifically theater, may contribute to waging better conflicts. In the past she has studied the impact of judicialization on policy conflicts and conflict escalation in the Flemish conflict on the Oosterweelverbinding (Oosterweel connection) highway. 

Vakken

• Policy Analysis in Public Administration
• Thesis Public Governance

Samenwerken

Eva places a high value on making academic work count in practice. She works and has worked together with partners such as the municipality of Tilburg and the Province of North-Brabant, and regularly delivers lectures, essays and speeches to practitioner-audiences, such as the RVO, NP-RES, Energy Regions, and civil servants working in municipalities, provinces and the national government in both the Netherlands and Belgium (Flanders). 

Recente publicaties

1. Bindend besturen

   Wolf, E., Zouridis, S., & Herkes, F. J. (2022). Bindend besturen. Binnenlands bestuur, 43(23).

2. De waarde van weerstand voor de Regiodeals - Bijdrage voor Regiodeal …

   Wolf, E. (Author). (2022). De waarde van weerstand voor de Regiodeals: Bijdrage voor Regiodeal Labs (video). Digital or Visual Products

3. Ontbindend en bindend besturen van de omgeving - Juridisering in de p…

   Wolf, E., Zouridis, S., & Herkes, F. J. (2022). Ontbindend en bindend besturen van de omgeving: Juridisering in de praktijk van omgevingsbesluitvorming. Boom Bestuurskunde. https://www.boomdenhaag.nl/webshop/ontbindend-en-bindend-besturen-van-de-omgeving

4. Dismissing the" vocal minority" - How policy conflict escalates when …

   Wolf, E. (2021). Dismissing the" vocal minority": How policy conflict escalates when policymakers label resisting citizens. Policy Studies Journal, 49(2), 640-663.

5. Fatal remedies - How dealing with policy conflict can backfire in a c…

   Wolf, E., & Van Dooren, W. (2021). Fatal remedies: How dealing with policy conflict can backfire in a context of trust‐erosion. Governance: An International Journal of Policy and Administration , 34(4), 1097-1114.