Dr. M.Z. (Maarten) Hillebrandt

Assistant Professor
Public Governance and Management

Publications

2023

Scholarly publications

Leino-Sandberg, P., Hillebrandt, M., & Koivisto, I. (Accepted/In press). European Government Transparency beyond the Slogans: Introduction. In (In)visible European Government: Critical Approaches to Transparency as an Ideal and a Practice Routledge.
Fink, M., & Hillebrandt, M. (Accepted/In press). Access to documents and the EU agency Frontex: Growing pains or outright obstruction? In (In)visible European Government: Critical Approaches to Transparency as an Ideal and a Practice Routledge.
Hillebrandt, M., Leino-Sandberg, P., & Koivisto, I. (Eds.) (Accepted/In press). (In)visible European Government: Critical Approaches to Transparency as an Ideal and a Practice. Routledge.

2021

Scholarly publications

Hillebrandt, M. (2021). The communicative model of disinformation: a literature note. University of Helsinki, Finland. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3798729
Hillebrandt, M. (2021). EU transparency as ‘documents’: Still fit for purpose? Politics and Governance, 9(1), 292-295.
Hillebrandt, M., Den Heijer, M., & Groenendijk, K. (2021). Erken het gewicht van de EU en de Grondwet. Tijdschrift voor Constitutioneel Recht, 12(2), 140-149.
Hillebrandt, M. (2021). Access to Environmental Information in the EU: A Great Policy No-One Needs? Journal of Common Market Studies, 59(5), 1051.

2020

Scholarly publications

Novak, S., & Hillebrandt, M. (2020). Analysing the trade-off between transparency and efficiency in the Council of the European Union. Journal of European Public Policy, 27(1), 141-159.
Hillebrandt, M. (2020). Keeping One’s Shiny Mercedes in the Garage: Why Higher Education Quantification Never Really Took Off in Germany. Politics and Governance, 8(2), 48-57.
Hillebrandt, M., & Leino-Sandberg, P. (2020). Administrative and judicial oversight of trilogues. Journal of European Public Policy, 28(1), 53-71.

Professional publications

Hillebrandt, M. (2020). Het Duitse voorzitterschap van de EU-Raad: Een kantelpunt voor transparantie van besluitvorming? Nederlands juristenblad, 95(26), 1875-1879.

2019

Scholarly publications

Hillebrandt, M., & Huber, M. (2019). Quantifying Higher Education: Governing Universities and Academics by Numbers. Politics and Governance, 8(2), 1-5.
Huber, M., & Hillebrandt, M. (2019). “Pay for Promise" in Higher Education: The Influence of NPM on Resource Allocation in German Universities. Historical Social Research, 44(2), 247-269.
Hillebrandt, M. (2019). Transparantie in de EU-Raad: Onvermijdelijk en onmisbaar? Onverzadelijk en onuitvoerbaar? Bestuurskunde, 28(1), 78-88.

2018

Scholarly publications

Hillebrandt, M., & Huber, M. (2018). Trading promises for money: Effects of quantification in the German higher education sector. Risk and Regulation, 34(winter), 12-15.
Hillebrandt, M. (2018). Twenty-five years of access to documents in the Council of the EU: Ever-greater transparency? Politique Europeenne, 61(3), 142-173.

2017

Scholarly publications

Curtin, D., & Hillebrandt, M. (2017). Transparency in the EU: Constitutional Overtones, Institutional Dynamics, and the Escape Hatch of Secrecy. In Research Handbook on EU Institutional Law (pp. 190-219). Edward Elgar Publishing.
Hillebrandt, M. (2017). Transparency as a Platform for Institutional Politics: The Case of the Council of the European Union. Politics and Governance, 5(3), 62-74.
Hillebrandt, M., & Leppävirta, L. (2017). On the Administration of Pollution: How Much “Space to Think” May the EU Claim? European Journal of Risk Regulation, 8(4), 791-797.

2016

Scholarly publications

Hillebrandt, M., & Novak, S. (2016). “Integration without transparency”? Reliance on the ‘space to think’ in EU intergovernmental institutions. Journal of European Integration, 38(5), 527-540.

2015

Scholarly publications

Abazi, V., & Hillebrandt, M. (2015). The legal limits to confidential negotiations: Recent case law developments in Council transparency: Access Info Europe and In ‘t Veld. Common Market Law Review, 52(3), 825-845.

2014

Scholarly publications

Hillebrandt, M. (2014). Two conceptions of democracy in the Council of the EU: narrow and broad.
Hillebrandt, M. Z., Curtin, D., & Meijer, A. (2014). Transparency in the EU council of ministers: An institutional analysis. European Law Journal, 20(1), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1111/eulj.12051

2012

Scholarly publications

Meijer, A. J., Curtin, D. M., & Hillebrandt, M. (2012). Open government: connecting vision and voice. International Review of Administrative Sciences, 78(1), 10-29. https://doi.org/10.1177/0020852311429533

2008

Scholarly publications

Hillebrandt, M. (2008). Rejection by Referendum: a New Expression of Discontent in the EU. Reinvention: a Journal of Undergraduate Research, 1(2), 1-13.