Professor (MSO) in Political Science

Curriculum Vitae

Kasper M. Hansen, Ph.D.

Professor (MSO) in political science

with special responsibilities within applied quantitative methodology

Institutional affiliation

University of Copenhagen, Department of Political Science

Øster Farimagsgade 5, DK-1353 Copenhagen K, Denmark

Office no.: 12.2.20

Phone +45 3532 3392, E-mail: kmh “at” ifs.ku.dk

Home address: Lodsvej 73, 2650 Hvidovre, Denmark. Phone +45 5124 5005

Born: 1973; married to Line M. Hansen; daughter (Freja 2004); sons (Jonatan 2006, Nikolaj 2010)

Education and visiting affiliations
2010 / Visiting Fellow at Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies
European University Institute (EUI).
2007 / Visiting Fellow at Department of Political Science, RSSS, Australian National University (ANU).
2004 / Ph.D. in Political Science - University of Southern Denmark.
2001 / Visiting Scholar at SCANCOR - Scandinavian Consortium of Organizational Research, Stanford University.
2000 / Master degree in Economics at the Department of Political Science and Public Management, University of Southern Denmark.
1998 / Visiting student at Department of Administration and Organization Theory, University of Bergen.
1996 / BA in economics - Odense University.
Employment
2009- / Professor (mso) at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen.
2011-2014 / Head of PhD program at Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen.
2006-2009 / Associate professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen.
2006-2010 / Responsible for the teaching in research methods in political science (220+ students pr. semester).
2004-2006 / Assistant professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen.
2003-2004 / Assistant professor at the Department of Political Science and Public Management, University of Southern Denmark.
2000-2003 / Ph.D.-fellow at the Department of Political Science and Public Management, University of Southern Denmark.
2001-2004 / Member of Study Board of PhD studies at University of Southern Denmark - Faculty of Social Science.
2000 / Research assistant at the Department of Political Science and Public Management, University of Southern Denmark.
1995-2000 / Student assistant at the Department of Political Science and Public Management, University of Southern Denmark.
Rewards
2014
2013- / Included in Kraks Blå Bog
Sapere Aude: DFF-Starting Grant Award of the Danish Councils for Independent Research.
2012
2009-2010 / Best annual paper reward in Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties. Vol. 22.
Included in Marquis 2009 & 2010 Edition of Who's Who in the World.
2008 / Young Elite Research's Award of the Danish Councils for Independent Research.
2007 / ECPR’s Rudolf Wildenmann Prize for "Best paper" at ECPR’s Joint Sessions in Nicosia, Cyprus, 2006.
Research project experience
2014- / Field-experiment on the effect of “Skolevalg” – a project on democracy infused across all Danish primary schools. Project financed by the Danish Parliament and Department of Education. Principal investigator.
2013- / The Effect of Opinion Polls on the Voters Party Preference. Data collection funded by the Danish Broadcast System (DR). Principal investigator.
2013- / Effects of the political campaign in local election. Survey of all candidates. Co-principal investigator.
2013- / CET - Causal Effects on Turnout - Turnout in the 2009 and 2013 Danish Municipality Elections. Funded by the Danish Councils for Independent Research (7.046.122 DKR.). Principal investigator.
2011, 15 / Effects of the political campaign in parliamentary election. Survey of all candidates. Co-principal investigator.
2011 / Research project on political scandals funded by Ugebrevet A4. Principal investigator.
2009-2010 / Effects of the political campaign in local election. Survey of local candidates. Co-principal investigator.
2009-2013 / Turnout at Local Election - Project funded by the Danish Ministry of Integration and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Principal investigator.
2008-2014 / OPEC (Online Panel of Electoral Campaigning) - Project funded by the Danish Research Council. Principal investigator.
2008-2013 / Nordic Election & Democracy (NED) - Project funded by the Danish Research Council.
2008- / Part of the research team conducting survey analysis of a coming Danish national referendum on the patent-agreement - Project funded by the Danish Research Council.
2008 / Conference on parties & party system, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Conference funded by the Danish Research Council. Principal investigator and organizer.
2007 / External Advisor for Tomorrow's Europe. European wide Deliberative Poll on the European Union - Project funded by European Commission and European Parliament.
2006- / Part of the research team conducting ecological election analyses - Project funded by the Danish Research Council.
2006 / National Deliberative Poll on Europe funded by the Danish Parliament. Co-principal investigator.
2005- / Part of the research team conducting the Danish Election Studies. See www.valgprojektet.dk. This project is funded by the Danish Research Council. One of three principal investigators until 2013. Since 2014 principal investigator.
2005-2010 / Part of the research team conducting research on local government reform. See www.strukturforsk.dk. This project is funded by the Danish VAT-foundation. Principal investigator on citizens' participation.
2004 / With Morten Balle Hansen - Survey of elected and appointed officials in Danish municipalities.
2004-2007 / Opinion formation in an experimental perspective funded by the Danish Research Council. Principal investigator.
2003 / External Advisor for Danish Regions on four Deliberative Polls on new regional structures.
2003 / With Peter Dahler-Larsen - Development of Evaluations models to Danish boarding schools.
2000 / External Advisor for Public Policy Forum on the national Canadian Deliberative Poll on Clean Air.
2000 / With Vibeke Normann Andersen conducted the first national Deliberative Poll in Denmark. Principal investigator.
2000 / With Niels Ejersbo and Roger Buch from University of Southern Denmark, complete survey of elected officials at the Danish regional level. The study was also conducted in the other Scandinavian countries.
1999 / With Audun Offerdal and Jacob Aars from the University of Bergen, Norway
Deliberative Poll. Issue: Urban development.
1999 / Conducted an Exit Poll at the European Parliament election. Principal investigator.
1999 / With Audun Offerdal and Jacob Aars from the University of Bergen, Norway conducted a Deliberative Poll. Issue: Sustainable development/Agenda 21.
1999 / Conducted the first Danish Deliberative Poll for the county of Funen. Issue: Organizing hospitals and health care-service.
1998 / With Audun Offerdal and Jacob Aars from the University of Bergen, Norway conducted first Nordic Deliberative Poll. Issue: Agenda 21.
1997 / With Niels Ejersbo and Roger Buch from University of Southern Denmark, complete survey of elected and appointed officials at the Danish regional level.
Reviewer
2015
2014
2014(2)
2014
2014(2) / Political Psychology
American Political Science Review (APSR)
British Journal of Political Science (BJPS)
Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
Political Behavior
2010(2),11,13,14 / American Journal of Political Science (AJPS)
2012(3),13(2),15 / Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties (JPOP)
2008(2),09(2),10,12,13(5), 14(2) / Political Communication
2012(2),14,15 / International Journal of Public Opinion Research (IJPOR)
2013 / Review panel for the Research Council of Norway (Social Science)
2013 / Journal of Information Technology & Politics
2013 / The Social Science Journal
2012, 15 / Political Research Quarterly
2011,12 / Party Politics
2012 / Research Foundation – Flanders
2011, 15 / The Faroese Research Council
2011 / Sage
2008(2),09,10,11,14 / Scandinavian Political Studies
2008,09,13,14 / Public Opinion Quarterly (POQ)
2008,15 / Field Methods
2010 / Journal of Official Statistics
2010 / Political Studies
2009 / European Political Science Review
2008,09,10 / Journal of Politics (JOP)
2006,07,09,10,13(3) / Public Choice
2008 / Journalism - Theory, Practice & Criticism
2008 / Routledge and Oxford University Press
2007,08 / Sociological Methods and Research
2007,08,09,12,14 / Politica
2006,07 / Public Administration
2004,06 / Danish Institute of Governmental Research (AKF)
Editorial work
2012- / Member of the editorial board of Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties
2012- / Member of the editorial board of Politica
2012- / Editor of peer reviewed book series on Danish Politics (Studier i Dansk Politik, DJØF-forlag)
2010- / Member of the editorial board of International Journal of Public Opinion Research
Boards
2008- / Board member of Center for Voting and Parties (CVAP), vice-director
2011-14 / President of the Danish Political Science Association
2007-2011 / Board member of Danish Association of Political Science (treasurer)
2008-14 / Board member of The Nordic Political Science Association (NOPSA)
2011-12 / Board member of The Danish Political Science Research Program-PhD (Polforsk)
Assessment committees
2014, 15 / Assessment committee: PhD-student, Aarhus University & University of Southern Denmark
2014 / Assessment committee: Post.doc, Aarhus University
2012 / Chair of assessment committee: PhD-thesis, University of Copenhagen
2011 / Assessment committee: Honorary professor, Aarhus University
2011 / Chair of assessment committee: Associate professors, University of Copenhagen
2007, 10, 15 / Assessment committee: Assistant professors, Aarhus University, University of Southern Denmark & University of Southern Denmark
2010 / Chair of assessment committee: Honorary professor, University of Copenhagen
2009,10 / Assessment committee: Associate professors, Aarhus University
2008 / Chair of assessment committee: Assistant professors, University of Copenhagen
List of selected publications by type in reverse chronological order
Articles in refereed journals
1.  Bhatti, Y. & Hansen, K.M. (2015) The Effect of Residential Concentration on Voter Turnout among Ethnic Minorities. International Migration Review. Online early access.
2.  Hansen, K. M & Kosiara-Pedersen, K. (2015) How campaigns polarize the electorate: Political polarization as an effect of the minimal effect theory within a multi-party system. Party Politics. Online early access.
3.  Van Dalen, A., Fazekas, Z., Klemmensen, R. & Hansen, K. M (2015) Policy Considerations on Facebook: Agendas, Coherence, and Communication Patterns in the 2011 Danish Parliamentary Elections. Journal of Information Technology & Politics. Online early access.
4.  Bhatti, Y.; Dahlgaard, J. O.; Hansen, J. H. & Hansen, K. M. (2015) Getting Out the Vote With Evaluative Thinking. American Journal of Evaluation. 36(3): 389-400.
5.  Dahlgaard, J. O.; Hansen, J. H.; Hansen, K. M. & Larsen, M. V. (2015) Hvordan påvirkes vælgerne af meningsmålinger? Effekten af meningsmålinger på danskernes stemmeadfærd og sympati for partierne. Politica. 41(1):5-23.
6.  Kosiara-Pedersen, K. & Hansen, K.M. (2015) Gender Differences in Assessments of Party Leaders. Scandinavian Political Studies. 38(1):26-48.
7.  Hansen, K.M., Olsen, A.L. & Bech, M. (2014) Cross-national Yardstick Comparisons: A Choice Experiment on a Forgotten Voter Heuristic. Political Behavior. Online early access.
8.  Bhatti, Y. & Hansen, K.M. (2014) Vælgerne og Europa-parlamentsvalg: Landspolitisk valgvind og stærke spidskandidater, Økonomi og Politik. 87(2):71-87.
9.  Hansen, K.M. & Pedersen, R.T. (2014) Campaigns Matter: How Voters Become Knowledgeable and Efficacious During Election Campaigns. Political Communication.31(2): 303-324.
10.  Hansen, K.M & Kosiara-Pedersen, K. (2014) Cyber-campaigning in Denmark: Application and effects of candidate campaigning. Journal of Information Technology & Politics. 11(2):206-219.
11.  Bhatti, Y., Hansen, K.M. & Olsen. A. L. (2013) Political hypocrisy: The effect of political scandals on candidate evaluations. Acta Politica. 48(4):408-428.
12.  Bhatti, Y. & Hansen, K.M. (2013) Public employees lining up for the polls - the conditional effect of living and working in same district. Public Choice. 156 (3-4):611-629.
13.  Hansen, K.M. (2012) Turnout – Socialization and Social Networks. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties. 22(4):377-379.
14.  Bhatti, Y. & Hansen, K.M. (2012) Leaving the Nest and the Social Act of Voting: Turnout among First-Time Voters. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties. 22(4):380-406.
15.  Bhatti, Y. & Hansen, K.M. (2012) Retiring from Voting: Turnout among Senior Voters. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties. 22(4):479-500.
16.  Bhatti, Y.; Hansen, K.M. & Wass, H. (2012) The relationship between age and turnout: A roller-coaster ride. Electoral Studies. 31(3):588-593.
17.  Bhatti, Y. & Hansen, K.M. (2012) The effect of generation and age on turnout to the European Parliament – How turnout will continue to decline in the future. Electoral Studies. 31(2): 262-272.
18.  Hansen, K.M. & Pedersen, R.T. (2012) Efficiency of Different Recruitment Strategies for Web Panels. International Journal of Public Opinion Research. 24(2):238-249.
19.  Bhatti, Y., Hansen, K.M. & Olsen, A.L. (2012) Betyder ændringen i skatteprocenten noget for tilslutningen til borgmesterpartiet? Resultater fra danske kommuner. Politica. 44(4):563-581.
20.  Bhatti, Y. & Hansen, K.M. (2011) Who “marries” whom? - The influence of social connectedness, economic and political homogeneity, and population size on jurisdictional consolidations. European Journal of Political Research. 50(2):212-238.
21.  Bhatti, Y. & Hansen, K.M. (2010) Kommunalreformens betydning for den kommunale valgdeltagelse. Tidsskriftet Politik. 13(3):6-16.
22.  Hansen, K.M. (2009) Changing Patterns of Information Effects on Party Choice in a Multiparty System. International Journal of Public Opinion Research. 21(4):525-546.
23.  Hansen, K.M. & Pedersen, R.T. (2008) Negative Campaigning in a Multiparty System. Scandinavian Political Studies. 31(4):408-427.
24.  Hansen, K.M. (2007) The Sophisticated Public: The Effect of Competing Frames on public opinion. Scandinavian Political Studies. 30(3):377-396.
25.  Hansen, K.M. & Bech, M. (2007) De sociotropiske vælgere: Ønsket om stigende beskæftigelse betyder mere end hvem der bliver statsminister og vælgerne kan ikke købes med lønstigninger”. Politica. 39(1):67-86.
26.  Hansen, K.M. (2007) The effects of incentives, interview length, and interviewer characteristics on response rates in a CATI-study. International Journal Public Opinion Research. 19(1):112-121.
27.  Andersen, V.N. & Hansen, K.M. (2007) How deliberation makes better citizens - The Deliberative Poll on the euro. European Journal of Political Research. 46(4):531-556.
28.  Hansen, K.M., Pedersen, K. & Wahl-Brink, D. (2006) Folketingsvalget 2005 i cyberspace. Tidsskriftet Politik. 9(1):86-99.
29.  Hansen, K. M. & Ringsmose, J. (2006) Når partilederen får sparket: partilederskift i de fire gamle partier. Politica. 38(1):79-97.
30.  Dahl, P.S. & Hansen, K.M. (2006) Diffusion of standards: The importance of size, region and external pressures in diffusion processes. Public Administration. 84(2):41-459.
31.  Bech, M., Dahl, P.S. & Hansen, K.M. (2004) Fleksible jobpakker gennem lønkompensation - afvejning af jobkarakteristika. Økonomi & Politik. 77(4):38-50.
32.  Hansen, K M. (2004) Borgerinddragelse?. Metode & Data. 90:4-19.
33.  Hansen, K.M. (2004) "Forbedrede politiske holdninger gennem deliberation". Tidsskriftet Politik. 7(3):110-125.
34.  Hansen, K.M. & Andersen, V.N. (2004) Deliberative democracy and the Deliberative Poll on the euro. Scandinavian Political Studies. 27(3):261-286.