Short presentation

Mogens Jin Pedersen is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. He is Affiliate Senior Researcher at VIVE – The Danish Center for Social Science Research, and Reserach Fellow at Center for Organization Research and Design (CORD), School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University. He received his PhD in Political Science from Aarhus University in 2015. His research and teaching focus primarily on issues within the field of public administration: public management, motivation and behavior among employees and citizens, bias in judgements and decision-making.

Primary fields of research

Within public administration:

• Public management
• Employee motivation and performance
• Cognitive biases in judgements and decision-making
• Gender and race discrimination
• Procedural fairness and trust
• Street-level bureaucracy
• Citizen perceptions and evaluations
• Research design and experimental methods

His research is published in journals such as Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration Review, Public Administration, International Public Management Journal, The American Review of Public Administration, Review of Public Personnel Administration, Public Personnel Management, Administration & Society, and Social Science Computer Review.

Teaching

Primary areas:

• Public management and leadership
• Public administration
• Motivation and behavior
• Cognitive biases in judgements and decision-making
• Policy evaluation

Supervises MSc theses.