Albæk, Erik

(b. 1955, Denmark). Ph.D. and M.A. in Political Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark.

Albæk is Professor of Public Administration, Department of Economics, Politics and Public Administration, Aalborg University, Denmark. Previous appointments include Eurofaculty Professor of Public Administration, Institute of International Relations and Political Science, University of Vilnius, Lithuania, and Associate Professor of Public Administration, University of Aarhus, Denmark. He has been an American Council of Learned Societies Fellow and Visiting Scholar in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, and in the Science, Technology, and Society program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Currently, he is Editor of Scandinavian Political Studies and previously was Editor of GRUS. Since 1989, he has participated in a variety of cross-national research projects with colleagues throughout Europe and the United States.

His primary contributions to evaluation focus on the history, utilization, and functions of evaluation, as well as decision theory, and his primary intellectual influences are to be found in the works of Herbert Simon, Charles Lindbloom, James March, and Carol Weiss. He wrote HIV, Blood and the Politics of“Scandal” in Denmark, cowrote Nordic Local Government: Developmental Trends and Reform Activities in the Postwar Period, and coedited Crisis, Miracles, and Beyond: Negotiated Adaptation of the Danish Welfare State. In addition, he has authored numerous articles and book chapters in both English and Danish.