Prof. dr Frank Hendriks (1966) is full professor of comparative governance at Tilburg University. He is a member of the Dutch Council for Public Governance, an advisory council for Dutch government. He is Fellow at the Montesquieu Institute in The Hague and was Visiting Fellow at St Edmund's College, Cambridge University, at IDHEAP in Lausanne, Switzerland, at Ghent University, Belgium, Harvard University, USC and UCLA in the US.

His research is focused on the design and quality of democratic governance - on political leadership and active citizenship, on public decisionmaking and participation, on reform and innovation in democratic institutions - at the level of the city and the state at large. A good reflection of his current research agenda is the book Rethinking Democratic Innovation, Oxford University Press, 2023. This is a sequel to Vital Democracy: A Theory of Democracy in Action, Oxford University Press, 2010.

Research conducted by Frank Hendriks is published in international journals such as Administration & Society; Government & Opposition; Public Administration; International Review of Administrative Sciences; International Political Science Review; Journalism; Democratization; Acta Politica; Urban Affairs Review; International Journal of Public Administration; Local Government Studies; Administrative Theory and Praxis; Regional & Federal Studies; Leadership; Innovation; Journal of Political Marketing;  Cross-Cultural Research; GeoJournal; Dutch Crossing; Politics, Culture & Socialization; and more. 

He is the author/editor of twenty books, published by reputed national and international publishers such as: Oxford University Press; Amsterdam University Press; Edward Elgar; Reed Elsevier; Springer; Routlegde/Ashgate; Boom/Lemma; Van Gorcum; Van Gennep.