Rasmus Fredslund Stenderup

Short presentation

Rasmus Stenderup is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen, where he is a part of the Public Administration and Policy research group. Rasmus' research is about bureaucratic friction in the public sector and the inherent trade-offs between individuals’ experiences of strain and democratic governance. Rasmus is concerned with design-based research and how research can inform institutional improvements in practice. He received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Copenhagen in 2025.

Primary fields of research

• Bureaucracy
• Organisational and institutional practices
• 'Bureaucratic sludge'
• Debureaucratization
• Design based methodology
• Mixed methods

Teaching

• Public Administration II: Lectures on Administrative Burdens and Co-creation (Fall 2024 and 2025)
• Bureaucratic Hassles: Friction in people-state interactions (Fall 2023 and 2024)
• Supervision of BA theses - public administration and policy (Fall 2022)
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Fields of interest

The meeting between individuals and public organizations in administrative processes. The role of bureaucracy in democracies. Organizational practices, operating procedures and individuals' experiences of their interactions with public organizations as costly.