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Carl Dahlström
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Faculty Board of Social SciencesAbout Carl Dahlström
Carl Dahlström is professor of political science, and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Gothenburg.
He has been a visiting scholar at the European University Institute, University of Oxford, Sciences Po, Paris, Harvard University, and Stockholm University.
His research is concerned with comparative and historical perspectives on public administration, administrative reforms and welfare state policymaking. He has also studied Swedish immigrant policy and anti-immigrant parties.
Dahlström is, or has been, supervising nine graduate students: Elin Bergman (PhD, 2019) (main supervisor); Frida Boräng (PhD, 2013) (main supervisor); Rasmus Broms (PhD, 2016) (main supervisor); Simon Gren (main supervisor); Ragnheiður Hergeirsdóttir (assistant supervisor), Mikael Holmgren (PhD, 2017) (main supervisor); Felix Lehmann (assistant supervisor); Elena Leuschner (PhD, 2025) (main supervisor); and Christina Ribbhagen (PhD, 2013) (assistant supervisor).
Dahlström’s papers have appeared in American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics; Annual Review of Political Science; Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, British Journal of Political Science; and many other international journals.
He is the co-author of the monograph Organizing Leviathan (with Victor Lapuente) (Cambridge University Press), and is the co-editor of Elites, Institutions, and the Quality of Government (with Lena Wängnerud) (Palgrave) and Steering from the Centre: Strengthening Political Control in Western Democracies (with B. Guy Peters and Jon Pierre) (University of Toronto Press). He has also contributed to the International Encyclopedia of Political Science (Sage) and the Routledge Handbook of Political Corruption (Routledge) and is section editor in the Handbook of Public Administration (Sage, second edition) and the Oxford Handbook of Swedish Politics (Oxford University Press).
For a full list of publications see Dahlström’s CV.
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Sweden's Responses to
Covid-19
Carl Dahlström, Johannes Lindvall
Policy Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic: An International Comparative Approach - 2025 -
Parliamentary Control of Ministerial
Policymaking
Mikael Holmgren, Carl Dahlström
2024 -
Structural Characteristics of Long-Term Care Facilities for Elderly and COVID-19 Outcomes: A Systematic
Literature
Review
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COVID-19 Mortality and the Structural Characteristics of Long-Term Care Facilities: Evidence from
Sweden
Rasmus Broms, Carl Dahlström, Jenna Najar, Marina Nistotskaya
Public Performance and Management Review - 2024 -
Provider Ownership and Indicators of Service Quality: Evidence from Swedish Residential Care
Homes
Rasmus Broms, Carl Dahlström, Marina Nistotskaya
Journal of public administration research and theory - 2024 -
Predictors of COVID-19 outcomes among residents of Swedish long-term care facilities – a nationwide study of the year
2020
Jenna Najar, Rasmus Broms, Carl Dahlström, Marina Nistotskaya
The American journal of geriatric psychiatry - 2023 -
Loyal Leaders, Affluent Agencies: The Budgetary Implications of Political Appointments in the Executive
Branch
Carl Dahlström, Mikael Holmgren
Journal of Politics - 2023 -
Delegering, politisering och svensk
statsförvaltning
Carl Dahlström
Dahlström, Carl (ed.) (2023). Politik som organisation. Seventh edition. Lund: Studentlitteratur. - 2023 -
Politik som
organisation.
Carl Dahlström
2023 -
Executive Appointments under Legislative
Oversight
Carl Dahlström, Mikael Holmgren
2023 -
Comparative Bureaucratic
Politics
Carl Dahlström, Victor Lapuente
Annual Review of Political Science - 2022 -
No More Political Compromise? Swedish Commissions of Inquiry
1990-2016
Carl Dahlström, E. Lundberg, K. Pronin
Scandinavian Political Studies - 2021 -
Partisan Procurement. Contracting with the United States Federal Government,
2003-2015
Carl Dahlström, Mihaly Fazekas, David E. Lewis
American Journal of Political Science - 2021 -
The Quality of Government Expert Survey 2020 (Wave III):
Report
Marina Nistotskaya, Stefan Dahlberg, Carl Dahlström, Aksel Sundström, Sofia Axelsson, Cem Mert Dalli, Natalia Alvarado Pachon
2021 -
The Quality of Government Expert Survey 2020 Dataset: Wave
III
Marina Nistotskaya, Stefan Dahlberg, Carl Dahlström, Aksel Sundström, Sofia Axelsson, Cem Mert Dalli, Natalia Alvarado Pachon
2021 -
Driftsform, personalsammansättning och storlek: Om strukturella faktorer och risk att smittas av och dö i covid-19 vid särskilt boende för äldre i
Sverige
Rasmus Broms, Carl Dahlström, Jenna Najar, Marina Nistotskaya
2021 -
Provider Ownership and Service Quality: Evidence from Swedish Residential Care
Homes
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Bureaucracy and Quality of
Government
Carl Dahlström, Victor Lapuente
In Monika Bauhr, Andreas Bågenholm, Marcia Grimes and Bo Rothstein (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Quality of Government. Oxford: Oxford University Press. - 2021 -
Sweden and the COVID-19
Crisis
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"Sverige og covid-19-krisen", appendix 4 i rapporten Håndteringen af covid-19 i foråret 2020. Rapport afgivet af den af Folketingets Udvalg for Forretningsordenen nedsatte udredningsgruppe vedr. håndteringen af covid-19. Folketinget, January
2021.
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Sweden’s Parlamentary Democracy at
100
Johannes Lindvall, Hanna Bäck, Carl Dahlström, Elin Naurin, Jan Teorell
Parliamentary Affairs - 2020 -
Competition and service quality: Evidence from Swedish residential care
homes
Rasmus Broms, Carl Dahlström, Marina Nistotskaya
Governance - 2020 -
Conflict-resolvers or tools of electoral struggle? Swedish commissions of inquiry
1990-2016
Carl Dahlström, Erik Lundberg, Kira Pronin
2020 -
Conflict-resolvers or Tools of Electoral Struggle? Swedish Commissions of Inquiry
1990-2018
Carl Dahlström, Erik Lundberg, Kira Pronin
Presented at the EUREX workshop Expertise and policy-making – comparative perspectives, The Hague, Netherlands, May 13-14, 2019, and at the the 26th International Conference of Europeanists, Madrid, Spain, June 20-22, 2019 - 2019 -
Det statliga kommitéeväsendets förändring
1990-2016
Carl Dahlström, Erik Lundberg, Kira Pronin
2019 -
Political competition and public procurement
outcomes
Rasmus Broms, Carl Dahlström, Mihaly Fazekas
Comparative Political Studies - 2019 -
The Political Dynamics of Bureaucratic
Turnover
Carl Dahlström, Mikael Holmgren
British Journal of Political Science - 2019 -
Outsourcing, bureaucratic personnel quality and citizen satisfaction with public
services
Carl Dahlström, Marina Nistotskaya, Maria Tyrberg
Public Administration - 2018 -
Marketization and the Quality of Residential Elderly Care in
Sweden
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Politik som
organisation
Carl Dahlström
2018 -
Delegering, politisering och svensk
statsförvaltning
Carl Dahlström
Dahlström, Carl (red.). Politik som organisation. - 2018 -
Mayors and Corruption in Spain: Same Rules, Different
Outcomes
Salvador Parrado, Carl Dahlström, Victor Lapuente
South European Society and Politics - 2018 -
Policy Effects of Anti-Immigrant Party Representation on Aid to Vulnerable European Union/European Economic Area
Citizens
Maria Tyrberg, Carl Dahlström
Political Studies - 2018 -
Organizing Leviathan. Politicians, Bureaucrats, and the Making of Good
Government
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The Link between Appointments and Appropriations in the Politics of Administrative
Design
Carl Dahlström, Mikael Holmgren
2017 -
Procurement and competition in Swedish
municipalities
Rasmus Broms, Carl Dahlström, Mihaly Fazekas
2017 -
Samverkan och strid i den parlamentariska
demokratin
Johannes Lindvall, Hanna Bäck, Carl Dahlström, Elin Naurin, Jan Teorell
2017 -
De invandrarkritiska partiernas politiska inflytande i Europa. Delegationen för migrationsstudier
2017:1
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Careers, connections and corruption risks: Investigating the Impact of Bureaucratic Meritocracy
on Public Procurement
Processes
Nicholas Charron, Carl Dahlström, Mihály Fazekas, Victor Lapuente
The Journal of Politics - 2017 -
Measuring Meritocracy in the Public Sector in Europe: a New National and Sub-National
Indicator
Nicholas Charron, Carl Dahlström, Victor Lapuente
European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research - 2016 -
Is the Quality of Outsourced Public Services Contingent on the Quality of
Bureaucracy?
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Political Appointments and Agency
Spending
Carl Dahlström, Anders Sundell
Southern Political Science Association annual meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico, January 7-9 2016 - 2016 -
The Link between Appointments and Appropriations in the Politics of Administrative
Design
Carl Dahlström, Mikael Holmgren
the 2016 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in Philadelphia, PA, September 1-4 - 2016 -
The Abandoned Trustees. Explaining Corruption in Local
Government
Salvador Parrado, Victor Lapuente, Carl Dahlström
2016 -
Expert Survey on the Quality of Government in Russia’s
Regions
Marina Nistotskaya, Anna Khakhunova, Carl Dahlström
2015 -
The QoG Expert Survey II
Report
Carl Dahlström, Jan Teorell, Stefan Dahlberg, Felix Hartmann, Annika Lindberg, Marina Nistotskaya
2015 -
Policy making in
Sweden
Carl Dahlström
In Pierre, Jon (ed), The Oxford Handbook of Swedish Politics. - 2015 -
How Institutions Constrain Elites from Destructive
Behavior
Carl Dahlström, Lena Wängnerud
Elites, Institutions, and the Quality of Government - 2015 -
Democratic and professional
accountability
Carl Dahlström, Victor Lapuente
Elites, Institutions, and the Quality of Government - 2015 -
Measuring Meritocracy in the Public Sector in Europe: A New National and Sub-National
Indicator
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