Public Policy and Public Administration
Short description
This research area is about the capacities of politically elected bodies – the Swedish parliament (Riksdag), and municipal and county councils – to exercise governance. For instance, research in this area might concern what role the structure of public administration plays, or what roles other institutions play, from a comparative perspective. Other questions concern the individual citizen’s relationships with the authorities and municipal or state government services; the creation, implementation and outcomes of public reform programmes; and the role of the regions in political governance.
The Public Administration and Public Policy Seminar (PAPP)
The Department of Political Science holds regular series of PAPP Seminars. The seminars are given by the Department’s own staff as well as invited guests.
For more information, please see the calendar on our website.
Research group
- Rasmus Broms, Researcher
- Daniel Carelli, Doctoral Student
- Agnes Cornell, Senior Lecturer
- Carl Dahlström, Professor
- Marica Grimes, Senior Lecturer
- Mikael Holmgren, Researcher
- Victor Lapuente, Professor
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Elena Leuschner, Doctoral Student
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Simon Lundin, Doctoral Student
- Birgitta Niklasson, Senior Lecturer
- Marina Nistotskaya, Senior Lecturer
- Jon Pierre, Professor
- Helena Stensöta, Professor
- Anders Sundell, Senior Lecturer.
Books
Cornell, Agnes, Jørgen Møller, and Svend-Erik Skaaning (2020). Democratic stability in an age of crisis: Reassessing the interwar period. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Articles
Broms, Rasmus, Carl Dahlström and Marina Nistotskaya (2020). Competition and Service Quality: Evidence from Swedish Residential Care Homes. Governance 33(3): 525-543.
Cornell, Agnes, Carl Henrik Knutsen, and Jan Teorell (2020). Bureaucracy and Growth. Comparative Political Studies 53(14):2246-82.
Cornell, Agnes and Anders Sundell (2020). Money matters: The role of public sector wages in corruption prevention. Public Administration 98(1):244–60.
Dahlström, Carl, Mihaly Fazekas, and David E. Lewis (2020). Partisan Procurement. Contracting with the United States Federal Government, 2003-2015. American Journal of Political Science.
Lindvall, Johannes, Hanna Bäck, Carl Dahlström, Elin Naurin and Jan Teorell (2020). Sweden’s Parliamentary Democracy at 100. Parliamentary Affairs 73(3): 477–502.
Reports
2021
Dahlström, Carl and Johannes Lindvall (2021). Sverige og covid-19-krisen, appendix 4 in the report to the Danish Parliament 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.
Nistotskaya, Marina, Stefan Dahlberg, Carl Dahlström, Aksel Sundström, Sofia Axelsson, Cem Mert Dalli and Natalia Alvarado Pachon (2021). The Quality of Government Expert Survey 2020. (Wave III): Report (pdf). QoG Working Papers Series 2021:2. Gothenburg: The Quality of Government Institute.
2020
Cornell, Agnes and Ted Svensson (2020). Imperial Diffusion of Bureaucratic Practices? Entrance Examinations to the Indian Civil Service and the British Civil Service. STANCE Working Paper Series 2020:6.
Dahlström, Carl, Erik Lundberg and Kira Pronin (2020). Conflict-resolvers or tools of electoral struggle? Swedish commissions of inquiry 1990-2016. QoG Working Papers Series 2020:3. Gothenburg: The Quality of Government Institute.
Book Review
Carelli, Daniel (2020). Fritz Sager, Christian Rosser, Céline Mavrot, and Pascal Y. Hurni. A Transatlantic History of Public Administration: Analyzing the USA, Germany and France. (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2018). 224 Pp. $108 (hardback), ISBN: 9781788113748. Public Administration Review, 80(5), 902-04.
