Anna Persson
Universitetslektor
StatsvetenskapligaOm Anna Persson
Presentation
Anna Persson är docent och universitetslektor vid Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, Göteborgs universitet. Hon är också verksam som forskare vid Quality of Government (QoG)-institutet, samt verkar som ledamot i QoG-institutets ledningsgrupp. Hon är även förtroendevald ledamot i Transparency Internationals svenska sektion. Persson har en politices magister-examen från Lunds universitet och McGill University i Montréal, Kanada, samt en kandidatexamen i nationalekonomi med inriktning mot utvecklingsekonomi från Ekonomihögskolan vid Lunds universitet. Våren 2021 utökade hon sin kompetens med en filosofie magisterexamen i journalistik med inriktning mot undersökande journalistik från Göteborgs Universitet. Hon har tidigare varit verksam som gästforskare på statsvetenskapliga institutionen vid UCLA samt på Department of Business and Politics vid Handelshögskolan i Köpenhamn.
Forskningsintressen
Perssons huvudsakliga forskningsintressen ligger inom fältet för jämförande politik och jämförande politisk ekonomi i relation till utvecklingsfrågor. Särskilt fokuserar hennes forskning på relationen mellan formella och informella institutioner, individuellt och kollektivt agerande och staters utveckling och kapacitet i förhållande till centrala utvecklingsfrågor så som korruption, beskattning, välfärd och hälsa. Tillsammans med Frida Boräng och Ruth Carlitz driver Persson för närvarande projektet The Power of Ideas: New Perspectives on State Capacity and Public Goods Provision in Emerging Democracies (finansierat av Vetenskapsrådet).
Perssons forskning finns publicerad i bland annat Governance, Perspectives on Politics, Comparative Politics, samt hos Palgrave Macmillan och Oxford University Press. Utöver forskningen har hon erfarenhet av konsultarbeten bland annat för Sida, OECD/DAC, Expertgruppen för biståndsanalys (EBA), Transparency International, UNCDF, Internationellt Centrum för Lokal Demokrati (ICLD), Skatteverket, Riksrevisionen och Lantmäteriet.
Undervisning
Persson verkar som lärare på både grund- och forskarnivå. Hon är tillsammans med Henrik Friberg-Fernros kursansvarig för kursen Applied Qualitative Research Methods, Problems and Design (SF2323). Hon är även ansvarig för uppsatssamordningen på kursen Metod och uppsatssamordning (SK1313) (vartannat år). På dessa båda kurser undervisar hon även i forskningsdesign och kvalitativ metod. Hon verkar som handledare och examinator på kandidat- och avancerad nivå, samt som handledare på forskarutbildningen.
Utvalda vetenskapliga publikationer
Persson, Anna. 2021. “Bringing Politics Back In: Ethnic Fractionalization, Quality of Government, and Public Goods Provision Revisited.” In Bågenholm, Andreas et al. (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Quality of Government. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Persson, Anna, and Rothstein, Bo. 2019. "Lost in Transition: A Bottom-Up Perspective on Hybrid Regimes." Annals of Comparative Democratization 17(3): 10-12.
Persson, Anna, Rothstein, Bo, and Teorell Jan. 2019. “Getting the Basic Nature of Systemic Corruption Right.” Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions 32 (4): 799-810.
Persson, Anna, and Sjöstedt, Martin. 2018. “Den svaga staten: demokrati och förvaltning i utvecklingsländer.” In Carl Dahlström (Ed.), Politik som organisation: förvaltningens grundproblem, 6th edition, Lund: Studentlitteratur.
Persson, Anna. 2017. “The Modern State: Characteristics, Capabilities, and Consequences.” In Burnell, Peter, Rakner, Lise, and Randall, Vicky (Eds.), Politics in the Developing World, 5th edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Persson, Anna, and Sjöstedt, Martin. 2015. “The Political and Historical Origins of Good Government: How Social Contracts Shape Elite Behavior.” In Carl Dahlström and Lena Wängnerud (Eds.), Elites, Institutions, and the Quality of Government, Palgrave MacMillan.
Persson, Anna, and Rothstein Bo. 2015. “It’s My Money: Why Big Government May Be Good Government.” Comparative Politics 47(2): 231-249.
Persson, Anna, Rothstein, Bo, and Teorell, Jan. 2013. “Why Anti-Corruption Reforms Fail – Systemic Corruption as a Collective Action Problem.” Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions 26(3): 449-471.
Persson, Anna, and Sjöstedt, Martin. 2012. “Responsive and Responsible Leaders: A Matter of Political Will?” Perspectives on Politics 10(3): 617-632.
Persson, Anna, and Sjöstedt, Martin. 2012. “State Legitimacy and the Corruptibility of Leaders.” In Bo Rothstein and Sören Holmberg (Eds.), Good Government: The Relevance of Political Science. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edwar Elgar Publishing Ltd.
Persson, Anna, Rothstein, Bo, and Teorell Jan. 2012. “Rethinking the Nature of the Grabbing Hand: The Collective Action Problem of Systemic Corruption.” In Bo Rothstein and Sören Holmberg (Eds.), Good Government: The Relevance of Political Science. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edwar Elgar Publishing Ltd.
Persson, Anna. 2008. The Institutional Sources of Statehood – Assimilation, Multiculturalism, and Taxation in Sub-Saharan Africa, Doctoral dissertation in political science, included as number 111 in the Series Göteborg Studies in Politics, edited by Bo Rothstein, Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg (ISBN: 978-91-89246-36-2, ISSN: 0346-5942).
Debattartiklar och annan medverkan i media
Medverkan i Juniornyheterna Special: Europas sista diktatur, Sveriges Radio, Augusti 2020.
Esaiasson, Peter, Persson, Anna, och Winqvist, Johanna. 2019. "Gårdstensmodellen är ingen mirakelkur." GP Debatt 20190301
Persson, Anna. 2012. "Vässa åtgärder mot korruption." Sydsvenskan Opinion, Aktuella frågor 20121205
Tredje uppgiften och konsultuppdrag (Föredrag, föreläsningar mm.)
Sida. Utveckling av kursen "Corruption in Academic Research," December 2021.
Sida. Bildning & Debatt. Föredrag samt panelsamtal på temat " Quality of Government (QoG), Democracy & Development," November 2021.
Skatteverket. OIP-dagen 2021. Föredrag om "Vikten av god Samhällsstyrning" samt "Hur få god samhällsstyrning?," September 2021.
Sida. Lansering av Myndighetsnavet på Myndighetsforum. Föredrag om "Vikten av välfungerande samhällsinstitutioner (QoG)," Mars 2021.
Transparency International i Bosnien och Herzegovina. Paneldiskussion om "Rethinking Anti-Corruption Reform: Diagnosis v. Remedy" (med Paul Heywood, Senada Selo Sabic, Jasmin Mujanovic and Aleksandar Brezar), "Time to Act: Reality of Anti-corruption Policies," Sarajevo, November 2019.
Transparency International i Bosnien och Herzegovina. TI School of Integrity, "The Electoral Roots of Corruption: A Dynamic Approach to Hybrid Regimes," Sarajevo, November 2019.
Senioruniversitetet i Stockholm. Föredrag om "Korruption som samhällsproblem," Stockholm, November 2019.
Göteborgs universitet. Paneldiskussion om "Global Cooperation in a Polarized Time" (med Ulrika Modéer, Eva Ekelund, Efraim Gomez, Annica Kronsell, och Per Nordlund)," Göteborg, Oktober 2019.
Perus Riksrevision. "CAII 2018, Preventing Corruption: From a Reactive to a Proactive State," Lima, December 2018.
Policy Dialogue Day vid Göteborgs Universitet. "The Democratic Roots of Corruption,” Göteborg, Maj 2018.
Lantmäteriet & Sida. Föreläsningar inom ramen för International Training Programme (ITP) om "Applied Land Governance", Gävle, September, 2017.
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. "Utbredd korruption som ett socialt dilemma," Stockholm, May 2015.
ICLD & UNCDF. Programplanering, föreläsningar, samt mentor inom ramen för International Training Programme (ITP) on "Towards Local Democracy and Local Development Through Local Government," Göteborg, Lusaka, Kigali och Kampala, 2011-2013.
ICLD. Föreläsningar samt mentor inom ramen för International Training Programme (ITP) om "Decentralization and Good Governance with a Gender Perspective," Göteborg, 2010-2012.
Samhällsvetenskapens dag vid Göteborgs universitet. "Staten och den (väldigt) privata sfären: HIV som ett statsvetenskapligt problem, (med Martin Sjöstedt), Göteborg, Oktober 2011.
Bokmässan. Paneldiskussion om "Foreign Aid and Corruption" (med Molly Lien, Martin Sjöstedt, Nicholas Charron, och Monica Bauhr), Göteborg, September 2011.
Riksrevisionen. "Korruptionens logik i Sverige och i utvecklingsländer," Stockholm, Januari 2011.
Riksrevisionen. "Korruptionens drivkrafter: Varför är vissa länder mer korrupta än andra?," Stockholm, April 2011.
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Who Pays for Distributive Politics? Reassessing the Patronage State in Sub-Saharan
Africa
Anna Persson, Elise Tengs
ECPR Joint Sessions, Edinburgh & Online, April 19-22, 2022 - 2022 -
Bringing Politics Back In: Ethnic Fractionalization, Quality of Government, and Public Goods Provision
Revisited
Anna Persson
Oxford Handbook of Quality of Government - 2021 -
Who Pays for Distributive Politics? Reassessing the Patronage State in Sub-Saharan
Africa
Anna Persson, Elise Tengs
NoPSA, August 10-13, 2021, University of Iceland (online) - 2021 -
Watchdog or Corrupt Ally? The Monitoring Role of Journalists in the Face of Corrupt
Rule.
Anna Persson
QoG Conference, August 23-25, 2021. - 2021 -
Getting the basic nature of systemic corruption
right
Anna Persson, Bo Rothstein, Jan Teorell
Governance - 2019 -
The Power of Ideas: The Importance of the State's Ideational Reach for Understanding State
Capacity
Frida Boräng, Ruth D Carlitz, Anna Persson
State Capacity Workshop, University of Gothenburg, June 10-11, 2019 - 2019 -
The Power of Ideas: Understanding State Capacity Through Ideational Reach and Relative
Power
Frida Boräng, Ruth D Carlitz, Anna Persson
QoG Annual Conference, Tanumstrand, August 19-21, 2019 - 2019 -
The Democratic Roots of Corruption: Clientelism, Complicity, and Citizens' Limited Demand for Accountability in the Face of Reverse
Sequencing
Anna Persson, Bo Rothstein
American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., August 29-September 1, 2019. - 2019 -
Lost In Transition: A Bottom-Up Perspective on Hybrid
Regimes
Anna Persson, Bo Rothstein
Annals of Comparative Democratization - 2019 -
Gårdstensmodellen är ingen
mirakelkur
Peter Esaiasson, Anna Persson, Johanna Winqvist
GP Debatt - 2019 -
The Democratic Roots of Corruption: Clientelism, Complicity, and Citizens' Limited Demand for Accountability in the Face of Reverse
Sequencing
Anna Persson, Bo Rothstein
Policy Dialogue Day 2018, May 30th, Gothenburg - 2018 -
Who Pays for Distributive Politics? Ethnic and Regional Favoritism in the Distribution of the Burden of Taxes, Fees, and Bribes in Sub-Saharan
Africa
Anna Persson, Elise Tengs
The Quality of Government (QoG) Institute Annual Conference, Smögen, August 20-22, 2018. - 2018 -
Den svaga staten: Demokrati och förvaltning i
utvecklingsländer
Anna Persson, Martin Sjöstedt
Politik som organisation, 6th edition - 2018 -
The Historical-Institutional Sources of Statehood: Indirect versus Direct Rule at Independence and the Making of the Postcolonial (Modern)
State
Anna Persson
114th American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting, Boston, August 28-September 2nd, 2018 - 2018 -
The Modern State: Characteristics, Capabilities, and
Consequences
Anna Persson
Politics in the Developing World - 2017 -
Democratic Failure from the Bottom-Up. Distorted Fiscal Contracts and the Demand for Clientelism in Developing
Democracies
Frida Boräng, Anna Persson
The 59th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association. Washington: 1-3 December - 2016 -
The Political and Historical Origins of Good Government: How Social Contracts Shape Elite
Behavior
Anna Persson, Martin Sjöstedt
Elites, Institutions and the Quality of Government - 2015 -
It’s My Money: Why Big Government May Be Good
Government
Bo Rothstein, Anna Persson
Comparative politics - 2015 -
Why Anticorruption Reforms Fail - Systemic Corruption as a Collective Action
Problem
Anna Persson, Bo Rothstein, Jan Teorell
Governance-an International Journal of Policy Administration and Institutions - 2013 -
State Legitimacy and the Corruptibility of
Leaders
Anna Persson, Martin Sjöstedt
Good government : the relevance of political science / edited by Sören Holmberg and Bo Rothstein - 2012 -
Responsive and Responsible Leaders: A Matter of Political
Will?
Anna Persson, Martin Sjöstedt
Perspectives on Politics - 2012 -
Why Big Government is Good
Government
Anna Persson, Bo Rothstein
APSA, Seattle 2011 - 2011 -
Who is at risk? The problem of HIV/AIDS according to PEPFAR, The World Bank, and
UNAIDS
Martin Sjöstedt, Anna Persson, Petter Frizén
Presentation at the Quality of Government (QoG) conference in Skagen - 2011 -
To eat or not to eat while in office? The Impact of State legitimacy on Political
Corruption
Martin Sjöstedt, Anna Persson
Presented at the Quality of Government Conference in Skagen - 2011 -
Why Big Government is Good
Government
Anna Persson, Bo Rothstein
QoG Conference, Prague - 2010 -
Why Big Government is Good
Government
Anna Persson, Bo Rothstein
QoG Conference, Prague - 2010 -
Beyond Political Will and
Leadership
Anna Persson, Martin Sjöstedt
QoG Conference, Prague - 2010 -
A deadly mismatch? The problem of HIV/AIDS in research and policy
(2010).
Anna Persson, Martin Sjöstedt
QoG Working Paper Series - 2010 -
The failure of anti-corruption policies: A theoretical mischaracterization of the
problem
Anna Persson, Bo Rothstein, Jan Teorell
QoG Working Paper Series - 2010 -
Development or Decay? How Threats During Formative Periods of State Development Affect Institutional Quality
Today
Anna Persson, Martin Sjöstedt
Annual Meeting of American Political Science Association, Washington D.C. 2010 - 2010 -
Den svaga staten: Demokrati och förvaltning i
utvecklingsländer
Anna Persson, Martin Sjöstedt
Politik som organisation - 2010 -
Reviewing and Reassessing the Problem of
HIV/AIDS
Anna Persson, Martin Sjöstedt
American Political Science Association (APSA) - 2009 -
The Determinants of Institutional Quality - The Impact of Leaders’ Perceived Threats of Losing Power without Compensation on Economic Development in Africa and
Asia
Anna Persson, Martin Sjöstedt
International Studies Association Annual Meeting - 2009 -
Government Structures and HIV/AIDS – A Comparative
Study
Martin Sjöstedt, Anna Persson
International Studies Association Annual Meeting - 2009 -
The Institutional Sources of Statehood - Assimilation, Multiculturalism and Taxation in Sub-Saharan
Africa
Anna Persson
2008 -
Government Structures and Behavior Change in the Politics of
HIV/AIDS
Anna Persson, Martin Sjöstedt
International Studies Association - 2008 -
• Government Structures and Behavior Change in the Politics of
HIV/AIDS
Anna Persson, Martin Sjöstedt
2008 -
• The Sources of Variation in Empirical Statehood – The Impact of Assimilation and Ethnic Group Rights on Patterns of Taxation in a Sub-Saharan African Comparative
Perspective
Anna Persson
2008 -
• Combating HIV/AIDS – A Comparative Study of the Impact of
Decentralization.
Martin Sjöstedt, Anna Persson
Conference Paper presented at the 50th Annual Meeting, African Studies Association. New York, October 2007, at the Quality of Government Institute working conference in Nice, October 23-26, 2007, and at the NFU Conference ‘Making Institutions Work for the Poor’ held in Bergen, November 5-7, 2007. - 2007 -
• The Politics of Taxation – Ideas, Interests, and the Potential Indivisibility of
States
Anna Persson
Prepared for presentation at the Department of Political Science, Göteborg University - 2007 -
• Ethnic Diversity and Tax Capacity – Outline of a
study
Anna Persson
ISA's Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA - 2006 -
• Ethnic Diversity and Tax Compliance in a Comparative
Perspective
Anna Persson
IPSA's Meeting, Fukuoka, Japan, July, 2006 - 2006 -
• The Institutional Sources of Nationhood – Citizenship and the varying Capacity of States in Sub-Saharan
Africa
Anna Persson
Annual Meeting of the Swedish Political Science Association - 2006 -
The Power of Official Imagination – Citizenship, Identity and Tax State Development in Sub-Saharan
Africa
Anna Persson
International Center for Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen - 2006 -
• The Institutional Sources of Tax State Development – Multiculturalism versus
Assimilation
Anna Persson
Department of Political Science, Göteborg University - 2006