March 30, 2012

Jon Pierre

(born March 26, 1953)

Office: Home:

Department of Political Science Västergårdsvägen 7

University of Gothenburg S-475 37 Bohus-Björkö

Box 711 SWEDEN

S-405 30 Gothenburg Phone: + 46 (31) 929-063

SWEDEN

Phone: + 46 (31) 786-1246

FAX: + 46 (31) 786-4599

Email: jon.pierre@pol.gu.se

I. Degrees

1996 Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg.

1991 Docent, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Gothenburg.

1986 PhD. Department of Political Science, University of Lund.

1976 B.A. (Political Science, Economics, Statistics), University of Lund.

II. Professional Background

Current appointments

1999 – present Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg.

2007 – present Adjunct professor, Department of Social Sciences, University of Nordland,

Bodö, Norway.

1996 – present Adjunct professor, Department of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh,

USA.

Previous appointments

1996 - 1998 Chair in Politics, Department of Government, University of Strathclyde,

Scotland.

1993 - 1996 Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg.

1991 - 1993 Associate Professor, School of Public Administration, University of Gothenburg.

1988 Acting Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg.

1986 - 1991 Assistant Professor ("forskarassistent"), Department of Political Science,

University of Gothenburg.

1986 Assistant Professor, DIS Study Program, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

1978 - 1986 Amanuensis and PhD candidate, Department of Political Science, University of

Lund.

III. Research grants, honorary appointments, and awards

2011 (April) Distinguished Visitor, University of Auckland.

2010-11 Visiting Research Fellow, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of

Melbourne.

2010- present Advisory Board member for the international research program ―Innovation

towards Sustainability and Competitiveness‖ (ISAC).

2009- present Editorial Advisory Board member, Key Texts in Public Management and

Leadership, Palgrave.

2007-2012 Awarded a ―Long-term support for leading scholars‖ by the Swedish Science

Council.

2006 Recipient of an ―Outstanding Academic Title‖ Award by Choice Magazine for

Governing Complex Societies: Trajectories and Scenarios (co-authored with B. Guy Peters).

2004 Recipient of an ―Outstanding Academic Title‖ Award by Choice Magazine for

Handbook of Public Administration (co-edited with B. Guy Peters).

2004-2007 Senior Academic Advisor, Department of Public and Social Administration, City

University of Hong Kong.

2003 (March-April) Visiting Professor, Department of Public and Social Administration, City

University of Hong Kong.

2002- present Advisory board member, Centre for the Study of Democratic Network

Governance, Roskilde University, Denmark.

2001 (May) Academic Visitor, National Institute of Governance and Centre for Research on

Public Management, University of Canberra, Australia.

2001 Awarded the Vincent Wright Memorial Prize for "State Subsidies to Political Parties:

Confronting Rhetoric with Evidence" (with Lars Svasand and Anders Widfeldt), West

European Politics, 23:1-24.

2000-2002 Profesor Titular, Faculdad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de La República

Oriental del Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay.

1999-2002 Visiting Professor, Department of Government, University of Strathclyde,

Scotland.

1998- present Series co-editor (with B. Guy Peters and Gerry Stoker), Political Analysis

(Basingstoke: Palgrave).

1998-2000 Member of steering committee for a project on "Local Business Development",

organized by the National Agency for Business and Technology Development (NUTEK).

1998 Member of advisory board to the Parliamentary Commission on the Regions (PARK).

1997 (December) Academic visitor, Nuffield College, Oxford University.

1997-2002 Senior Associate, The Global Affairs Institute, Maxwell School of Citizenship and

Public Affairs, Syracuse University.

1994-2002 International Fellow, Canadian Centre for Management Development and

Member of the CCMD International Governance Network.

1994-96 Senior research expert for the Industrial and Regional Policy Section of the Swedish

Association of Local Authorities.

1992-1999 Invited member of the committee for the "European Political Yearbook",

published by European Journal of Political Research.

1991-2006 Co-chair (with B. Guy Peters), International Political Science Association‘s

Research Committee (RC 17) on "Globalization and Governance".

1991-92 Visiting Scholar and Andrew A. Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department

of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh, USA.

1991-92 Awarded the Sweden-America Foundation's Zorn Grant.

1990 - 1992 Executive board member, Scandinavian Political Science Association.

1991 (March) Academic Visitor and British Council Fellow, Department of Government,

London School of Economics and Political Science.

1989 - 1991 Secretary and treasurer, Swedish Political Science Association.

International conferences attended (not including conferences for research projects):

Nordic Political Science Association's conferences 1981 (Åbo), 1984 (Lund), 1987

(Copenhagen), and 2005 (Reykjavik).

European Consortium for Political Research's (ECPR) Joint Sessions of Workshops 1980

(Florence), 1981 (Lancaster, England), 1983 (Freiburg), 1987 (Amsterdam), 1989 (Paris; co-

directing a workshop on "Local Self-Government: Economic and Political Challenges to

Local Autonomy"), 1992 (Limerick), 1994 (Madrid), 1997 (Bern), 1999 (Mannheim; co-

directing a workshop on "Politicians, Bureaucrats and Administrative Reform"), 2002

(Lausanne) and 2008 (Rennes; co-directing a workshop on ―New Public Management,

Democratic Governance and the Quality of Government‖).

American Political Science Association (APSA) conferences 1987 (Chicago, IL), 1988

(Washington, D.C.), 1991 (Washington, D.C.), 1993 (Washington, D.C.), 1995 (Chicago),

1997 (Washington, D.C), 1999 (Atlanta), 2002 (Boston), 2007 (Chicago), 2008 (Boston) and

2011 (Seattle).

International Political Science Association (IPSA) conferences 1979 (Moscow), 1985 (Paris),

1988 (Washington, D.C.), 1994 (Berlin), 1997 (Seoul) and 2000 (Quebec City).

Editorial service

2008 - Associate Editor, European Political Science Review

2005 - International Associate Editor, Urban Affairs Review

1998-2000 Co-editor, Governance: An International Journal of Policy and Administration.

1988 - 1990 Co-editor, Scandinavian Political Studies

Editorial board service

Regulation and Governance (2009 -)

Policy and Society (2008 -)

Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions (1995-

1997, 2001-2006, then Emeritus Editorial Board member)

Policy and Politics (2006 -)

Journal of European Public Policy (2006 -)

Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis (2005 -)

Urban Affairs Review (2001-2005)

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (2002-2010)

West European Politics (2001 -)

Scandinavian Political Studies (1990-92)

Research grants awarded

(1) Ministry of Home Affairs' Committee for Research on the Public Sector; Local Self-

Government and Municipal Dependence on their Environments (total grant amounts to

SEK 1.2 milj., equal to USD 200 000 for a three-year period).

(2) Swedish Social Science Research Council (HSFR) and the National Science Foundation

(NSF), USA; The Swedish Political Parties' Organizational Development 1960-1990

(total grant amounts to SEK 225 000, equal to USD 30 000 for a three-year period).

(3) Social Science Research Council (HSFR); Industrial Structural Change and Industrial

Policy: A Comparative Analysis (total grant amounts to SEK 1.1 milj., equal to USD 180

000).

(4) The Bicentenary Fund of The Swedish National Bank (RJ); Markets as Political Actors

(total grants amounts to SEK 1.45 million, equal to USD 200 000).

(5) Vinnova; JAA and the institutionalization of European air traffic safety regulation

(total grant amounts to SEK 485 000, equal to USD 55 000).

(6) National Association of Local Authorities; Local authorities in the new regions (total

grant amounts to SEK 1.5 million, equal to USD 150 000).

(7) Social Science Research Council; Globalization and Governance: A Comparative

Analysis (total grant amounts to SEK 2.2 million, equal to USD 225 000).

(8) Social Science Research Council; Value Conflict in Primary Education: Governance,

Ethnicity and Democracy (total grant amounts to SEK 8 million, equal to USD 880 000).

(9) From the Science Council, ―Long-term support for leading scholars‖, 2007-2012 (total

grant amounts to about SEK 3.7 million, equal to USD 525 000).

University service (University of Gothenburg)

2008- present Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Political Science.

2006-2008 Board member, Faculty of Social Sciences Promotion Committee.

2002-2005 Board member, Social Science Faculty Board.

1995-1996 Deputy Chairman, School of Public Administration.

1995-1996 Member of standing tenure committee, Faculty of Social Sciences.

IV. Teaching and research: Fields of expertise

Teaching: (undergraduate) Institutional Theory, Theories of Governance, Public

Management, Public Administration, Urban Governance

(post-graduate) Comparative Public Policy, Comparative Administrative Reform

Research: Public Administration, Public Management, Theories of Governance, Urban

Politics.

V. Service as peer reviewer

2011 Member of professorial promotion committee, University of Uppsala, Sweden.

2010 Member of tenure committee, University of Uppsala, Sweden.

2009 Member of professorial promotion committee, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem,

Israel.

2008 Member of professorial promotion committee, University of Uppsala.

2007 Member of professorial promotion committee, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy,

National University of Singapore.

2006 Member of professorial promotion committee, University of Umeå.

2006 Member of award committee, Charles H. Levine Memorial Prize for Best Book in

Comparative Policy and Administration, awarded by Governance: An International Journal

of Policy, Administration and Institutions.

2004 (January 30) External member of dissertation evaluation committee (Nils Hertting:

Samverkan på spel: Rationalitet och frustration i nätverksstyrning och svensk

stadsdelsförnyelse [Cooperation at Stake: Rationality and Frustration in Network Governance

and Urban Renewal], Department of Government, University of Uppsala.

2000 (November 25) External member of dissertation evaluation committee (Christina

Telasuo: Småstater under internationalisering: Valutamarknadens avreglering i Sverige och

Finland på 1980-talet. En studie i institutionell omvandling [Small States Under

Internationalisation: Deregulation of the Foreign Exchange Markets in Sweden and Finland

during the 1980s. A Study of Institutional Change]), Department of Economic History,

University of Gothenburg.

2000 Invited guest co-editor (with B. Guy Peters), theme issue on "Developments in

Intergovernmental Relationships: Towards Multi-Level Governance", Policy and Politics.

1999 (September 23) External member of dissertation evaluation committee (Anders Berg:

Staten som Kapitalist: Marknadsanpassningen av de affärsdrivande verken 1976-1994 [The

State as Capitalist: The Marketization of Agencies, 1976-1994], Department of Government,

University of Uppsala.

1996 Member of tenure committee, University of Umeå.

1994 (November 25) "Opponent" ("faculty opponent") on Lena Agevall´s PhD dissertation

Beslutsfattandets Rutinisering ("The Routinization of Decision Making"). Department of

Political Science, University of Lund.

1994 (June) Member of tenure committee, University of Karlstad.

1993 (October 29) External member of dissertation evaluation committee (Christine Hudson:

Against All Odds: Local Economic Development Policies in Britain and Sweden),

Department of Political Science, University of Umeå.

1992 Member of tenure committee, University of Linköping.

1990 (December 16) "Opponent" ("faculty opponent") on Maivor Sjölund's PhD dissertation

Statens Lönepolitik 1966-1988 ("The Government Wage Policy 1966-1988"), Department of

Government, University of Uppsala, Sweden.

Service as peer reviewer for Acta Sociologica, Administration and Society, Australian

Journal of Political Science, Australian Journal of Public Administration, The Bank of

Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, British Journal of Political Science, Cambridge University

Press, Comparative European Politics, the Danish Social Science Research Council,

Economic and Social Research Council (UK), Edward Elgar Publishers, Environment and

Planning C: Government and Policy, European Journal of Political Research, European

Political Science Review, Frank Cass Publishers, Governance, Government and Opposition,

International Journal of Public Administration, International Journal of Urban and Regional

Research, International Review of Administrative Sciences, Israel Science Foundation,

Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis,

Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory,

Journal of Public Policy, Journal of Urban Affairs, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,

Leverhulme Trust, Local Government Studies, the Norwegian Research Council, NWO—the

Dutch Social Science Research Council, Oxford University Press, Party Politics, Policy and

Society, Policy Studies Journal, Political Studies, Political Studies Review, Princeton

University Press, Public Administration, Public Administration Review, Public Management

Review, Regional and Federal Studies, Regulation and Governance, Sage Publications,

Scandinavian Journal of Housing & Planning Research, Scandinavian Journal of

Management, Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration, Scandinavian Political

Studies, Security Dialogue, Social Science and Medicine, University of Minnesota Press,

Urban Affairs Review, and West European Politics.

VI. Publications

A. Monographs and edited volumes

Partikongresser och regeringspolitik (Party Congresses and Public Policy) (PhD diss.) (Lund:

Kommunfakta Förlag, 1986).

(co-ed) (with Desmond S. King), Challenges to Local Government (Beverly Hills and

London: Sage Publications, 1990).

(ed), Självstyrelse och omvärldsberoende. Studier i lokal politik (Autonomy and

Interependence: Studies on Local Politics) (Lund: Studentlitteratur, 1991).

Kommunerna, Näringslivet och Näringspolitiken: Sveriges Lokala Politiska Ekonomier

(Municipalities, Private Business, and Local Industrial Policy: Urban Political Economies in

Sweden) (Stockholm: SNS Förlag, 1992).

Den Lokala Staten. Studier Av Den Kommunala Självstyrelsens Förutsättningar och

Restriktioner (The Local State: Studies on the Preconditions for and Restrictions on Local

Autonomy) (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1994).

(ed), Bureaucracy in the Modern State: An Introduction to Comparative Public

Administration (Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1995).

(ed), Urban and Regional Policy (The International Library of Comparative Public Policy,

vol. 2) (Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1995).

(co-ed) (with Lennart J. Lundqvist), Kommunal förvaltningspolitik (The Politics of Urban

Administration) (Lund: Studentlitteratur, 1995).

(ed), Partnerships in Urban Governance: European and American Experience (Basingstoke:

Macmillan and New York: St. Martin´s Press, 1998).

(ed), Debating Governance: Authority, Democracy, and Steering (Oxford: Oxford University

Press, 2000).

Governance, Politics and the State (with B. Guy Peters) (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2000).

(co-ed) (with B. Guy Peters), Politicians, Bureaucrats and Administrative Reform (London:

Routledge, 2001).

(co-ed, with Bo Rothstein), Välfärdsstat i otakt: Om politikens oväntade, oönskade och

oavsiktliga konsekvenser [The Welfare State out of Pace: The Unexpected, Unpredicted and

Unintended Consequences of Policy] (Stockholm: Liber, 2003).

(co-ed, with B. Guy Peters), Handbook of Public Administration (London: Sage, 2003.

Concise paperback edition published in 2007).

(co-ed, with B. Guy Peters), Politicization of the Civil Service in Comparative Perspective:

The Quest for Control (London: Routledge, 2004).

(co-ed, with Martin Painter), Challenges to State Policy Capacity: Global Trends and

Comparative Perspectives (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2005).

(with B. Guy Peters), Governing Complex Societies: Trajectories and Scenarios

(Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2005).

(co-ed, with B. Guy Peters), Handbook of Public Policy (London: Sage, 2006).

(co-ed, with B. Guy Peters), Institutionalism (four volumes) (London: Sage, 2007).

(ed), Skolan som politisk organisation [The School as a Political Organization] (Malmö:

Gleerups, 2007).

(co-ed, with B. Guy Peters and Gerry Stoker), Debating Institutionalism (Manchester:

Manchester University Press, 2008).

(co-ed with Göran Sundström), Samhällsstyrning i Förändring: Regeringskansliet och nya

governanceformer [The Changing Societal Governance: The Central Government Office and

New Forms of Governance] (Malmö: Liber, 2009).

(co-ed, with Patricia Ingraham), Comparative Administrative Change and Reform: Lessons

Learned (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen‘s University Press, 2010).

The Politics of Urban Governance (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2011).

(co-ed, with Jean-Marie Eymeri-Douzans), Administrative Reforms and Democratic

Governance (London Routledge, 2011).

(co-ed, with Carl Dahlstrom and B. Guy Peters), Steering from the Centre: Strengthening

Political Control in Western Democracies (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011).

(with B. Guy Peters, Eva Sörensen, and Jacob Torfing), Interactive Governance: Advancing

the Paradigm (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).

(co-ed, with B. Guy Peters), Institutionalism II (three volumes) (London: Sage, 2012).

B. Book chapters

―The Decline of Dominant Parties: Parliamentary Politics in Japan and Sweden During the

1970s" (with Ellis S. Krauss), in T. J. Pempel (ed), Uncommon Democracies: The One-Party

Dominant Regimes (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990), 226-59.

"Organisationsstrukturen i svenska partier" [The Organizational Structure of Swedish

Political Parties], in Göran Djupsund and Lars Svåsand (eds), Partiorganisationer: Studier i

strukturer og processer i finske, norske og svenske partier (Party Organizations: Studies on

Structures and Processes in Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish Political Parties) (Åbo: Åbo

Academy Press, 1990), 71-94.

"Rörelsens parlament eller partioligarkins fikonlöv? En Fallstudie av 1972 års svenska

socialdemokratiska partikongress" [The 'Parliament of the Movement' or the Figleaf of

Oligarchy?: A Case-Study of the 1972 Swedish Social Democratic Party Congress], in Göran

Djupsund and Lars Svåsand (eds), Partiorganisationer: Studier i strukturer og processer i

finske, norske og svenske partier (Party Organizations: Studies on Structures and Processes in

Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish Political Parties) (Åbo: Åbo Academy Press, 1990), 151-

66.

"Introduction" (with Desmond S. King), in Desmond S. King and Jon Pierre (eds),

Challenges to Local Government (London: Sage, 1990), 1-14.

"Assessing Local Autonomy", in Desmond S. King and Jon Pierre (eds), Challenges to Local

Government (London: Sage, 1990), 37-54.

"Introduktion" (with Stig Montin) [Introduction], in Jon Pierre (ed), Självstyrelse och

omvärldsberoende. Studier i kommunal politik [Autonomy and Interdependence: Studies on

Local Politics] (Lund: Studentlitteratur, 1991), 11-33.

"Kommunernas Näringspolitik" [Local Industrial Policy], in Jon Pierre (ed), Självstyrelse och

omvärldsberoende. Studier i kommunal politik [Autonomy and Interdependence: Studies on

Local Politics] (Lund: Studentlitteratur, 1991), 122-70.

"Medierna som omvärld: Relationerna mellan de kommunala beslutsfattarna och

massmedierna" (with Monika Djerf) [The Media as Environment: Municipal Policy-Makers

and the Media], in Jon Pierre (ed), Självstyrelse och omvärldsberoende. Studier i kommunal

politik [Autonomy and Interdependence: Studies on Local Politics] (Lund: Studentlitteratur,

1991), 244-85.

Självstyrelse och omvärldsberoende: Sammanfattande diskussion" [Autonomy and

Interdependence: Conclusions], in Jon Pierre (ed), Självstyrelse och omvärldsberoende.

Studier i kommunal politik [Autonomy and Interdependence: Studies on Local Politics]

(Lund: Studentlitteratur, 1991), 286-304.

"Nominierung und Auswahl von Kandidaten in der Swedischen Parteipolitik" [Nomination

and Selection of Candidates in the Swedish Political Parties], in Heinrich Neisser and Fritz

Plasser (eds), Vorwahlen und Kandidatennominierung im internationalen Vergleich [Primary

Elections and Candidate Selection in International Comparison] (Wien: Signum Verlag,

1992), 29-40.

"Sweden" (with Anders Widfeldt), in Richard S. Katz and Peter Mair (eds), Party

Organizations: A Data Handbook on Party Organizations in Western Democracies, 1960-

1990 (London: Sage, 1992), 781-836.

"Targeting Resources for Industrial Change" (with Ellis S. Krauss), in Bert A. Rockman and

R. Kent Weaver (eds), Do Institutions Matter: Government Capabilities in the United States

and Abroad (Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1993), 151-86.

"Social Democracy, State and Market in Sweden", in John Sheldrake and Paul Webb (eds),

State and Market: Essays in Modern European Development (London: Dartmouth Press,

1993), 34-49.

"Party Organizations in Sweden: Colossuses on Clay Feet or Flexible Pillars of

Government?" (with Anders Widfeldt), in Richard S. Katz and Peter Mair (eds), How Parties

Organize: Adaptation and Change in Party Organizations in Western Democracies (London:

Sage, 1994), 332-56.

"Comparative Public Administration: The State of the Art", in Jon Pierre (ed), Bureaucracy

in the Modern State: An Introduction to Comparative Public Administration (Aldershot:

Edward Elgar, 1995), 1-17.

"Governing the Welfare State: Public Administration, the State, and Society in Sweden", in

Jon Pierre (ed), Bureaucracy in the Modern State: An Introduction to Comparative Public

Administration (Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1995), 140-60.

"Conclusions: A Framework of Comparative Public Administration", in Jon Pierre (ed),

Bureaucracy in the Modern State: An Introduction to Comparative Public Administration

(Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1995), 205-18.

"Introduction", in Jon Pierre (ed), Urban and Regional Policy (Aldershot: Edward Elgar,

1995), xiii-xxv.

"Kommunal förvaltningspolitik: Nya problem söker sin lösningar" [Urban Politics of Public

Administration: New Problems in Search of Solutions] (with Lennart J. Lundqvist), in

Lennart J. Lundqvist and Jon Pierre (eds), Kommunal förvaltningspolitik [The Politics of

Urban Administration] (Lund: Studentlitteratur, 1995), 7-12.

"Den kommunala politiken: Problem eller lösning?" [Urban Politics: Problem or Solution?],

in Lennart J. Lundqvist and Jon Pierre (eds), Kommunal förvaltningspolitik [The Politics of

Urban Administration] (Lund: Studentlitteratur, 1995), 96-109.

"Kommunalpolitikens Dilemma: Lösningar Skapar Nya Problem" [The Dilemma of the

Urban Politics: Solutions Create New Problems] (with Lennart J. Lundqvist), in Lennart J.

Lundqvist and Jon Pierre (eds), Kommunal förvaltningspolitik [The Politics of Urban

Administration] (Lund: Studentlitteratur, 1995), 135-58.

"The Marketization of the State: Citizens, Customers and the Emergence of the Public

Market", in B. Guy Peters and Donald J. Savoie (eds), Governance in a Changing

Environment (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press, 1995), 47-69.

"When The Going Gets Tough: Changing Local Economic Development Strategies in

Sweden", in Norman Walzer (ed), Local Economic Development: Incentives and

International Trends (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995), 53-72.

"Den praktiska nyttan av en god teori: Till diskussionen om kommunforskningens teoretiska

utgångspunkter" [The Practical Uses of a Good Theory], in Bo Rothstein and Bo Särlvik

(eds), Vetenskapen om politik: Festskrift till professor emeritus Jörgen Westerståhl [The

Scientific Study of Politics: Festschrift to professor emeritus Jörgen Westerståhl]

(Gothenburg: Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, 1996), 227-38.

"Decentralisering av politik och politikens decentralisering" [The Decentralization of Politics

and the Politics of Decentralization], in Bo Rothstein (ed), Politik som organisation [Politics

as Organization] (2nd

edn.) (Stockholm: SNS Förlag, 1997), 118-38.

"Public Consultation and Citizen Participation: The Dilemmas of Policy Advice", in B. Guy

Peters and Donald J. Savoie (eds), Taking Stock: Assessing Public Sector Reform (Montreal

and Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press, 1998), 137-63.

"Public-private Partnerships and Urban Governance: Introduction", in Jon Pierre (ed),

Partnerships in Urban Governance: European and American Experience (Basingstoke:

Macmillan, 1998), 1-10.

"Local Industrial Partnerships: Exploring the Logics of Public-Private Partnerships", in Jon

Pierre (ed), Partnerships in Urban Governance: European and American Experience

(Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998), 112-39.

"Conclusions", in Jon Pierre (ed), Partnerships in Urban Governance: European and

American Experience (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998), 187-99.

"Information Technology, Local Government and the State: The Diffusion of New

Technologies in Sweden", in Norman Walzer and Brian D. Jacobs (eds), Public-Private

Partnerships for Local Economic Development (Westport, CT and London: Praeger, 1998),

121-38.

"The Welfare State Managers: Senior Civil Servants in Sweden" (with Peter Ehn), in Edward

C. Page and Vincent Wright (eds), Bureaucratic Elites in West European States (Oxford:

Oxford University Press, 1999), 249-65.

"Den Regionala Politikens Återuppståndelse" [The Resurrection of Regional Politics], in

Lennart Nilsson (ed), Region i Omvandling [Region in Transformation] (Gothenburg,: SOM-

Report 23, 1999), 299-310.

"Introduction: Understanding Governance", Jon Pierre (ed), Debating Governance: Authority,

Steering, and Democracy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), 1-12.

"Conclusions: Governance Beyond State Strength", in Jon Pierre (ed), Debating Governance:

Authority, Steering, and Democracy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), 241-6.

"Towards Multi-Level Governance" (with Gerry Stoker), in Patrick Dunleavy, Andrew

Gamble, Ian Holliday and Gillian Peele (eds), Developments in British Politics (6th

edn.)

(Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000), 29-46.

"Externalities and Relationships: Rethinking the Boundaries of the Public Service", in B. Guy

Peters and Donald J. Savoie (eds), Governance in the XXist Century: Revitalizing the Public

Service (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press, 2000), 332-57.

"Universiteten, tillväxten och nätverken" [Universities, Economic Growth and Networks], in

Lennart Nilsson (ed), Den Nya Regionen [The New Region] (Gothenburg: SOM-Report 25,

2000), 189-97.

"Politicians and Bureaucrats: The Changing Balance" (with B. Guy Peters), in B. Guy Peters

and Jon Pierre (eds), Politicians, Bureaucrats and Administrative Reform (London:

Routledge, 2001), 1-10.

"Parallel Paths?: Administrative Reform, Public Policy, and Politico-Bureaucratic

Relationships in Sweden", in B. Guy Peters and Jon Pierre (eds), Politicians, Bureaucrats and

Administrative Reform (London: Routledge, 2001), 132-41.

"Decentralisering, Governance och Institutionella Förändringar" [Decentralization,

Governance and Institutional Change], in Bo Rothstein (ed), , Politik som organisation

(Politics as Organization) (3rd revised. edn.) (Stockholm: SNS Förlag, 2001), 105-26.

"Learning through Path-dependency?: The Governance of the Restructuring of the Swedish

Steel Industry", in Jeremy J. Richardson et al. (eds), Success and Failure in Governance

(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), 126-40.

‖Utvecklingspolitikens flernivåproblem‖ [Multilevel Governance in Regional Economic

Development], in Lennart Nilsson (ed), Perspektiv på Västsverige [Perspectives on Western

Sweden](Göteborg: SOM-Institutet, 2003), 131-9.

"Välfärdsstat i otakt: Om politikens oväntade, oavsiktliga och oönskade effekter:

Introduktion" ["The Welfare State out of Pace: The Unexpected, Unpredicted and Unintended

Consequences of Policy: Introduction"] (with Bo Rothstein), in Jon Pierre and Bo Rothstein

(eds), Välfärdsstat i otakt: Om politikens oväntade, oavsiktliga och oönskade effekter [The

Welfare State out of Pace: The Unexpected, Unpredicted and Unintended Consequences of

Policy] (Stockholm: Liber, 2003).

"'Civis Economicus': Pensioner, välfärd och ekonomiskt medborgarskap" ["Civis

Economicus‖: Pensions, Welfare and Economic Citizenship] (with Fredrika Lagergren), in

Jon Pierre and Bo Rothstein (eds), Välfärdsstat i otakt: Om politikens oväntade, oavsiktliga

och oönskade effekter [The Welfare State out of Pace: The Unexpected, Unpredicted and

Unintended Consequences of Policy] (Stockholm: Liber, 2003).

‖Introduction: The Role of Public Administration in Governing‖, (with B. Guy Peters) in B.

Guy Peters and Jon Pierre (eds), Handbook of Public Administration (London: Sage, 2003),

1-10.

―Central Agencies in Sweden: A Report from Utopia‖, in Christopher Pollitt and Colin Talbot

(eds), Unbundled Government: A Critical Analysis of the Global Trend to Agencies, Quangos

and Contractualisation (London: Routledge, 2003), 203-14.

―When the Bottom Line is the Bottom Line: Public Sector Reform in Sweden‖, in Joachim

Jens Hesse, Christopher Hood and B. Guy Peters (eds), Paradoxes in Public Sector Reform:

An International Comparison (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2003), 183-96.

―Multi-level Governance and Democracy: A Faustian Bargain?‖ (with B. Guy Peters), in Ian

Bache and Matthew Flinders (eds), Multi-level Governance (Oxford: Oxford University

Press, 2004), 79-92.

‖Politicization of the Civil Service: Concepts, Causes, Consequences‖ (with B. Guy Peters),

in B. Guy Peters and Jon Pierre (eds), Politicization of the Civil Service in Comparative

Perspective: The Quest for Control (London: Routledge, 2004), 1-13.

―Politicization of the Swedish Civil Service: A Necessary Evil—or just Evil?‖, in B. Guy

Peters and Jon Pierre (eds), Politicization of the Civil Service in Comparative Perspective:

The Quest for Control (London: Routledge, 2004), 41-54.

―Conclusion: Political Control in a Managerialist World‖ (with B. Guy Peters), in B. Guy

Peters and Jon Pierre (eds), Politicization of the Civil Service in Comparative Perspective:

The Quest for Control (London: Routledge, 2004), 283-90.

―Unpacking Policy Capacity: Issues and Themes‖ (with Martin Painter), in Martin Painter and

Jon Pierre (eds), Challenges to State Policy Capacity: Global Trends and Comparative

Perspectives (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2005), 1-18.

―Swings and Roundabouts?: Multilevel Governance as a Source of and Constraint on Policy

Capacity‖ (with B. Guy Peters), in Martin Painter and Jon Pierre (eds), Challenges to State

Policy Capacity: Global Trends and Comparative Perspectives (Basingstoke: Palgrave,

2005), 38-51.

―Conclusions: Challenges to Policy Capacity‖ (with Martin Painter), in Martin Painter and

Jon Pierre (eds), Challenges to State Policy Capacity: Global Trends and Comparative

Perspectives (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2005), 255-62.

―Regionalisering och ekonomisk utveckling: Västra Götalandsregionens utvecklingspolitik‖

[Regionalization and Economic Development: The Politics of Economic Development in the

Västra Götaland Region] (with Sara Schütt), in Lennart Nilsson (ed), Svensk

Samhällsorganisation i Förändring: Västsverige vid Millennieskiftet [The Changing Societal

Organization in Sweden: West Sweden at the Turn of the Millennium] (Gothenburg: CEFOS,

2005), 415-40.

‖Governance, Accountability and Democratic Legitimacy‖ (with B. Guy Peters), in Arthur

Benz and Yannis Papadopoulos (eds), Governance and Democracy: Comparing national,

European and international experiences (London: Routledge, 2006), 29-43.

―De la subordination au partenariat? Perspective compare sur les mutations des relations

interinstitutionelles en Suède‖, in Francoise Dreyfus and Jean-Michel Eymeri Douzans (eds),

Science politique de l’administration (Paris: Economica, 2006), 170-86.

‖Disciplinary Perspectives‖, in B. Guy Peters and Jon Pierre (eds), Handbook of Public

Policy (London: Sage, 2006), 481-92.

―L‘Architecture Évolutive de la Gouvernance Locale Scandinave‖ (with Peter Bogason and

Nils Aarsaether), in Gérard Marcou and Hellmut Wollmann (eds) Annuare 2006 des

Collectivés Locales: La Gouvernance territoriale (Paris: CNRS Editons, 2006), 151-64.

―Ticking Bombs, Institutional Inertia, and Policy Change: Swedish Administrative Reform in

International Perspective‖, in Government Reform: Past, Present, and Future. A Comparative

Perspective (Proceedings of the International Conference for the 50th

Anniversary of KAPA.

Seoul: Korean Association for Public Administration, 2006), 223-39.

―Governance, Government and the State‖ (with B. Guy Peters), in Colin Hay et al. (eds), The

State: Theories and Issues (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2006), 209-22.

"From Managing the State to Managing Contingencies: Changing Roles of the Senior Civil

Service in Sweden", in Edward C. Page and Vincent Wright (eds), From the Active to the

Enabling State: The Changing Role of Top Officials in European Nations (Basingstoke:

Palgrave, 2007), 208-23.

―Editors‘ Introduction: Institutionalism in Political Science‖, (with B. Guy Peters), in B. Guy

Peters and Jon Pierre (eds), Institutionalism (London: Sage, 2007), xx-xxii.

―Concluding discussion‖ (with B. Guy Peters), in B. Guy Peters and Jon Pierre (eds),

Institutionalism (London: Sage, 2007), 325-9.

―Governance and Civil Service Systems: From Easy Answers to Hard Questions‖ (with B.

Guy Peters), in Jos C. N. Raadschelders, Theo A. J. Toonen and Frits van der Meer (eds), The

Civil Service in the 21st Century: Comparative Perspectives (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007),

231-45.

―Decentralisering, styrning och värdekonflikter i skolan‖ [Decentralization, steering and

value conflicts in education], in Jon Pierre (ed), Skolan som politisk organisation [The School

as a Political Organization] (Malmö: Gleerups, 2007), 9-22.

―Epilog‖ [Epilogue], in Jon Pierre (ed), Skolan som politisk organisation [The School as a

Political Organization] (Malmö Gleerups, 2007), 185-90.

‖The Promise and Performance of Institutional Analysis: Conclusions‖ (with B. Guy Peters

and G. Stoker), in Jon Pierre, B. Guy Peters and Gerry Stoker (eds), Debating Institutionalism

(Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008), 232-40.

―Offentlig-private partnerskap: Prinsippfast pragmatisme og sti-avhengig problemlösning‖

[Public-Private Partnerships: Principled Pragamism and Path-Dependent Problem Solution]

(with B. Guy Peters), in Ole Johan Andersen and Asbjörn Röiseland (eds), Partnerskap:

Problemlösning og Politik [Partnership: Problem Solution and Politics] (Oslo:

Fagbokforlaget, 2008), 25-34.

"The Welfare State is Female: Trends in Public Employment in Sweden", in Hans-Ulrich

Derlien and B. Guy Peters (eds), The State at Work, Volume 1: Public Employment in Ten

Western Countries (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2008), 268-92.

"Local Government Employment", in Hans-Ulrich Derlien and B. Guy Peters (eds), The State

at Work, Volume 2: Comparative Public Service Systems (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2008),

77-84.

―Governance Approaches‖ (with B. Guy Peters), in Antje Wiener and Thomas Diez (eds),

European Integration Theory (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 91-104.

―Samhällsstyrning i förändring‖ [The Changing Societal Governance] (with Göran

Sundström), in Göran Sundström och Jon Pierre (eds), Samhällsstyrning i förändring [The

Changing Societal Governance] (Malmö: Liber, 2009), 7-31.

‖Tillväxtpolitikens styrningsproblem‖ [The Governance Problems in Growth Policies], in

Göran Sundström och Jon Pierre (red), Samhällsstyrning i förändring [The Changing Societal

Governance] (Malmö: Liber, 2009), 72-89.

‖Politikens roll i samhällsstyrningen‖ [The Role of Politics in Governance] (with Göran

Sundström), in Göran Sundström and Jon Pierre (red), Samhällsstyrning i förändring [The

Changing Societal Governance] (Malmö: Liber, 2009), 246-65.

‖Tre myter om governance‖ [Three Myths about Governance], in Gun Hedlund and Stig

Montin (eds), Governance på svenska [Governance in Swedish] (Stockholm: Santérus

Academic Press, 2009), 37-56.

‖Grön av avund?: God miljö som strategi i kommunkonkurrensen‖ [Green of Envy?:

Environmental Protection as a Strategy in the Inter-Local Competition], in Mette Anthonsen

and Sverker C. Jagers (eds), Rätt Grönt: Vänbok till Professor Lennart J. Lundqvist

[Festschrift to Lennart J. Lundqvist] (Göteborg: Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2009), 192-

202.

‖Consensual but not Confucian: Resolving the paradox of consensual politics in

Scandinavia‖, in Julia Tao, Anthony B. L. Cheung, Martin Painter and Chenyang Li (eds),

Governance and Harmony in Asia and Beyond (London: Routledge, 2010), 228-242.

‖The Relevance of Political Science‖ (with B. Guy Peters and Gerry Stoker), in David Marsh

and Gerry Stoker (eds), Theories and Methods in Political Science (Basingstoke: Palgrave,

2010), 325-42.

―Why legality cannot be contracted out: Exploring the limits of New Public Management‖

(with Martin Painter), in M. Ramesh, E. Araral Jr and X. Wu (eds), Reasserting the Public in

Public Services: New Public Management Reforms (London: Routledge, 2010), 49-62.

―Ideas in Action: Why the Reality of the Administrative Reform Grinder Matters‖ (with

Patricia Ingraham), in Jon Pierre and Patricia Ingraham (eds), Comparative Administrative

Change and Reform: Lessons Learned (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen‘s University

Press, 2010), 3-14.

―Conclusions: The Future of Public Management‖, in Jon Pierre and Patricia Ingraham (eds),

Comparative Administrative Change and Reform: Lessons Learned (Montreal and Kingston:

McGill-Queen‘s University Press, 2010), 278-86.

―Public-Private Partnerships and the Democratic Deficit: Is Performance-Based Legitimacy

the Answer?‖ (with B. Guy Peters), in Magdalena Bexell and Ulrika Mörth (eds), Democracy

and Public-private Partnerships in Global Governance (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2010), 41-54.

‖Administrative Reform in Sweden: The Resilience of Administrative Tradition?‖, in Martin

Painter and B. Guy Peters (eds), Tradition and Public Administration (Basingstoke: Palgrave,

2010), 191-202.

―Reinventing Weber: The Role of Institutions in Creating Social Trust‖ (with Bo Rothstein),

in Tom Christensen and Per Laegreid (eds), The Ashgate Research Companion to New Public

Management (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011), 405-16.

―Why Should We Concern Ourselves with Urban Governance?: Rethinking the Global-Local

Nexus‖, in Chin-Peng Chu, Alexander Grasse, Sang-Chul Park och Markus Porsche-Ludwig

(eds), Local Governance in the Global Context (Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2011), 11-24.

―Introduction: Assessing Administrative Reforms‖ (with Jean-Michel Eymeri-Douzans), in

Jean-Michel Eymeri-Douzans and Jon Pierre (eds), Administrative Reforms and Democratic

Governance (London: Routledge, 2011), 1-6.

―Contending models of administrative reform: The New Public Management versus the New

Weberianism‖ (with Bo Rothstein), in Jean-Marie Eymeri-Douzans and Jon Pierre (eds),

Administrative Reforms and Democratic Governance (London: Routledge, 2011), 121-31.

―Conclusions‖ (with Jean-Michel Eymeri-Douzans), in Jean-Michel Eymeri-Douzans and Jon

Pierre (eds), Administrative Reforms and Democratic Governance (London: Routledge,

2011), 202-7.

―Steering from the Centre: Strengthening Political Control in Western Democracies‖ (with

Carl Dahlström and B. Guy Peters), in Carl Dahlström, B. Guy Peters and Jon Pierre (eds),

Steering from the Centre: Strengthening Political Control in Western Democracies (Toronto:

University of Toronto Press, 2011), 3-26.

―Steering the Swedish State: Politicization as Coordination‖ (with Carl Dahlström), in Carl

Dahlström, B. Guy Peters and Jon Pierre (eds), Steering from the Centre: Strengthening

Political Control in Western Democracies (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011), 193-

211.

―Steering Strategies in Western Democracies‖ (with Carl Dahlström and B. Guy Peters), in

Carl Dahlström, B. Guy Peters and Jon Pierre (eds), Steering from the Centre: Strengthening

Political Control in Western Democracies (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011), 263-

276.

―Models of Governance‖, in Bertrand Badie, Dirk Berg-Schlosser and Leonardo Morlino

(eds), International Encyclopaedia of Political Science (Beverly Hills: Sage, 2011).

―Urban Governance‖ (with B. Guy Peters), in Susan Clarke, Peter John and Karen

Mossberger (eds), Oxford Handbook in Urban Politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press,

2012), 71-86.

―Governance and Institutional Flexibility‖, in David Levi-Faur (ed), Oxford Handbook in

Governance (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), 187-200.

―Comparing Agencification in Nordic Countries‖ (with Morten Balle Hansen et al.), in Koen

Verhoest, Sandra van Thiel, Geert Bouckaert and Per Laegreid (eds), Government Agencies:

Practices and Lessons from 30 Countries (Basingstoke: Palgrave), 259-65.

C. Journal articles

"Documentary Data in the Comparison of Committee Systems in National Parliaments:

Riksdagen and the Sejm" (with David M. Olson and Ryszard Piotrowski), Statsvetenskaplig

Tidskrift 1983:356-66.

"Attitudes and Behavior of Party Activists: A Critical Examination of Recent Research on

Party Activists and 'Middle-Level Elites'", European Journal of Political Research 14

(1986):465-79.

"Three Men Run Aground?: A Note on Reif's, Niedermayer's and Schmitt's Rejoinder",

European Journal of Political Research 14 (1986):691-93.

"Partnership or Privatisation?: The Political Economy of Local Economic Restructuring"

(with Chris Moore), Policy and Politics 16 (1988):169-78.

"Kommunal självstyrelse och kommunernas omvärldsberoende: precisering av en

problemställning" [Local Self-Government and Municipal Dependence on their

Environments: Defining a Research Problem], Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift 1989:44-53.

"Public-Private Partnerships in Industrial Structural Change: The Case of Shipyard Closures

in Sweden", Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift 1989:200-9.

"Central State, Local Government, and the Market: A Comparative Analysis of Industrial

Policy in Structural Change in Japan and Sweden", European Journal of Political Research

20 (1991):1-19.

"The Swedish Political Science Association: A Presentation", Bulletin of the Political Science

Association of Ireland no. 12 (November 1990):11-15. Reprinted in The Canadian Political

Science Association Bulletin 20 (1991):45-47, and in Participation 16: (1992):13-15.

"Statsvetenskaplig Forskning kring Kommunal Självstyrelse" [Political Science Research on

Local Autonomy], Kommunal Ekonomi 1991:4, 13-16.

"The Membership of Political Parties in European Democracies, 1960-1990" (with Richard S.

Katz, Peter Mair et al.), European Journal of Political Research 22 (1992):329-45.

"Organized Capital and Local Politics: Local Business Organizations, Public-Private

Committees, and Local Government in Sweden", Urban Affairs Quarterly 28 (1992):236-57.

"Sweden" (with Anders Widfeldt) in "European Political Yearbook", published by European

Journal of Political Research; 1992 (22:519-26), 1993 (24:543-6), 1994 (26:431-5), 1995

(28:477-85), 1996 (30:463-8), 1997 (32:495-500), 1998 (34:527-30).

"Legitimacy, Institutional Change, and the Politics of Public Administration in Sweden",

International Political Science Review 14 (1993):387-401.

"Partikris i Sverige?" [A Crisis of Party in Sweden?] (with Anders Widfeldt),

Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift 1995:41-5.

"Policy Diffused, Policy Confused?: The Politics of Regional Economic Development in

Sweden", Regional and Federal Studies 5 (1995):173-97.

"La Réforme Administrative en Suède: Vers un Déclin Du Controle Politique de

L'Administration?", Revue Française d´Administration Publique no. 75 (July-September

1995):367-76.

"The Dynamics of Abstract and Manifest Institutional Change: MITI and the Japanese

'Economic Miracle' Reconsidered" (with Sang-Chul Park), Governance 10 (1997):351-76.

"The Politics of Currency Crises in Sweden: Domestic Policy Choice in a Globalized

Economy" (with Jonas Hinnfors), West European Politics 21 (1998):103-19.

"Governance without Government: Rethinking Public Administration" (with B. Guy Peters),

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 8 (1998):223-42.

"Dépolitisee, Repolitisee ou simplement Politique?: La Bureaucratie Suedoise", Revue

Française d´Administration Publique no. 86 (April-June 1998):301-10.

"Institutions and Time: Problems of Conceptualization and Explanation" (with B. Guy

Peters), Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 8 (1998):565-84.

(Featured Essay) "Models of Urban Governance: The Institutional Dimension of Urban

Politics", Urban Affairs Review 34 (1999):372-96.

"Citizens versus the New Public Manager: The Problem of Mutual Empowerment" (with B.

Guy Peters), Administration and Society 32 (2000):9-28.

"State Subsidies to Political Parties: Confronting Rhetoric with Evidence" (with Lars Svasand

and Anders Widfeldt), West European Politics 23 (2000):1-24.

"Disputing the Global: A Sceptical View of Locality-Based International Initiatives" (with

Robert A. Beauregard), Policy and Politics 28 (2000):465-78.

"Funcionarios y políticos: El equilibrio cambiante" (with B. Guy Peters), Gestión y Análisis

de Políticas Publicas 17-18 (2000):31-38.

"Developments in Intergovernmental Relationships: Towards Multi-Level Governance" (with

B. Guy Peters), Policy and Politics 29 (2001):131-6.

―Comparative Urban Governance: Uncovering Complex Causalities‖, Urban Affairs Review,

40 (2005):446-62.

―‘Poder para‘… o ‗poder sobre‘?: Repensando la fuerza del Estado‖, Revista del CLAD

Reforma y Democracia, 32 (2005):89-108.

"Beyond Path-Dependency: Political Conflict in Historical Institutionalism" (with B. Guy

Peters and Desmond S. King), Journal of Politics 67 (2005):1275-1300.

―Democratic Government and the Challenge of Governance‖, Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift 109

(2007):150-56.

"Governance and Social Complexity" (with B. Guy Peters), Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift 110

(2008):239-48.

‖Politikens medialisering: Introduktion‖ [The Mediatization of Politics: Introduction] (with

Bengt Jacobsson), Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift 110 (2008):335-9.

―From a Club to a Bureaucracy: JAA, EASA, and European Aviation Regulation‖ (with B.

Guy Peters), Journal of European Public Policy 16 (2009):337-55.

‖La haute fonction publique en Suède: barrer, ramer ou louvoyer?‖ [The Senior Civil Service

in Sweden: Steering, Rowing, or Sailing?], Telescope 15 (2009):26-34.

"Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc?: Path Dependency and Punctuated Equilibria in European

Aviation Safety Regulation", Critical Policy Studies 3 (2009):105-20.

―Reinventing Governance, Reinventing Democracy?‖, Policy and Politics 37 (2009):591-609.

‖Economic Crisis, Public Administration, and Governance‖ (with B. Guy Peters), Korean

Journal of Policy Studies 25 (2010):59-72.

‖Exploring the Strategic Region: Rationality, Context, and Institutional Collective Action‖

(with Ole Johan Andersen), Urban Affairs Review 46 (2010):218-40.

‖Cost-Efficiency and Public Interest in Inter-Local Partnerships‖, Urban Research & Practice

4 (2011):13-22.

‖Multi-level governance of regional economic development in Norway and Sweden: too

much or too little top-down control?‖ (with Gro Sandkjaer Hanssen, Erik Nergaard and

Asgeir Skaalholt), Urban Research & Practice 4 (2011):38-57.

―Global Financial Crisis, Public Administration and Governance: Do New Problems Require

New Solutions?‖ (with B. Guy Peters and Tiina Randmaa-Liv), Public Organization Review

11 (2011):13-27.

―Stealth Economy?: Economic Theory and the Politics of Administrative Reform‖,

Administration and Society 43 (2011):672-92.

D. Reports published by ministries or agencies

"Riksdagsledamöterna och de regionala partiorganisationerna" [Members of Parliament and

the Constituency Party Organizations], in "Folkets Främsta Företrädare", SOU 1986:27

(Report from a Royal Commission), 89-128.

"Fyra år med politiska sekreterare: En utvärdering av effekterna av lagen om politiska

sekreterare i kommuner och landsting" [Four Years with Political Secretaries: An Evaluation

of the Effects of the Law on Political Secretaries] (with Anneli Rosengren-Gårdbäck), Ds

1988:15.

"Omvärlden sätter gränser för den kommunala handlingsfriheten" [The Environment Defines

Local Political Autonomy], in "Inför 90-talet: Kommunal självstyrelse och demokrati i

utveckling" [Local Autonomy and Democracy in the 1990s], Ds 1990:20, 61-8.

"Mer självstyrelse men mindre autonomi?: Kommunernas Självstyrelse i Förändring" [More

Self-Government, Less Autonomy?: Local Self-Government in Change], pp. 79-92 in

Forskning om den offentliga sektorn [Research on the Public Sector], edited by the Research

Committee of the Ministry of Home Affairs (Stockholm: Allmänna Förlaget, 1992).

"Riksdagsledamöterna i partiarbetet" [Members of Parliament in the Party Organizations'

Activities], in Jörgen Westerståhl (ed), "Person och parti", SOU 1993:63 (Report from a

Royal Commission), 135-47.

"Autonomi, Suveränitet och Ekonomisk Politik: EMU-medlemskapets Inverkan på Svenskt

Politiskt Beslutsfattande" [Autonomy, Sovereignty, and Economic Policy: The Impact of an

EMU Membership on Swedish Political Decision Making] (with Jonas Hinnfors), SOU

1996:158, Appendix 18 (Report from a Royal Commission).

Marknaden som Politisk Aktör: Politik och Finansmarknad i 1990-talets Sverige [Markets as

Political Actors: Politics and Financial Markets in Sweden in the 1990s] (Stockholm: Royal

Commission on the state of democracy in Sweden, SOU1999:131, vol. XI).

Institutionella Förändringar och Lokalt Näringslivsarbete: Svenska och Brittiska

Reformstrategier [Institutional Change and Local Economic Development: Swedish and

British Reform Strategies] (Report R 1999:32. Stockholm: NUTEK [National Agency for

Economic and Technological Development], 1999).

En samlad tillväxtpolitik? [A Coordinated Growth Policy?] (Report R2004:014. Stockholm:

Institute for Growth Policy Studies, 2004).

E. Book reviews

Karl Kuhn, "Partizipation in Schwedischen Parteien" (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag),

Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift 85 (1982):135-37.

Christopher Hood and Gunnar Folke Schuppert (eds), "Delivering Public Services in Western

Europe" (Beverly Hills and London: Sage Publications, 1988), Scandinavian Political

Studies, 12 (1989):285-87.

Maivor Sjölund, "Statens lönepolitik 1966-1988" (Stockholm: Allmänna Förlaget, Publica,

1989), Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift 93 (1990):203-11.

Michael Gallagher and Michael Marsh (eds), "The Secret Garden of Politics: Candidate

Selection in Comparative Perspective", Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift 93 (1990):400-3.

Clarence N. Stone, "Regime Politics: Governing Atlanta, 1946-1988" (Lawrence, KS:

University Press of Kansas, 1989), Scandinavian Political Studies 14 (1991):93-6.

Stefano Bartolini and Peter Mair, "Identity, Competition and Electoral Availability"

(Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990), Scandinavian Political

Studies 15 (1992):158-62.

Douglas E. Ashford (ed), "Discretionary Politics: Intergovernmental Social Transfers in Eight

Countries" (Greenwich CT. and London: JAI Press Inc., 1990), Local Government Studies 19

(1993):132-35.

Lena Agevall, "Beslutsfattandets rutinisering" (Lund: Lund Political Studies 84, 1994),

Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift 98 (1995):243-7.

Harald Baldersheim and Krister Ståhlberg (eds), "Towards the Self-Regulating Municipality"

(Aldershot: Dartmouth Publishing Company, 1994), Regional and Federal Studies 6

(1996):114-6.

Alain Menon and Vincent Wright (eds), "From the Nation State to Europe?: Essays in

Honour of Jack Hayward" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), West European Politics

25:221-2.

Robert Leach and J. Percy-Smith, "Local Governance in Britain" (Basingstoke: Macmillan,

2001), Public Administration, 80 (2002):831-3.

Liesbet Hooghe, ―The European Commission and the Integration of Europe: Images of

Governance‖ (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), Perspectives on Politics, 1

(2003):208-9.

E. Suleiman, ―Dismantling Democratic States‖ (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003),

Perspectives on Politics, 2 (2004):624-5.

P. W. Ingraham and L. E. Lynn (eds), ‖The Art of Governance: Analyzing Management and

Administration‖ (Washington, D. C: Georgetown University Press, 2004), Journal of

Comparative Policy Analysis 8 (2006), 306-7.

F. Research reports published by The Swedish Association of Local Authorities

Kommunal näringspolitik under strukturomvandlingen: Svenska Kommunförbundets

enkätundersökning 1994 [Local Industrial Policy Under Industrial Structural Change: The

Swedish Association of Local Authorities´ 1994 Questionnaire Study] (Stockholm: Swedish

Association of Local Authorities, 1995).

Stat och kommun i samverkan för tillväxt [Coordinated Promotion of Growth between The

State and Local Authorities] (Stockholm: Swedish Association of Local Authorities, 1995).

Effektivt kommunalt näringslivsarbete: Mot en ny näringspolitisk modell? [Effective Local

Economic Development Strategies: Towards a New Model of Local Industrial Policy?]

(Stockholm: Swedish Association of Local Authorities, 1996).

‖Kommunerna i de nya regionerna‖ [Local Authorities in the New Regions](with Sara

Schütt), in Håkan Brynielsson (ed), På jakt efter en ny regional samhällsordning! [In Search

of a New Regional Order] (Stockholm: Svenska Kommunförbundet, 2003), 73-90.

G. Books, volume chapters, and articles accepted for publication

‖New Public Management Reform and Governance Reform: Tensions in Modernizing the

Public Sector‖, accepted for publication in Meiji Journal of Governance Studies, 2012.

H. Submitted book manuscripts and articles

―Building Regional Governance From Below? Sources of Legitimacy for Inter-Local

Partnerships among Local Politicians‖, (under review with Urban Affairs Review, November

2011).

―Does Agency Age Matter in Administrative Reform?: Policy Autonomy and Public

Management in Swedish Agencies‖ (with Birgitta Niklasson), submitted for editorial review

to a Policy and Society, March 2012.

VII. Research in progress

Globalization and Governance: A Comparative Analysis (Edward Elgar, to be published in

2013).

VIII. Selected conference papers

"A 'Parliament of the Movement'?: A Comparative Study of Conference Influence and

Factionalism in Great Britain and Sweden", paper presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions of

Workshops in Florence, Italy, March 25-30, 1980.

"Fractionalization and Dimensions: A Study of Two Scandinavian Parliaments" (with Bo

Bjurulf), paper presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops in Florence, Italy, March

25-30, 1980.

"Obstacles to Policy Change: An Exploratory Study", paper presented at the ECPR Joint

Sessions of Workshops in Lancaster, England, March 24-29, 1981, and at the Swedish

Political Science Association Conference, Linköping, Sweden, June 1981.

"Parliament and Policy: The Problem of Legislative Centrality in the Policy Process" (with

David M. Olson, Ellis S. Krauss, Maurice D. Simon och Witold Zakrzewski), paper presented

at the American Political Science Association Conference in Washington, D.C., September

1981.

"Changing Patterns of Popular Demand and Support in the Swedish Political System", paper

presented at a conference on "Parliaments, Policy and Regime Support", Duke University,

NC, December 1982.

"The Industrial Policy Model of Sweden and Japan: Politics and the Market in Structural

Change" (with Ellis S. Krauss), paper presented the University of Pittsburgh Bicentenniel

International Symposium on "Adjustment to Structural Change: American, European and

Japanese Experiences", March 1987.

"Local Government and Autonomy: Towards a Theoretical Framework", paper presented at

the ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops in Paris, April 10-15, 1989.

"Domestic Constraints on International Competitiveness: Notes on Some Dilemmas of

Swedish Political Economy in the 1990s", paper presented at a symposium on "Where is

Sweden Heading? A Policy Analysis", The New School for Social Research, New York,

November 15-16, 1991.

"The Parties and the State: Money, Members, and Managers" (with Lars Svåsand), paper

presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Limerick, Ireland, March 30-April 4,

1992.

"The Unbearable Lightness of Leading: Democracy and Leadership in the Modern Political

Party", paper presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Limerick, Ireland, March

30-April 4, 1992.

"Rethinking the Local State: The Politics of Urban Governance, Autonomy and

Interdependence", paper presented at the 24th Annual Meeting of the Urban Affairs

Association, New Orleans, USA, March 2-5, 1994.

"Manufacturing Regions: The Politics of Regional Reform in Sweden" (with Cecilia

Malmström), paper presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Madrid, Spain, April

17-21, 1994.

"Local Industrial Partnerships: Exploring the Logics of Public-Private Partnerships", paper

presented at a conference on "Partnerships in Local Government", Hindåsgården,

Gothenburg, Sweden, August 27-30, 1994.

"Public Sector Reform in Sweden", paper presented at a conference for the research project

"Paradoxes in Public Sector Reform: Soft Theory and Hard Cases", Centre for European

Studies, Oxford University, June 13-15, 1996.

"When the Bottom Line is the Bottom Line: Public Sector Reform in Sweden", paper

presented at a conference for the research project on "Paradoxes in Public Sector Reform:

Soft Theory and Hard Cases", Berlin, February 13-15, 1997.

"The Politics of Currency Market Crises: The Case of Sweden in Theoretical and Empirical

Perspective" (with Jonas Hinnfors), paper presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions of

Workshops, Bern, Switzerland, February 28-March 4, 1997.

"The Welfare State Managers: Senior Civil Servants" (with Peter Ehn), paper presented at a

conference for the research project on "The Role of Senior Officials in a Service State",

Centre for European Studies, Oxford University, March 21-22, 1997.

"Models of Urban Governance: Exploring the Institutional Dimension of Urban Politics",

paper presented at the Urban Affairs Association´s annual meeting, Toronto, Canada, April

17-20, 1997.

"State Models and Economic Development: Controversies, Convergencies and

Consequences", paper presented at the International Political Science Association´s

conference, Seoul, Korea, August 17-21, 1997.

"Institutions and Time: Problems of Conceptualization and Explanation" (with B. Guy

Peters), paper presented at the American Political Science Association´s conference,

Washington, D.C., August 28-1 September, 1997. (Nominated by the Public Administration

Program Chair for the Kaufmann Prize).

"Globalization and Governance: Re-Articulating Political and Economic Systems" (with

Robert S. Walters), paper presented at a conference on "Globalization, Regionalization, and

Governance", sponsored by the David M. Kennedy Center of International Studies, Brigham

Young University and the IPSA Research Committee on the Emerging International

Economic Order, September 11-12, 1998.

"Trends in Public Employment in Sweden", paper presented at a conference for the CPS

project, University of Bamberg, September 25-26, 1998.

"Externalities and Relationships: Rethinking the Boundaries of the Public Service", paper

presented at a conference on "Revitalizing the Public Service: A Governance Vision for the

21st Century", Canadian Centre for Management Development, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada,

November 12-14, 1998.

"From Managing the State to Managing Contingencies: Changing Roles of the Senior Civil

Service in Sweden", paper presented at a conference on "From the Active to the Enabling

State: The Changing Role of the Senior Civil Service in a Comparative Perspective", Nuffield

College, Oxford University, January 15-16, 1999.

"Civil Servants and Politicians: The Changing Balance" (with B. Guy Peters), paper presented

at the ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Mannheim, Germany, March 26-31, 1999.

"Parallel Paths?: Administrative Reform, Public Policy, and Politico-Bureaucratic

Relationships in Sweden", paper presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops,

Mannheim, Germany, March 26-31, 1999.

"On-line Democracy: Retry, Abort, Fail?", paper presented at the American Political Science

Association's conference, Atlanta, Georgia, August 31 - September 4, 1999.

"Learning through Path-Dependency?: The Governance of the Restructuring of the Swedish

Steel Industry", paper presented to a conference for a project on "Success and Failure in

Governance", Nuffield College, Oxford University, September 23-24, 1999.

"Politicization of the Civil Service: Concepts, Causes, Consequences" (with B. Guy Peters),

paper presented at a conference for a project on "The Politicization of the Civil Service in

Comparative Perspective", Gothenburg, October 24-25, 1999.

"Local Government in Sweden: Continuity and Change", paper presented (in absentio) at the

1999 ROILA conference on comparative local government, Kyungil University, Kyungil,

Korea, December 7-10, 1999.

"Is there a Governance Theory?" (with B. Guy Peters), paper presented at the International

Political Science Association´s conference, Quebec, Canada, August 1-7, 2000.

"Giving Structure to Values: The Institutional Politics of European Aviation Safety", paper

presented at the Southern Political Science Association's conference, Atlanta, Georgia,

November 9-12, 2000.

"Employment in Local Government: A Comparative Analysis", paper presented at a

conference for the Comparative Public Service project, Glasgow, March 9-10, 2001.

"Multilevel Governance: A Faustian Bargain" (with B. Guy Peters), paper presented at a

conference on "Multilevel Governance: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, PERC, University of

Sheffield, UK, June 28-30, 2001.

―Multilevel Governance: A View from the Garbage Can" (with B. Guy Peters), paper

presented at a conference at the University of Manchester, January 2002.

―The Politics of Institutionalization: The Case of the JAA and European Air-Traffic Safety

Regulation‖, paper presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Edinburgh, 2003.

―‘Power to‘ or ‗Power over‘?: Rethinking State Strength‖, paper presented at the IX

International Congress of Centro Latinamericano de Administracion Para el Desarrollo

(CLAD) on State and Public Sector Reform, Madrid, November 2-5, 2004.

―Administrative Reform in Sweden in Comparative Perspective: The Resilience of

Administrative Tradition‖, paper presented at the Center for European Studies, University of

California-Berkeley, February 28, 2005.

―Ticking Bombs, Institutional Inertia and policy Change: Swedish Administrative Reform in

International Perspective‖, paper presented at a panel on ―The past, the present, and the future

of Government reform‖, Korean Political Science Association conference, Seoul, Korea,

October 14, 2006.

―From Government to Governance—and Back?: Understanding the Changing Role of

Government in Governance‖, paper presented at the ―World Summit on Public Governance:

An International Conference on Government Performance Management,‖ Taipei, Taiwan

May 1-2, 2007.

―Why Legality Cannot be Contracted Out: Exploring the Limits of New Public Management‖

(with Martin Painter), paper presented at a conference on ―The Role of the State in Public

Service Delivery‖, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore,

September 27-28, 2007.

―A Sound like Someone trying Not To Make a Sound: Why Secrecy Sometimes Makes Good

Governance‖, paper presented at a workshop on governance research, University of

Southampton, January 8-9, 2008.

‖How Should the State Behave?: The New Public Management versus The New

Weberianism‖ (with Bo Rothstein), paper presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions of

Workshops, Rennes, April 11-15, 2008.

‖Exploring the Strategic Region: Is local-to-local Cooperation a Rational Choice?‖ (with Ole

Johan Andersen), paper presented at an international workshop on local-to-local partnerships,

University College of Bodo, May 22-24, 2008.

―How should the State Behave?: Neo-Weberianism vs. New Public Management‖ (with Bo

Rothstein), paper presented at a SOG conference on ―New Public Management and the

Quality of Government‖, University of Gothenburg, November 14-15, 2008.

―The Two Faces of Public Administration: Exploring the Limits of Markets and Legality in

the Public Sector‖, paper presented at Scancor‘s 20th

Anniversary conference, Stanford

University, November 21-22, 2008.

―Stealth Economy?: Exploring the Limits of Market Arrangements in the Public Sector‖,

paper presented at a conference on ―Economics and Democracy‖, RSSS, Australian National

University, December 8-10, 2008.

―Reforming the Central Government Offices in Sweden: Politicization as a Coordination

Strategy‖ (with Carl Dahlström), paper presented at Council of European Studies‘ conference,

April 15-17 2010, Montreal.

―Agency Autonomy and Administrative Reform: A Swedish Case Study‖ (with Birgitta

Niklasson), paper presented at the EGPA conference, September 7-10 2010, Toulouse.

‖The Decline of One-Party Dominance in Sweden: Causes and Consequences‖, paper

presented at a conference for a research project on ‖After Dominance: Do ‘Uncommon

Democracies‘ become ‘Common‘‖?, International House of Japan, Tokyo, December 5-7,

2010.

‖Multiple Forms of Accountability: Complementary, Competitive, or Just Different?‖ (with

B. Guy Peters), paper presented at the annual conference for the American Society for Public

Administration, Baltimore, March 9-13, 2011.

‖Democratic legitimacy by performance? Exploring a research field‖ (with Asbjörn

Röiseland), paper presented at the ECPR General Conference, Reykjavik, August 24-27,

2011.

―Rethinking comparative urban politics: From urban regime theory to urban governance?‖,

paper presented at the American Political Science Association‘s annual conference, Seattle,

September 1-4, 2011.

―Whose City is this anyway? Tensions in urban governance, good and otherwise‖, paper

presented at a conference on ―Good Governance in the City‖, Tilburg University, The

Netherlands, October 27-28, 2011.

VII. Selected invited lectures

―Globalization and Governance‖, University of Sydney, June 9, 2011.

―Comparing Administrative Reform in Japan, Sweden and the United States‖, University of

Canberra ANZSOG Institute of Governance, May 17, 2011.

‖Globalization and Governance: Global Pressure on Domestic Governance‖, University of

Auckland, April 5, 2011.

―The Democratic Implications of Network Steering‖, Centre for the Study of Democratic

Network Governance, Roskilde University Center, March 10, 2005.

"Citizen Engagement: A View from Europe", Privy Council Office, Ottawa, November 10,

1998.

―The Comparative Study of Local Governance", Department of Government, London School

of Economics and Political Science, February 12, 1997.

Invited speaker at a conference on "Local Governments and Welfare: Democracy and

Economic Growth", organized by the Scania Association of Local Authorities. Topic: "Local

government, democracy and economic development", February 6-7, 1997.

"Is There a Scandinavian Welfare State Left?", West European Studies Center, University of

Pittsburgh, November 13, 1996.

Lectures before Master of Public Administration classes and PhD candidate seminars,

Department of Public Administration, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs,

Syracuse University, November 6-7, 1996.

"The Future of Swedish Industrial Policy", Ministry of Trade and Industry, the Swedish

Association of Local Authorities, and the Swedish Confederation of Private Businesses,

October 7 and 8, 1996.

"Coordinated Promotion of Growth between The State and Local Authorities", Swedish

Association of Local Authorities and the Swedish Confederation of Private Businesses,

November 14, 1995.

"Swedish Public Administration Change", Swedish Ministry of Finance, November 6, 1995.

Invited speaker at the "Social Science Day", University of Gothenburg, March 25, 1995, on

the topic of "Urban Futures".

Invited speaker at a conference on "Attractive Municipalities and Attractive Business

Communities", organized by The Swedish Confederation of Local Governments and Veckans

Affärer, November 16, 1992.

"The Political Economy of Industrial Structural Change: Comparative Observations on

Europe and the United States", Council for European Studies and the Jackson School of

Public Affairs, University of Washington, Seattle, May 9, 1992.

"The Political Economy of Industrial Structural Change: Pittsburgh in An International

Comparison", Department of Political Science and West European Studies Program,

University of Pittsburgh, March 22, 1992.

"Where is Sweden Heading? A Policy Analysis", Swedish Information Service at the New

School for Social Research, New York, N.Y., November 15-16, 1991.

Invited lecturer at Department of Political Science and the School of Public and

Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, October 31 and November 1, 1991.

―The Swedish 1991 Elections: Realignment or What?", Department of Political Science,

University of Pittsburgh, September 25, 1991.

Invited speaker on a seminar on "Public-private partnerships in local industrial policy",

Tavastehus, Finland, March 26, 1991.

"Recent Changes in Swedish Industrial Policy", Department of Political Science, University

of Pittsburgh, September 16, 1987.

Seminar on "Scandinavian Defense Policies", Graduate School of Public and International

Affairs (GSPIA), University of Pittsburgh, October 6, 1986.

Invited lecturer for study groups from DIS (Danish International Study program) and CIES

(Council for International Exchange of Scholars), May 19, 1985.

A number of seminars and lectures given before faculty, graduate- and undergraduate classes

at Western Washington University between 1982 and 1985.

VIII. Personal

Date of Birth: March 26, 1953

Marital status: married (Monika Djerf Pierre).

Three children: Filippa, born 1980; Jonathan, born 1990; and Miranda, born 1994.