Public Services and the Modern State

Ben Ansell and I are writing a book about the political history of public services such as policing, schooling, and public health, which will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2020. During the period 2017–2023, I am the principal investigator in a project on public services in comparative and historical perspective that is funded by the Swedish Research Council. In that project, I am working with Ketevan Bolkvadze and Katren M. Rogers. Moreover, I am a member of the team behind the program STANCE, which is funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond and led by Jan Teorell (2015–2020), and I am a member of the team behind the project Immigration Policy and the Welfare State in Comparative and Historical Perspective, which is funded by the Swedish Research Council (2018–2021). In that project, I am working with Frida Boräng and Sara Kalm (who is the PI).

Work in Progress

Kerstin Enflo, Alexandra Lopez Cermeño, and J. Lindvall. "Railways and Reform. How Trains Strengthened the Nation State." Revise and resubmit.

Ketevan Bolkvadze and J. Lindvall. "Police Power and Political Unrest."

Frida Boräng, Sara Kalm, and J. Lindvall. "Immigration Policy and the Welfare State Since 1930."

J. Lindvall. "Technology and Politics: A Research Agenda." Short think-piece, please email if you have comments.

J. Lindvall and Katren Rogers. "The Changing Faces of the Modern State."

J. Lindvall and Jan Teorell. "State Capacity as Power."

Publications

Ben Ansell and J. Lindvall. 2020. Inward Conquest. The Political Origins of Modern Public Services. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. In production.

Frida Boräng, Sara Kalm, and J. Lindvall. "Unions and the Rights of Migrants in the Long Run." Accepted for publication in Journal of European Social Policy.

Thomas Brambor, Agustín Goenaga, J. Lindvall, and Jan Teorell. 2019. "The Lay of the Land: Information Capacity and the Modern State." Comparative Political Studies 53:2.

Sara Kalm and J. Lindvall. 2019. "Immigration Policy and the Modern Welfare State, 1880–1920." Journal of European Social Policy 29:4.

Thomas Brambor and J. Lindvall. 2018. "The Ideology of Heads of Government, 1870–2012." European Political Science 17:2.

Tony Ingesson, Mårten Lindberg, J. Lindvall, and Jan Teorell. 2018. "The Martial Origins of Democracy." Democratization 25:4.

Ansell, Ben, and J. Lindvall. 2013. "The Political Origins of Primary Education Systems." American Political Science Review 107:3. Replication data. Documentation of data on school systems. Documentation of data on heads of government.

Lars Bo Kaspersen and J. Lindvall. 2008. "Why No Religious Politics? The Secularization of Poor Relief and Primary Education in Denmark and Sweden." Archives européennes de sociologie 49:1.