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, building on our previous work on the origins of national education systems. During the period 2017–2022, I am also the principal investigator of a project, funded by the Swedish Research Council, on public services in comparative and historical perspective. Moreover, I am a member of the team behind the research program STANCE, State-Making and the Origins of Global Order in the Long Nineteenth Century and Beyond, which is funded by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, and a member of the team behind the project Immigration Policy and the Welfare State in Comparative and Historical Perspective.

Work in Progress

Ansell, Ben, and J. Lindvall. Inward Conquest, or The Origins of Public Services. Book manuscript in preparation.

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

Frida Boräng, Sara Kalm, and J. Lindvall. "Unions and the Rights of Migrants in the Long Run." Under review.

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

Sara Kalm and J. Lindvall. "Poor Relief and Internal Contols, 1830–1880."

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

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

Publications

Thomas Brambor, Agustín Goenaga, J. Lindvall, and Jan Teorell. 2019. "The Lay of the Land: Information Capacity and the Modern State." Comparative Political Studies. Published online, volume and issue numbers pending.

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

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.

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.