Welcome to my website. I hold the August Röhss Chair in Political Science at the University of Gothenburg. I specialize in comparative politics and political economy.
I am the principal investigator in the research project Public Services in Comparative and Historical Perspective.
Most recent article: "When Parties Move to the Middle: The Role of Uncertainty" (British Journal of Political Science, with David Rueda and Haoyu Zhai).
Most recent book in English: Inward Conquest: The Political Origins of Modern Public Services (Cambridge University Press, with Ben Ansell).
Most recent publication in Swedish: Budgetprocessen i det finanspolitiska ramverket (SOU 2023:93).
My CV can be downloaded here. My Google Scholar page can be found here. To send an email message, click here.
If you want to know what I think political science is all about, please see my article "Political Science as Architecture" (European Political Science).