Welcome to my website. I hold the August Röhss Chair in Political Science at the University of Gothenburg. I specialize in comparative politics, political economy, and political history.

I am the principal investigator in the project Public Services in Comparative and Historical Perspective.

My most recent article is Historical Immigration Policies: Trends and Lessons (with Margaret Peters, Frida Boräng, Sara Kalm, and Adrian Shin).

My most recent book is Inward Conquest: The Political Origins of Modern Public Services (with Ben Ansell).

My most recent publication in Swedish is 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.