C.V.

C U R R I C U L U M  V I T A E

Name: Bo Abraham Mendel ROTHSTEIN

Born: June 12, 1954 in Malmö, Sweden

Nationality: Swedish

Marital status: Married to AnnChristin Rothstein since 1982, two children, Jonathan (1986) and Isabelle (1992).

Current position: August Röhss Chair in Political Science, Göteborg University, Sweden.

Higher education

• MA,(filosofie kandidatexamen), highest honour in Political Science, Economics, Statsistics, and Public Law. University of Lund, Sweden 1979.
• PhD (filosofie doktorsexamen), Political Science, University of Lund, Sweden 1986.

Scholarships and Fellowships

• Doctoral Fellowships, University of Lund 1980-1986.
• Fellowship European University Institute, Firenze 1980.
• The Nordic Council 1987
• The Swedish Institute 1988, 1990
• The Sweden-America foundation. Grant for six months research and travel expenses in the USA 1991.
• The Wenner- Gren Foundation 1988, 1991
• Fulbright commission. Grant for four months research in United States, June 1992.
• Visiting Fellow, Institute of Political Studies, University of Copenhagen, May - June 1987.
• Visiting Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science, May 1990.
• Mellon Visiting Scholar, Cornell University, USA, October-November 1990.
• Visiting Scholar at the Swedish Center for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (SCASSS), Uppsala, Fall semester 1991.
• Visiting Scholar at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University, USA, Spring semester 1992.
• Visiting Scholar at the Department of Political Science, University of Washington - Seattle, Spring semester 1993.
• Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, New York, academic year 1998/99.
• Visiting Scholar, Aalborg University, Department of Economy, Politics and Administration, November 1999
• Visiting scholar, Collegium Budapest Institute for Advanced Study, October-December 2002
• Visiting scholar, Edinburgh University School of Social and Political Studies, March 2003
• Visiting Professor, Harvard University, Department of Government, Jan –June 2006

Academic appointments

• Acting Associate Professor, Institute of Political Science, University of Copenhagen January to August 1986.
• Research Associate, Department of Government, Uppsala University, August 1986 to June 1994.
• Promoted to Associate Professor (Docent), Uppsala University, April 1992.
• Professor in Industrial Relations and Labor Market Policy at Swedish Center for Work Life Research, May 1994 to December 1995.
• Adjunct Professor, Department of Administration and Organizational Theory, University of Bergen, December 1994 to December 1997.
• August Röhss’ Professor in Political Science at Göteborg University, December 1995 – current.
• Grant from the Swedish Science Council for Long-Term Support for Leading Scholars 2003-2007. (the Science Council reimburses my department with 50% of my salary in order to make it possible for me to use 85% of my work time for my own research).

Presentation of conference papers (selected)

• Swedish Political Science Association 1981, 1984, 1986
• Nordic Political Science Association 1981, 1986 and 1999. Workshop coordinator 1999
• European Consortium for Political Research Joint Session of Workshops 1983, 1988, 1989, 2004, 2005 and 2007. Work shop co-ordinator 1996 and 2007.
• European Consortium for Political Research, Research Coinference 2005.
• Conference on ”The New Institutionalism - State, Society and Economy in Europe and The United States", University of Colorado/Boulder 1990
• American Political Science Association Meeting Annual Meeting 1990, 1991 and 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006. Panel chair 1992 and 1998, panel organizer 1997, 2000, 2002, 2005, division chair for “Comparative politics of advanced industrial nations 1997)
• Midwest Political Science Association, 1999
• Conference for Europeanists, Chicago 1993, Baltimore 1998 and Chicago 2000
• Conference on ”Changing Patterns in Industrial Relations", University of Heidelberg 1988,
• Conference on ”Varieties of Welfare Capitalism in Europe, North America and Japan, Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne June 1998.
• International Political Science Association, Quebec August 2000
• The Stein Rokkan lecture at the European Consortium of Political Science joint session of workshops, Uppsala, March 2004.

Other academic activities (selected)

• Workshop Director at the Nordic Political Science Association meeting, Iceland, August 1990
• Workshop Director, European Consortium for Political Research, Joint session of workshops, Bern 1997.
• Chair of the division for Comparative Research of Advanced Industrial Nations, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, August 1996.
• Workshop Director at the Nordic Political Science Association meeting, Uppsala, August 1999
• Department Examiner (MA thesis), University of Stockholm, April 1989.
• Member of faculty committees for PhD thesis University of Stockholm, 1990 (history); University of Umeå, 1991 (political science), University of Linkoping 1998 (Technology and Society); Australian National University, 1996 (School of Social Science Research); Goteborg University 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2006 (in political science, economics, history and economic history) Uppsala University 2001 and 2002 (political science).
• Faculty Examinier (PhD thesis) University of Bergen, 1992, 1996 and 1998, University of Lund 1996 and 2006, University of Aarhus 1998, Oslo University 2000, Copenhagen University 2000.
• Co-editor, 1988 to 1991 of Politologen, official journal of the Swedish Political Science Association
• Member of the editorial board of Governance (1997-200) , Journal of Social Policy (1998 --) and Economic and Industrial Democracy (2000 --)
• Manuscript reviewer for the following academic publishers: Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, Palgrave/Macmillan, Sage Publication, Blackwell, Arkiv Förlag and SNS Förlag.
• Referee for the following journals: American Political Science Review (3), American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics (2), Goveranance, Political Studies(2), Polity, Scandinavian Political Studies (2), Comparative Political Studies (4). Journal of Social Policy (4), European Journal of Political Science, Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift (2), British Journal of Political Science (2), Policy Studies Journal, Journal of Politics, The Journal of Political Philosophy (3), Social Science History, Social Problems, Social Science Quarterly (2), Public Administration, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis
• Member of evaluation group for labor market research at the Swedish Council for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences 1995-2000.
• Member of evalutation committée for Chair in Political Science, Växjö University, Sweden 1999, Chair in Public Administration, University of Bergen, 1997 and the Lars Hierta Chair in Political Science at Stockholm University, 2005.
• Member of evalutation committée for Chair in Gender and Welfare State studies, Uppsala University/National Institute for Work Life Studies, 2000
• Member of the scientific council at the Swedish National Board for Social Insurance (2001--2004)
• External reviewer for tenure or promotion to full professor for London School of Economics and Political Science (2001), Cornell University (2000), Princeton University (2000), Boston University (2001) Barnard College Columbia University (2005), Columbia Univeristy (2006), Duke University (2006) Johns Hopkins University (2003).
• Expert assessor for the Norwegian Research Council for application for establishing Center of Excellence (Jan. 2002)
• Member of Board for Research and Education for Teacher Program at Göteborg University 2001 – 2004
• Member of Board for Graduate Studies at the Social Science Faculty, Göteborg University 2001 – 2004
• Member of the Board of the Faculty of Social Science, Göteborg University 2006 –
• Member of the International Advisory Board for Collegium Budapest Institute for Advanced Study 2006 -

Teaching experiences

Teaching at graduate and undergraduate levels in political theory, comparative politics and public administration/public policy. Head of graduate (Ph.D) program at Department of Political Science at Göteborg University since 1995. Supervisor of completed Ph.D thesis as listed below, currently supervising six Ph.D students.

• Christina Bergqvist – Mäns makt och kvinnors intressen. Uppsala 1994
• Anders Lindbom – Medborgaren i välfärdsstaten. Uppsala 1995
• Torsten Svensson – Socialdemokratins dominans. Uppsala 1994.
• Yohyok Choe – How to Manage Free and Fair Elections. Göteborg 1997 (co-supervisor)
• Fredrika Lagergren – På andra sidan välfärdsstaten . Göteborg 1999
• Susan Marton – In the head of the state. Göteborg 2000.
• Cecilia Bokenstrand – Den politiska budgeten. Göteborg 2000
• Jessica Lindvert – Feminism som politik. Göteborg 2002 (co-supervisor)
• Lars Karlsson – Konflikt eller harmoni? Göteborg 2003
• Helena Stensöta – Den empatiska staten. Göteborg 2004
• Johannes Lindvall – The Politics of Purpose, Göteborg 2004
• Anna Bendz – I välfärdsstatens hägn, Göteborg 2004
• Lina Eriksson – Economic Man: The Last Man Standing 2005 (co-supervisor)
• Marcia Grimes – Democracy’s Infrastructure, Göteborg 2005
• Patrik Stålgren – Worlds of Water, Words Apart. Göteborg 2006

Presentation of papers (only invitations outside Sweden noted)

• University of Bergen, The LOS-center, (April 1987)
• University of Bath, School of Social Sciences, (May 1990)
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Political Science, (October 1990)
• University of California at Los Angeles, Department of Political Science (Oct. 1990)
• State University of New York at Cortland (October 1990)
• Harvard University, Center For European Studies, (October 1990 and December 1998)
• Duke University, Department of Political Science, (Nov 1990)
• Cornell University, Department of Political Science (Oct 1990)
• McGill University, Department of Political Science (March 1992)
• Cornell University, Western Societies Program, (May 1996 and October 1998);
• Norwegian Political Science Association Annual Meeting (Feb. 1990);
• Amsterdam University, School of Social Sciences, (June 1994)
• Cornell University, Department of Political Science (Oct. 1992)
• University of Helsinki, School of Social Service, (Oct. 1996)
• University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Political Science (April 1997)
• Copenhagen University, Department of Politics (Jan 1997)
• Copenhagen Business School, COS-center, (Jan 1997, November 1999)
• Princeton University, Department of Political Science (April 1997 and Nov 1997)
• Yale University, School of Public Health (Oct 1998)
• Northwestern University, Department of Political Science, (November 1998)
• Brown University, Center for International Affairs (February 1999)
• Columbia University, Western Europe Program (November 1998)
• George Washington University, Department of Political Science (March 1999)
• Columbia University, Department of Political Science (April 1999)
• University of Minnesota, Department of Political Science (April 1999)
• Rutgers University, Department of Politicla Science (April 1999)
• Aalborg University, Department of Economy, Politics and Administation (November 1999)
• Freie Universität Berlin, Dept of Sociology, (December 2000)
• University of Pittsburgh, Department of Political Science (March 2001)
• University of Southern Denmark, Department of Politics, (December 2001)
• London School of Economics, Deparment of Government (March 2001)
• Ritsumeikan University, Department of Political Science, Kyoto (April 2002)
• Hungarian Academy of Science, Institute of Economics, Budapest (Nov 2002)
• Oxford University, Rothermere American Institute, Oxford (January 2003)
• Edinburgh University, School of Social and Political Studies (March 2003)
• Aalborg University, Department of Politics (April 2003)
• Tilburg University, The 75th Anniversary Conference (March 2003)
• Helsinki University, Department of Social Science History (October 2003)
• Humbolt University, Berlin, Department of Political Science (December 2003)
• University of Juveskylä, Social Capital research program at the Finnish Academy (February 2004)
• University College Dublin, Institute for the Study of Social Change (March 2004)
• University of Bergen, The Stein Rokkan Center (April 2004)
• University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Political Science (March 2004)
• Keynote address, European Consortium for Political Research Joint Session of Workshops (The Stein Rokkan Lecture), Uppsala (March 2004).
• Keynote address, 5th European Conference on Health Economics, London School of Economics (September 2004).
• European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, London (September 2004).
• Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government (November 2004).
• Boston University, Dept. of International Relations (November 2004).
• Harvard University, Center for European Studies (November 2004).
• Government and Opposition Leonard Shapiro Keynote address, held at the Annual Meeting of the UK Political Science Association, Leeds University (April 2005).
• Yale University, Leitner Program in Political Economy (February 2006)
• Dartmouth College, Department of Sociology (March 2006)
• University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Political Science (March 2006)
• Georgetown University, Centre for the Study of Democracy (April 2006)
• Princeton University, Department of Political Science (Aprils 2006)
• University of Indiana at Bloomington, Workshop in Political Theory (April 2006)
• Keynote address, International Conference of Social Justice Research, Berlin (Aug 2006)
• Roskilde University, CINEFOGO research program (November 2006)
• Keynote address, Danish Association for Political Science Annual Meeting, (November 2006)
• McGill Univeristy, Center for Statistics in Social Science, (December 2006)
• Université de Montreal, Center for European Studies (December 2006)

Major research grants (three or more years)

• Swedish council for research in humanities and social sciences (1991, 1996, 1997, 1998).
• Swedish council for Social Research (1994, 1998)
• Swedish delegation for research on gender equality (1989)
• Center for research on the public sector, Goteborg University (1997)
• Swedish council for work life research (1997)
• The Swedish Central Bank Tercentenary Fund (1998)
• The Swedish Research Council (2001)
• The Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (2001). Political Institutions and Social Policy
• The Swedish Research Council (2002). The Causal Mechanism Between Political Corruption and Social Trust
• The Swedish Central Bank Tercentenary Fund (2003): The Quality of Government – A Comparative Approach.
• The Swedish Research Council (2004). Six year grant for long term support for leading scholars.
• The Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (2005) Social policy and the Quality of Government
• · The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation (2006) – Funding for six years Research Program, “The Quality of Government Institute at Göteborg University” involvning nine research projects.