CURRICULUM VITAE (selection)

CURRICULUM VITAE (selection)
Name: Per Staffan Kumlin
Born September 7, 1972 in Stora Lundby, Sweden
e-mail: staffan.kumlin@pol.gu.se
website: www.pol.gu.se/personal/staffankumlin
EDUCATION, DEGREES, TITLES
• Bachelor of Science, University of Gothenburg, 1996 (Political Science, Public
Administration, English, Statistics)
• Ph.D. in Political Science, University of Gothenburg, 2002. Dissertation advisers:
Associate Professor. Maria Oskarson and Professor Sören Holmberg. Opponent:
Prof-Dr. Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Social Science Center Berlin. Committee: Prof.
Jon Pierre, Dept. Political Science, University of Gothenburg, Prof. Bengt
Furåker, Department of Sociology, University of Gothenburg, and Prof. Michele
Micheletti, Karlstad University.
• Docent (associate professor) in political science, University of Gothenburg,
January 2008
LANGUAGES
• Swedish (native)
• English (completely fluent)
• German (fluent but rusty)
POST-PHD EMPLOYMENT
• January 2003-December: 2006 Research Fellow at the Dept. of Political Science,
University of Gothenburg.
• Academic year 2003-04: On leave from Gothenburg, spending the year as
visiting fellow at the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies, European
University Institute, Florence. The stay was financed by The Swedish Foundation
for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT).
• January 2007- Tenure-track position as “Pro Futura Fellow” (biträdande lektor).
Pro Futura fellows divide their time between the home department, The Swedish
Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS), Uppsala, and also spend one year
abroad at one of the Collegium's sister institutes or an institute of a similar type.
The programme is financed by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation)
and STINT (the Swedish Foundation for International Collaboration in Research
and Higher Education).
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PUBLICATIONS
Peer-reviewed books
- (2004). The Personal and the Political. How Personal Welfare State Experiences Affect
Political Trust and Ideology. New York: Palgrave–Macmillan.
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
- (forthcoming, 2010) “Questioning the New Liberal Dilemma: Immigrants, Social Trust
and the Welfare State.” Comparative Politics (with Bo Rothstein).
- (forthcoming, 2009). “Blaming Europe: Exploring the Variable Link between National
Public Service Dissatisfaction and EU Trust.” Journal of European Social Policy.
- (2006). “Learning from Politics: The Causal Interplay between Government
Performance and Political Ideology.” Journal of Public Policy 26:89-114.
- (2005). ”Making and Breaking Social Capital: The Impact of Welfare State Institutions.”
Comparative Political Studies 38:339 - 365 (with Bo Rothstein).
- (2001) "Ideology-Driven Opinion Formation in Europe: The Case of Attitudes towards
the Third Sector in Sweden." European Journal of Political Research, 39:487-518.
- (1997) "Folket och högervågen. Om opinionsbildning, samhällsstrukturer och ideologisk
förändring i 1980-talets Sverige." Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift 100:411-440. (“Swedes and
the Ideological Shift to the Right in the1980s”; editorial review only)
Current revise-and-resubmit from peer-reviewed journals
-“Scandal Fatigue: Scandal Elections and Satisfaction with Democracy in Western
Europe 1977-2007.”
-“Informed Electoral Accountability and the Welfare State: Experimental and Real-World
Findings.”
Book chapters in English (*=peer-review of individual chapters)
- (2007). “The Welfare State: Values, Policy Preferences, and Performance Evaluations”
in Oxford Handbook of Political Behavior edited by Russel Dalton and Hans-Dieter
Klingemann. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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- (2007). “Social Stratification and Political Articulation: Why Attitudinal Class Differences
Vary Across Countries” in The Welfare State, Legitimacy, and Social Justice edited by
Steffen Mau and Benjamin Veghte. Aldershot: Ashgate. (with Stefan Svallfors).
- (2007).* “Overloaded or Undermined: European Welfare States in the Face of
Performance Dissatisfaction” in The Political Sociology of the Welfare State. Edited by
Stefan Svallfors. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
- (2005). “Value Orientations and Party Choice.” In The European Voter. Edited by
Jaques Thomassen and John Curtice. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (together with
Oddbjørn Knutsen).
- (2002). "Institutions-Experiences-Preferences: Welfare State Design Affects Political
Trust and Ideology". In Restructuring the Welfare State: Political Institutions and Policy
Change. Edited by Rothstein, Bo and Sven Steinmo. New York: Palgrave–MacMillan
Book chapters in Swedish
- (2004) “Välfärdsmissnöje och EU-skepticism.” (Welfare State Dissatisfaction and
Euroscepticism”). In Kampen om euron. Edited by Henrik Oscarsson and Sören
Holmberg. Göteborg: Livréna.
- (2004). “Väljarna, välfärdsstaten och den europeiska integrationen.” (Voters, the
Welfare State, and European Integration.) In EU, skatterna och välfärden. Edited by
Sverker Gustavsson, Lars Oxelheim and Nils Wahl. Stockholm: Santerus.
- (2003). “Politiskt ansvarsutkrävande i Sverige 1986-2002.” (Political Accountability in
Sweden 1986-2002). In Fåfängans marknad. Edited by Sören Holmberg and Lennart
Weibull. Göteborg: The SOM Institute.
- (2003). “Finns det någon ansvarig?” (Anyone responsible?) In Demokratins
mekanismer. Edited by Gilljam, Mikael, and Hermansson, Jörgen. Malmö: Liber.
- (2003). “Snedvridet ansvarsutkrävande?” (A negative bias in political accountability?).
In Demokratitrender. Edited by Henrik Oscarsson. Göteborg: The SOM Institute.
- (2003) "Staten och det sociala kapitalet" (The State and Social Capital) In Välfärdsstat i
otakt. Edited by Jon Pierre and Bo Rothstein. Malmö: Liber förlag. (Together with Bo
Rothstein.)
- (2001) “Missnöje på hemmaplan” (“Dissaffection on home ground”). In Holmberg et al.
EuropaOpinionen. (The Swedish Public and the European Union). Göteborg:
Statsvetenskapliga institutionen.
- (2001) "Demokrati, socialt kapital och förtroende." (Democracy, Social Capital, and
Trust) In Holmberg, Sören and Weibull, Lennart (eds.) Land, du välsignade? Göteborg:
SOM-institutet. (together with Bo Rothstein). Also published in Solidaritet med undantag.
(2002). Stockholm: Försäkringskasseförbundet., and in Fattigdom i välfärdsstaten.
(2002). Stockholm: FAS.
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- (2000) "Opinionsbildning som dragkamp: företaget Sverige möter den svenska
välfärdsstaten." (Public Opinion Formation as a Struggle Between the Economy and the
Welfare State). In Nilsson, Lennart (ed.) Den nya regionen. Göteborg: SOM-institutet.
(together with Maria Oskarson)
- (1998) "Den bärkraftiga utvecklingen och opinionens globala underskott." (Sustainable
Development and the Global Deficit in Public Opinion). In Holmberg, Sören and Lennart
Weibull (eds.) (1998) Opinionssamhället. SOM-rapport 20. Göteborgs universitet: SOMinstitutet
(together with Sverker Carlsson)
Book reviews:
- (2006) “Review of Steffen Mau’s The Moral Economy of Welfare States: Britain and
Germany Compared.” Journal of European Social Policy 16:4.
Newspaper articles:
- ”Väljarföraktet vid god vigör”, (”Contempt for Voters Still Alive”) Göteborgs-Posten
(kultur) May 23, 2001. (The second largest daily [morgontidning] in Sweden)
- “Den missförstådda folkviljan” (”The Misunderstood Public”). Svenska Dagbladet,
September 23 2008 (Under strecket)
Datasets and codebooks:
- 1996. “Riksdagsenkät. Dokumentation.” (Swedish Member of Parliament Survey 1996:
A Documentation). Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, Göteborgs universitet (with Sören
Holmberg, Peter Esaiasson och Martin Brothén).
- 2006. ”Metodrapport från en sexstegs panelstudie i samband med riksdagsvalet 2006.”
(Methodological report from a six wave panel survey during the 2006 Swedish Election
Campaign.” (with Stefan Dahlberg and Henrik Oscarsson). Available at
www.pol.gu.se/personal/staffankumlin
- 2008. The QoG Social Policy Dataset, University of Gothenburg: The Quality of
Government Institute, http://www.qog.pol.gu.se (with Marcus Samanni, Jan Teorell, and
Bo Rothstein).
TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND STUDENT LITERATURE
• I have taught at all levels in the undergraduate program in political science at
University of Gothenburg (around 600 “lektorstimmar”).
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• Developed and taught (“kursansvarig”) two ten-week courses on “Citizens,
Politicians and the Media: Evaluating Democratic Processes,” and “Political
Analysis,” both at the master level. Also, I have taught in the Ph.D. program, and
I am the assistant adviser of three Ph.D. candidates. Teaching profile:
Comparative Political Behaviour, Welfare State Development, Political
Communication, German Politics, Swedish Politics, and Statistical Analysis.
• I have taught at several other departments and institutions, including the
Department of Sociology, Umeå University, the Department of Political Science
at Uppsala University, and the Department of Mass Communication at
Gothenburg.
• Various research publications have been used in undergraduate or graduate
course literature at several universities including Princeton University, Oxford
University, Leiden University, Lahore University of Management Sciences,
Pakistan, Central European University, Budapest, Umeå University, Uppsala
University, Lund University, and University of Gothenburg.
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LONGER VISITS TO OTHER ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS
• Undergraduate student at the University of Limerick, Ireland, in 1995/96 within
the EU ERASMUS/SOKRATES exchange program.
• Program Scholar at the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA (summers of 1998, 1999, and 2000).
• Visiting Fellow at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB),
Germany, November 1998 - April 2000
• Visiting fellow at the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies, European
University Institute, Florence, September 2003-August 2004.
• Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala (2008 spring
semester).
• Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Social Research, Oslo (spring 2009-Summer
2010)
CONFERENCES AND INVITED TALKS
• Arranged workshops at the 2005 and 2008 Nordic Political Science Association
Conferences (with Henrik Oscarsson and Sven Oskarson respectively).
• Arranged symposium on “Welfare States in Europe: Convergence or
divergence?”, ECPR General Conference 2009, Potsdam
• Presented papers at conferences, including the Annual Meeting of the American
Political Science Association (2003, 2008, 2009), The General Conference
(2003, 2007), as well as the Joint Sessions of Workshops (2007) of the European
Consortium for Political Research, The conference of the European Social Policy
Network (2003), The conference of the Nordic Political Science Association
(NOPSA), and the conference of the Swedish Political Science Association
(1997).
• Invited talks at Nuffield College, Oxford University, WZB Berlin, EUI Florence,
political science, University of Oslo, Departments of Sociology at Göteborg and
Umeå, political science at Uppsala, the ESPAnet Expert Seminar, University Of
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Tilburg, The Netherlands, Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies, Ratio
Institute, Institute for Social Research, Oslo.
• Invited talks in non-academic contexts such as Swedish Television, Swedish
Centre Party, the Congress of Social Workers in Halland, The Institute for Further
Education of Journalists in Sweden, Swedish University Librarians, SKTF
National Congress, and Science Festival, Gothenburg.
MASS MEDIA EXPERIENCE
• Repeatedly served as political expert in Swedish national public television
(including Rapport, SVT Morgon, Dokument Inifrån), as well as on national and
local radio (including Dagens Eko, Godmorgon Världen, Studio Ett, and P4
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• Appeared in several Swedish and foreign newspapers and magazines, including
Folha de São Paulo (Brazil), Kommunal Rapport (Norway, Svenska Dagbladet,
Göteborgs-Posten, Sydsvenska dagbladet, Göteborgstidningen (GT), Borås
Tidning, Dagens Forskning, Stockholm City, Västerbottenskuriren,
Eskilstunakuriren, Trelleborgs Allehanda, LO-tidningen, TCO-tidningen, Jusek-
Tidningen, Axess Magasin, Riksdag och Department, and Politiken.se.
DATA COLLECTION AND COMPILATION
• Collected primary survey data (about two pages in a mail survey questionnaire)
in the 1999 West Sweden SOM survey, as well as in the 1999 European
Parliamentary Election Study (three questions in a face-to-face interview). These
data are reported in The Personal and the Political. Also, I have designed
questions for the 2002 Swedish Election Study, and the 2003 Euro Referendum
Study (directed by Sören Holmberg and Henrik Oscarsson).
• Together with Henrik Oscarsson I designed and conducted web-based five wave
panel surveys during the 2002 and 2006 Swedish election campaigns (nonrandom
sample of about 1000 e-mailaddresses). A methodological report is
available on my website (authored by Henrik Oscarsson, myself, and our
research assistant). These data, which are useful for studying the extent of, and
causes for, short-term public opinion change, have so far given rise to the paper
”Learning from Politics? The Causal Interplay Between Government Performance
and Political Ideology.”
• “QoG Social Policy Dataset” (with Marcus Samanni, Jan Teorell, and Bo
Rothstein). This dataset is meant to promote cross-national comparative
research on social policy output and its correlates, with a special focus on the
connection between social policy, quality of government, and public opinion. To
accomplish this we have compiled a number of freely available data sources,
including aggregated public opinion data. The data contain some 900 variables
spanning 40 countries and the time period 1946-2007.
PEER REVIEW
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• Peer reviewer for American Political Science Review, Comparative Political
Studies, European Journal of Political Research, Rationality and Society, Political
Studies, West European Politics, Journal of Social Policy, Scandinavian Political
Studies, Sociologisk Forskning, Politica, Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift, and Tidskrift
for samfunnsforskning.
• Member of the European Science Foundation’s “pool of reviewers,” evaluating
project applications.
• Peer reviewer of grant applications for Swedish Research Council (VR).
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