CURRICULUM VITAE (selection)

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
Extra).=
• 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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