Jacob Christensen

I am a political scientist and since taking my Ph.D. in 1992, I’ve worked at a number of Danish and Swedish universities. My main professional interests are political parties, party systems and public policy, in particular social policy and social insurance programmes. I am familiar with both quantitative and qualitative approaches but my work has mainly been based on qualitative analyses.

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Since 2008 I have been affiliated as a researcher with the Department of Political Science at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense. At the moment I am working on contributions to a book about the development of the Danish Labour Marked Supplementary Pension, ATP. My work on a history of the Danish unemployment insurance and activation policies will appear as part of vols. 2-6 of the Danish Welfare History (Dansk Velfærdshistorie) between 2011 and 2014. Vol. 1 of the series was released in November 2010.

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Full-Time Jobs since 1989

1. 2008- : Associate Professor. Department of Political Science, University of Southern Denmark
2. 2000-2008: Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Umeå University
3. 1999-2000: Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Sciences, University College of Mid-Sweden (now: Mid-Sweden University), Östersund
4. 1998-1999: Temporary Senior Lecturer, Department of Thematic Studies, Section for Policial Science, Linköping University
5. 1995-1996: Temporary Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Copenhagen University
6. 1994-1997: Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow, Department of Political Science, Copenhagen University (on leave 1995-1996, see above)
7. 1992-1993: Research Fellow, Department of Law, Copenhagen University
8. 1989-1991: PhD-student, Department of Political Science, Copenhagen University (Supervisor: Professor Gunnar Sjöblom)

Other Work

• 2007- : Contributor to Economist Intelligence Unit
• 1992-1994; 1997-1998: Part-time lecturer in political science, University of Copenhagen

Teaching

I’ve been teaching at university level since 1992. Subjects include:

• Swedish politics
• Danish politics
• Comparative politics
• Policy analysis and social policy
• Political theory
• Methods, especially qualitative methods
• Supervision of BA and MA theses

Formal Qualifications

1. 1992: PhD in Political Science, Copenhagen University.
2. 1989: Cand.scient.pol (MA in Political Science and Public Administration), Copenhagen University

• Courses in didactics and distance learning.

Personal Research Grants

• 1994: Carlsbergfondet – 3-year scholarship plus overhead for a project about the politician K.K. Steincke and his impact on Danish social policy during the inter-war era

Selected Publications/Greatest Hits

Books

1. (2010) The State of the Right: Sweden and Denmark. Paris: Fondapol. 41 pp. (Available for download here). Also in French: Où en est la droite? La Suède et la Danemark.
2. (1998b) K.K. Steincke – Mennesket og politikeren. København: Chr. Ejlers’ Forlag. 352 pp.
3. (1998a) Socialpolitiske strategier. Odense: Odense Universitetsforlag. 250 pp.

Articles and Chapters in books

1. (2011) Arbejdsløshedsforsikring og arbejdsanvisning. In Dansk Velfærdshistorie, bd 2: Mellem skøn og ret. Ed: Jørn Henrik Petersen, Klaus Petersen og Niels Finn Christiansen. Odense: Syddansk Universitetsforlag. s. 491-574.
2. (2010) (w Flemming Juul Christiansen) Denmark. In: The 2009 Elections to the European Parliament. Ed: Juliet Lodge. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. s. 86-95
3. (2010): Nordic Countries (Denmark – Iceland – Norway – Sweden – Finland). In: D.S. Lewis, Wendy Slater (eds): The 2010 Annual Register: World Events. 251. ed. Ann Arbor: ProQuest, 2010. s. 46-50
4. (2010) Denmark – Politics. In: Western Europe 2010 : Europa Regional Surveys of the World. 12. ed. London : Spon press, 2009. s. 144-149 (Routledge Reference).
5. (2005) Beskæftigelse og uddannelse. Det radikale Venstres velfærdspolitik 1975-2005. In B. radikalt 1905-2005. Red: Sune Pedersen og Bo Lidegaard. København: Gyldendal: 271-307
6. (2005): Socialreformen af 1933. In 13 reformer af den danske velfærdsstat. Red: Jørn Henrik Petersen og Klaus Petersen. Odense: Syddansk Universitetsforlag: 81-96
7. (2000) Tilpasning eller krise? Det danske partisystem 1950-1998. In Valg, vælgere og velfærdsstat. Festskrift til Hans Jørgen Nielsen. Red: Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard, Lars Bille og Tom Bryder. København: Forlaget Politiske Studier: 24-61
8. (2000) Socialforvaltningen 1901-1950. In Dansk Forvaltningshistorie II. Red: Tim Knudsen. København: Jurist- og Økonomforbundets forlag: 496-526
9. (2000) Socialforvaltningen 1848-1901 In Dansk Forvaltningshistorie I. Red: Ditlev Tamm. København: Jurist- og Økonomforbundets forlag: 660-675
10. (2000) De fattige 1814-1848. In Dansk Forvaltningshistorie I. Red: Ditlev Tamm. København: Jurist- og Økonomforbundets forlag: 452-454
11. (1996) De sociale udgifter 1890-1995. In Tidsskrift for Arbejderhistorie, 1996/4: 22-37
12. (1995) Demokrati og ekspertise. Om politikere, embedsmænd og eksperter i formuleringen af dansk socialpolitik. In Demokratiets mangfoldighed. Red: Morten Madsen, Hans-Jørgen Nielsen og Gunnar Sjöblom. København: Forlaget Politiske Studier: 303-326

Other Stuff

Besides maintaining this blog in WordPress, I’ve made websites and learning environments using Mediawiki, PingPong, Rapid Weaver and even hand-coded html with a bit of css. When I’m in the mood, I can get Microsoft Frontpage to produce standards-compliant pages.

On occasions, I’ve reviewed manuscripts submitted to Scandinavian Political Studies, Local Government Studies and European Journal of Political Research. I have also reviewed manuscript proposals for Routledge.

Links

My work homepage. At the moment, it doesn’t hold too much information.

My Flickr photostream.