About Me

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.

At present I participate in a research project about the development and history of Danish social policy conducted by the Centre of Welfare State Research at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense.

And this is – more or less – how I look like. With a little help from University of St. Andrews’ Face Transformer:

The tag-line of the blog is explained here.

Full-Time Jobs since 1989

  1. 2008-2011: 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. (1998b) K.K. Steincke – Mennesket og politikeren. København: Chr. Ejlers’ Forlag. 352 pp.
  2. (1998a) Socialpolitiske strategier. Odense: Odense Universitetsforlag. 250 pp.

Articles and Chapters in books

  1. (2008)Denmark – Politics. In Western Europe 2009 (Europa Regional Surveys of the World). 11. udg. London : Routledge, 2008. s. 145-150
  2. (2005b) Beskæftigelse og uddannelse. Det radikale Venstres velfærdspolitik 1975-2005. In B. radikalt 1905-2005. Red: Sune Pedersen og Bo Lidegaard. K�benhavn: Gyldendal: 271-307
  3. (2005a): Socialreformen af 1933. In 13 reformer af den danske velfærdsstat. Red: Jørn Henrik Petersen og Klaus Petersen. Odense: Syddansk Universitetsforlag: 81-96
  4. (2000d) 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
  5. (2000c) Socialforvaltningen 1901-1950. In Dansk Forvaltningshistorie II. Red: Tim Knudsen. København: Jurist- og Økonomforbundets forlag: 496-526
  6. (2000b) Socialforvaltningen 1848-1901 In Dansk Forvaltningshistorie I. Red: Ditlev Tamm. København: Jurist- og Økonomforbundets forlag: 660-675
  7. (2000a) De fattige 1814-1848. In Dansk Forvaltningshistorie I. Red: Ditlev Tamm. København: Jurist- og Økonomforbundets forlag: 452-454
  8. (1996) De sociale udgifter 1890-1995. In Tidsskrift for Arbejderhistorie, 1996/4: 22-37
  9. (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 (mainly links to non-public project sites) can be found here. At the moment, it doesn’t hold too much information.