Information about SÖREN HOLMBERG

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1 Information about SÖREN HOLMBERG Born in 1943 in Skövde, Sweden Associated with the Political Science Department at Göteborg University as an assistant, teacher and researcher since 1966 Graduate studies at the University of Michigan in the fall of 1970 Ph.D. at Göteborg University 1974 Visiting Scholar at the University of Michigan in the fall of 1976 and research associate in the 1976 American National Election Study Chairman of the Graduate Studies Programme at the Political Science Department in Göteborg Director of the Swedish National Election Studies (SNES) Wallin Prize to promising young scholars 1982, awarded by the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences of Göteborg Visiting Scholar at Harvard University in the fall of 1984 Visiting Professor at the Department of Political Science in Uppsala in the spring of 1985 Research Fellow at the Swedish Council for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences Co-founder and Co-director of the SOM-institute at Göteborg University Visiting Scholar at the Brookings Institution, Washington DC in the spring of 1988 Visiting Scholar at the Claremont College Graduate School, California in the fall of 1990 Professor of Political Science, especially Election Research at the Department of Political Science, Göteborg University Chairman of the Political Science Department, Göteborg University Visiting Scholar at the Brookings Institution, Washington DC in the fall of 1996 Chairman of Statistics Sweden s Democracy Statistics Board since 1996 Visiting Professor at the University of Aberdeen in the fall of 1999 Member of the Johan Skytte Prize Committee,

2 Member of the Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities since 2002 Member of the Swedish Government s Research Advisory Board Member of EU Working Group on Energy Technology Surveys and Methodology (ETSAM) Co-founder and Co-Director of the Quality of Government Institute at Göteborg University since 2004 Royal Medal for Research on Democracy H.M the King s Medal (8 th Class) in the Ribbon of the Order of the Seraphim. Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University, Washington DC in the fall of 2004 Member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters since 2006 Member of the International Advisory Board of the research project Democracy A Citizen Perspective at Åbo Akademi University Extended visit to Brookings Institution and Georgetown Public Policy Institute in Washington DC in the fall of 2006 Visiting Scholar at Georgetown Public Policy Institute, Georgetown University, Washington DC in the fall of 2008 Member of the Advisory Board for the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) & AmericasBarometer since APSA Award for Best New Political Science Data Set; Toronto 2009 (together with Bo Rothstein and Jan Teorell) Extended visits to Georgetown Public Policy Institute and Brookings Institution in the fall of 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014 Professor emeritus in November Still active teaching and doing research and still Consigliere at the QoG Institute. Senior researcher at the SOM Institute since Honored by Stepping Stones. Research on Political Representation, Voting Behavior, and Quality of Government (2013) written by research colleagues. Honorary Doctor at Åbo Akademi University in the spring of 2014 Co-Director of the research project Language Effects in Surveys (LES) starting in 2015

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4 PUBLICATIONS Sören Holmberg has published or co-published 45 books, 25 book-length SOM Reports and about 80 articles and reports/chapters in journals and edited volumes. The books are listed below. BOOKS (the first thirty-six in Swedish, the last nine in English) In Swedish 1. The Riksdag Represents the Swedish People. Empirical Studies in Representative Democracy. Studentlitteratur, Lund 1974 (diss., 452 pp) 2. Voters and Nuclear Power. Liber, Stockholm 1977 (with Jörgen Westerståhl and Karl Branzén, 159 pp) 3. Within the Margin of Error. A Book on Polling in Sweden. Liber, Stockholm 1980 (with Olof Petersson, 272 pp) 4. Swedish Voters. Liber, Stockholm 1981 (432 pp) 5. Voters Parties Mass Media. Empirical Studies in Swedish Democracy. Liber, Stockholm 1982 (with Kent Asp et al, 262 pp) 6. The Nuclear Power Issue. Voters, Media and the 1980 Referendum in Sweden. Liber, Stockholm 1984 (with Kent Asp, 568 pp) 7. Voters in Transition. Liber, Stockholm 1984 (254 pp) 8. Voters and Elections in Sweden. Bonniers, Stockholm 1987 (with Mikael Gilljam, 328 pp) 9. Elected by the People: A Book on Members of Parliament and Representative Democracy in Sweden. Bonniers, Stockholm 1988 (with Peter Esaiasson, 296 pp) 10. Red Blue Green. A Book on the 1988 Riksdag Election. Bonniers, Stockholm 1990 (with Mikael Gilljam et al, 333 pp) 11. Voters Facing the 90s. Norstedts Juridik, Stockholm 1993 (with Mikael Gilljam, 254 pp) 12. The Voters' Choice. Norstedts Juridik, Stockholm 1995 (with Mikael Gilljam, 206 pp) 13. A Bare Yes to EU. Voters and the 1994 Referendum. Norstedts Juridik, Stockholm 1996 (with Mikael Gilljam et al, 298 pp) 14. Sweden s First Election to the European Parliament. Norstedts Juridik, Stockholm 1998 (with Mikael Gilljam, 98 pp) 15. Opinion Polls and Democracy. SNS, Stockholm 1998 (with Olof Petersson, 191 pp) 16. Candidate Choice and Party Choice. A Study of the New Electoral System in Sweden. SOU 1999:92, Stockholm (ed. with Tommy Möller, 382 pp) 17. Representative Democracy. SOU 1999:64, Stockholm 1999 (69 pp)

5 18. Democracy without Parties. SNS-Förlag, Stockholm 2000 (with Olof Petersson, Lena Wängnerud et al, 124 pp) 19. Choosing a Party. Norstedts Juridik, Stockholm 2000 (212pp) 20. The European Opinion. Department of Political Science, Göteborg University 2001 (with Per Hedberg, Henrik Oscarsson et al, 262 pp) 21. Democracy without Accountability. SNS-Förlag, Stockholm 2002 (together with Olof Petersson et al, 152 pp) 22.Valu. Sveriges Television s Exit Polls. Sveriges Television, Stockholm 2003 (with Hans Hernborn et al., 71 pp) 23.Voters. Swedish Voting Behavior During Fifty Years. Norstedts Juridik, Stockholm 2004 (with Henrik Oscarsson, 328 pp) 24. The Battle over the Euro. Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, Göteborg 2004 (ed. with Henrik Oscarsson, 485 pp) 25. Valu Serving the Public. Sveriges Television, Stockholm 2005 (with Hans Hernborn and Per Näsman, 86 pp) 26. European Elections. Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, Göteborg 2006 (with Henrik Oscarsson, 225 pp) 27. Mass Media`s Electoral Power. SNS-Förlag, Stockholm 2006 (with Olof Petersson et al, 190 pp) 28. Mass Media: The Voice of the People? SNS-Förlag. Stockholm 2008 (w. Olof Pettersson et al, 218 pp) 29. Changing Government. Voters and the 2006 Election. Norstedts Juridik, Stockholm 2008 (with Henrik Oscarsson, 398 pp) 30. Valu is Public Service. Sveriges Television. Stockholm (with Per Näsman, 97 pages) 31. Focusing on Voters. Sveriges Television, Stockholm 2010 (with Per Näsman, 104 pp) 32. Voting Behavior in European Elections. Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, Göteborg 2010 (ed. with Henrik Oscarsson, 234 pp.) 33. The Voice of the Voters. Sveriges Television. Stockholm 2012 (with Per Näsman and Kent Wännström, 124 pp) 34. New Swedish Voters. Norstedts Juridik, Stockholm 2013 (with Henrik Oscarsson, 410 pp) 35. Trust in Societal Institutions. The Development in Sweden in SOM Institute, Gothenburg 2013 (an e-book Compendium, with Lennart Weibull, 451 pp) 36. Thus Think the Voters. Sveriges Television, Stockholm (with Per Näsman and Torbjörn Gustafsson, 144 pp)

6 In English 37. The Political System Matters: Social Psychology and Voting Behavior in Sweden and the United States. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge England 1988 (with Donald Granberg, 254 pp) 38. Representation from Above. Members of Parliament and Representative Democracy in Sweden. Dartmouth, Aldershot 1996 (with Peter Esaiasson, 360 pp) 39. Policy Representation in Western Democracies. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1999 (with Warren Miller, Peter Esaiasson et al., 180 pp) 40. Valu. Swedish Exit Polls. Sveriges Television, Stockholm 2002 (with Hans Hernborn et al, 60 pp) 41. Media and Elections in Sweden. SNS-Förlag, Stockholm 2006 (with Olof Petersson et al, 189 pp; English version of No 27) 42. The Political System Matters. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2009 (with Donald Granberg, 254 pp; Paperback Re-issue after 21 years of No 36) 43. Good Government. The Relevance of Political Science. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham 2012 (Eds. with Bo Rothstein, 354 pp) 44. Studies in Swedish Energy Opinion. SOM Institute, Gothenburg 2012 (an e-book Compendium, with Per Hedberg, 135 pp) 45. Energy Opinion Compared Across Time and Space. SOM Institute, Gothenburg 2013 (an e-book Compendium, with Per Hedberg, 174 pp, an updated and expanded version of no 44)