Curriculum Vitae Last update: June 2017

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1 Curriculum Vitae Last update: June 2017 PERSONAL DETAILS Name: Anna Persson Date of birth: Born in Lund, Sweden, April 17 th, Gender: Female Language Skills: Swedish (mother tongue), English (fluent), German (moderate), Spanish (moderate) CONTACT INFORMATION Visiting address: Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, Sprängkullsgatan 19, Göteborg, Sweden. Postal address: Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg Box 711, Göteborg, Sweden. Phone: + (0) EDUCATION AND DEGREES Ph.D. Political Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden (2008) M.A. Political Science, Lund University, Sweden (2002) B.A. Economics, Lund University, Sweden (2002) Exchange student, McGill University, Sweden (Academic year ) Exchange student, Universidad de Alcalá, Spain (Fall 1998) Graduation from the natural science programme with music (naturvetenskaplig linje, musikklass), Katedralskolan, Lund, Sweden (1996) ACADEMIC POSITIONS AND PERIODS OF LEAVE Current position Senior Lecturer. Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, November Previous positions Postdoc position. Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, September 2009-October Visiting scholar, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), September 2008-August Visiting scholar. Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School, August-December Ph.D. position. Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, Periods of leave Parental leave, 30 percent of full time position. September-December Parental leave, 80 percent of full time position. September 2015 August Parental leave, 40 percent of full time position. September 2014 August 2015.

2 Parental leave, 90 percent of full time position. October August MAJOR RESEARCH GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS Swedish Research Council Project Grant, Messengers and Messages in the Politics of HIV/AIDS, ( SEK) [with Martin Sjöstedt], 2009 Swedish Research Council Project Grant, Determinants of Institutions - How Leaders Perceived Threat of Losing Power Without Compensation Affects Economic Development ( SEK) [with Martin Sjöstedt & Bo Rothstein], 2009 Swedish Research Council Project Grant, Development at Risk - Investigating the Institutional Sources of Resilience and Successful Adaptation to Climate Change ( SEK) [with Martin Sjöstedt], 2009 Sida/Sarec Project Grant, Global Development and Poverty Reduction: The Role of Institutions and Policies ( SEK) [with Martin Sjöstedt and Bo Rothstein (Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg) & Arne Bigsten, Ola Olsson, Heather Congdon Fors, Måns Söderbom and Dick Durevall (Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg], 2009 FAS Utlandsstipendium ( SEK), 2007 COURSE COORDINATION AND TEACHING Current courses and tutoring Democracy and Democratization in a Comparative Perspective (SK2412), Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, undergraduate level. Perspectives on Politics (SK2111), Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, undergraduate level. Historical Design and Institutions, Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, graduate level. Supervision and examination of theses at the undergraduate level. Ph.D. supervision Rasmus Broms (successfully defended his doctoral thesis in March 2016, co-advisor) ACADEMIC SERVICE Reviews for academic journals American Political Science Review American Journal of Political Science World Politics Comparative Political Studies Political Studies Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions Public Administration Regulation and Governance Journal of Development Studies Third World Quarterly

3 Special appointments (board memberships etc.) Collegium member of the management collegium of the Quality of Government (QoG) Institute (2015-). Board member, Centrum för kultur och hälsa (January 1 st, 2013-May 31 st, 2015). Secretary and treasurer, Swedish Political Science Association (SWEPSA) ( ). Chair, Minor Field Studies Committee, Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg ( ). Board member, Minor Field Studies Committee, Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg (2009-). Chair of the Ph.D. Council, Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg ( ). Member of the Department Board, Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg ( ). Member of the Ph.D. Council, Faculty of the Social Sciences, University of Gothenburg ( ). Assignments as faculty examiner or member of examining boards Member of Ph.D. Committee, Christopher Kayumba, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, May 18th, INVITED TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University, Harvard University, Talk on corruption, The Swedish National Audit Office (Riksrevisionen), January Talk on corruption, The Swedish National Audit Office (Riksrevisionen), April Speaker on Foreign Aid and Corruption, Bokmässan, Göteborg, September Talk on The Politics of HIV prevention Samhällsvetenskapens Dag, Göteborg, October CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION AND PARTICIPATION Organization of workshops and conferences Representation, Taxation and State-Society Relations in New Democracies, APSA, New Orleans (2012). The Political Economy of Public Goods Provision, The Annual Conference of the Norwegian Association for Development Research, CMI, Bergen (2007) Participation in national and international conferences American Political Science Association (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015). MPSA (2015) International Studies Association (2006, 2008, 2009). African Studies Association (2007). International Political Science Association (2006). Swedish Political Science Association (2004, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2012). Workshop The Thunder of History, Northwestern University (2006). CONSULTANCIES AND EXTERNAL SERVICE

4 Reference group member, Expertgruppen för biståndsanalys (EBA), Report on Fixing the Balance: Seven Steps Towards Evidence-Based Corruption Control (Author: Alina Mungiu-Pippidi), Reference group member, Expertgruppen för biståndsanalys (EBA), Report on Has Sweden Injected Realism into Public Financial Management Reforms in Partner Countries? (Author: Matt Andrews), Expert reviewer of report Developing Collective Donor Responses to Corruption, a synthesis report by OECD/DAC, U4 Anti-Corruption Centre, and The International Law and Policy Institute (ILPI), Debate article, Vässa åtgärder mot korruption, Sydsvenska Dagbladet, December 4th, Invited talk on corruption, The Swedish National Audit Office (Riksrevisionen), January 31st, Invited a talk on corruption, The Swedish National Audit Office (Riksrevisionen), April 29th, Abstract reviewer for the XIX International AIDS Conference, Washington D.C., July 22-27, 2012 (convened by International AIDS Society in cooperation with, among others, UNAIDS). Participant at the panel Foreign Aid and Corruption, arranged by the QoG Institute, Bokmässan, Göteborg, September 22nd, Invited talk on The Politics of HIV prevention at Samhällsvetenskapens Dag, Göteborg, October 8th, Teacher and mentor, Sida & ICLD International Training Programme (ITP) Decentralization and Good Governance with a Gender Perspective, Responsible for education plan, Sida and ICLD (in collaboration with UNCDF, with Anki Dellnäs and Martin Sjöstedt) International Training Programme (ITP) Towards Local Democracy and Local Development Through Local Government, Teacher, Sida and ICLD (in collaboration with UNCDF) International Training Programme (ITP) Towards Local Democracy and Local Development Through Local Government,

5 Publications BOOKS The Institutional Sources of Statehood Assimilation, Multiculturalism, and Taxation in Sub- Saharan Africa, Doctoral dissertation in political science, included as number 111 in the Series Göteborg Studies in Politics, edited by Bo Rothstein, Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg (ISBN: , ISSN: ). JOURNAL ARTICLES It s My Money: Why Big Government May Be Good Government [with Bo Rothstein] Comparative Politics 47(2): Why Anti-Corruption Reforms Fail Systemic Corruption as a Collective Action Problem [with Bo Rothstein and Jan Teorell] Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions 26(3): Responsive and Responsible Leaders: A Matter of Political Will? [with Martin Sjöstedt] Perspectives on Politics 10(3): BOOK CHAPTERS The Modern State: Characteristics, Capabilities, and Consequences In Burnell, Peter, Lise Rakner, and Vicky Randall (Eds.), Politics in the Developing World, 5th edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. The Political and Historical Origins of Good Government: How Social Contracts Shape Elite Behavior [with Martin Sjöstedt] In Carl Dahlström and Lena Wängnerud (Eds.), Elites, Institutions, and the Quality of Government, Palgrave MacMillan. Den svaga staten: demokrati och förvaltning i utvecklingsländer [with Martin Sjöstedt] In Bo Rothstein (Ed.), Politik som organisation: förvaltningens grundproblem, 5th edition, Lund: Studentlitteratur. State Legitimacy and the Corruptibility of Leaders [with Martin Sjöstedt] In Bo Rothstein and Sören Holmberg (Eds.), Good Government: The Relevance of Political Science. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edwar Elgar Publishing Ltd. Rethinking the Nature of the Grabbing Hand: The Collective Action Problem of Systemic Corruption [with Bo Rothstein and Jan Teorell] In Bo Rothstein and Sören Holmberg (Eds.), Good Government: The Relevance of Political Science. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edwar Elgar Publishing Ltd. Den svaga staten: demokrati och förvaltning i utvecklingsländer [with Martin Sjöstedt] In Bo Rothstein (Ed.), Politik som organisation: förvaltningens grundproblem, 4th edition, Stockholm: SNS Förlag. WORK IN PROGRESS The Democratic Roots of Bad Government: How Competitive Elections without Rule of Law Shape Opportunities and Incentives for Corruption, manuscript under revision The Historical-Institutional Sources of Ethnic Identification and Mobilization, manuscript under revision Ethnic Bargaining, Political Mobilization, and the African State, manuscript under revision

6 Ethnicity and Tax Compliance in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of Ruling Elites, manuscript under revision The Power of the Vote Reconsidered: Democracy and the Distribution of the Tax Burden in Sub-Saharan Africa [with Michelle D arcy and Rasmus Broms], manuscript under revision. Democratic Failure from the Bottom-up: Distorted Fiscal Contracts and the Demand for Clientelism in Young Democracies [with Frida Boräng], manuscript under revision. Adaptive Capacity as an Arena for Patronage Politics: Droughts and Vulnerability in Kenya and Ethiopia, [with Martin Sjöstedt], manuscript under revision. WORKING PAPERS The Failure of Anti-Corruption Policies A Theoretical Mischaracterization of the Problem [with Bo Rothstein & Jan Teorell] (2010). QoG Working Paper Series 2010: 19, Göteborg, Sweden: The Quality of Government Institute. Perceptions of corruption in Sweden [with Monika Bauhr, Naghmeh Nasiritousi, & Henrik Oscarsson] (2010). QoG working paper series 2010:8. Göteborg, Sweden: The Quality of Government Institute. A deadly mismatch? The problem of HIV/AIDS in research and policy [with Martin Sjöstedt] (2010). QoG working paper series 2010:7. Göteborg, Sweden: The Quality of Government Institute. The Sources of Variation in Empirical Statehood The Impact of Assimilation and Ethnic Group Rights on Patterns of Taxation in a Sub-Saharan Africa (2008). Qog Working Paper Series 2008: 15. Göteborg, Sweden: The Quality of Government Institute. Government Structures and Behavior Change in the Politics of HIV/AIDS [with Martin Sjöstedt], QoG Working Paper Series 2008: 10. Göteborg, Sweden: The Quality of Government Institute. ARTICLES IN MAGAZINES AND NEWSPAPERS Debate article, Vässa åtgärder mot korruption, Sydsvenska Dagbladet, December 4th, CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS (A SELECTION) 1. Adaptive Capacity as an Arena for Patronage Politics: Droughts and Vulnerability in Kenya and Ethiopia [with Martin Sjöstedt] (2015). MPSA, Chicago, April 16-April The Power of the Vote Reconsidered: Democracy and the Distribution of the Tax Burden in Sub- Saharan Africa [with Michelle D Arcy and Rasmus Broms] (2012). APSA, New Orleans, August 30-September Why Big Government is Good Government [with Bo Rothstein] (2011). QoG Conference, Prague, December 13-16, APSA, Seattle, September Beyond Political Will and Leadership [with Martin Sjöstedt] (2010). QoG Conference, Prague, December Development or Decay? How Threats During Formative Periods of State Development Affect Institutional Quality Today [with Martin Sjöstedt] (2010). APSA, Washington D.C., September 2-5, SWEPSA, Göteborg, September 30-October 2, OPF, Göteborg, October 13.

7 6. Reviewing and Reassessing the Problem of HIV/AIDS [with Martin Sjöstedt] (2010). QoG Conference, Berlin Perceptions of corruption in Sweden [with Monika Bauhr, Naghmeh Nasiritousi, & Henrik Oscarsson] (2010). QoG Conference, Berlin Why Anti-Corruption Reform Fails: Principal-Agent vs. Collective-Action Theories of Corruption [with Bo Rothstein & Jan Teorell] (2010). QoG Conference, Marstrand, May The Deadly Mismatch Between Research and Policy Or: Why HIV Continues to spread [with Martin Sjöstedt] (2009), APSA, Toronto, September Government Structures and HIV/AIDS A Comparative Study [with Martin Sjöstedt] (2009), ISA, New York, February The Determinants of Institutional Quality [with Martin Sjöstedt] (2009). ISA, New York, February Government Structures and HIV/AIDS in a Comparative Perspective [with Martin Sjöstedt] (2008). APSA, Boston, August The Determinants of Institutional Quality The Impact of Leaders Perceived Threats of Losing Power Without Compensation on Economic Development in Africa and Asia [with Martin Sjöstedt] (2008). QoG Conference, Björkö, June Government Structures and Behavior Change in the Politics of HIV/AIDS [with Martin Sjöstedt] (2008). ISA, San Francisco, March Combating HIV/AIDS A Comparative Study of the Impact of Government Structures [with Martin Sjöstedt] (2007). ASA, New York, October, QoG Conference, Nice, October 23-26, NFU Conference, Bergen, November The Comparative Political Economy of Citizenship, Identity and Taxation (2007). The Thunder of History: Taxation in Comparative and Historical Perspective, Chicago: Northwestern University, May The Institutional Sources of Tax State Development Multiculturalism versus Assimilation (2006), AFS, Göteborg: Department of Political Science, December 13th. 18. The Power of Official Imagination Citizenship, Identity and Tax State Development in Sub-Saharan Africa (2006), WP Seminar, Copenhagen: International Center for Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School, November 30th, The Institutional Sources of Nationhood Citizenship and the varying Capacity of States in Sub- Saharan Africa (2006), SWEPSA, Karlstad, October Ethnic Diversity and Tax Compliance in a Comparative Perspective (2006), IPSA, Japan, July. 21. Ethnic Diversity and Tax Capacity Outline of a study (2006), ISA, San Diego, March. 22. The Politics of Taxation Ideas, Interests, and the Potential Indivisibility of States (2006), OPF, Göteborg: Department of Political Science, January 10th. 23. Ideas and Institutions in the Politics of Taxation (2005), Copenhagen: Department of Sociology, December 11th. 24. Questioning the Ethnic Factor on Tax Collection and Public Goods Provision: Is It All that Bad? SWEPSA, Stockholm, October 7-9, Ethnic Identity and the Collective Action Dilemma of Taxation (2004), AFS, Göteborg: Department of Political Science, April 28th.