Swedish (native). English (completely fluent for social and professional purposes). German (fluent but rusty).

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1 CURRICULUM VITAE Name: Per Staffan Kumlin Born September 7, Swedish Citizen. Resident of Norway. professional website: [Updated: August, 2015] EDUCATION, DEGREES, TITLES Bachelor of Science, University of Gothenburg, 1996 (Political Science, Public Administration, English, Statistics, and Erasmus exchange at University of Limerick (Irish and European studies) Filosofie doktor (four-year Ph.D) in Political Science, University of Gothenburg, Docent (associate professor) in political science, University of Gothenburg, January Research Professor (forsker I) at Institute for Social Research, Oslo, February Professor of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, February LANGUAGES Swedish (native). English (completely fluent for social and professional purposes). German (fluent but rusty). ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT (Between 2007 and 2011, I was on parental leave for a total of 9 months) August 1998-December Employment as PhD Candidate, Dept. of Political Science, University of Gothenburg. November 1998-April PhD Stipend from the European Commission s TMR fund ( Training and mobility of Researchers ), employed at Social Science Research Center, Berlin (WZB). On leave from Gothenburg. January 2003-December Postdoc Fellow at the Dept. of Political Science, University of Gothenburg. September 2003-August Postdoc Fellow at the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence. Funded by STINT. On leave from Gothenburg. January 2007-March Tenure-track position ( Pro Futura Fellow ), employed as lecturer (bitr lektor) at Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala University. April 2010-February 2011 Tenure-track position transferred Dept. of Political Science, University of Gothenburg. Tenure evaluation passed in May September Researcher at Institute for Social Research; Oslo (part-time leave from Gothenburg). March 2011-February 2014 Senior lecturer (universitetslektor), Dept. of Political Science, University of Gothenburg. 1

2 February Professor of Political Science, University of Gothenburg. PUBLICATIONS; Staffan Kumlin Peer-reviewed research monographs/volumes: 1. (2014). How Welfare States Shape the Democratic Public: Policy Feedback, Participation, Voting, and Political Attitudes. Edited by Staffan Kumlin and Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. 352 pages. (Co-author of introductory and concluding chapters; also single author of two further empirical chapters listed below). 2. (2004). The Personal and the Political: How Personal Welfare State Experiences Affect Political Trust and Ideology. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 260 pages. Textbooks: 3. (2014). Det politiska spelet. Medborgare, medier och politiker i den representativa demokratin. Lund: Studentlitteratur. (With Bengt Johansson, Elin Naurin, and Lena Wängnerud.) 250 pages. Other books: 4. (2001). Europaopinionen. (with Sören Holmberg, Per Hedberg, Henrik Oscarsson, Martin Bennulf, Maria Oskarson, Rutger Lindahl, and Martin Brothén ( The Swedish Public and the European Union ). Göteborg Studies in Politics. Peer-reviewed journal articles 5. (forthcoming, 2016) Election Campaigns, Government Partisanship, and Welfare State Generosity. European Political Science Review (with Niklas Jakobsson). 6. (2012) Scandal Fatigue? Scandal Elections and Satisfaction with Democracy in Western Europe, British Journal of Political Science. 42(2): (with Peter Esaiasson). 7. (2011) Blame Claiming and Credit-Giving: Unintended Effects of How Government and Opposition Frame the Europeanization of Welfare European Union Politics 12(4): (2010) Questioning the New Liberal Dilemma: Immigrants, Social Networks, and Institutional Fairness. Comparative Politics 43: (with Bo Rothstein). 9. (2010). Essens, konvergens och komparativ forskning om välfärdsopinion. Tidskrift for samfunnsforskning. 51: (2009). Blaming Europe? Exploring the Variable Impact of National Public Service Dissatisfaction on EU Trust. Journal of European Social Policy 19: (2006). Learning from Politics: The Causal Interplay between Government Performance and Political Ideology. Journal of Public Policy 26: (2005). Making and Breaking Social Capital: The Impact of Welfare State Institutions. Comparative Political Studies 38: (with Bo Rothstein). 2

3 13. (2001) Ideology-Driven Opinion Formation in Europe: The Case of Attitudes towards the Third Sector in Sweden. European Journal of Political Research, 39: (1997) Folket och högervågen. Om opinionsbildning, samhällsstrukturer och ideologisk förändring i 1980-talets Sverige." Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift 100: ( Swedes and the Ideological Shift to the Right in the1980s ) Chapters in peer-reviewed books in English 15. (forthcoming, 2015) Studying How Policies Affect the People: Grappling with Measurement, Causality and the Macro-Micro Divide. Forthcoming in Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Political Science, edited by Hans Keman and Jaap Woldendorp (Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming 2015). (with Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen) 16. (forthcoming, 2015) The Welfare State and Political Trust: Bringing Performance Back In (with Atle Haugsgjerd, University of Oslo). Forthcoming in Handbook of Political Trust, edited by Tom van der Meer and Sonja Zmerli (forthcoming 2015, Edward Elgar Publishing) 17. (2014) Policy Feedback in Political Context: Unemployment Benefits, Election Campaigns, and Democratic Satisfaction. Pp in How Welfare States Shape the Democratic Public: Policy Feedback, Participation, Voting, and Political Attitudes. Edited by Staffan Kumlin and Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. 18. (2014) Informed Performance Evaluation of the Welfare State: Experimental and Realworld Findings. Pp in How Welfare States Shape the Democratic Public: Policy Feedback, Participation, Voting, and Political Attitudes. Edited by Staffan Kumlin and Isabelle Stadelmann- Steffen. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. 19. (2011) Dissatisfied Democrats, Policy Feedback, and European Welfare States, Pp in Political Trust: Why Context matters. Causes and Consequences of a Relational Concept, edited by Marc Hooghe and Sonja Zmerli. Colchester, UK: ECPR Press. (previously published as QoG Working Paper 2010:4 ) 20. (2007). The Welfare State: Values, Policy Preferences, and Performance Evaluations, Pp in Oxford Handbook of Political Behavior edited by Russel Dalton and Hans-Dieter Klingemann. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 21. (2007). Social Stratification and Political Articulation: Why Attitudinal Class Differences Vary Across Countries Pp in The Welfare State, Legitimacy, and Social Justice edited by Steffen Mau and Benjamin Veghte. Aldershot: Ashgate. (with Stefan Svallfors). 22. (2007). Overloaded or Undermined? European Welfare States in the Face of Performance Dissatisfaction Pp in The Political Sociology of the Welfare State. Edited by Stefan Svallfors. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 23. (2005). Value Orientations and Party Choice. Pp in The European Voter. Edited by Jaques Thomassen and John Curtice. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (with Oddbjørn Knutsen; a book-long report was published earlier in the process by Department of Political Science, the University of Oslo. Research Report No. 3/ pages). 3

4 24. (2002). Institutions-Experiences-Preferences: Welfare State Design Affects Political Trust and Ideology. Pp in Restructuring the Welfare State: Political Institutions and Policy Change. Edited by Rothstein, Bo and Sven Steinmo. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. Book chapters in Swedish 25. (2004) Välfärdsmissnöje och EU-skepticism. (Welfare State Dissatisfaction and Euroscepticism ). Pp in Kampen om euron. Edited by Henrik Oscarsson and Sören Holmberg. Göteborg: Livréna. 26. (2004). Väljarna, välfärdsstaten och den europeiska integrationen. (Voters, the Welfare State, and European Integration.) Pp in EU, skatterna och välfärden. Edited by Sverker Gustavsson, Lars Oxelheim and Nils Wahl. Stockholm: Santerus. 27. (2003). Politiskt ansvarsutkrävande i Sverige (Political Accountability in Sweden ). Pp in Fåfängans marknad. Edited by Sören Holmberg and Lennart Weibull. Göteborg: The SOM Institute. 28. (2003). Finns det någon ansvarig? (Anyone responsible?) Pp in Demokratins mekanismer. Edited by Gilljam, Mikael, and Hermansson, Jörgen. Malmö: Liber. 29. (2003). Snedvridet ansvarsutkrävande? (A negative bias in political accountability?). Pp in Demokratitrender. Edited by Henrik Oscarsson. Göteborg: The SOM Institute. 30. (2003) Staten och det sociala kapitalet (The State and Social Capital) Pp in Välfärdsstat i otakt. Edited by Jon Pierre and Bo Rothstein. Malmö: Liber förlag. (Together with Bo Rothstein.) 31. (2001) Demokrati, socialt kapital och förtroende. (Democracy, Social Capital, and Trust). Pp in Holmberg, Sören and Weibull, Lennart (eds.) Land, du välsignade? Göteborg: SOM-institutet. (together with Bo Rothstein). Also published in Solidaritet med undantag. (2002). Stockholm: Försäkringskasseförbundet., and in Fattigdom i välfärdsstaten. (2002). Stockholm: FAS. 32. (2000) Opinionsbildning som dragkamp: företaget Sverige möter den svenska välfärdsstaten. (Public Opinion Formation as a Struggle Between the Economy and the Welfare State) Pp in Nilsson, Lennart (ed.) Den nya regionen. Göteborg: SOM-institutet. (together with Maria Oskarson) 33. (1998) Den bärkraftiga utvecklingen och opinionens globala underskott. (Sustainable Development and the Global Deficit in Public Opinion). Pp in Holmberg, Sören and Lennart Weibull (eds.) (1998) Opinionssamhället. SOM-rapport 20. Göteborgs universitet: SOM-institutet (together with Sverker Carlsson) Book reviews: 34. (2010). Review of Poverty, Participation, and Democracy: A Global Perspective, edited by Anirudh Krishna, Cambridge UP, Acta Sociologica 53: (2006). Review of Steffen Mau s The Moral Economy of Welfare States: Britain and Germany Compared. Routledge, Journal of European Social Policy 16:

5 Newspaper articles: 36. Tillit och mångfald: En olöslig ekvation? ( Trust and Diversity An impossible equation? with Bo Rothstein). Published in Axess Magasin, No. 9, Den missförstådda folkviljan ( The Misunderstood Public ). Svenska Dagbladet, September (Under strecket) 38. Väljarföraktet vid god vigör, ( Contempt for Voters Still Alive ) Göteborgs-Posten (kultur) May 23, (The second largest daily [morgontidning] in Sweden). Datasets: The QoG Social Policy Dataset. University of Gothenburg: The Quality of Government Institute, Available at (with Marcus Samanni, Jan Teorell, and Bo Rothstein). 40. (2006). Metodrapport från en sexstegs panelstudie i samband med riksdagsvalet (Methodological report from a six wave panel survey during the 2006 Swedish Election Campaign. (with Stefan Dahlberg and Henrik Oscarsson). Available at (1996). Riksdagsenkät. Dokumentation. (Swedish Member of Parliament Survey 1996: A Documentation). Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, Göteborgs universitet (with Sören Holmberg, Peter Esaiasson och Martin Brothén). Papers under review 42. Up and Down with the Welfare State: Agenda Shifts in European Election Campaigns, (with Maria Oskarson and Daniel Kihlström). 43. Election Campaign Politicisation of Reform Pressures and Policy Solutions in Three Affluent Welfare States (with Achim Goerres and Rune Karlsen) 44. Reform Pressures and Perceived Welfare State Sustainability: A Comparative Experiment (with Achim Goerres and Rune Karlsen) Papers in progress 45. Social Trust, Political Trust, and the Welfare State For Oxford Handbook of Social and Political Trust, edited by Eric Uslaner (Oxford UP, forthcoming 2017). (with Atle Haugsgjerd and Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen) 46. Forms of Trust and Forms of Welfare State Support in Norway For The Social Legitimacy of Targeted Welfare: New Perspectives on Deservingness Opinions (edited by Wim van Oorschot, Femke Roosma, Bart Meuleman and Tim Reeskens) (with Dag Wollebæk, Kari Steen-Johnsen, and Hanna Bugge). 5

6 RESEARCH GRANTS WON IN COMPETITION As principal applicant: 2004: Funding for 12 months at 75% from University of Gothenburg. Funding from Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT), covering 12 man-months at 100% plus moving expenses while visiting Roberts Schuman Center for Advanced Studies, European University, Florence. Grant won in cross-disciplinary competition with applicants from history, sociology, economics etc. 2005: Awarded a Pro Futuris Fellow grant by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation (RJ) for project on Electoral Accountability in European Welfare States. Funding at 75 % research time and travel expenses during four years. It is awarded to exceptionally promising young scholars in the humanities and social sciences. As a result of the nature of the nomination process, the grant was essentially won in competition with all PhDs graduating in the last five years in all social science and humanities fields in Sweden. Only seven grants were awarded Pro Futura fellows divide their time between a home department, The Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala, and spend one year abroad. The programme is co-funded by STINT. 2009: Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (FAS) gave 1,7 million SEK for project on The Welfare State in European Election Campaigns: A Political-Contextual Data Set This allowed me to employ a research assistant at half-time for two years, helping with a major data collection. Also, it contains research funding for a colleague in Gothenburg. 2010: RJ gave another three years of Pro Futura research at 75% funding based on achieved results during the four first years, together with an assessment of the new research project Constructing and neglecting interests in mediatized welfare states. 2012: Norwegian Research Council gave 9,6 million NOK for project Support for the Affluent Welfare State: Interests, Fairness, and Social Capital in Context. This project employs five senior scholars and one research assistant over As co-applicant: 2000: Projektet Demokratins mekanismer, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, together with a group of some ten researchers, headed by Prof. Jörgen Hermansson, Uppsala Universitet (approx.. 7 million SEK). 1998: Dissertation project funded by a grant from FAS allowing three years of research at 75% plus a major data collection. My dissertation adviser Dr. Maria Oskarson was fronted as the main applicant, but I conceived and wrote the application and carried out all research and data collection within this project (see my book, The Personal and the Political ) 2002: RJ and FAS jointly gave approx. 22 million SEK to the six-year research program The Political Sociology of the Welfare State (main applicant: professor Stefan Svallfors, Umeå). I was one of four co-applicants in this close-knit collaboration between two Gothenburg political scientists (Oskarson and I) and three Umeå sociologists (Svallfors, Jonas Edlund, and Mikael Hjerm). 2009: The Research Council of Norway funding for project on Welfare State Attitudes in Change with Dr. Axel West Pedersen (approx. 5 million NOK). This project assembles a small team of researchers for studies on the dynamics of welfare attitudes in Europe and Norway, with me as one of the co-applicants (with Morten Blekesaune, Johannes Berg and Henning Finseraas). 6

7 Successful application for space in the 2016 wave of the European Social Survey (30 survey items in 20+ countries). (with Wim van Oorschot and Bart Meuleman (KU Leuven), Tim Reeskens (University of Amsterdam), and Christian Staerkle (University of Geneva). LONGER VISITS TO OTHER ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS Undergraduate student at the University of Limerick, Ireland, in 1995/96 within the EU ERASMUS/SOKRATES exchange program. Program Scholar at the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA (summers of 1998, 1999, and 2000). Research stipend at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), Germany, November April Visiting fellow at the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence, September 2003-August Visiting Fellow at Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala (2008 spring semester). Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Social Research, Oslo (spring 2009-Summer 2010) Gastdozent at University of Frankfurt (september 2011) ACADEMIC CONFERENCES AND INVITED TALKS Papers presented at Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association (2003, 2008, 2009), The General Conference (2003, 2007, 2009), as well as the Joint Sessions of Workshops (2007, 2010, 2012) of the European Consortium for Political Research, The International Conference of Europeanists (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015), European Political Science Association (2013, 2015), The annual meeting of the European Social Policy Network (2003 and 2010), The conference of the Nordic Political Science Association (2005, 2008, 2014), and the conference of the Swedish Political Science Association (1997, 2010). Numerous invited talks, for example at Nuffield College, Oxford University; Cornell University; Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna; Social Science Research Center, Berlin; EUI Florence; Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) at Stockholm University; political science, University of Oslo; Departments of Sociology at Göteborg and Umeå; political science at Uppsala; the ESPAnet Expert Seminar, University Of Tilburg, The Netherlands; Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies; Ratio Institute; Institute for Social Research, Oslo; Norwegian Social Research (NOVA); 40 th anniversary of Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation; Rockefeller Foundation s Bellagio Center as commentator on book manuscript; Jörgen Westerståhl-seminariet 2010; Norwegian Research Council 2013; political science, Lund University. I organized four longer workshops (three days or more) at professional conferences: Political Sophistication, Deliberation, and Public Preferences (with Henrik Oscarsson, Nordic Political Science Association 2005), Trust and the State, (with Sven Oskarsson, Nordic Political Science Association 2008), Välfärdsstat: Medborgare, makthavare, och offentlig politik (with Maria Oskarson, Annual meeting of Swedish Political Science Association, 2011), and Policy Feedback, Political Behaviour, and Democratic Citizenship in European Welfare States (with Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen, ECPR Joint Sessions, Antwerp, 2012). Currently organizing international workshop Pressure, Frames, Feedback: Citizens in Changing Welfare States This workshop will be held in November 2015 and will draw 7

8 together some 20 researchers from eight countries. It is organized as a cooperation between University of Gothenburg and Institute for Social Research, Oslo. TEACHING: GENERAL I have taught at all levels in political science at University of Gothenburg. All in all, my experience amounts to about 2650 clock hours of overall pedagogic work, preparation etc. About 60 percent of these hours were done at the (equivalent of) master level. About 15 percent each has been done at the bachelor and the PhD level, respectively. Passed all three of University of Gothenburg s required pedagogical courses: Högskolepedagogik 1, Högskolepedagogik 2 and Högskolepedagogik 3 (HPE 101, 102, 103,); 15 högskolepoäng, which equals roughly 10 weeks of full-time work). Two-day course in Scientific tutoring offered by University of Gothenburg. One-day course on pedagogic goal-setting ( lärandemål ) and the Bologna process. Apart from courses I organized myself (see below) I have also lectured in courses organized by colleagues. Reoccurring topics for such lectures are Welfare State Development, Political Communication, German Politics, Introduction to Swedish Politics, Introduction to SPSS, and Causal Analysis. TEACHING: MASTERS AND BACHELORS THESES Advisor of about 10 masters/bachelors dissertations Advisor of about 25 five-week theses ( b-uppsatser ). Long-standing member of the department s examiners group which examine, grade, and chair masters/bachelor s thesis defences. External examiner of masters theses, University of Bergen TEACHING: COURSE ORGANIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT In cooperation with Bengt Johansson at Department of Mass Communication, I developed, coordinated, and taught much of a ten-week cross-disciplinary course in English on Citizens, Politicians and the Media: Evaluating Democratic Processes. (SF2222). This course was in turn based on a four-week course on Public Opinion and Democracy that I gave Developed, coordinated, and taught much of a ten-week masters course on Political Analysis (SK2121). This course gave an advanced birds-eye overview of the main perspectives on politics found in various parts of political science. Coordinated (and taught parts of) masters level four-week course on Statistical analysis (with Henrik Oscarsson, ). Coordinated Introduction to thesis-writing at bachelor level in This included giving lectures on academic writing as well as helping students find suitable topics and advisors. At Gothenburg, I have taken take an active part in the department s pedagogic evaluation system. This has several components. First, course-givers always write retrospective reports after each completed course. These form the basis for periodic peer-review by colleagues and student representatives. I have participated in such evaluation processes both as coursegiver for courses mentioned above and as evaluator (evaluating ten-week course on methodology at the master s level). 8

9 TEACHING: PHD LEVEL I have served as supervisor (main or assistant) for altogether six PhD students. Three have graduated so far and all have gainful academic employment (tenure or tenure track positions). I am currently main supervisor for two PhD students (one at Gothenburg and one at University of Oslo). I have been involved in the evaluation/examination of another 10 dissertations in political science, sociology, and economics (serving on various committees or, twice, as external opponent during public defenses, and once as opponent during preliminary defense). Taught Causal Analysis and Welfare State Politics in the Ph.D. program, Political Science, Gothenburg. Taught at the 2014 EDAC/ESPAnet Winter School on The Social legitimacy of the Welfare State This international one-week winter school was organized by Prof. Wim van Oorschot at Leuven University, Belgium, and drew some 30 participants from several disciplines and a large number of European countries. TEACHING: STUDENT LITERATURE My various publications are used as undergraduate or graduate course literature at several universities including Princeton University (US), University of Texas at Austin, Oxford University (UK), Leiden University (Netherlands), Oslo Social Science Summer School (Norway), Aalborg University (Denmark), Institut des Sciences sociales du Politique (France). Lahore University of Management Sciences (Pakistan), Central European University (Hungary), Stockholm University, Umeå University, Uppsala University, Lund University (social work), and University of Gothenburg. Contributor to the volume Demokratins mekanismer, (2002) which is used in introductory political science courses. The book is currently in its third edition and has sold over 3000 copies to date. Co-author of introductory textbook on representative democracy and politcal communication. Det Politiska Spelet: Om medier, medborgare och politiker i en representativ demokrati (with Bengt Johansson, Elin Naurin, Lena Wängnerud; Studentlitteratur 2014). TEACHING: INVITED TEACHING AT OTHER ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS Invited by Prof. Wim van Oorshot, Leuven University for lecture at the 2014 EDAC/ESPAnet Winter School on The social legitimacy of the Welfare State. Welfare,work and care attitudes in cross national and longitudinal perspective. Invited by Prof. Dr. Sigrid Rossteutscher as guest lecturer within the University of Frankfurt s Gastdozent program. Institute for Further Education of Journalists in Sweden (FOJU), Kalmar; Umeå University (PhD program, Sociology), Uppsala University (political science, masters level), and University of Oslo (European studies, bachelor level). Invited as external examiner of master s theses, Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen. 9

10 THE PUBLIC SPHERE, MASS MEDIA, AND TALKS IN NON-ACADEMIC SETTINGS Research cited in the 2014 United Nations Human Development Report. Appearances on Swedish national public television (including Rapport, SVT Morgon, Dokument Inifrån), as well as on agenda-setting national radio programs (including Dagens Eko, Godmorgon Världen, Studio Ett, and P4 Extra). Research cited on front page of Sweden s most significant agenda-setting daily Dagens Nyheter. Cited in some 50 newspaper articles in several countries, including Dagens Nyheter (front page), Folha de São Paulo (Brazil), Kommunal Rapport (Norway), Dagbladet (Norway), Minerva (Norway), Svenska Dagbladet, Göteborgs-Posten, Sydsvenska dagbladet, Göteborgstidningen (GT), Borås Tidning, Dagens Forskning, Forskare & Företag, Stockholm City, Västerbottenskuriren, Eskilstunakuriren, Nordvästra Skånes Tidning, Trelleborgs Allehanda, LO-tidningen, TCO-tidningen, Jusek-Tidningen, Axess Magasin, Riksdag och Department, Tidningarnas Telegrambyrå, and Politiken.se. Authored longer op-ed pieces in major newspapers/magazines such as Göteborgs-Posten ( GP kultur ) and Svenska Dagbladet ( Under strecket ), and Axess Magasin. Invited talks in numerous non-academic contexts such as: Speaker at 2015 post-election conference of UK thinktank Policy Network; Keynote speaker at 100 th anniversary of the Norwegian magazine Velferd; Forskningsdagane 2011, Litteraturhuset, Oslo); Norwegian Ministry of Labour 2014; Norwegian Research Council VAM conference 2012; Arbetsmiljöverket Sweden (general director with central staff); Swedish Television ( Uppdrag granskning-redaktionen ); Swedish Centre Party, Västra Götaland; Conference for Social Workers, Halland; Conference for Swedish University Librarians; SKTF National Congress 2008; Science Festival, Gothenburg. DATA SETS Part of a five-person team designing a welfare state module for the 2016 wave of the European Social Survey (30 survey items in 20+ countries). (with Wim van Oorschot and Bart Meuleman (KU Leuven), Tim Reeskens (University of Amsterdam), and Christian Staerkle (University of Geneva). Co-principal investigator for a two-wave panel study on welfare state attitudes and social capital in Norway (6000 respondents in about 60 selected municipalities/urban districts). The data are collected in cooperation with TnS Gallup s standing web panel combined with new recruitment of strategic groups. A smaller version of the same two-wave panel has been fielded in Germany, cooperating with YouGov and Prof. Achim Goerres, University of Duisburg-Essen. Co-primary investigator with Henrik Oscarsson conducting web-based five wave panel surveys during the 2002 and 2006 Swedish election campaigns (non-random sample of about addresses). These data appear in Learning from Politics? and Claiming Blame and Giving Credit? and Informed Performance Evaluation ) 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). My dissertation data form the empirical basis for The Personal and the Political, as well as in my various publications with Bo Rothstein. 10

11 Designed questions for the 2002 Swedish Election Study, and the 2003 Euro Referendum Study (see Kampen om Euron). Member of The European Voter Group the purpose of which was twofold. First, building on previous efforts by ICORE (International Committee for Comparative Electoral Research), the project compiled national election studies from the six European countries with sufficiently long series of election studies. The group identified the most important theoretical concepts as well as corresponding national-level variables that are comparable enough in a cross-country setting. Zentralarchiv (ZA) in Cologne has now made the data sets easily available for researchers. Second, the group produced a book which studies changes in electoral behaviour in Western Europe during the last 50 years. Edited by Jaques Thomassen, University of Twente, the book was published by Oxford UP in 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 connections between social policy, quality of government, political actors and institutions, and public opinion. This combination is unique among the major available cross-national data sets in political science. Specifically, it compiles 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 Previous member of Quality of Government Institute s data steering committee maintaining and developing the Institute s various data sets (see PEER REVIEW/COMMITEES /APPOINTMENTS Peer reviewer for American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Comparative European Politics, Social Forces, European Journal of Political Research, European Sociological Review, Acta Sociologica, Rationality and Society, Perspectives on Politics, Political Studies, Political Behavior, Politics, West European Politics, Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Politics, European Societies, European Union Politics, Journal of Social Policy, Scandinavian Political Studies, Sociologisk Forskning, Sociological Inquiry, Politica, Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift, Tidskrift for samfunnsforskning, and Finnish Research and Society. Peer reviewer of project and program applications to European Science Foundation, Swedish Research Council (VR), NORFACE, and Croatian Science Foundation. External reviewer ( sakkunnig ) of applications to position as senior lecturer in political science at Lund University, Member of the Quality of Government Institute s data steering committee supervising the development of the QoG Institute s comparative macro data sets. 11