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CURRICULUM VITAE

Stefan Svallfors January 2018.

PERSONAL DATA

Address: Blomsterslingan 7, 139 36 VÄRMDÖ, SWEDEN; e-mail: stefan.svallfors@iffs.se;

tel +46 – 70 – 6460249

Born: 21 June 1961

Citizenship: Swedish

EDUCATION AND DEGREES

1999 Professor of Sociology, Umeå University.

1994 Docent (Associate professor) in Sociology, Umeå University

1989 Fil dr (PhD Degree) in Sociology, Umeå University.

1984 Bachelor of Arts in the Social Sciences, Umeå University.

EMPLOYMENT AND VISITING FELLOWSHIPS

Professor in Sociology, Södertörn University, 2016-date.

Affiliated researcher / Research Director, Institute for Future Studies, Stockholm, 2011-date

Professor, Department of Sociology, Umeå University, 2000-2015

Visiting Professor, Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, 2013-2015.

Visitor, Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, Köln, October 2014.

Visitor, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, March 2014.

Deputy head, Department of Sociology, Umeå University, 2008-2012

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Baltic Scholar, Umeå University, 2010-15

Fernand Braudel Fellow, European University Institute, Jan-June 2011.

Visiting fellow, Swiss Foundation for Research in Social Sciences, University of Lausanne,

October 2008.

Visiting professor, Center for Comparative Welfare Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark,

September 2008.

Visitor, Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, March 2006.

Grant from the Swedish Research Council: “Long-term support for leading scholars”, 2004-2009.

Acting professor, Department of Sociology, Umeå University, 1996-97.

Sociology Visitor, Nuffield College, Oxford, 1996.

Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Umeå University, 1992-99

Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, Umeå University, 1992-96

Visiting Research Scholar, Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales,

Sydney, 1992-93.

Lecturer (temporary), Department of Sociology, Umeå University 1989-92.

Research Scholar, Department of Social Science and Administration, London School of

Economics and Political Science 1987-8.

Research Assistant / PhD Scholarship, Department of Sociology, Umeå University 1984-89.

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BOARD MEMBERSHIP AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENTS (last

ten years; selected)

Member, Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, since 2011.

Member of Evaluation Committee 2, Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, 2017-2020.

Member of advisory board for research project “EUREX: Expertization of public inquiry

commissions? Democracy and good governance in a Europeanized administrative order”, Oslo

University, 2016-2020.

President, Swedish Sociological Association, 2014-2016.

Board member, Swedish National Data Archive, 2012-2016.

Vice President, Swedish Sociological Association, 2012-2014.

Member of Editorial Board, Social Forces, 2012-2014.

Chair, Swedish National ESPAnet organisation, 2007-2013.

Organizer of the conference Contested Culture: Culture and Morality in the Social Sciences. Third CUES

seminar. Rex Conference Room, Umeå, 23-24 August 2012.

Organizer of the conference Public Policies and Social Outcomes: Institutional Feedback in Contemporary

Societies. Second CUES seminar. Hotel Plaza, Umeå, 18-19 August 2011.

Organizer of the conference Welfare attitudes in a Changing Europe, Rockefeller Centre, Bellagio, 22-

25 November 2010.

Organizer of the conference Biology, Neurology, Sociology: New Perspectives in the Study of Humans.

Inaugural CUES seminar. Hotel Plaza, Umeå, 17-18 June 2010.

Project rapporteur from the Workshop “Social and Cultural Shocks – As Opportunity”, Tallinn

March 24-25 2009. Delivered at the conference New Worlds – New Solutions: Research as Basis for

Developing Europe in a Global Context, The Swedish EU-presidency, Lund 7-8 July 2009.

Member of editorial advisory board, Tidskrift for Velferdsforskning (Norway). 2008-

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Head of the Questionnaire Design Team “Welfare Attitudes in a Changing Europe” for the

European Social Survey. 2007-2009.

Fellow of the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality at Stanford University. 2007-date

Member of the Advisory Board of EDAC, the European Data Center for Work and Welfare.

2006-2012.

Member of project advisory board, research program Sustainable Welfare and Sustainable Growth

(Programme co-ordinator, Professor Jochen Clasen, University of Edinburgh). 2006-2009.

Board member and Chairman of the Committee ”Welfare”, Swedish Council for Working Life

and Social Research, 2001-2006.

REFEREE COMMISSIONS (last ten years; selected)

Faculty opponent at Jan-Magnus Enelos PhD thesis Klass, åsikt och partisympati, Department of

Social Science, Örebro University, 22 Feb 2013.

Referee for lectureship in Sociology (6 applicants), Uppsala University, Aug 2012.

Referee for lectureship in Sociology (4 applicants), Göteborg University, Aug 2012.

Referee for 2 lectureships in Sociology (20 + 22 applicants), Stockholm University, Jan-May 2012.

Member of the PhD examination committee for Judith Raven Popular support for Welfare State

Reforms. Erasmus University, Rotterdam. (defended 22 March 2012)

Referee for lectureship in Sociology (9 applicants), Uppsala University, August 2010.

Evaluator of research proposal to the European Science Foundation, June 2009.

Referee for professorship in Sociology (11 applicants), Södertörn University College, Dec 2008 –

Sep 2009.

Referee for application to the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, June 2008.

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Assessor and Faculty opponent at Marianne Dælens PhD thesis ”Seleksjon og tilpasning. Jobbverdier i

studietid og yrkesliv.”, Oslo University, Norway, March-Aug 2008 (defended 25 Aug 2008)

Member of the PhD examination committee for Dorota Lepianka Are the Poor to be Blamed or

Pitied? A Comparative Study of Popular Poverty Attributions in Europe. Tilburg University, June-Sep

2007 (defended 28 Sep 2007)

Referee for application to the Swedish Research Council (EURYI), December 2006.

Referee for application to the Economic & Social Research Council (Britain), June 2006.

Referee commissions (not restricted to last ten years) for Acta Sociologica, Ageing & Society,

American Journal of Sociology, American Political Science Review, American Sociological Review, Ashgate,

British Journal of Sociology, Comparative Political Studies, Current Sociology, European Journal of Political

Research, European Sociological Review, European Societies, Governance, International Journal of Comparative

Sociology, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Journal of Comparative Politics, Journal of

European Public Policy, Journal of European Social Policy, Journal of Social Policy, Journal of the Royal

Statistical Society, New Political Economy, Policy Studies Journal, Political Science Quarterly, Research in Social

Stratification and Mobility, Routledge, Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, Scandinavian Political Studies,

Scandinavian Sports Studies Forum, Social Forces, Social Justice Research, Social Politics, Social Psychology

Quarterly, Social Science Research, Socio-economic Review, Sociological Research Online, Sociologisk forskning,

Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift, Theory & Society, West European Politics and Young.

RESEARCH GRANTS

2017-2019 Politics By Other Means: Policy Professionals in Comparative Perspective. The Foundation for

Baltic and East European Studies [5900k SEK]

2015-2019 Underjordisk politik: De policyprofessionellas liv och arbete. [Subterranean Politics; The World

and Work of Policy Professionals] The Swedish Research Council [9000k SEK]

2011-14 De policyintellektuella i välfärdsstaten [Policy Intellectuals in the Welfare State]. The Swedish

Research Council [4200k SEK]

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2011-15 Support for research environment Welfare Studies (Umeå University) [9000k SEK]

2010-11 Välfärdsopinion 2010 [Welfare Opinion 2010] (The Swedish Council for Working Life and

Social Research) [2200k SEK]

2009-2011 Welfare Attitudes in a Changing Europe (European Science Foundation). [1500k Euro]

2008-2009. Lokala kontexter och attityder till välfärdspolitik. [Local contexts and attitudes to welfare

policies] (The Swedish Social Security Agency) [800k SEK]

2004-2005 National Coordinator, second round of European Social Survey. (The Bank of Sweden

Tercentennary Foundation; The Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research; The

Swedish Research Council) [6385k SEK]

2003-2008 Välfärdsstatens politiska sociologi – institutioner, skiljelinjer, preferenser [The Political Sociology

of the Welfare State – Institutions, Social Cleavages, Preferences] (The Swedish Council for

Working Life and Social Research) [8000k SEK]

2003-2006 Välfärdsstatens politiska sociologi – institutioner, skiljelinjer, preferenser [The Political Sociology

of the Welfare State – Institutions, Social Cleavages, Preferences] (The Bank of Sweden

Tercentennary Foundation) [10200k SEK]

2002-2004 Sociala tjänster och familjerelaterade ojämlikheter i Skandinavien och andra västeuropeiska länder

[Social Services and Family Related Inequalities in Scandinavia and other West European

Countries] (The Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research) [1560k SEK]

2002-2003 National Coordinator, first round of European Social Survey. (The Bank of Sweden

Tercentennary Foundation; The Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research; The

Swedish Research Council) [6174k SEK]

2002-2003 Arbetets värde - en jämförande studie av attityder till arbete [The Value of Work – A

Comparative Study of Attitudes to Work] (The Swedish Council for Working Life and Social

Research) [884k SEK]

2001-2003 Klass och attityder i komparativt perspektiv [Class and Attitudes in Comparative

Perspective] (The Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research) [1330k SEK]

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2000-2001 Välfärdsstatens legitimitet i den globala ekonomins tidevarv [The Legitimacy of the Welfare

State in the Age of Globalisation] (The Board for Social Insurance) [800k SEK]

1999-2003 Svenska värderingsförändringar i jämförande perspektiv: International Social Survey Program

[Swedish Value Changes in Comparative Perspective] (Swedish Council for Research in the Social

Sciences and Humanities and the Bank of Sweden Tercentennary Foundation) [2100k SEK]

1999-2000 Nationell identifikation i ett jämförande perspektiv [National Identification in Comparative

Perspective] (Swedish Council for Social Research) [750k SEK]

1998-99 Välfärdsregimer, könsideologier och attityder [Welfare Regimes, Gender Ideologies and

Attitudes] (Swedish Council for Social Research) [710k SEK]

1997-99 Välfärdsopinionens variationer [Variations in Welfare Opinions] (Swedish Council for Social

Research) [800k SEK]

1995-98 Värderingsförändringar i välfärdsstaten [Value Changes in the Welfare State] (Swedish

Council for Research in the Social Sciences and Humanities) [2241k SEK]

1993-96 Den svenska välfärdsopinionen [The Swedish Welfare Opinion] (Swedish Council for Social

Research) [954k SEK]

1993-95 Värderingsförändringar i jämförande perspektiv [Value Changes in Comparative perspective]

(Bank of Sweden Tercentennary Foundation) [917k SEK]

1990-93 Medborgarna och jämlikheten. Åsikter om jämlikhet och fördelning i västliga industriländer [Citizens

and Equality: Opinions about Equality and Distribution in Western Countries] (Swedish Council

for Research in the Social Sciences and Humanities) [397k SEK]

INVITED LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS (last ten years; selected)

2107-06-08 “Sven's Universe: The Evolution of a Scholarship” Keynote address at the

conference Taxes, Institutions… and Sven, European University Institute, Badia Fiesolana, Firenze.

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2017-05-11 “Sustainable creativity: Three perils, two demons, ten commandments”, Baltic and

East European Graduate School, Södertörn University.

2016-05-31 “Subterranean Politics: The World and Work of Policy Professionals”, Presentation

at the Department of Social and Political Sciences, European University Institute, Firenze.

2016-01-28 “Subterranean Politics: The World and Work of Policy Professionals”, Presentation

at the ”Political and Economic Inequality” conference, ETH Zürich.

2015-09-23 “Power Without Mandate. Policy Professionals in Swedish Politics”, Department of

Political Science, Stockholm University.

2015-06-03 “Subterranean Politics: The World and Work of Policy Professionals – Power

Withour Mandate?” University College Dublin.

2015-05-06 “Power Without Mandate. Policy Professionals in Swedish Politics”, Department of

Political Science, Lund University.

2015-02-17 “Power Without Mandate. Policy Professionals in Swedish Politics”, Swedish

Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University.

2014-10-27 “Sustainable creativity – postdoctoral research from degree until death: Three perils,

two demons, ten commandments”, Max-Planck-Institute für Gesellschaftsforschung, Köln.

2014-10-16 “Politics as Organized Combat: New Players and New Rules of the Game in

Sweden”, Max-Planck-Institute für Gesellschaftsforschung, Köln. (available as Podcast at

http://www.mpifg.de/aktuelles/Veranstaltungen/Podcasts/svallfors.asp)

2014-03-24 “Politics as Organized Combat: New Players and New Rules of the Game in

Sweden”, Wissenschaftszentrum, Berlin.

2013-05-17 “Sustainable creativity – postdoctoral research from degree until death: Three perils,

two demons, ten commandments”, Keynote address at the Future of Welfare State Studies

Conference, Umeå.

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2012-12-03 “Welfare Attitudes in Europe” Presentation at the policy dialogue ”The role of

welfare states in a changing Europe - Findings from the European Social Survey”, European

Policy Centre, Brussels.

2012-10-04 “Welfare states in times of population ageing: Age, class and attitudes towards public

policies”, Keynote address at the conference "Ageing in the light of crises: Economic crisis,

demographic change, and the search for meaning”, Umeå.

2012-08-16 “Institutions, Public Policies, and Welfare Attitudes”, Keynote address at the 26th

Conference of the Nordic Sociological Association, Reykjavik.

2012-03-23 “Institutions, Public Policies, and Welfare Attitudes”, Department of Political

Science, Uppsala University.

2012-03-22 “Institutions, Public Policies, and Welfare Attitudes”, Department of Sociology,

Erasmus University, Rotterdam.

2011-08-22 “Institutions, Public Policies, and Welfare Attitudes” NordWel Summer School,

Sigtuna.

2011-05-27 “Age,class and attitudes towards public policies” Plenary talk at the conference

“Ageing in the Twentieth Century”, European University Institute.

2011-05-26 “Attitudes to inequality and redistribution: what, why, where, whereto?”. Presented at

the workshop ”The Political and Social Dynamics of Inequality in Europe”, European University

Institute.

2010-04-20 “Comparing Welfare Attitudes in Europe”, Department of Sociology, McGill

University, Montreal.

2010-02-01 ”Class, Attitudes, and the Welfare State: Comparative Perspectives”. Department of

Human Studies, Osaka University, Japan.

2009-12-03 ”Class, Attitudes, and the Welfare State: Comparative Perspectives”. Centro de

Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, Madrid.

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2009-11-13 ”Class, Attitudes, and the Welfare State: Comparative Perspectives”. Keynote address

at the conference Inequality in Contemporary Societies, Centro de Estudios Andaluces, Sevilla.

2008-10-09 “Attitudes to welfare and inequality. ISSP and ESS surveys and items.” Swiss

Foundation for Research in Social Sciences, University of Lausanne.

2008-10-08 “The Political Sociology of the Welfare State”, Swiss Foundation for Research in

Social Sciences, University of Lausanne.

2008-09-17 “The Political Sociology of the Welfare State”, Department of Sociology, Stockholm

University.

2008-09-08 “Comparing Attitudes Across Countries”, Department of Economics, Politics and

Public Administration, Aalborg University.

2008-09-05 “Attitudes to welfare and inequality. ISSP and ESS surveys and items.” Centre for

Comparative Welfare Studies, Aalborg University.

2008-09-03 “The Political Sociology of the Welfare State”, Centre for Comparative Welfare

Studies, Aalborg University.

2008-04-11 “Welfare and Inequality. Part I: ISSP and ESS items. Part II: Selected findings from

ISSP and ESS” Economic and Social Data Service Seminar ”Using the ISSP and ESS”,

University of Essex.

2007-04-20 “Survey-based political sociology – a short history and some future challenges”,

Symposium on Democratic Politics, Department of Sociology, Indiana University.

2006-03-02 “The Political Sociology of the Welfare State”, School of Humanities and Social

Sciences, International University Bremen.

In addition, I have been invited more than 50 times to speak at Swedish universities and other

settings in Sweden.

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PUBLICATIONS (SELECTED)

Books

Svallfors, Stefan Forskningens mörker: om svarta känslor och konsten att vara lagom rädd [The Darkness

of Research: On Dark Feelings and the Art of Being Frightened] Stockholm: Santérus, 2018

(forthcoming).

Svallfors, Stefan Kreativitetens människa: om konsten att ställa sig i hörnet och vikten av att vårda sina fiender

[The Human of Creativity: On the Art of Putting Yourself in a Corner and the Importance of

Keeping Your Enemies] Stockholm: Santérus, 2015.

Garsten, Christina; Rothstein, Bo & Svallfors, Stefan Makt utan mandat. De policyprofessionella i

svensk politik [Power Without Mandate. Policy Professionals in Swedish Politics] Stockholm:

Dialogos, 2015.

Svallfors, Stefan Kunskapens människa. Om kroppen, kollektivet och kunskapspolitiken. [The Human of

Knowledge. The body, the collective, and research policy]. Stockholm: Santérus, 2012.

Svallfors, Stefan (Ed.) Contested Welfare States. Welfare Attitudes in Europe and Beyond. Stanford, CA:

Stanford University Press, 2012.

Svallfors, Stefan (Ed.) The Political Sociology of the Welfare State: Institutions, Social Cleavages and

Orientations. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007.

Svallfors, Stefan The Moral Economy of Class. Class and Attitudes in Comparative Perspective. Stanford,

CA: Stanford University Press, 2006.

Svallfors, Stefan (Ed.) Analyzing Inequality. Life chances and Social Mobility in Comparative Perspective.

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2005.

Svallfors, Stefan Klassamhällets kollektiva medvetande. Klass och attityder i jämförande perspektiv. [The

Collective Consciousness of Class Society. Class and Attitudes in Comparative Perspective]

Umeå: Boréa, 2004.

Svallfors, Stefan Sidospår. Essäer om klass & politik. [”Sidetracks. Essays on Class & Politics”]

Umeå: Boréa, 2000.

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Svallfors, Stefan & Peter Taylor-Gooby (Eds.) The End of the Welfare State? Responses to State

Retrenchment. London: Routledge, 1999.

Svallfors, Stefan Välfärdsstatens moraliska ekonomi. Välfärdsopinionen i 90-talets Sverige. [”The Moral

Economy of the Welfare State. Public Opinion on Welfare Policies in the 1990s Sweden”],

Umeå: Boréa, 1996.

Svallfors, Stefan (Ed) In the Eye of the Beholder - Opinions on Welfare and Justice in Comparative

Perspective. Stockholm: Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, 1995.

Svallfors, Stefan Vem älskar välfärdsstaten? Attityder, organiserade intressen och svensk välfärdspolitik.

[”Who Loves the Welfare State? Attitudes, Organized Interests and Swedish Welfare Policies”]

Lund: Arkiv, 1989. (PhD dissertation)

Book chapters

Svallfors, Stefan “Who Loves the Swedish Welfare State? Attitude trends 1980-2010” pp 22-36 in

The Oxford Handbook of Swedish Politics, Oxford University Press, 2015.

Stefan Svallfors “Welfare States and Welfare Attitudes” in Svallfors, Stefan (Ed.) Contested Welfare

States. Welfare Attitudes in Europe and Beyond Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012.

Stefan Svallfors, Joakim Kulin & Annette Schnabel “Age, Class, and Attitudes Towards

Government Responsibilities” in Svallfors, Stefan (Ed.) Contested Welfare States. Welfare Attitudes in

Europe and Beyond Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012.

Stefan Svallfors “Welfare Attitudes in Context” in Svallfors, Stefan (Ed.) Contested Welfare States.

Welfare Attitudes in Europe and Beyond Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012.

Edlund, Jonas & Stefan Svallfors “Cohort, class and attitudes to redistribution in two liberal

welfare states: Britain and the United States, 1996-2006”, pp 206-24 In Vanhuysse, Pieter &

Achim Goerres (Eds.) Ageing Populations in Post-industrial Democracies. London: Routledge, 2011.

Svallfors, Stefan “En fråga om klass” [A Question of Class], pp 31-49 in Edling, Christofer &

Fredrik Liljeros (Eds.) Ett delat samhälle – om samhällets sociala skiktning . Stockholm: Liber, 2010.

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Svallfors, Stefan “Public Attitudes”, pp 241-51 In Francis G. Castles, Stephan Leibfried, Jane

Lewis, Herbert Obinger, and Christopher Pierson (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State,

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Kumlin, Staffan & Stefan Svallfors “Social Stratification and Political Articulation: why class

differences in attitudes differ across countries”, pp 19-46 in Mau, Steffen & Benjamin Veghte

(Eds) Social Justice, Legitimacy and the Welfare State, Ashgate, 2007.

Svallfors, Stefan ‘Introduction’, pp 1-29 in Stefan Svallfors (Ed.) The Political Sociology of the Welfare

State: Institutions, Social Cleavages and Orientations. Stanford University Press, 2007.

Svallfors, Stefan ‘Conclusion: The Past and Future of Political Sociology, pp 258-80 in Stefan

Svallfors (Ed.) The Political Sociology of the Welfare State: Institutions, Social Cleavages and Orientations.

Stanford University Press, 2007.

Svallfors, Stefan ‘Class and attitudes to market inequality – A comparison between Sweden,

Britain, Germany and the United States’, pp 189-222 in Stefan Svallfors (Ed.) The Political Sociology

of the Welfare State: Institutions, Social Cleavages and Orientations. Stanford University Press, 2007.

Svallfors, Stefan ‘Introduction’, pp 1-16 in Stefan Svallfors (Ed.) Analyzing Inequality. Life chances

and Social Mobility in Comparative Perspective. Stanford University Press, 2005.

Svallfors, Stefan ‘Välfärdsstatens legitimitet: åsikter om svensk välfärdspolitik i komparativ

belysning’, [’The Legitimacy of the Welfare State: attitudes to Swedish welfare policies in

comparative perspective’] pp 85-104 in Sjukskrivning – försäkring eller försörjning. Stockholm:

Försäkringskasseförbundet, Fakta och debatt, 2003.

Svallfors, Stefan ‘Political Trust and Support for the Welfare State: Unpacking a Supposed

relationship”, pp 184-205 in Bo Rothstein & Sven Steinmo (Eds) Restructuring the Welfare State:

Political Institutions and Policy Change New York: Palgrave, 2002.

Svallfors, Stefan ”Kan man lita på välfärdsstaten? Risk, tilltro och betalningsvilja i den svenska

välfärdsopinionen 1997-2000” [Can you trust the welfare state? Risk, trust and willingness to pay

in the Swedish Welfare Opinion 1997-2000], pp 357-390 in Fritzell, Johan & Joakim Palme (eds)

Välfärdens finansiering och fördelning SOU 2001: 57.

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Svallfors, Stefan ‘National differences in national identities? An Introduction to the International

Social Survey Program’ in Tos, Niko; Peter Ph Mohler & Brina Malnar (red) Modern Society and

Values. A Comparative Analysis Based on ISSP Project. Ljubljana & Mannheim, 2000.

Svallfors, Stefan ‘The Middle Class and Welfare State Retrenchment: Attitudes to Swedish

Welfare Policies’ in Svallfors, Stefan & Peter Taylor-Gooby (eds) The End of the Welfare State?

Responses to State Retrenchment London: Routledge, 1999.

Andersen, Jørgen Goul, Per Arnt Pettersen, Stefan Svallfors & Hannu Uusitalo ‘The Legitimacy

of the Nordic Welfare States: Trends, Variations and Cleavages’ in Kautto, M., Heikkilä, M.,

Hvinden, B., Marklund, S. and Ploug, N. (eds.) Nordic Social Policy. Changing welfare states. London:

Routledge, 1999.

Svallfors, Stefan ’Antipoder? Politisk tilltro och attityder till välfärdsstaten i Sverige och Nya

Zeeland’ [Antipodes? Political Trust and Attitudes To Welfare Policies in Sweden and New

Zealand] in Erik Amnå (ed) Medborgarnas erfarenheter Stockholm: SOU 1999: 113.

Svallfors, Stefan ‘The Class Politics of Welfare Policies: Structural Cleavages and Attitudes

to the Swedish Welfare state’ pp 203-28 in Evans, Geoffrey (Ed) The End of Class Politics? Class

Voting in Comparative Context. Oxford University Press, 1999.

Svallfors, Stefan ‘Policy Regimes and Attitudes to Inequality: A Comparison of Three European

Nations’ in Thomas P Boje & Sven E Olsson Hort (eds) Scandinavia in a New Europe. Oslo:

Scandinavian University Press, 1993. pp 87-133.

Refereed articles

Svallfors, Stefan & Anna Tyllström “Resilient Privatization: The Puzzling Case of For-Profit

Welfare Providers in Sweden”, Socio-Economic Review, (forthcoming)

Svallfors, Stefan “Knowing the game: motivations and skills among partisan policy

professionals”, Journal of Professions and Organization, Vol 4 (1): 55-69 (2017). DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpo/jow008

Svallfors, Stefan “’Most MPs are not all that sharp’. Political employees and representative

democracy”, International Journal of Public Administration, Vol 40 (7), pp 548-558 (2017) DOI:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01900692.2016.1157693

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Svallfors, Stefan “Politics as organized combat – new players and new rules of the game in

Sweden”. New Political Economy , Vol 21 (6), pp 505-19 (2016). DOI:

10.1080/13563467.2016.1156662

(Pre-submission version published as MPIfG Discussion paper 2015/2, pp 1-20.

http://www.mpifg.de/pu/mpifg_dp/dp15-2.pdf)

Svallfors, Stefan “Out of the Golden Cage: PR and the career opportunities of policy

professionals”, Politics & Policy Vol 44 (1), 2016, pp 56-73.

Svallfors, Stefan “Government quality, egalitarianism, and attitudes to taxes and social spending:

a European comparison”, European Political Science Review, Vol 5 (2013), pp 363-80.

Kulin, Joakim & Stefan Svallfors “Class, values, and attitudes towards redistribution: A European

comparison.” European Sociological Review, Vol 29 (2013), pp 155–167.

Svallfors, Stefan “A Bedrock of Support? Trends in Welfare State Attitudes in Sweden, 1981-

2010”, Social Policy & Administration. Vol 45 (2011), pp 806-25.

Brooks, Clem & Stefan Svallfors “Why Does Class Matter? Policy attitudes, mechanisms, and the

case of the Nordic countries” Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Vol 28 (2010), pp 199-213.

Svallfors, Stefan “Policy Feedback, Generational Replacement and Attitudes to State

Intervention: Eastern and Western Germany, 1990-2006” European Political Science Review, Vol 2

(2010), pp 119-35.

Svallfors, Stefan ‘The Generational Contract in Sweden – Age-Specific Attitudes to Age-related

Policies’ Policy & Politics Vol 36 (2008), pp 381-96.

Svallfors, Stefan ‘Class and Social Attitudes – a Framework for Analysis’ Political Crossroads, Vol

12 (2005), pp 5-27.

Svallfors, Stefan ‘Class and Conformism: A comparison of four Western Countries’ European

Societies, Vol 7 (2005), pp 255-86.

Svallfors, Stefan ‘Class, Attitudes and the Welfare State: Sweden in Comparative Perspective’

Social Policy & Administration. Vol 38, nr 2 (2004), pp 119-38.

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Svallfors, Stefan ‘Welfare Regimes and Welfare Opinions: a Comparison of Eight Western

Countries’ Social Indicators Research, Vol 64, no 3 (2003), pp 495-520.

Hult, Carl & Stefan Svallfors ’Production Regimes and Work Orientations: A Comparison of Six

Western Countries’ European Sociological Review, Vol 18, no 3 (2002), pp 315-31.

Svallfors, Stefan, Jørgen Goul Andersen & Knut Halvorsen ’Work orientations in Scandinavia: A

Comparison of Denmark, Norway and Sweden’ Acta Sociologica, Vol 44 (2001), pp 139-56.

Svallfors, Stefan ‘Välfärdsregimer och välfärdsopinioner: en jämförelse mellan åtta västländer’

[Welfare Regimes and Welfare Opinions: A Comparison of Eight Western Countries] Sociologisk

Forskning, nr 1, 1999, pp 93-119.

Svallfors, Stefan ‘Political Trust and Attitudes Towards Redistribution: A Comparison of Sweden

and Norway’ European Societies, Vol 1, 1999, pp 241-68.

Svallfors, Stefan ‘Worlds of Welfare and Attitudes to Redistribution: A Comparison of Eight

Western Nations’ European Sociological Review, Vol 13 (1997), pp 283-304. [reprinted in Leibfried,

Stephan & Mau, Steffen (Eds.) Welfare States: Construction, Deconstruction, Reconstruction (Vol III:

Legitimation, Achievements and Integration), pp 331-52, Edward Elgar, 2008]

Svallfors, Stefan ‘National differences in national identities? An Introduction to the International

Social Survey Program’ New Community, Vol 22 (1996), pp 127-34.

Svallfors, Stefan ‘The End of Class Politics? Structural Cleavages and Attitudes to Swedish

Welfare Policies’ Acta Sociologica, Vol 38 (1995), pp 53-74.

Svallfors, Stefan ‘Dimensions of Inequality: A Comparison of Attitudes in Sweden and Britain’

European Sociological Review. Vol 9 (1993), pp 267-87.

Svallfors, Stefan ‘The Politics of Welfare Policy in Sweden: Structural Determinants and

Attitudinal Cleavages’ British Journal of Sociology. Vol 42 (1991), pp 609-634.

Marklund, Staffan & Stefan Svallfors ”Välfärd efter prestation” [Welfare according to

achievement] Nordisk sosialt arbeid. no 4, 1986. pp 17-32.

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Selected commissioned reviews

Review of Making Markets in the Welfare State: The Politics of Varying Market Reforms by Jane R.

Gingrich. Cambridge University Press; Creative Reconstructions: Multilateralism and European Varieties

of Capitalism after 1950 by Orfeo Fioretos. Cornell University Press; Capitalist Diversity on Europe’s

Periphery by Dorothee Bohle and Bela Greskovits. Cornell University Press. Perspectives on Politics,

Vol 11, (2013), pp 662 – 664.

James Connelly and Jack Hayward (Eds.) The Withering of the Welfare State: Regression, Palgrave

Macmillan. Journal of Social Policy. Vol 42 (2013), pp 424-425.

Brian Steensland The Failed Welfare Revolution: America’s Struggle Over Guaranteed Income Policy,

Princeton University Press. Social Forces. Vol 87 (2009), pp 2212-3.

Peter Starke Radical Welfare State Retrenchment: A Comparative Analysis, Palgrave Macmillan. West

European Politics.Vol 31 (2008), pp 1098-9.

Stein Ringen What Democracy Is For: On Freedom and Moral Government, Princeton University Press.

Acta Sociologica. Vol 51 (2008), pp 177-8.

Jocelyn Pixley ”Citizenship and Employment” Acta Sociologica Vol 37 (1994), pp 108-110.

James Fulcher ”Labour Movements, Employers and the State” Acta Sociologica. Vol 36 (1993), s

156-8.

In addition, I have published more than 30 articles in non-refereed journals, and more than 50

reviews and newspaper articles in scholarly or popular journals.

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Supervised PhD theses

Ida Öun Conflict and concord in work and family: Family policies and individuals' subjective experiences

(defended at Umeå university 14 Dec 2012)

Ragnar Lundström Den kalkylerande medborgaren. Bidragsfusk i svensk välfärdsdebatt 1990-2010

[The Calculating Citizen: Benefit Fraud in Swedish Welfare Debate 1990-2010]

(defended at Umeå university 20 Jan 2012)

Joakim Kulin Values and Welfare State Attitudes. The Interplay Between Human Values, Attitudes and

Redistributive Attitudes Across National Contexts (defended at Umeå university 16 Dec 2011)

Marek Perlinski Skilda världar – specialisering eller integration i socialtjänstens individ- och familjeomsorg

[Separate worlds – specialization and integration in the personal social services]

(defended at Umeå university 10 Dec 2010)

Ingemar Johansson Sevä Welfare State Attitudes in Context: Local Contexts and Attitude Formation in

Sweden (defended at Umeå university, 24 Apr 2009).

Gun Jonsson. Tanter och representanter. Dilemman i frivilliga organisationer – en fråga om oligarki eller

demokrati? [Democratic Dilemmas in Voluntary Organization – a Question about Oligarchy or

Democracy?] (defended at Umeå university, 28 Apr 2006)

Dietmar Rauch Institutional Fragmentation and Social Service Variations: A Scandinavian Comparison.

(defended at Umeå university, 11 Nov 2005)

Carl Hult The Way We Conform to Paid Labour: Commitment to Employment and Organization in a

Comparative Perspective. (defended at Umeå university, 3 Dec 2004)

Eva Sundström Gender Regimes, Family Policies and Attitudes to Female Employment: A Comparison of

Germany, Italy and Sweden. (defended at Umeå university, 28 Feb 2003)

Mikael Hjerm My People Right or Wrong? A Comparative Analysis of National Sentiments and their

Meaning (defended at Umeå university, 11 Feb 2000)

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Jonas Edlund Citizens and Taxation. Sweden in Comparative Perspective. (defended at Umeå university,

4 June 1999)

Carlos Faria Regulating the Family and Domesticating the State: The Swedish Family Policy Experience

(defended at the University of Rio de Janeiro, December 1997)

Courses taught

2010 Oslo Summer School “The Political Sociology of the Welfare State”

2009/10 PhD course ”Class theory and class analysis”

2008 Master level course ”Comparative Social Attitudes and Values”

2007 PhD course “The Political Sociology of the Welfare State”

2003 PhD course “The Political Sociology of the Welfare State”

2000 PhD course ”Comparative Political Economy”

1998 PhD course ”Class theory and class analysis”

1997/98 Sociology B

1996/97 PhD Course ”Institutions and institutionalism”

Sociology B

Social science program

1994/95 PhD course Comparative Methods

Social policy

1991/92 Sociology CD (Applied sociology)

Sociology B (Applied sociology)

1993/94 Sociology B (in English)

1990/91 PhD course (Modern classics)

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1989/90 Sociology A (Political sociology)

Sociology B (Method)

Social Science AB (Method)

1988/9 Ethnic relations B (Ethnic conflicts and racism)

Communication A (Social psychology)

1987/8 Sociology A (Political sociology)

1986/7 Ethnic relations A (Ethnic conflicts and racism)

Social science program (Method and paper supervision)

1985/6 Sociology A (Macrotheory)

Social policy A