Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard

Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard (born 1966) is a Danish political scientist.

Education and employment

Kurrild-Klitgaard is Ph.D. (Pol.Sci.), M.Sc. (Cand.phil., Soc.Sci.) and B.A. (Copenhagen), and M.A. (Pol.Sci.) (Columbia University). His current position is as Professor of Political Theory and Comparative Politics at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, where he has held various positions since 1991, and where he specializes in political institutions, political economy and American politics, especially issues such as elections, electoral systems and constitutions. Before his current position, he was professor at the Dept. of Political Science and Public Management, University of Southern Denmark and assistant professor at the Dept. of Political Science, University of Aarhus (1998-2000). He has held visiting appointments at several institutions, including Saint Edmund's College at University of Cambridge, the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy at Columbia University, the Dept. of Economics, New York University, and the Institute for Humane Studies, George Mason University.

He serves as a member of the Danish government’s National Social Science Research Council and is the representative of Danish social science in the European Science Foundation. Kurrild-Klitgaard is the recipient of [http://www.fyens.dk Fyens Stiftstidende] 's Research Award (2003), and as a graduate student at Columbia University he was a Fulbright Scholar and a Claude R. Lambe Fellow.

Academic publications

Kurrild-Klitgaard has published close to a hundred articles in academic journals and anthologies. He is also the author of several books, most recently "Individ, Stat og Marked: Studier i Rationalitet og Politik" (2005), "Bushs Amerika" (2005) og "Adam Smith: Økonom, Filosof, Samfundstænker" (2004), and he has edited and co-authored such books as "The Dynamics of Intervention" (2005), "Valg, Vælgere og Velfærdsstat" (2000), "Etik, Marked og Stat: Liberalismen fra Locke til Nozick" (1992), and Farvel "til Socialstaten: En Bog om Privatisering" (1988). He has also contributed to many anthologies, including "Encyclopedia of Public Choice" (2004) and is on the advisory editorial board of "International Encyclopedia of Political Science".

He has worked with several academic journals, and currently is European Editor of "Public Choice" and a member of the Editorial Boards of "Scandinavian Political Studies" and the "Journal of Libertarian Studies".

Public debate

Kurrild-Klitgaard writes as a columnist and commentator for the daily newspaper [http://www.berlingske.dk "Berlingske Tidende"] (1998-2002 and again since 2004) and has previously done so for [http://www.politiken.dk "Politiken"] (2003-04) and [http://www.dagen.dk "Dagen"] (2002). At "Berlingske Tidende" he is one of the contributors to the widely read daily column "Groft Sagt".

He is frequently used by radio and TV as a commentator on Danish and US politics and is also regularly used as a speaker outside academia. (IN 2006 the weekly "Mandag Morgen" ranked him as the fifth most frequently used political scientist in Danish media, cf. "Mandag Morgen," 15th of January 2007.))

Kurrild-Klitgaard blogs with a group of other academics at the group-weblog [http://www.punditokraterne.dk "Punditokraterne"] , which according to "Politiken" (October 2006) and Altinget.dk (March 2006) is one of the most widely read and respected Danish blogs.

Organizations

Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard has held positions in a number of academic organizations, including as president of the [http://www.dpsa.dk Danish Political Science Association] (2002-05). He currently is a member of the Board of the [http://www.nopsa.org Nordic Political Science Association] and the council of the International Political Science Association, as well as on the advisory board of the public policy think-tank CEPOS of which he was one of the initiators, co-founders and board members (2004-05). He has also been elected a member of the Philadelphia Society and the Mont Pelerin Society, and he serves as a director of the latter (since 2004).

External links

* [http://www.kurrild-klitgaard.net Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard's own website]
* [http://www.montpelerin.org Mont Pelerin Society]
* [http://www.cepos.dk Center for Political Studies (CEPOS)]
* [http://www.punditokraterne.dk Punditokraterne]