Bo Rothstein

Bo Rothstein

Bo Abraham Mendel Rothstein (born 12 June 1954) is a Swedish political scientist who is the August Röhss Professor in Political Science at Gothenburg University, Sweden.

Bo Rothstein was born in Malmö, Sweden, to Austrian-born Jewish immigrant parents. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Lund University in 1986. Between 1986 and 1995 he was assistant and associate professor at the Department of Government at Uppsala University. He has been a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, Cornell University, Harvard University, Collegium Budapest Center for Advanced Study, the Swedish Center for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, and at the University of Washington in Seattle. Among his publications in English are: "Corporatism and reformism : the social democratic institutionalization of class conflict" (Uppsala, 1987), "State and capital in Sweden : the importance of corporatist arrangements" (Uppsala, 1988), "Social classes and political institutions : the roots of Swedish corporatism" (Uppsala, 1988), "Marxism and institutional analysis : working class strength and welfare state development : the Swedish case" (Uppsala, 1989), "The crisis of the Swedish social democrats and the future of the universal welfare state" (Uppsala, 1992), "The social democratic state : the Swedish model and the bureaucratic problem of social reforms" (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996), "Just institutions matter : the moral and political logic of the universal welfare state" (Cambridge University Press, 1998), "Restructuring the welfare state : political institutions and policy change" (New York, 2002, co-editor: Sven Steinmo), "Creating social trust in post-socialist transition" (New York, 2004, co-editors: János Kornai and Susan Rose-Ackerman), and "Social traps and the problem of trust" (Cambridge University Press, 2005).

Rothstein is a regular contributor in the Swedish public debate about politics and academic freedom. He has been especially critical of what he perceives as politicized research at some universities in Sweden. In 2003 he received the Swedish Association of University Teachers' prize for academic freedom. Rothstein received the prize for having "in the public debate argued for the importance of independent university teaching and research".

In 2004 he was awarded a six years research grant for "leading scholars" from the Swedish Research Council. Together with professor Sören Holmberg, he is in charge of the newly established Quality of Government Institute at Göteborg University. His current research interests are comparative quality of government institutions, social capital and social dilemmas, and political corruption.

External links

* [http://www.pol.gu.se/Person.asp?PersonId=82 Bo Rothstein at Gothenburg University]


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