1 CURRICULUM VITAE Stefan Svallfors January 2011. PERSONAL DATA Address: Department of Sociology, Umeå university, 901 87 UMEÅ, SWEDEN; e-mail: stefan.svallfors@soc.umu.se; tel +46 90 7865560; fax +46 90 7865560 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, Department of Sociology, Umeå University, 2000-date Fernand Braudel Fellow, European University Institute, Jan-June 2011. Baltic Scholar, Umeå University, 2010-16 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.
2 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. BOARD MEMBERSHIP AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENTS 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. Organizer of the session Welfare Attitudes in Comparative perspective, at the 38th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, June 26-30, 2008, Budapest. Member of editorial advisory board, Tidskrift for Velferdsforskning (Norway). 2008- Head of the Questionnaire Design Team Welfare Attitudes in a Changing Europe for the European Social Survey. 2007-2009.
3 Commentator & Presentor, Workshop on The Evolution of Contemporary Welfare States, European University Institute, Florence, 26-27 April 2007. Chair, Swedish National ESPAnet organisation, 2007-date. 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-date. Member of project advisory board, research program Sustainable Welfare and Sustainable Growth (Programme co-ordinator, Professor Jochen Clasen, University of Edinburgh). 2006-2009. Commentator & Chair, Session on The Welfare State, Inequality, and Public Opinion, Fifteenth International Conference of the Council for European Studies The Drake Hotel, Chicago, March 29 April 2, 2006. Organizer of the symposium Life Chances and Social Origins, Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research, Stockholm 24-25 November 2003. Organizer of the session on Social Policy, Values and Support, ESPAnet Conference, 13-15 November 2003, Copenhagen. Organizer of the session Class and stratification, The Annual Meeting of the Swedish sociological association, 8-9 Feb 2002. Organizer of the Annual Meeting of the International Social Survey Program, Umeå 1-6 June 2001. Organizer of the session Class and stratification, The Annual Meeting of the Swedish sociological association, 25-26 Jan 2001. Board member and Chairman of the Committee Welfare, Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research, 2001-2006. Organizer of the annual conference on Social Research, Sånga Säby 19-20 Oct 2000.
4 Organizer of the conference Politik för en jämlik utbildning: spelar reformer någon roll?, Umeå universitet, 27 Sep 2000. Organizer of the conference The Next Millennium: Current Research Trends and Future Prospects of Sociology, Umeå university, 11 juni 1999. Organizer of the Annual Meeting of the Swedish sociological association 1-2 Feb 1996. Organizer of workshop on Welfare State Research and Political Sociology, 4-5 Oct 1995. Session organizer, Sixth International Conference on Socio-Economics, Paris, 15-17 July 1994. Board member, Swedish sociological association 1991-92, 1994-96. REFEREE COMMISSIONS (selected) 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. 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. Faculty opponent at Ingrid Essers PhD thesis Why Work? Comparative Studies on Welfare regimes and Individuals Work Orientations, Department of Sociology, Stockholm University, 16 June 2005.
5 Referee for application to the Israel Science Foundation, March 2005. Referee for application to the Swiss Research Council, November 2004. Evaluator for the Swedish Research Council of the Swedish Social Science Data Service (Nov 2002- Feb 2003) Assessor and Faculty opponent at Bente Ingebrigtsens PhD thesis Lønn og rettferdighet, Norges Teknisk-Naturvetenskapliga Universitet, Trondheim, Norway, 17-18 Oct 2002. Assessor of Mikael Nygårds PhD thesis Välfärdsstaten, partierna och den nya ekonomin, Samhälls- och vårdvetenskapliga fakulteten, Åbo akademi, Vasa, Finland, Oct 2002. Referee for application to the Swedish Research Council, May 2002. Referee for application to the Norwegian Research Council, May 2002. Referee for applications for post-doc fellowships (5) to the Swedish Research. Feb-March 2002. Referee for application to the Nordic Council of Ministers, October 2001. Referee for application to The Bank of Sweden Tercentennary Foundation, juli 2001. Assessor and Faculty opponent at Toril Aalbergs PhD thesis Comparative Public Opinion on Distributive Justice, Norges Teknisk-Naturvetenskapliga Universitet, Trondheim, Norway 11-12 October 2001. Faculty opponent at Tomas Berglunds PhD thesis Attityder till arbete i Västeeuropa och USA, Department of Sociology, Göteborg university, 20 April 2001. Referee for application to the Norwegian Research Council, December 1999. Referee for 2 lectureships in sociology, Mälardalen university college, September 1999. Assessor and Faculty opponent at Helena Blombergs PhD thesis Kosta vad det kosta vill, Faculty of the Social Sciences, Åbo akademi university, Vasa, 7 May 1999. Referee for application to Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education, march 1998.
6 Faculty opponent at Torsten Österman s PhD dissertation Opinionens mekanismer, Department of Sociology, Stockholm university 20 Feb 1998. Project rapporteur, Economic and Social Research Council, Great Britain, februari 1997. Referee for Research Fellow position, Department of Sociology, Stockholm University, 1996. Project assessor, Australian Research Council, May 1994. PhD Examiner for George Matheson The Decommodified in a Commodified World, University of New England, Armidale, Australia, November 1993. Referee commissions for Acta Sociologica, American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Ashgate, British Journal of Sociology, Comparative Political Studies, Current Sociology, European Journal of Political Research, European Sociological Review, European Societies, Governance, Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of European Social Policy, Journal of Social Policy, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, Scandinavian Political Studies, Social Politics, Socio-economic Review, Sociologisk forskning, Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift, Theory & Society and Young. RESEARCH GRANTS 2011-15 Support for research environment Welfare Research (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]
7 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] 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]
8 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 (IN ENGLISH) 2010-04-20 Comparing Welfare Attitudes in Europe, Department of Sociology, McGill University, Montreal. 2010-04-17 Age, Class, and Attitudes Towards Government Responsibilities: In Search of the Mechanisms Paper presented at the Conference of the Council for European Studies, April 15-17, 2010, 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. 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.
9 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. 2008-04-27 Still Two Germanys? Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the International Social Survey Program, Chicago. 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. 2007-09-07 The Political Sociology of the Welfare State, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Umeå University. 2007-09-01 Convergence in Welfare State Support? A Comparison of Sweden, Germany and the US 1990-2006 Paper presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, August 30th-September 2nd, 2007. 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. 2004-10-21 National Extended surveys: Sweden. Presentation at the ESPAnet Expert seminar, Tilburg.
10 2004-10-02 The Political Sociology of the Welfare State, ESPAnet Young Researchers Conference, Aalborg. 2004-02-27 Class and the Comparative Study of Attitudes, Center for the Study of Inequality, Cornell University. 2004-02-25 Does Class Really Matter? Class-related Policy Attitudes in Cross-National Perspective, Center for European Studies, Harvard University. 2004-02-23 Class and Social Attitudes Comparative Perspectives, Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina. 2002-08-29 Institutions, attitudes and political choices, Plenary paper for the European Social Policy Research Network of the European Sociological Association, Tilburg. 1994-11-25 National differences in national identities? The International Social Survey Program Conference on Ethnicity and social mobilisation, Umeå university. 1994-03-18 Multidimensional welfare state attitudes: Some Evidence from Sweden, Zentrum für Umfragen, Methoden und Analysen (ZUMA), Mannheim. 1993-05-21 Labourism vs Social Democracy? Attitudes to Inequality in Australia and Sweden Department of Sociology, University of Armidale, Australien. 1993-05-18 Labourism vs Social Democracy? Attitudes to Inequality in Australia and Sweden Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australien. 1993-04-22 Labourism vs Social Democracy? Attitudes to Inequality in Australia and Sweden Department of Sociology, University of Wollongong, Australien. 1992-11-03 How Different is Sweden? Attitudes to Inequality in Comparative Perspective Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australien. 1992-03-02 Attitudes to Inequality in Sweden and United Kingdom, Dansk Sociologforenings socialpolitiske gruppe, Handelshöjskolen, København. 1989-11-27 The Politics of Welfare Policy in Sweden, International Graduate School, Stockholms universitet
11 In addition, I have been invited more than 30 times to speak at Swedish universities and other settings in Sweden. PUBLICATIONS (SELECTED) Books Svallfors, Stefan (Ed.) Welfare Attitudes in Europe: Cleavages, Mechanisms, Formations (book manuscript in preparation) 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. 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.
12 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 Stefan Svallfors, Joakim Kulin & Annette Schnabel Introduction Prepared for Svallfors, Stefan (Ed.) Welfare Attitudes in Europe: Cleavages, Mechanisms, Formations Stefan Svallfors, Joakim Kulin & Annette Schnabel Age, Class, and Attitudes Towards Government Responsibilities: Exploring the Mechanisms Prepared for Svallfors, Stefan (Ed.) Welfare Attitudes in Europe: Cleavages, Mechanisms, Formations Stefan Svallfors, Joakim Kulin & Annette Schnabel Conclusion Prepared for Svallfors, Stefan (Ed.) Welfare Attitudes in Europe: Cleavages, Mechanisms, Formations Edlund, Jonas & Stefan Svallfors (forthcoming) Cohort, class and attitudes to redistribution in two liberal welfare states: Britain and the US, 1996-2006, In Goerres, Achim & Pieter Vanhuysse (Eds.) Generational Politics and Policies: Comparative Studies of Ageing Post-industrial Democracies. London: Routledge. 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. 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.
13 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. 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.,
14 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. Articles in or submitted to refereed journals Kulin, Joakim & Stefan Svallfors Class, values, and attitudes towards redistribution: A European comparison. Submitted, January 2011. Svallfors, Stefan A Bedrock of Support? Trends in Welfare State Attitudes in Sweden, 1981-2010, Submitted, January 2011. 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.
15 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. 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.
16 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. Reports Svallfors, Stefan, Report 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-presicency, Lund 7-8 July 2009. Svallfors, Stefan & Thomas P Boje (Eds) The Next Millennium: Essays on the State of Sociology. Umeå Studies in Sociology, 2000. Svallfors, Stefan Mellan risk och tilltro: opinionsstödet för en kollektiv välfärdspolitik. [Between Risk and Trust: Public Support for Collective Welfare Policies] Umeå: Umeå Studies in Sociology, no 114, 1999. Svallfors, Stefan Labourism vs Social Democracy? Attitudes to Inequality in Australia and Sweden. SPRC Reports and Proceedings no 107, Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Kensington. June 1993. Marklund, Staffan & Stefan Svallfors Dual Welfare. Research report No 94, Department of Sociology, Umeå, 1987. Selected commissioned reviews 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.
17 James Fulcher Labour Movements, Employers and the State Acta Sociologica. Vol 36 (1993), s 156-8. In addition, I have published about 30 articles in non-refereed journals, and about 50 reviews and newspaper articles in scholarly or popular journals.
18 TEACHING EXPERIENCE I presently supervise three PhD scholars. I was responsible for organising the department seminar between 1997 and 2004. Supervised PhD theses Carlos Faria Regulating the Family and Domesticating the State: The Swedish Family Policy Experience (defended at the University of Rio de Janeiro, December 1997) (second supervisor) Jonas Edlund Citizens and Taxation. Sweden in Comparative Perspective. (defended at Umeå university, 4 June 1999) Mikael Hjerm My People Right or Wrong? A Comparative Analysis of National Sentiments and their Meaning (defended at Umeå university, 11 Feb 2000) 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) 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) Dietmar Rauch Institutional Fragmentation and Social Service Variations: A Scandinavian Comparison. (defended at Umeå university, 11 Nov 2005) 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) Ingemar Johansson Sevä Welfare State Attitudes in Context: Local Contexts and Attitude Formation in Sweden (defended at Umeå university, 24 Apr 2009). Marek Perlinski Skilda världar specialisering eller integration i socialtjänstens individ- och familjeomsorg [Separate worlds specialization or integration in the personal social services] (defended at Umeå university 10 Dec 2010) (second supervisor)
19 Courses taught 1985/6 Sociology A (Macrotheory) Social policy A 1986/7 Ethnic relations A (Ethnic conflicts och racism) Social science program (Method and paper supervision) 1987/8 Sociology A (Political sociology) 1988/9 Ethnic relations B (Ethnic conflicts och racism) Communication A (Social psychology) 1989/90 Sociology A (Political sociology) Sociology B (Method) Social Science AB (Method) 1990/91 PhD course (Modern classics) 1991/92 Sociology CD (Applied sociology) Sociology B (Applied sociology) 1993/94 Sociology B (in English) 1994/95 PhD course Comparative Methods Social policy 1996/97 PhD Course Institutions and institutionalism Sociology B Social science program 1997/98 Sociology B 1998 PhD course Class theory and class analysis 2000 PhD course Comparative Political Economy 2003 PhD course The Political Sociology of the Welfare State 2007 PhD course The Political Sociology of the Welfare State
20 2008 Master level course Comparative Social Attitudes and Values 2009/10 PhD course Class theory and class analysis 2010 Oslo Summer School The Political Sociology of the Welfare State OTHER MISSIONS AND AWARDS 1. The Royal Skytteanum Award for younger researchers at Umeå university, 1996. 2. Review Editor, European Societies, 1998-2001. 3. Advisor, Boréa publishing company, 1996-4. Member of editorial board, Tidskrift for velferdsforskning (Norway), 2008-