Department of International Economics, Government and Business

I am an associate professor in the Department of International Economics, Government and Business where I do research within comparative political economy. Specifically, I examine variation between western democracies when it comes to institutions (polity), political actors (politics) and regulations (policy). I am particularly interested in policy-making, that is how public policies are shaped by the polity (institutions) and politics (the political actors). Theoretically, I apply institutional theory, negotiation theory, coordination theory, and theories on policy-making including behavioral economics. I have used a wide range of methods such as case studies, comparative studies, mixed-methods studies, standard regression, multi-level modelling, principal component analysis, cluster analysis and machine learning.