Nils Hertting
Professor at Institute for Housing and Urban Research
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 65 34
- Mobile phone:
- +46 72 999 91 92
- E-mail:
- Nils.Hertting@ibf.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Trädgårdsgatan 18
- Postal address:
- Box 514
751 20 UPPSALA - Available:
- IBF och Statsvetenskapliga institutionen
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Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Government; Faculty
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 65 34
- Mobile phone:
- +46 72 999 91 92
- E-mail:
- Nils.Hertting@statsvet.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Östra Ågatan 19
753 22 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 514
751 20 UPPSALA
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Short presentation
Nils Hertting's research covers different aspects of local governance, urban politics, and evaluation practices in the public sector. It relates to theories on deliberative and participative modes of network governance, civil society and ethnic associations, public space, and evaluation and implementation. He is a co-founder of the Seminar for Qualitative Methods at the Department of Government and has recently published on ‘rationalistic generalization’ from single case-studies.

Publications
Selection of publications
Part of Samtal om idéer, utvärdering och samhällsförändring, p. 207-218, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2024
Part of Urban Affairs Review, p. 674-705, 2024
- DOI for Participatory Bias and Participatory Neighborhood Governance: Reanalyzing the Most-Likely Case of the Stockholm Neighborhood Renewal Program
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Implementering: Perspektiv och mekanismer
Part of Politik som organisation, p. 233-264, Studentlitteratur AB, 2023
Part of International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, p. 253-268, 2022
- DOI for Normalizing urban entrepreneurialism through sly de-politicization: City Centre Development in Gothenburg and Stockholm
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Rationality and portability: Case study research in practice
Part of Norms, Social Structures and Policy Changes, p. 41-60, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2021
Limited, fragmented and powerless: national urban policies in Sweden
Part of A Modern Guide to National Urban Policies in Europe, p. 268-283, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021
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Part of Policy & Society, p. 530-569, 2020
- DOI for Political boundary spanning: Politicians at the interface between collaborative governance and representative democracy
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2017
Understanding Participatory Governance: An Analysis of Participants' Motives
Part of American Review of Public Administration, p. 538-549, 2017
Part of Local Participatory Governance and Representative Democracy, p. 18-48, Routledge, 2017
Part of Evaluation, p. 25-44, 2012
- DOI for Purposes and criteria in network governance evaluation: How far does standard evaluation vocabulary takes us?
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Neighborhood network governance, ethnic organization, and the prospects for political integration
Part of Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, p. 127-145, 2009
Den utvärderingstäta politiken: Styrning och utvärdering i svensk storstadspolitik
Studentlitteratur, 2009
Samverkan på spel: Rationalitet och frustration i nätverksstyrning och svensk stadsdelsförnyelse
2003
Recent publications
Part of European Planning Studies, p. 398-420, 2025
- DOI for ‘Invited participation’, equity and planning: intentions, processes and institutionalization in Sweden and beyond
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Implementering av kommunala beslut: Problem, analys, lösning
Part of Värden att värna, p. 107-129, Sveriges Kommuner och Regioner, 2025
Part of Samtal om idéer, utvärdering och samhällsförändring, p. 207-218, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2024
Part of European Planning Studies, p. 398-420, 2024
IBF 30 ÅR: forskning, samverkan och samhällsnytta
Institutet för bostads- och urbanforskning (IBF), Uppsala universitet, 2024
All publications
Articles in journal
Part of European Planning Studies, p. 398-420, 2025
- DOI for ‘Invited participation’, equity and planning: intentions, processes and institutionalization in Sweden and beyond
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Part of European Planning Studies, p. 398-420, 2024
Part of Urban Affairs Review, p. 674-705, 2024
- DOI for Participatory Bias and Participatory Neighborhood Governance: Reanalyzing the Most-Likely Case of the Stockholm Neighborhood Renewal Program
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Part of International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, p. 253-268, 2022
- DOI for Normalizing urban entrepreneurialism through sly de-politicization: City Centre Development in Gothenburg and Stockholm
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Mångsyftande medborgardialog – pragmatism och rationalitet i kommunal demokratiutveckling
Part of Plan, p. 57-63, 2021
Part of Policy & Society, p. 530-569, 2020
- DOI for Political boundary spanning: Politicians at the interface between collaborative governance and representative democracy
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Part of Samfundsøkonomen, p. 79-90, 2020
Part of Arkitektur, p. 66-71, 2017
Understanding Participatory Governance: An Analysis of Participants' Motives
Part of American Review of Public Administration, p. 538-549, 2017
Generalization by Mechanism: Thin Rationality and Ideal-type Analysis in Case Study Research
Part of Philosophy of the social sciences, p. 707-732, 2014
Statsvetenskaplig bostads- och urbanforskning: vad är det?
Part of IBF Nyhetsbrev, p. 2, 2013
Part of Evaluation, p. 25-44, 2012
- DOI for Purposes and criteria in network governance evaluation: How far does standard evaluation vocabulary takes us?
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Neighborhood network governance, ethnic organization, and the prospects for political integration
Part of Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, p. 127-145, 2009
Books
Stad till salu: Entreprenörsurbanism och det offentliga rummets värde
Daidalos, 2016
Den utvärderingstäta politiken: Styrning och utvärdering i svensk storstadspolitik
Studentlitteratur, 2009
Chapters in book
Implementering av kommunala beslut: Problem, analys, lösning
Part of Värden att värna, p. 107-129, Sveriges Kommuner och Regioner, 2025
Part of Samtal om idéer, utvärdering och samhällsförändring, p. 207-218, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2024
En vänbok till en vän av det goda samtalet
Part of Samtal om idéer, utvärdering och samhällsförändring, p. 9-15, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2024
Implementering: Perspektiv och mekanismer
Part of Politik som organisation, p. 233-264, Studentlitteratur AB, 2023
Om deltagarbaserad samhällsplanering och rätten till bostad
Part of Allas rätt till bostad, p. 237-256, Daidalos, 2022
Rationality and portability: Case study research in practice
Part of Norms, Social Structures and Policy Changes, p. 41-60, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2021
Limited, fragmented and powerless: national urban policies in Sweden
Part of A Modern Guide to National Urban Policies in Europe, p. 268-283, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021
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Implementering: perspektiv och mekanismer
Part of Politik som organisation, p. 195-222, Studentlitteratur AB, 2018
Part of Översyn av Riksrevisionen. Slutbetänkande. Bilagor. Utredningar från riksdagen 2017/18:URF2, p. 5-31, Riksdagstryckeriet, 2018
Nolltolerans, samverkan och makt i staden
Part of Den motspänstiga akademikern, Egalité, 2017
Participatory Planning: Tricky for Good Reasons
Part of Dreams and Seeds. The Role of Campus Planning in Sustainable Urban Development, p. 38-40, Stockholm Resilience Centre, 2017
Case Uppsala, Campus Polacksbacken: Location, surrounding, stakeholders
Part of Dreams and Seeds. The Role of Campuses and Sustainable Urban Development, p. 51-55, Stockholm Resilience Center, 2017
Part of Local Participatory Governance and Representative Democracy, Routledge, 2017
Part of Local Participatory Governance and Representative Democracy, p. 18-48, Routledge, 2017
Representative Democracy and the Problem of Institutionalizing Local Participatory Governance
Part of Local Participatory Governance and Representative Democracy, Routledge, 2017
Makten i den etnifierade staden: Invandrarföreningar och lokal politik i Botkyrka
Part of Mångfaldens dilemman, p. 121-141, Gleerups Utbildning AB, 2015
Vem vinner på medborgardialog?: Deltagande och politisk integration i den segregerade staden
Part of Mångfaldens dilemman, p. 143-165, Gleerups Utbildning AB, 2015
Implementering: perspektiv och mekanismer
Part of Politik som organisation: förvaltningspolitikens grundproblem, p. 185-212, Studentlitteratur AB, 2014
Part of Föreningsliv, delaktighet och lokal politik i det mångkulturella samhället (Organisation, Inclusion and Local Politics in the Multicultural Society), p. 197-231, Égalité, 2009
Etnisk organisering i den lokala nätverkspolitiken
Part of Föreningsliv, delaktighet och lokal politik i det mångkulturella samhället, p. 113-155, Égalité, 2009
Utvärdering som politik (Evaluation as Politics)
Part of Statsvetare ifrågasätter: Uppsalamiljön vid tiden för professorsskiftet den 31 mars 2008 (Political Scientists Call in Question. The Uppsala Environment at the Time of the Changing of Professors, March 31, 2008), p. 538, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis (AUU), Uppsala, 2008
Mechanisms of governance network formation - a contextual rational choice perspective
Part of Theories of Democratic Network Governance, p. 43-60, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
Part of Den nya bostadspolitiken (The new housing policy), p. 255-290, 2001
Part of Stadens Etik (Ethics of the City), p. 175-194, Boinstitutet, Stockholm, 2000
Collections (editor)
IBF 30 ÅR: forskning, samverkan och samhällsnytta
Institutet för bostads- och urbanforskning (IBF), Uppsala universitet, 2024
Samtal om idéer, utvärdering och samhällsförändring: En vänbok till Evert Vedung
Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2024
Conference papers
Is ‘the social’ forgotten?: Aspirations and understandings of Energy Communities
Part of eceee 2022 Summer Study proceedings, p. 613-622, 2022
2010
Deepening urban democracy?: Functional networks, political equality and local elites
2008
Conference proceedings (editor)
Monograph doctoral thesis
Reports
2017
2017
Kvalitetsbedömning av effektivitetsrevisionens granskningsrapporter 2016
2016
Kvalitetsbedömning av effektivitetsrevisionens granskningsrapporter 2015
2015
Utvärdering av Stadsdelsförnyelsen: Slutrapport från Mälardalens utvärderingsakademi 2007
2007
Hyresgästerna och ytterstadsförnyelsen: Nätverksstyrning och lokal demokrati
2006