PerOla Öberg

Professor at Department of Government; Faculty

Telephone:: +46 18 471 63 15
Mobile phone:: +46 70 425 03 22
E-mail:: PerOla.Oberg@statsvet.uu.se
Visiting address:: Östra Ågatan 19
753 22 Uppsala
Postal address:: Box 514
751 20 UPPSALA
Available:: Skytteanum, Valvgatan 4

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Professor in Political Science 2011.

Head of Department 2015- 2018.

Chairmen of the Swedish Political Science Association 2009-2011.

Vice Chairmen of the Swedish Political Science Association 2005-2009.

Board Member of the Nordic Political Science Association 2006-2011.

Awarded one of the Vincent Wright Memorial Prizes "for significant contribution to comparative European politics", by the West European Politics, 2005.

Awarded the 29th Harold D. Lasswell Prize in by Policy Sciences 2015.

Biography

PerOla Oberg has published research on Public Administration, Interest Groups, Corporatism, Lobbying, Trust, and Deliberation. His current research concern Expertise and Public Policy, Civil Society, Deliberative Governance, Citizen Participation, Civic values, and the use of learning, experience and knowledge in public policy.

He has published in journals such as The Journal of European Public Policy, Public Administration, Policy Sciences, Public Administration Review, Political Studies, Policy Studies Journa l, West European Politics, Governance, and European Political Science Review.

Öberg has contributed with handbook chapters with research on Science and Policy Design (Edward Elgar), Deliberation (Edward Elgar), Local Policy Analysis (Routledge), and Interest Group Politics (Oxford University Press).

Recent publications include:

"Deliberative Civic Culture. Assessing the prevalence of deliberative conversational norms" (with J. Jennstål and K.Uba) is published in Political Studies 2021, 69 (2), 366-389.

"Monotonous or Pluralistic Public Discourse? Reason-giving and dissent in Denmark’s and Sweden’s early 2020 COVID-19 responses" (with .Baekkeskov and O. Rubin) is published in European Journal of Public Policy 2021, 20 (8).

"A media visibility analysis of public leadership in Scandinavian responses to pandemics" (with O. Rubin and E. Baekkeskov) is published 2021 in Policy Design and Practice.

Schmitter, Philippe C. is published on-line in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Interest Groups, Lobbying and Public Affairs and published online 2021.

Publications

Selection of publications

Recent publications

Collaborative governance in all policy phases?

Torfing, Jacob; Öberg, PerOla

Part of Handbook on Lobbying and Public Policy, p. 166-181, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024
- DOI for Collaborative governance in all policy phases?
The Swedish National Media Narrative During the COVID-19 Crisis

Baekkeskov, Erik; Öberg, PerOla

Part of The Nation in the Time of the Pandemic, p. 39-66, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024
- DOI for The Swedish National Media Narrative During the COVID-19 Crisis
Network dynamics in public health advisory systems: A comparative analysis of scientific advice for COVID‐19 in Belgium, Quebec, Sweden, and Switzerland

Lemor, Antoine; Montpetit, Éric; Téhinian, Shoghig; Belleghem, Clarisse Ven et al.

Part of Governance. An International Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions, 2024
- DOI for Network dynamics in public health advisory systems: A comparative analysis of scientific advice for COVID‐19 in Belgium, Quebec, Sweden, and Switzerland
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Deliberation

Öberg, PerOla

Part of Handbook on Theories of Governance, p. 178-186, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022
- DOI for Deliberation
Listening to science in policy design: the contrasting cases of Quebec and Sweden during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic

Lemor, Antoine; Beaulieu-Guay, Louis-Robert; Öberg, PerOla; Montpetit, Éric

Part of Research Handbook of Policy Design, p. 176-193, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022
- DOI for Listening to science in policy design: the contrasting cases of Quebec and Sweden during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic

All publications

Articles in journal

Books

I väntan på solnedgången: Arbetslivsfondens tillkomst och verksamhet : en studie av makt och rationalitet inom förvaltningspolitiken : en bok från PISA-projektet

Öberg, PerOla; Hermansson, Jörgen; Berg, Per-Åke

Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 1999
Avkorporativisering och lobbyism: Konturerna till en ny politisk modell : en bok från PISA-projektet

Hermansson, Jörgen; Lund, Anna; Svensson, Torsten; Öberg, PerOla

Fakta info direkt, 1999

Chapters in book

Collections (editor)

Power and institutions in industrial relation regimes: political science perspectives on the transition of the Swedish model

Öberg, PerOla; Svensson, Torsten

Arbetslivsinstitutet, 2005

Conference papers

Swedish Corporatism in Decline? An analysis with special attention to the politics of transportation, agriculture and labour market

Hermansson, Jörgen; Svensson, Torsten; Öberg, PerOla

1998

Reports

Det välgrundade beslutet: om kommunal beredning i kommunstyrelse-, utbildnings-, arbetsmarknads- och miljöärenden

Lundin, Martin; Thelander, Jonas; Öberg, PerOla

2013
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Medborgarnas inflytande och särintressenas makt: korporatism och lobbying i statsförvaltningen : rapport till Förvaltningspolitiska kommissionen

Öberg, PerOla

1997

Other

Fredrika Lagergren: På andra sidan välfärdsstaten. En studie i politiska idéers betydelse. Stockholm: Brutus Östlings Bokförlag Symposion.

Öberg, PerOla

Part of Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift, p. 163-178, 2000