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 Journal, 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).

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

Recent publications include:

Networks dynamics in public health advisory systems: A comparative analysis of scientific advice for COVID-19 in Belgium, Quebec, Sweden, and Switzerland in Governance, 2025, 38(2), e12885 (with Antoine Lemor, Eric Montpetit et al).

The Swedish National Media Narrative During the COVID-19 Crisis 2024 (with Erik Baekkeskov) In The Nation in the Time of the Pandemic (León-Solís ed) Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 39-66.

Collaborative governance in all policy phases? 2024 (with Jacob Torfing) in Handbook on Lobbying and Public Policy (Coen & Katsaitis eds.), Edward Elgar, pp. 166-181.

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