Incoming Visiting Scholar, SCANCOR at the Weatherhead Center (Spring 2023). August Röhss Chair in Political Science; Co-founder, Quality of Government (QoG) Institute, Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Bo Rothstein holds the August Röhss Chair in Political Science at University of Gothenburg and is the co-founder of the Quality of Government (QoG) Institute in the Department of Political Science. During 2016 and 2017 he served as Professor of Government and Public Policy at University of Oxford, Nuffield College. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, Collegium Budapest for Advanced Study, Harvard University, University of Washington-Seattle, Cornell University, the Australian National University and Stanford University. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Finnish Society of Arts and Letters. Among his publications are Controlling Corruption - The Social Contract Approach (Oxford University Press, 2021), Making Sense of Corruption (with Aiysha Varraich, Cambridge University Press 2017), The Quality of Government: Corruption (University of Chicago Press 2011), Social Traps and the Problem of Trust (Cambridge University Press 2005) and Just Institutions Matter (Cambridge University Press 1998). He is planning to work on a project that links economic inequality with the organization of the power structure within firms. The project will combine organizational theory, economic sociology and political economy to develop a realistic model that will serve to decrease economic inequality and increase democracy in the workplace.