Brown bag lecture, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin, Nov. 13 1997. Photo by Doug Marshall

Emeritus professor, political science esp. housing policy

Uppsala University, Institute for Housing and Urban Research (IBF) and Department of Government, April 1 2005 -

Author and educator

I am currently active as author and educator in the following fields

1) Evaluation in public policy and public administration, esp methodology, intervention theory, client-oriented evaluation, utilization of evaluation

2) Evaluation as 2nd order public policy, evaluation history (four waves)

3) Policy instruments (carrots, sticks, sermons and combinations), governance doctrines like results-oriented management, network governance, client-oriented governance

4) Implementation in public policy and public administration

5) Urban policy with focus on Swedish metropolitan policy (storstadspolitik) and role of evaluation policy and evaluation utilization

6) Environment policy, global regimes, ozone layer

7) Energy policy, nuclear energy, hydroelectric, conservation, energy crises

8 Analysis of political and policy ideas, argument analysis, deliberative dialogue