Two public lectures by Bo Rothstein

Type: 
Lecture
Audience: 
CEU Community Only
Building: 
Nador u. 11
Room: 
TIGY Room
Thursday, November 14, 2013 - 1:30pm
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Date: 
Thursday, November 14, 2013 - 1:30pm to Friday, November 15, 2013 - 10:40am

Professor Bo Rothstein will return to CEU in Spring 2014 to discuss, in a workshop format, research agendas or thesis plans of any CEU student or faculty that involves the Quality of Governance datasets (http://www.qog.pol.gu.se/data/). If you are or may be interested in participating in these seminars in mid-March 2014, please send a short email with the subject line "interest in Bo Rothstein workshops" and a very short explanation of your (potential) research topic(s) to polsci@ceu.hu by 13 November, and do attend both lectures of Prof. Rothstein on 14-15 November 2013. The two November lectures are:

 
1:30-3:10 pm, Thursday, 14 November, Nádor 11 006-os (TIGY room)
 
Bo Rothstein (Department of Political Science, The Quality of Government Institute, University of Gothenburg)
 
How to create concepts in political science. The case of “good governance”.
 
Readings:
Agnafors, Marcus. 2013. "Quality of Government: Towards a More Complex Definition." American Political Science Review 107 (3): 433-445.
Fukuyama, Francis. 2013. “What is Governance.” Governance 26 (3): 347–368
Rothstein, Bo. 2013. ”The Three Worlds of Governance: Arguments for a Parsimonious Theory of Quality of Government.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago Aug 29-Sept 2, 2013. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2299220
 
9:00-10:40 am, Friday, 15 November, Nádor 11 006-os (TIGY room)
  
Bo Rothstein (Department of Political Science, The Quality of Government Institute, University of Gothenburg)
 
The welfare state and quality of government
 
Readings:
Svallfors, Stefan. forthcoming. "Government Quality, Egalitarianism, and Attitudes to Taxes and Social Spending: A European Comparison." European Political Science Review First View Article available online.
Rothstein, Bo, Marcus Samanni and Jan Teorell. 2012. “Explaining the Welfare State. Power Resources versus the Quality of Government.” European Political Science Review 4 (1): 1-28.