Bo Rothstein

Bo Rothstein held the August Röhss Chair in Political Science at the University of Gothenborg from December 1994 to June 2021, where he was co-founder and head of the Quality of Government Institute during the period 2004-2015. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Lund University. He served as professor of Government and Public Policy and professorial fellow of Nuffield College at the University of Oxford in 2016 and 2017. He has been a visiting fellow at Cornell, Harvard and Stanford. He was also Professor at the Swedish Institute for Working Life Research in Stockholm. He has published more than 300 articles mostly in Swedish newspapers but also internationally. His books in English include Controlling Corruption: The Social Contract Approach (2021) and The Quality of Government: The Political Logic of Corruption, Inequality and Social Trust (2011), among others. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.