Bo Rothstein
The Quality of Government Institute, Sweden (QOG)
Bo Rothstein holds the August Röhss Chair in Political Science at University of Gothenburg in Sweden where he is head of the Quality of Government (QoG) Institute. He has been a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, Harvard University, Australian National University and Stanford University His most recent books are The Quality of Government: Corruption, Inequality and Social Trust in International Perspective (University of Chicago Press 2011). Among his earlier books in English are Social Traps and the Problem of Trust, and Just Institutions Matters: The Moral and Political Logic of the Universal Welfare State (both Cambridge University Press) and The Social Democratic State (Univ. of Pittsburgh Press). Bo Rothstein is WP leader for WP 1