Marta ReuterSenior lecturer

I currently work on issues related to the ways in which the state (public organizations and their officials) control and regulate the participation of interest groups in public policy processes.

My previous research projects have focused on:

1. think tanks as a new organizational actor in the Swedish policy arena and civil society (grant from the Ragnar Söderberg Foundation).
2. audit practices in the field of elderly care in Sweden (grant from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond);
3. the chain of governance in welfare service producing CSOs (grant from the Swedish Agency for Youth and Civil Society); and
4. transnationalization and the Swedish popular movements (grant from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond).                  

My other academic activities (current and past):

• member of the senior editorial board, the international journal Nonprofit Policy Forum
• reviewer for Voluntas: International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Organizations
• co-convenor of the Standing Group on Civil Society at the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS). 2019-2022.
• co-convenor of the standing research seminar on organized civil society at the Stockholm Center for Civil Society Studies (SCCSS), Stockholm School of Economics. 2014-2024.
• frequent speaker and lecturer in executive education programs directed at civil society and public sector office holders and executives.

Recent publications (selected)

Reuter, M., Henrekson, E., & Wijkström, F. (2025). Back to the Mission. Revisiting Slack in Nonprofits and Introducing Tappable Slack. Nonprofit Management and Leadership. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/nml.70009

Aberg, P., Einarsson, S. & Reuter, M. (2021) Think Tanks: New Organizational Actors in a Changing Swedish Civil Society. Voluntas 32, pp. 634–648. https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11266-019-00174-9.pdf

Aberg, P., Einarsson, S. & Reuter, M. (2020) Organizational Identity of Think Tank(er)s. A Growing Elite Group in Swedish Civil Society. Politics & Governance, Vol. 8, No. 3. https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/bitstream/handle/document/79214/79214_1.pdf?sequence=1

Wijkström, F., M. Reuter & A. Emami (eds., 2017) Civilsamhället i det transnationella rummet. Stockholm: European Civil Society Press.

Reuter, M. (2017) Nationalstatens sista väktare. Vad är den svenska folkrörelsen utan Sverige? In Wijkström, F., M. Reuter & A. Emami (eds.) Civilsamhället i det transnationella rummet. Stockholm: European Civil Society Press.

Reuter, M., F. Wijkström & A. Emami (2017) Idéer som reser, containrar som formatterar. In Wijkström, F., M. Reuter & A. Emami (eds.) Civilsamhället i det transnationella rummet. Stockholm: European Civil Society Press.

Wijkström, F. and M. Reuter (2015) Two Sides of the Governance Coin: Civil Society Inside-Out. In Eynaud, P., J-L. Laville and D. Young (eds.) Governance and Democracy: Civil Society in a Changing World. New York: Routledge.

Reuter, M., F. Wijkström and M. Meyer (2014) Who Calls the Shots? The Real Normative Power of Civil Society. In Freise, M. and T. Hallman (eds.) Modernizing Democracy. Associations and Associating in the 21st century. New York: Springer.

Reuter, M., F. Wijkström and B. Kristensson Uggla (eds., 2013) Trust and Organizations: Confidence Across Borders. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Reuter, M., Wijkström, F. & von Essen, J. (2012). Policy Tools or Mirrors of Politics. Government-Voluntary Sector Compacts in the Post-Welfare State Age. Nonprofit Policy Forum 3(2).

Reuter, M. (2012). Överenskommelsen som spegel och arena. Betraktelser över ett avtal i tiden. In: F. Wijkström (red) Civilsamhället i samhällskontraktet. Vad står på spel? Stockholm: European Civil Society Press.