Docent i sociologi och ställföreträdande föreståndare vid Institutet för social forskning (SOFI). Mitt övergripande forksningsområde är jämförande välfärdsforskning.

Min pågående forskning handlar om social klass, välfärdspolitik, människors livsvillkor, uppfattningar och åsikter, ekonomisk ojämlikhet, klimatomställning, sociala nätverk, och arbetsliv.

Mycket av min forskning är länderjämförande, med fokus på hur och varför människors levnadsvillkor, uppfattningar och åsikter skiljer sig åt mellan länder och institutionella kontexter. 

Jag är involverad i International Social Survey Programme (ISSP).

Publikationer:

2026. Automation risks versus skill requirements: occupational determinants of expectations and political preferences in knowledge societies, European Societies, (med Anton B. Andersson & Johan Westerman)

2025. Decarbonization Politics for All: Means-Tested Social Assistance, Eco-Social Values, and Public Support for Increased Fossil Fuel Taxes in Europe, Regulation & Governance, pp. 1–19. (med Kenneth Nelson). Se sammanfattning här.

2025. Social networks and distributive conflict: the class divide in social ties and attitudes to income inequality across 29 countries. European Sociological Review, 41(2), pp 163-178. (med Anton B. Andersson)

2025. Acceptance of Inequality in the Social Democratic Welfare State: Income Differences, Welfare Chauvinism, and Populism in Sweden, In Duina, F and Storti, L (Eds), The Social Acceptance of Inequality: On the Logics of a More Unequal World, pp. 283–308, Oxford University Press. Pre-print version finns här. 

2025. Social sustainability in the decarbonized welfare state: Social policy as a buffer against poverty related to environmental taxes. Global Social Policy, 25(1), pp. 36-63. (med Kenneth Nelson, Pär Dalén). Se sammanfattning här.

2025. Socioeconomic Status, Need Fulfillment, and Subjective Well-Being, Journal of Happiness Studies, 26(108), pp. 1–22. (med Filip Fors Connolly)

2025.Beliefs About Inequality Around the Globe. Routledge (med Markus Hadler, Benjamin Roberts, Jare Struwig, Jonas Edlund, Albin Neumayr)

2025. Public attitudes towards private education in global perspective, Zancajo, A. et al., (Eds) Research Handbook on Education Privatization and Marketization, pp. 307-322, Edward Elgar. (med Jonas Edlund) Preprint-version finns här.

2023. Bringing the market in: an expanded framework for understanding popular responses to economic inequality, Socio-Economic Review, 21(2), pp. 1035-1055 (med Leslie McCall). Se kort sammanfattning här.

2023. Occupational skills and subjective social status, i Tåhlin M (Ed) A Research Agenda for Skills and Ineqaulity, pp. 103-120, Edward Elgar (med Anton B. Andersson).

2023. The ISSP 2019 Social Inequality Module: Country-Comparative Individual-Level Data on Public Beliefs about Inequality and Socioeconomic Conditions Over Three Decades, International Jourmnal of Sociology, pp 1-18. (med Ben Roberts, Jarè Struwig, Jonas Edlund)

2021. The Missing Link: Network Influences on Class Divides in Political Attitudes. European Sociological Review, 37(5), pp. 695-712  (med Anton B Andersson, Beate Volker). Se kort sammanfattning här och här.

2021. Popular Support for Public Education in Global Perspective. Paper commissioned for the 2021/2 Global Education Monitoring Report, Non-state actors in education. Document code: ED/GEMR/MRT/2021/P1/05. Paris, UNESCO. (med Jonas Edlund)

2020. Class Position and Political Opinion in Rich Democracies. Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 46, pp. 419-441 (with Leslie McCall) . Working paper-version (open acess) finns tillgänglig här. Även sammanfattad (ljud) här.

2019. The ISSP Role of Government Module. Content, Coverage and History. International Journal of Sociology. 49(2), pp. 99-109. (med Jonas Edlund)

2018. Political partisanship and welfare service privatization: Ideological attitudes among local politicians in Sweden. Scandinavian Political Studies, 41(1), pp. 75-97. (med Ingemar Johansson Sevä)

2018. Job preferences in comparative perspective 1989-2015. International Journal of Sociology. 48(2), pp. 142-69. (med Ingrid Esser)

2015. The democratic class struggle revisited: The welfare state, social cohesion and political conflict. Acta Sociologica, 58(4), pp. 311-328. (med Jonas Edlund)

2015. Public Opinion against Markets? Attitudes towards Market Distribution of Social Services - A comparison of 17 countries. Social Policy & Administration, 49(7), pp. 887-910.

2015. Public Support for Corporate Social Responsiblity in the Welfare State: Evidence from Sweden. Scandinavian Political Studies, 38 (1), pp. 75-94.

2014. Attitudes towards the Market and the Welfare State. Dissertation. Umeå: Umeå University.

2013. Institutional trust and welfare state support: on the role of trust in market institutions. Journal of Public Policy, 33(3), pp. 295-317. (med Jonas Edlund)