Emil Uddhammar

Before coming to Växjö, I worked at Uppsala University, the City University of Stockholm and the Johnson Foundation. I did my PhD at Uppsala University on Swedish politics in 1993, and in preparing the dissertation I also spent a semester at the Johns Hopkins University taking courses in political theory.

My research interests today are democracy and institutions, institutions and development, conservation and development and also Swedish politics and political theory. I am also an Affiliated Faculty member at the Workshop for political theory and policy analysis at Indiana University, and have been a visiting scholar at the London School of Economics and Political Science and at the University of Hyderabad.

Books

Kapitalism, Nätverk och Demokrati (with Fredrik Erixon). (Capitalism, Networks and Democracy. Conditions for development and myths about social capital.) Stockholm : City University Press 2002

Dygder som drivkraft och föredöme, 2001, (with Peter Aronsson, Ludvig Beckman and others)  Stockholm : City University Press

Arbete, Välfärd, Bidrag. En dynamisk analys av folkets välstånd och välfärdsforskningens missförstånd. (Work, wealth and welfare. A longitudinal and theoretical analysis). Stockholm: City University Press, 1997. With a summary in English

Partierna och den stora staten : en analys av statsteorier och svensk politik under 1900-talet. Stockholm: City University Press, 1993. With a summary in English (The unopposed emergence of the Swedish welfare state) (Dissertation).

Scientific articles / chapters in edited volumes

"Development, conservation and tourism: conflict or symbiosis?" Review of International Political Economy October 2006

"Fiscal Federalism in Sweden" (with Denis Mueller) in Fiscal Federalism in Unitary States (ed. Per Molander), Klüwer Academic Press, 2003

"Conflict, consensus and the influence of political parties. The Swedish case 1900-1999, with a reference to the United Kingdom." Working Paper, City Univeristy of Stockholm, 2000

"Civilsamhället och välfärden". (Civil society and the welfare state) Kapitel i

Demokratiutredningens forskarvolym VIII, Civilsamhället, SOU 1999:84
"Girighetens rot och dygdens källa. Om ägandet som mål och medel". (Property rights in history and as a tool for development.) Chapter in Patrik Aspers and Emil Uddhammar (1999)

Anthologies edited

Virtues of Independence and Dependence on Virtues (ed. with Ludvig Beckman). New Brunswick : Transaction Press, 2003

Framtidens dygder. Om etik i praktiken.(with Patrik Aspers. "Virtues for the future". In Swedish, with an english summary). Stockholm: City University Press, 1999.

Gemenskaparna. (The Communitarians) Essays by Charles Taylor, Michael Sandel, Alasdair MacIntyre and Charles Murray. Stockholm, 1993. With an introduction by Emil Uddhammar.

Civilisationernas kamp. (The clash of civilizations) Essays by Samuel Huntington, John Gray and Mancur Olson. With an introduction by Emil Uddhammar. Stockholm, 1994.

(with Richard Swedberg) Sociological Endeavour. Selected writings by Hans L Zetterberg. Stockholm: City University Press 1997. With an introduction by Seymour Martin Lipset.

Review articles (selection)

Review of Abernethy, David B. The Dynamics of Global Dominance. European Overseas Empires 1415–1980 and David Cannadines Ornamentalism. How the British saw their Empire in Axess, vol 1, no 5, 2002.

Review of Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom. (New York : Knopf, 1999) in Svenska Dagbladet, 2000-11-20

Review of Ivar Asheim, Hva betyr holdninger? Studier i dydsetikk. (Oslo: Tano Aschehoug, 1997) in Svenska Dagbladet 1999-09-30

Review of Alasdair MacIntyre,  Dependent rational animals. Why human beings need the virtues. (London: Duckworth, 1999) in Svenska Dagbladet 1999-05-19

Review of Matt Ridley, The origin of virtue. Human instincts and the evolution of co-operation. (New York: Viking, 1997) in Svenska Dagbladet 1998-05-05

"Medborgarskapets renässans". Review of Amitai Etzioni The spirit of community, (New York: Basic Books, 1994.) in Svenska Dagbladet 1994-09-27.

"Nietzsche och ideologiernas gungfly". Review of William E Connolly, Political theory and modernity, (London: Blackwell, 1988) i Svenska Dagbladet 1989-09-29.

Current research projects

Democracy and the rule of law in East Africa. With Karolina Hulterström and Inger Österdahl (Department of Law) 2006-2008. Funded by Sida / Sarec

Development and bio-diversity in East Africa and India. With Fanuel Shechambo, PhD (Univ of Dar es Salaam) and Nilanjan Ghosh. PhD (TERI, Delhi). Funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet). 2005-2007.

Previous research projects directed

"Development and globalisation" 2002-2003, 3 researchers, field work in Kenya, South Africa, Thailand, Burma, India.

"Ethics and social capital" (EDSOK). 1998-2000, 7 researchers, field work in Thailand, Kenya, New Zealand

Consultancies

The potentials for eco-tourism in the Lake Victoria basin (with Fanuel Shechambo). Report to Sida (the Swedish International Development Agency) and the East African Community, 2004-01-09

Conferences arranged

“Culture troubles”. Research seminar at the Gamla Torget initiative, Uppsala University, March 10-11, 2005. With Jean-Pascal Daloz, University of Bordeaux and Patrick Chabal, King’s College, London.

"Development and Globalisation". A research seminar in Stockholm September 25-27, 2002, with Jean-Pascal Daloz, University of Bordeaux, Rick Doner, Emory University, Tomas Larsson,  Cornell University, Patrik Aspers, Stockholm University, and Emil Uddhammar.

"The virtues of independence and the dependence of virtue." A colloquium at Krusenberg, hosted by the EDSOK research program. June 13-15, 2001. Participants: Paul Woodruff, University of Texas in Austin, John Dunn and Bryan S Turner, King’s College, Cambridge and others.

"Framtidens dygder" (Virtues of the future). Konferens, Näsby Park Slott, June 3-4, 1998. 15 participants.

"Virtue and citizenship". Scientific research conference, Friibergh Manor. 25 participants. December 12-14, 1996. Participants: John Dunn, Richard Swedberg, Bo Rothstein, Hans L Zetterberg, Bo Stråth, and others.

"Community and citizenship". With Göran Rosenberg. Featuring Amitai Etzioni. Stockholm, March 1995.

Participation in scientific conferences (selection)

“Development and biodiversity change. A study of three protected areas in East Africa and India and the societies and economies surrounding them”. Paper presented at Development Seminar, the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, December 13, 2007

“Political opposition in Sub-Saharan Africa: Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda”. Paper presented at the Mini-conference, December 8-10, 2007, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University.

“Institutional design and bio-diversity change around four protected areas” Paper prepared for the biennial conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics,
December 15-18, 2006, Habitat Centre, Delhi. (with Nilanjan Ghosh et al)

“An institutional framework for analysing the relation between biological conservation and human development in India and East Africa” Seminar on Environment, Livelihood and Development in South Asia: Historical probing in a comparative framework, University of Calcutta, March 6-8, 2006 (with Nilanjan Ghosh)

“Development, conservation and tourism: conflict or symbiosis?” World Resources Institute, Washington D.C., October 6, 2006

“A tribute to Elinor Ostrom from her students” Seminar arranged by alumni at the Workshop for political theory and policy analysis, Indiana University, November 14-15, 2005

Swedish Scientific Council workshop "Social networks, social capital and civil society" arranged in Stockholm by Charli Eriksson and Sture Öberg the 8th of March 2000

NOPSA, Nordic Political Science Association, September 1999, Uppsala

SNS (Swedish institute for business and society). "Constitutional Project" Referensgruppens möte i Stockholm November 8-9, 1999

APSA, American Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. 28-31/8 1997