Richard Öhrvall

Ph.D. Political Science

Linköping University

I have Ph.D. in political science from Linköping University and I employed as an associate senior lecturer at Centre for Local Government Studies, Linköping University . I am also an affiliated researcher at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN). My research interests include political participation, social trust, public corruption and political polarization. Statistical methods and visualization of data are also among my interests. I have experience of using SAS, Python and SPSS, but I primarily use Stata and R.

My CV can be found here.

Research interests

Political participation
Social trust
Public corruption
Political polarization

Education

Ph.D. in Political Science, 2018

Linköping University
M.A. in Political Science, 2002

Uppsala University

Selected Publications

A Clean House? Studies of Corruption in Sweden

According to virtually all international corruption rankings, Sweden is one of the top performing countries with very few exposed incidents of corruption. But does this automatically imply that it can be declared a perfectly ‘healthy patient’? By extensively reviewing existing research and adding empirical sets of data, the authors of A Clean House? shed light on shady corners of the Swedish case.

Andreas Bergh, Gissur Ó. Erlingsson, Richard Öhrvall, Mats Sjölin

Nordic Academic Press

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Recent Publications

More Publications

Big Brother Sees You, But Does He Rule You? The Relationship Between Birth Order and Political Candidacy
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Birth Order and Voter Turnout
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Practice Makes Voters? Effects of Student Mock Elections on Turnout
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Issues on Transparency, Accountability and Control in Hybrid organisations: The Case of Enterprises Owned by Local Government
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A sticky trait: Social trust among Swedish expatriates in countries with varying institutional quality
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Projects

Growing into voting

My doctoral thesis addresses the issues of turnout and habitual voting. It is a compilation thesis with an introduction and four articles. All the studies are based on information on voter turnout from electoral rolls in combination with register data.

New in politics

New in politics is a research project with the purpose of studying expectations and experiences among local politicians. The analyses are based on a panel survey targeting a sample of those who ran for office in the 2014 Swedish municipal elections. This sample will be followed through the political term 2014-2018.

Teaching

I mainly teach quantitative methods at undergraduate level and as a part of the master’s program in political science at Linköping University, where I also supervise undergraduate students.