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Richard Öhrvall

Richard Öhrvall has been connected to IFN during 2013–2022. He was part time working as a researcher during his doctoral studies. Richard received his Ph.D. in political science in 2018 at Linköping University with the dissertation Growing into Voting: Election Turnout among Young People and Habit Formation. During 2019–2022 Richard was an affiliated researcher at IFN along with his position as an associate senior lecturer at the Centre for Local Government Studies, Linköping University.

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Journal Articles

03 January 2022 Bratsberg, Bernt et al. (2022). “Birth Order and Voter Turnout”. British Journal of Political Science 52(1), 475–482. doi.org/10.1017/S0007123419000826

30 June 2021 Oskarsson, Sven, Christopher Dawes, Richard Öhrvall and Karl-Oskar Lindgren (2021). “Big Brother Sees You, But Does He Rule You? The Relationship Between Birth Order and Political Candidacy”. Journal of Politics 83(3), 1158–1162. doi.org/10.1086/711055

01 August 2020 Öhrvall, Richard and Sven Oskarsson (2020). “Practice Makes Voters? Effects of Student Mock Elections on Turnout”. Politics 40(3), 377–393. doi.org/10.1177/0263395719875110

01 December 2018 Bergh, Andreas and Richard Öhrvall (2018). “A Sticky Trait: Social Trust Among Swedish Expatriates in Countries with Varying Institutional Quality”. Journal of Comparative Economics 46(4), 1146–1157. doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2018.06.002

01 September 2017 Bergh, Andreas, Günther Fink and Richard Öhrvall (2017). “More Politicians, More Corruption: Evidence from Swedish Municipalities”. Public Choice 172, 483–500. doi.org/10.1007/s11127-017-0458-4

01 October 2016 Erlingsson, Gissur Ó., Jonas Linde and Richard Öhrvall (2016). “Distrust in Utopia? Public Perceptions of Corruption and Political Support in Iceland before and after the Financial Crisis of 2008”. Government and Opposition 51(4), 553–579. doi.org/10.1017/gov.2014.46

01 April 2014 Erlingsson, Gissur Ó, Kåre Vernby and Richard Öhrvall (2014). “The Single–Issue Party Thesis and the Sweden Democrats”. Acta Politica 49(2), 196–216. doi.org/10.1057/ap.2013.18

01 March 2014 Persson, Mikael, Anders Sundell and Richard Öhrvall (2014). “Does Election Day Weather Affect Voter Turnout? Evidence from Swedish Elections”. Electoral Studies 33, 335–342. doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2013.07.021

28 January 2014 Erlingsson, Gissur Ó., Jonas Linde and Richard Öhrvall (2014). “Not so Fair after All? Perceptions of Procedural Fairness and Satisfaction with Democracy in the Nordic Welfare States”. International Journal of Public Administration 37(2), 106–119. doi.org/10.1080/01900692.2013.836667

01 October 2013 Persson, Mikael, Maria Solevid and Richard Öhrvall (2013). “Voter Turnout and Political Equality: Testing the ‘Law of Dispersion’ in a Swedish Natural Experiment”. Politics 33(3), 172–184. doi.org/10.1111/1467-9256.12012

Books

01 January 2016 Bergh, Andreas, Gissur Ó Erlingsson, Richard Öhrvall and Mats Sjölin (2016). A Clean House? – Studies of Corruption in Sweden. Lund, Sweden: Nordic Academic Press.

01 January 2013 Bergh, Andreas, Gissur Ó Erlingsson, Mats Sjölin and Richard Öhrvall (2013). Allmän nytta eller egen vinning? En ESO–rapport om korruption på svenska. Stockholm: Finansdepartementet.

Book Chapters

01 January 2018 Erlingsson, Gissur Ó., Anna Thomasson and Richard Öhrvall (2018). “Issues on Transparency, Accountability and Control in Hybrid organisations: The Case of Enterprises Owned by Local Government”. In Andrea Bonomi Savignon, Luca Gnan, Alessandro Hinna and Fabio Monteduro (Eds.), Hybridity in the Governance and Delivery of Public Services (31–52). Studies in Public and Non-Profit Governance, Volume 7. Emerald Publishing. doi.org/10.1108/S2051-663020180000007012

01 January 2015 Öhrvall, Richard (2015). “Voter Turnout”. In Jon Pierre (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Swedish Politics (229–245). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

01 January 2013 Jordahl, Henrik and Richard Öhrvall (2013). “Nationella reformer och lokala initiativ”. In Henrik Jordahl (Ed.), Välfärdstjänster i privat regi: framväxt och drivkrafter (33–87).

Working Papers

23 February 2023 Bergh, Andreas , Christian Bjørnskov and Richard Öhrvall (2023). “Nonresponse Bias in Trust Surveys”. IFN Working Paper No. 1455. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).

18 December 2018 Öhrvall, Richard and Sven Oskarsson (2018). “Practice Makes Voters? Effects of Student Mock Elections on Turnout”. IFN Working Paper No. 1258. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).

07 September 2016 Bergh, Andreas and Richard Öhrvall (2016). “A Sticky Trait: Social Trust among Swedish Expatriates in Countries with Varying Institutional Quality”. IFN Working Paper No. 1132. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).

12 November 2012 Bergh, Andreas, Günther Fink and Richard Öhrvall (2012). “Public Sector Size and Corruption: Evidence from 290 Swedish Municipalities ”. IFN Working Paper No. 938. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).

Articles in Swedish

01 January 2020 Vestin, Erik and Richard Öhrvall (2020). “Att förutsäga amerikanska presidentval”. Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift 122(5), 127–139.

01 January 2016 Erlingsson, Gissur Ó., Mattias Fogelgren, Fredrik Olsson, Anna Thomasson and Richard Öhrvall (2016). “Att bolagisera kommunal verksamhet – implikationer för granskning, ansvarsutkrävande och demokrati?”. Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift 117(4), 555–585.

01 January 2013 Erlingsson, Gissur Ó and Richard Öhrvall (2013). “Kommunerna brister i hanteringen av anställdas bisysslor”. Ekonomisk Debatt 41(3), 5–15.

Op-Eds

26 April 2022 Erligsson, Gissur Ó, David Karlsson, Jessika Wide and Richard Öhrvall (2022). “Den lokala demokratins spelregler måste renodlas”. Dagens Samhälle, April 26.

27 November 2014 Thomasson, Anna, Gissur Erlingsson, Richard Öhrvall, Fredrik Olsson and Mattias Fogelgren (2014). “Vässa styrningen av kommunala bolag”. Dagens Samhälle, November 27.

03 June 2013 Bergh, Andreas, Gissur Ó Erlingsson, Mats Sjölin and Richard Öhrvall (2013). “Granskaren måste komma utifrån”. Balans, June 3.

09 April 2013 Bergh, Andreas, Gissur Erlingsson, Mats Sjölin and Richard Öhrvall (2013). “Svenskar misstror offentliga tjänstemäns ärlighet”. Dagens Nyheter, April 9.

Popular Science

27 September 2022 Öhrvall, Richard (2022). “En klyfta mellan stad och land”.

01 January 2018 Bergh, Andreas, Gissur Erlingsson and Richard Öhrvall (2018). “Korruption i Sverige har underskattats”. Ekonomisk Debatt 46(2), 63–65.

01 January 2017 Erlingsson, Gissur Ó. and Richard Öhrvall (2017). “Fullmäktigeledamoten och mandatperioden”. Stockholm: Sveriges Kommuner och Landsting.

Reports

27 April 2022 Erlingsson, Gissur Ó, David Karlsson, Jessica Wide and Richard Öhrvall (2022). “Den lokala demokratins vägval”.

23 June 2021 Erlingsson, Gissur Ó, Richard Öhrvall, Susanne Wallman Lundåsen and Arvid Zerne (2021). “Centrum mot periferi? Om missnöje och framtidstro i Sveriges olika landsdelar”.

01 January 2016 Bergh, Andreas, Henrik Jordahl and Richard Öhrvall (2016). “Tål den svenska modellen att jämföras? Om utlandssvenskars attityder till välfärdsstaten”. In Maria Solevid (Ed.), Svenska utlandsröster (211–232). Göteborg: SOM-Institutet.

Dissertations

01 January 2018 Öhrvall, Richard (2018). Growing into Voting: Election Turnout among Young People and Habit Formation. Doctoral Dissertation. Department of Management and Engineering, Political Science, Linköping University.