Mikael Sandberg (political scientist)

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Mikael Sandberg, Erik Mikael Sandberg, born 8 May 1956, is a Swedish associate professor in political science at Högskolan i Halmstad and Jönköping International Business School.

[edit] Biography

Mikael Sandberg was Guest Professor in Political Science at Karlstads universitet (Karlstad University, Sweden) in 2002, Karl Deutsch Guest Professor at Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) in 1997, and research scholar at the UNU University Institute for New Technologies, Maastricht in 1995-96.

Sandberg has particularly focused on evolutionary systems theory, memetics applied to political science, and dynamic models of social change, such as diffusion theory applied to studies of political and technological change. Last years, he has published studies of longitudinal change in political culture in Sweden (in Swedish).

[edit] Selected Works

1. “The Evolution of IT Innovations in Swedish Organizations: A Darwinian Critique of ‘Lamarckian’ Institutional Economics”, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2007.
2. Social Capital and Democratisation. Roots of Trust in Post-Communist Poland and Ukraine, with Martin Åberg, Ashgate 2003
3. Green Post-Communism? Environmental aid, Polish Innovation and evolutionary political-economics, Routledge 1999