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Staffan Kumlin

Staffan Kumlin

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Political Science

D-Index
26
Citations
3332
World Ranking
1532
National Ranking
30

Overview

Staffan Kumlin is affiliated with the University of Oslo in Norway. Their research primarily falls within the field of Social Sciences, with a focus on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, Gender Studies, Public Administration, and Finance as subfields of study.

The core topics Kumlin has addressed in their work include Social Policy and Reform Studies, Electoral Systems and Political Participation, Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics, Social Capital and Networks, Public Policy and Administration Research, Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving, as well as Migration and Labor Dynamics.

Their recent publications demonstrate engagement with welfare state evaluations, political trust, and perceptions of fiscal sustainability, often exploring normative expectations and political attitudes in changing social and political contexts.

  • "Political Trust and Policy Demand in Changing Welfare States: Building Normative Support and Easing Reform Acceptance?" (2021, European Sociological Review)
  • "Losers' Consent in Changing Welfare States: Output Dissatisfaction, Experienced Voice and Political Distrust" (2021, Political Studies)
  • "Welfare state evaluations, normative expectations, and political trust: longitudinal evidence from Germany and Norway" (2024, Public Management Review)
  • "Immigration and welfare state sustainability: whose perception is affected by fiscal cost cues?" (2023, Journal of European Public Policy)
  • "Perceiving welfare state sustainability: fiscal costs, group deservingness, or ideology?" (2024, Journal of Public Policy)

Kumlin has collaborated frequently with several researchers, contributing to multiple publications alongside:

  • Atle Haugsgjerd
  • Lisanne de Blok
  • Miroslav Nemčok
  • Silke Goubin
  • Arno Van Hootegem

Consistent publication venues for their work include the European Sociological Review, Political Studies, Public Management Review, Journal of European Public Policy, and the Journal of Public Policy.

Best Publications

  • Making and Breaking Social Capital: The Impact of Welfare-State Institutions

    Staffan Kumlin;Bo Rothstein

  • The Personal and the Political: How Personal Welfare State Experiences Affect Political Trust and Ideology

    Staffan Kumlin

  • Scandal Fatigue? Scandal Elections and Satisfaction with Democracy in Western Europe, 1977–2007

    Staffan Kumlin;Peter Esaiasson

  • The electoral supporter base of the Alternative for Germany

    Achim Goerres;Dennis C. Spies;Staffan Kumlin

  • The Welfare State: Values, Policy Preferences, and Performance Evaluations

    Staffan Kumlin

  • How Welfare States Shape the Democratic Public

    Staffan Kumlin;Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen

  • How welfare states shape the democratic public : policy feedback, participation, voting, and attitudes

    Staffan Kumlin;Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen

  • Value Orientations and Party Choice

    Oddbjørn Knutsen;Staffan Kumlin

  • Institutions—Experiences—Preferences: How Welfare State Design Affects Political Trust and Ideology

    Staffan Kumlin

  • Social Stratification and Political Articulation: Why Attitudinal Class Differences Vary Across Countries

    Staffan Kumlin;Stefan Svallfors

  • Questioning the New Liberal Dilemma : Immigrants, Social Networks, and Institutional Fairness

    Staffan Kumlin;Bo Rothstein

  • Blaming Europe? Exploring the variable impact of national public service dissatisfaction on EU trust

    Staffan Kumlin

  • How Personal Welfare State Experiences Affect Political Trust and Ideology

    Staffan Kumlin

  • Ideology–Driven opinion formation in Europe: The case of attitudes towards the third sector in Sweden

    Staffan Kumlin

  • The welfare state and political trust: bringing performance back in

    Staffan Kumlin;Atle Haugsgjerd

  • Downbound spiral? Economic grievances, perceived social protection and political distrust

    Atle Haugsgjerd;Staffan Kumlin

  • Claiming Blame and Giving Credit: Unintended Effects of How Government and Opposition Frame the Europeanization of Welfare

    Staffan Kumlin

  • Trust and the Welfare State

    Staffan Kumlin;Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen;Atle Haugsgjerd

  • Overloaded or Undermined? European Welfare States in the Face of Performance Dissatisfaction

    Staffan Kumlin

  • Citizens, policy feedback, and European welfare states

    Staffan Kumlin;Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen

  • The personal and the political

    Staffan Kumlin

  • Dissatisfied Democrats, Policy Feedback, and European Welfare States, 1976-2001

    Staffan Kumlin

  • Scandal Fatigue:Scandal Elections and Satisfaction with Democracy in Western Europe 1977-2006

    Peter Esaiasson;Staffan Kumlin

Frequent Co-Authors

Bo Rothstein
Bo Rothstein University of Gothenburg
Jan Teorell
Jan Teorell Stockholm University
Sören Holmberg
Sören Holmberg University of Gothenburg
Peter Esaiasson
Peter Esaiasson University of Gothenburg
Jacques J.A. Thomassen
Jacques J.A. Thomassen University of Twente
Hermann Schmitt
Hermann Schmitt University of Mannheim
Jørgen Goul Andersen
Jørgen Goul Andersen Aalborg University
Aksel Sundström
Aksel Sundström University of Gothenburg

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