User:Mikael Sandberg

=Political scientist Mikael Sandberg= Mikael Sandberg (born May 8, 1956), in Lerum, Sweden, is an associate professor in political science at the University of Halmstad Sweden. He was Karl Deutsch Guest Professor at Wissenshaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung in 1997 and EC fellow at the UN University Institute for New Technologies in 1995-1996. He studied at graduate level at Johns Hopkins University Bologna Center and Columbia University as Fulbright fellow 1983-1984.

Books

 * Social Capital and Democratisation. Roots of Trust in Post-Communist Poland and Ukraine, with Martin Åberg, Ashgate 2003, 332+xvi
 * Green Post-Communism? Environmental aid, Polish Innovation and evolutionary political-economics, Routledge 1999, 221+xiv pp.
 * Baltic Sea Region Environmental Protection. ‘Eastern’ Perspectives and International Cooperation. (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1992), ed.: M. Sandberg, 1992, pp. 172+xix
 * Learning from Capitalists: A Study of Soviet Assimilation of Western Technology, (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell 1989) (Ph.D. dissertation), 264 pp.

Book chapters and journal articles

 * “The Evolution of IT Innovations in Swedish Organizations: A Darwinian Critique of ‘Lamarckian’ Institutional Economics”, Journal of Evolutionary Economics (on-line 2006, vol. 17, No. 1 (Feb 2007)


 * Jansson, F., Lindenfors, P, Sandberg M. (2013). Democratic revolutions as institutional innovation diffusion: Rapid adoption and survival of democracy. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Volume 80, Issue 8, October 2013, Pages 1546–1556 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2013.02.002)


 * Sandberg M and Lundberg, P (2012). Political Institutions and their Historical Dynamics, PLoS 7(10): e45838. (http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0045838 )


 * Sandberg M, Lindenfors P, Jansson F (2011). The Cultural Evolution of Democracy: Saltational Changes in A Political Regime Landscape. PLoS ONE, 6 (11), s. e28270 - . (http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0028270 )


 * Sandberg M (2011). Soft Power, World System Dynamics, and Democratization: A Bass Model of Democracy Diffusion 1800-2000. JASSS: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 14 (1), s. 4. (http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/14/1/4.html)