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Agnes Cornell
Director of Studies
Department of Political ScienceSenior Lecturer
Department of Political ScienceAbout Agnes Cornell
Agnes Cornell is an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg.
Cornell’s research lies at the intersection of public administration and comparative politics. She studies the relationship between state bureaucracy and democracy, political institutions, and citizens’ interactions with the state in historical as well as contemporary settings. Cornell’s research also examines foreign aid and processes of democratization.
Cornell’s research has been published or is forthcoming in journals such as Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Governance, European Journal of Political Research, Public Administration, Journal of Democracy, and Democratization.
Cornell has together with Jørgen Møller and Svend-Erik Skaaning written the monography Democratic Stability in an Age of Crisis: Reassessing the Interwar period (2020, Oxford University Press)
Cornell is Director of Studies for the international master’s programme International Administration and Global Governance (IAGG).
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Political
Regimes
Agnes Cornell, Jørgen Møller, Svend-Erik Skaaning
Andrew Denning and Heidi J.S. Tworek (eds.) The Interwar World - 2023 -
Voting for bureaucracy? Contestation, suffrage and
meritocracy
David Andersen, Agnes Cornell
European Journal of Political Research - 2023 -
Brokering Bureaucrats: How Bureaucrats and Civil Society Facilitate Clientelism Where Parties are
Weak
Agnes Cornell, Marcia Grimes
Comparative Political Studies - 2023 -
Colonial origins of modern bureaucracy? India and the professionalization of the British civil
service.
Agnes Cornell, Ted Svensson
Governance. An International Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions - 2023 -
Colonial Origins of Modern Bureaucracy: India and the Professionalisation of the British Civil
Service
Agnes Cornell, Ted Svensson
Paper presented at workshop: State Making and Global Order in Historical-Comparative Perspective, Lund University, September 2-3. - 2021 -
Mapping of Democratization Support, Final
Report
Agnes Cornell
2021 -
Bureaucracy and
Growth
Agnes Cornell, C. H. Knutsen, J. Teorell
Comparative Political Studies - 2020 -
Democratic Stability in an Age of Crisis: Reassessing the Interwar
Period
Agnes Cornell, Jørgen Møller, Svend-Erik Skaaning
2020 -
Money Matters: The Role of Public Sector Wages in Corruption
Prevention
Agnes Cornell, Anders Sundell
Public Administration - 2020 -
Introducing the Historical Varieties of Democracy dataset: Political institutions in the long 19th
century
C. H. Knutsen, J. Teorell, T. Wig, Agnes Cornell, J. Gerring, H. Gjerlow, S. E. Skaaning, D. Ziblatt, Kyle L. Marquardt, D. Pemstein, B. Seim
Journal of Peace Research - 2019 -
Colonial Origins of Modern Bureaucracy: India and the Professionalisation of the British Civil
Service
Agnes Cornell, Ted Svensson
Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Washington DC, August 29–September 1 - 2019 -
Cooking the books: Bureaucratic politicization and policy
knowledge
Frida Boräng, Agnes Cornell, Marcia Grimes, Christian Schuster
Governance - 2018 -
Introducing the Historical Varieties of Democracy Dataset: Political Institutions in the Long 19th
Century
Carl Henrik Knutsen, Jan Teorell, Agnes Cornell, John Gerring, Haakon Gjerløw, Svend-Erik Skaaning, Tore Wig, Daniel Ziblatt, Kyle L. Marquardt, Daniel Pemstein, Brigitte Seim
2018 -
The real lessons of the interwar
years
Agnes Cornell, Jørgen Møller, Svend Erik Skaaning
Journal of Democracy - 2017 -
Devolution and corruption in Kenya: everyone's turn to
eat?
Michelle D'Arcy, Agnes Cornell
African Affairs - 2016 -
Civil Society, Party Institutionalization, and Democratic Breakdown in the Interwar
Period
Agnes Cornell, Jørgen Møller, Svend-Erik Skaaning, Staffan I Lindberg
2016 -
Bureaucratic politicization and politicized knowledge: Implications for the functioning of
democracy
Frida Boräng, Agnes Cornell, Marcia Grimes
ECPR Joint Sessions Warsaw, 30 March-2 April 2015 - 2015 -
Bureaucratic Politicization and Politicized Knowledge: Implications for the functioning of
democracy
Frida Boräng, Agnes Cornell, Marcia Grimes, Christian Schuster
Quality of Government and the Performance of Democracies, 20-22 May 2015, University of Gothenburg - 2015 -
Institutions as Incentives for Civic Action: Bureaucratic Structures, Civil Society and Disruptive
Protests
Agnes Cornell, Marcia Grimes
Journal of Politics - 2015 -
Plus ça change? County-level politics in Kenya after
devolution
Agnes Cornell, Michelle D'Arcy
Journal of Eastern African Studies - 2014 -
Meritocratic administration and democratic
stability
Agnes Cornell, Victor Lapuente
Democratization - 2014 -
Why Bureaucratic Stability Matters for the Implementation of Democratic Governance
Programs
Agnes Cornell
Governance. An International Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions - 2014 -
The Limited Effects of Democracy Aid on Regime
Change
Agnes Cornell
Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, Aug. 29 – Sept. 1 - 2013 -
Institutional Impediments and Reluctant Actors – The Limited Role of Democracy Aid in Democratic
Development
Agnes Cornell
2013 -
Does regime type matter for the impact of democracy aid on
democracy
Agnes Cornell
Democratization - 2013 -
Invictus: Administrative Structure and Democratic
Survival
Agnes Cornell, Victor Lapuente
Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association - 2012 -
Leder demokratibistånd till
demokratisering?
Jan Teorell, Agnes Cornell
2012 -
Foreign Aid, Democratic Survival and Authoritarian
Breakdown
Agnes Cornell
Midwest Political Science Association Annual meeting, Chicago, 30 mars-3 april - 2011 -
The Importance of Bureaucratic Stability– Democracy Promotion in Development Cooperation to Public Institutions in Two Latin American
Democracies
Agnes Cornell
ECPR General Conference, Reykjavik 24-27 augusti - 2011 -
Actor-Related Contextual Factors in Democracy Promotion: Analyzing Democracy Aid's Impact in Divergent Political
Regimes
Agnes Cornell
ISA Annual Convention, New Orleans, 17-20 February 2010 - 2010 -
The impact of democracy aid on democracy in different types of authoritarian
regimes
Agnes Cornell
ISA West, 25-26 september, San Francisco. - 2009 -
Demokratibistånd, politiska regimer och demokratisk
utveckling
Agnes Cornell
Politica - 2009 -
Does democracy aid promote
democracy?
Agnes Cornell
Paper presented at the 2nd ECPR Graduate Conference, Universitat Autònoma Barcelona, Spain 25-27 August 2008. Panel: Democracy and Democratisation 1 Democracy and at the XV Nopsa conference in Tromsø, Norway August 6-9, 2008 - 2008 -
The effects of democracy
aid
Agnes Cornell
Paper presented at the Quality of Government Institute working conference in Tallinn, Estonia December 1-3 2008 and at the Seminar of International Politics at the Department of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg - 2008