Helena Olofsdotter Stensöta

Professor

Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

Telefon

031-786 13 17

E-post

helena.stensota@pol.gu.se

Fax

031-786 45 99

Besöksadress

Sprängkullsgatan 19

41123 Göteborg

Rumsnummer

B534

Postadress

Box 711

40530 Göteborg

Om Helena Olofsdotter Stensöta

Presentation

Professor at Political Science Department at University of Göteborg.

My research focuses on gender ethics, public administration, and policy. I am interested in how and why care ethical considerations can contribute to good government and governance. I am also interested in how current gendered structures divide experiences and how this has consequences for politics, including how government works. I have analyzed the nexus between gender, good governance/corruption, and conditions for child wellbeing. My newest research interest is how government and alternative authorities meet citizens in vulnerable areas.

Areas of research interest

* Ethics of care and public administration

While bureaucracy emphasizing impartiality is a foundation for government, the state today also performs many other tasks for which different values and ways of reasoning are essential, such as care and responsibility. Ethics of care may help to meet these goals and demands.

Stensöta Olofsdotter, Helena. (2010). The Conditions of Care. Public Administration Review. 70 (2): 295–303 (ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking 2008: 3/28 Public Administration Impact Factor: 1.503). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1540-6210.2010.02137.x

Stensöta Olofsdotter, Helena. (2015). A public ethics of care - A general public ethics. Ethics and Social Welfare. 9 (2): 183–200.

Stensöta Olofsdotter Helena (2019) Street-level bureaucracy research and the assessment of ethical conduct. In: Peter Hupe (Ed.) Handbook in street level bureaucracy: the ground floor of government in context. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Research Handbooks. https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/edcoll/9781786437624/9781786437624.00039.xml

* Child wellbeing

Nordlander Erica, & Helena Olofsdotter Stensöta. (2014). Grades - for better or worse? The interplay of school performance and subjective well-being among boys and girls. Child Indicators Research 6 January 2014. pp 861–879 (2013 impact factor: 1.038).

Engster Daniel & Helena Olofsdotter Stensöta. (2011). Do Family Policies Matter for Childrens´ Well Being? Social Politics. 18 (1): 82–124. (Impact Factor 2010 1.579 (5 year 2.138) 6/35 Social Issues). https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxr006

* Street-level research

Møller Østergaard Marie & Stensöta Olofsdotter, Helena. (2017). Welfare State Regimes and Caseworkers’ Problem Explanation. Administration & Society 51(9) pp 1425–1454 https://doi.org/10.1177/0095399717700224

Stensöta, Olofsdotter, Helena. (2012). Political Influence on Street-Level Bureaucratic Outcome: Testing the Interaction between Bureaucratic Ideology and Local Community Political Orientation. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. 22 (3): 553–571. (Impact Factor 2010 2.086 (5-year 3.832) Ranking 2010: 2/39 PA). https://www.jstor.org/stable/23251264

Stensöta Olofsdotter, Helena. (2009). Sjukskrivningarna och välfärdens infriare. En studie i svensk sjukvårdsbyråkrati [Sick insurance and the realizers of welfare. A study in Swedish health-care bureaucracy] (pp 1–159). Stockholm: Hjalmarsson & Högberg.

Frykman, Jonas, Hammerlin Mia-Marie, Hansen Kjell, Rothstein Bo, Stensöta Olofsdotter Helena, & Schierenbeck Isabell. (2009). Sense of Community. Ethnologica Europaea Journal of European Ethnology. 39 (1): 5–74

* Gender and corruption

Stensöta Helena & Lena Wängnerud. (2018). (Eds.) Gender and Corruption. Historical Roots and New Avenues for Research (pp 1–301). London: Palgrave MacMillan. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-70929-1

Stensöta Olofsdotter, Helena, Lena Wängnerud & Richard Svensson. (2015). Gender and Corruption. The mediating power of institutional logics. Governance 28 (4) 475–496. https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12120 ISI Journal Citation Reports © Ranking: 2013: 8/46 (PA); 22/156 (Pol Sci).

* Politics and gendered experiences

Dahlerup, D., Karlsson, D., & Stensöta, H. O. (2021). What does it mean to be a feminist MP? A comparative analysis of the Swedish and Danish parliaments. Party Politics, 27(6), 1198-1210.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1354068820942690

Stensöta Olofsdotter, Helena. (2020). Does Care Experience Affect Policy Interests? Male Legislators, Parental Leave, and Political Priorities in Sweden. Politics & Gender 16 Special Issue 1 March 2020 pp.123–144. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X1800082X

Stensöta Olofsdotter, Helena. (2004). Den empatiska staten. Daghemspolitik och polispolitik 1950–2000. [The empathetic state. Childcare and Law Enforcement Policy 1950–2000] (pp 1-250). Doctoral dissertation. Monograph. Gothenburg Studies in Political Science No 80. Livrena.

* Other areas:

Anderson, Dennis, Bendz Anna & Helena Olofsdotter Stensöta. (2018). The Limits of a Commitment? Public Responses to Asylum Policy in Sweden over Time. Scandinavian Political Studies. 41(3):307–335. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9477.12125

Stensöta Olofsdotter, Helena & Anna Bendz. (2020). Public Response to Welfare Policy Retrenchment: The Importance of Trust in Implementing Agencies. The Case of Early Retirement in Sweden 1999–2010” 54(1), 102-118 https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12525