Institute for Civil Society Studies
Campus Ersta
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Position:
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Guest Professor
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Telephone:
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08-555 050 03, 070-2766555
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Fax:
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08-555 050 60
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E-mail:
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victor.pestoff(at)esh.se
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Address:
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Ersta Sköndal University College
Institute for Civil Society Studies
Box 11189
100 61 STOCKHOLM
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Visiting address:
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Stigbergsgatan 30
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Background
Victor A. Pestoff received his B.A. in political science from California State University at Long Beach in 1963. He defended his Ph.D. in political science at Stockholm University in 1977. He taught at Stockholm University for nearly 20 years: six years at the Department of Political Science and 13 years at the School of Business. In the mid-1990s he joined the faculty of the newly opened Södertörns högskola and became a Professor of Political Science. He was appointed Full Professor of Political Science at Mid-Sweden University in Östersund, in 2002 and retired in 2008.
Research interests
Dr. Pestoff examined the relations between party systems, popular movements and voluntary organizations in the Nordic countries in his Ph.D. dissertation. For 30 years he then explored the political and democratic aspects of voluntary organizations, cooperatives, third sector organizations and the social economy. He published several reports and articles on Swedish consumer organizations and consumer influence; several articles and two books on Swedish cooperative movements; several articles and reports on Swedish business interests organizations; several articles on the negotiated economy in Scandinavia, several articles and a book on the transformation of the public sector in Central and Eastern Europe and two books on the third sector and welfare state. Many of his articles are translated to different languages and three of his books are available in Japanese.
He recently joined the Institute for Civil Society Studies at Ersta Sköndal University College in Stockholm as a Guest Professor. His current research interests focus on citizen participation and co-production of welfare services as well as the (re-) democratization of the welfare state.
Publications in 2008 and 2009
Pestoff Victor (2009). Towards a Paradigm of Democratic Participation: Citizen Participation and Co-Production of Personal Social Services in Sweden. In Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, v. 80/2: 197-224.
Pestoff Victor and Taco Brandsen (2009). Public governance and the third sector: opportunities for co-production and innovation? In S. Osborne (ed).The New Public Governance? New Perspectives on the Theory and Practice of Public Governance. London & New York: Routledge.
Pestoff Victor (2009). Democratic Governance: Citizen Participation and Co-Production in the Provision of Personal Social Services in Sweden. In Annals of Public and Cooperative Economy; v. 80/2: 197-224.
Pestoff Victor, M. Mendell, A. Noja & E. Clarance (2009). Improving Social Inclusion at the Local Level through the Social Economy Final Report on Poland. Paris: OECD.
Pestoff Victor (2009). Democratic Governance, Co-Production and the Role of the Third Sector in Providing Personal Social Services in Sweden. In Panorama Social, No. 9.
Pestoff, V. (2008). A Democratic Architecture for the Welfare State. Promoting citizen participation, the third sector and co-production; London & New York: Routledge.
Pestoff, V. & T. Brandsen (eds) (2008). Co-production. The Third Sector and the Delivery of Public Services; London & New York: Routledge.
Brandsen, T. & V. Pestoff (2008). Co-production. The Third Sector and the Delivery of Public Services. An Introduction, Ch. 1 in Co-production. The Third Sector and the Delivery of Public Services; V. Pestoff & Brandsen, T. (eds). London & New York: Routledge.
Pestoff, V. (2008). Citizens and Co-production of Welfare Services: Childcare in eight European countries, Ch. 2 in Co-production. The Third Sector and the Delivery of Public Services; V. Pestoff & Brandsen, T. (eds). London & New York: Routledge.
Pestoff, V., S. Osborne, & T. Brandsen (2008). Patterns of Co-production in Public Services: Some concluding thoughts, Ch. 8 in Co-production. The Third Sector and the Delivery of Public Services; V. Pestoff & Brandsen, T. (eds). London & New York: Routledge.
Pestoff, V. (2008). Co-production, the third sector and functional representation in Sweden, Ch. 10 in The Third Sector in Europe. Prospects and challenges, Osborne, S. (ed.); London & New York: Routledge.
Pestoff, V. (2008). Democratic Governance: Co-Production, the Third Sector and Citizen Participation in the Provision of Social Services, (translated to Polish for the Good Governance Quarterly).
Pestoff, V. (2008). The development and future of the social economy in Sweden, Ch. 3 in The Third Sector in Europe (2004), Evers, A. & J-L. Laville (eds); Cheltenham & Northampton: Edward Elgar Publ., (translated to Polish and published in) Third Sector for the advanced - A Reader; Warsaw: Klon/Jawar Association.
Pestoff, V. (2008). Democratizing Medical and Health Care – the Japanese Example, solicited by the Institute of Nonprofit Health Care Cooperation, Nagano, Japan (translated to Japanese and published by the) INHCC Review.
Defourney, J. & V. Pestoff (eds) (2008). Images and Concepts of the Third Sector in Europe; Brussels: EMES, WP 2/08, available at www.emes.net.
Defourney, J. & V. Pestoff (2008). Towards a European conceptualization of the third sector, in Images and Concepts of the Third Sector in Europe; Brussels: EMES, WP 2/08.
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