Victor Pestoff - Brief Bio
Victor A. Pestoff received his B.A. in political science from California State University at Long Beach (USA) and defended his Ph.D. in political science at Stockholm University (Sweden) 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. He became a Research Associate at Helsinki University (Finland) in 1988 and was a Research Fellow at Kanasawa University (Japan) in 1998. In the mid-1990s he joined the faculty of the newly opened Södertörns högskola (Sweden) and became a Professor of Political Science. He was appointed Full Professor of Political Science at Mid-Sweden University in Östersund (Sweden), in 2002 and retired in 2008.
He is Professor Emeritus in Political Science and currently Guest Professor at the Institute for Civil Society Studies at Ersta Sköndal University College in Stockholm (Sweden). He serves on the Editorial Board of Public Management Review and Voluntas. His current research interests focus on citizen participation and co-production of welfare services and their implications for the (re-) democratization of the welfare state.
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 explored the political and democratic aspects of voluntary organizations, cooperatives, third sector organizations and the social economy. He has published reports and articles on Swedish consumer organizations and consumer influence; many articles and two books on Swedish cooperative movements; articles and reports on Swedish business interests organizations; 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 several languages and two of his books are available in Japanese.
Selected Publications:
1977: Voluntary Associations and Nordic Party Systems. A Study of Multiple Membership and Cross-Pressures in Finland, Norway and Sweden; Stockholm: Studies in Politics; ISBN: 978-91-628-7820-7.
1984: Konsumentinflytande och konsumentorganisering. Den svenska modellen; Stockholm Finansdept.: Ds Fi 1984:15; ISBN: 91-38-08541-0.
1988 & 1989: Näringslivsorganisationerna och politiken i Sverige; Stockholm: TCO, DDD; ISBN: 91-7168-367-4.
1991: Between Markets and Politics: Co-operatives in Sweden; Frankfurt & Bolder: Campus Verlag & Westview Press; ISBN: 3-593-34400-9/0-8133-8294-7 + 4-7710-0892-2. *
1993: HIV/AIDS Directory - Organizations and Activities/ Handbok – Organisationer och aktiviteter; Stockholm: Dept. of Business Administration & Folkhälsoinstitutet (together with Dagmar v. Walden Laing); ISBN: 91-88564-01-0.
1995: (ed.) Reforming Social Services in Central and Eastern Europe – An Eleven Nation Overview; Krakow: Cracow Academy of Economics; ISBN: 83-903900-0-0.
1998 & 2005: Beyond the Market and State. Social enterprises and civil democracy in a welfare society; Aldershot, Brookfield, Sidney & Singapore: Ashgate; ISBN: 1-84014-575-7 + 4-8188-1307-9. *
2004: "The development and future of the social economy in Sweden", The Third Sector in Europe, A. Evers and J-L. Laville (eds), Cheltenham, UK & Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.
2005: "Globalization and Swedish Business Interests Associations in the 21st Century", Governing Interests: Business association facing internationalization, W. Streeck, et al. (eds), London & New York: Routledge.
2006: Small-scale Welfare on a Large Scale. Social cohesion and the politics of Swedish childcare; Huddinge: Södertörns högskola, Research Report No. 5, (together with Peter Strandbrink); ISBN: 91-89315-62-6.
2006 & 2008: Co-production. The Third Sector & the Delivery of Public Services; Pestoff, V. & T. Brandsen (eds), Public Management Review, v. 8/4, reprinted in 2008, London & New York: Routledge and paperback in 2009.
2008: "Co-production, the third sector and functional representation in Sweden", The Third Sector in Europe. Prospects and challenges, Osborne, S. (ed.); London & New York: Routledge.
2008: A Democratic Architecture for the Welfare State; London & New York: Routledge; ISBN: 0-415-47595-2 (hbk), 0-203-88873-1 (ebk). **
2008: (Defourny, J. & V. Pestoff) Towards a European conceptualization of the third sector, Images and Concepts of the Third Sector in Europe; Defourny, J. & V. Pestoff (eds), Liege: EMES Working Paper series n. 08/02.
2009: "Towards a Paradigm of Democratic Governance: Citizen Participation and Co-Production of Personal Social Services in Sweden", Annals of Public and Cooperative Economy; v. 80/2: 197-224.
2009: "Public governance and the third sector: opportunities for co-production and innovation?" (with T. Brandsen), The New Public Governance? New Perspectives on the Theory and Practice of Public Governance, S. Osborne (ed.), Routledge: London & New York.
2009: Improving Social Inclusion at the Local Level through the Social Economy – Final Report on Poland, Paris: OECD (together with M. Mendell, A. Noja & E. Clarance).
2010: "Conclusions: Social Accounting and Public Management: Accountability for the Public Good", Social Accounting and Public Management: Accountability for the Public Good; Osborne, S. & A. Ball (eds); London & New York: Routledge.
2010: "Civicness and Co-Production of Social Services in Sweden", Civicness in the governance and delivery of personal services; Brandsen, T., A. Evers & P Decker (eds), Baden Baden: Nomos Publishing.
2010: Social Enterprise, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Economy, Solidarity Economy: An EMES Reader on the “SE Field”, J. Defourny, L. Hulgard & V. Pestoff (Eds).
*translated & published in Japanese, **under translation to Japanese.
