Marina Nistotskaya

Professor

Statsvetenskapliga

institutionen

Telefon

031-786 66 91

0766-18 66 91

E-post

marina.nistotskaya@gu.se

Besöksadress

Sprängkullsgatan 19

41123 Göteborg

Postadress

Box 711

40530 Göteborg

Om Marina Nistotskaya

I am Professor at the Department of Political Science and researcher at the Quality of Government Institute, University of Gothenburg.

Research

My research focuses on:

how public bureaucracies are organized around the world. I am PI of the QoG Expert Survey on bureaucratic structures and bureaucratic behaviour in countries across the world and across Russia's regions;
Causes and effects of authonomous (Weberian) bureaucracies
State capacity conceptualization and measurment
Institutional sequencing: state capacity and democratization
Long-term effects of state capacity on tax revenue and tax compliance
Effects of New Public Management reforms
Women political representation in authocratic regimes
African politics: here and here

I have published on these and related topics in Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Governance, Public Administration, the European Journal of Political Research, Environment and Planning C and Journal of East African Studies.

Please see my CV for a more detailed overview of my publications and previous and current projects.

Teaching

I teach BA, MA and PhD-level courses. I am the course coordinator for Quality of Government in Comparative Perspective (MA), Delegation to Executives: Dilemmas and Institutional Solutions (BA) and Advanced Study of the State, its Citizens and its Institutions (PhD).

I am currently supervising three PhD student: Magnus Åsblad (main supervisor), Monika de Silva (second supervisor) and Palina Kolvani (second supervisor).

Under my supervision more than 45 students have successfully defended their MA dissertations at the University of Gothenburg. I also supervise theses of BA students.