Tommy Möller (born 1958) is a

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professor of

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, and a frequent conservative political commentator in the Swedish media. Möller received his PhD from

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in 1986. Tommy Möller has been recognized for his work on Swedish elections and political parties.

As political commentator

Möller has acted as political commentator in most all of the Swedish media, including ''

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''. On Election Night,

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, Möller provided political commentary for the national radio broadcaster

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as the votes were tallied. Möller has also written

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s for the daily newspaper

. During the controversy after the

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, Thomas Möller supported king

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s with op-eds in

and

Other

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2009, Möller chaired a seminar on political

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in Sweden, and participated in another seminar where he discussed the role of politicians in a political system using

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Publications (selection)

This list is limited to books. A more complete list of publications is available at Möller's department homepageTommy Möller
, Department of Political Science, Stockholm University * ''Borgerlig samverkan''. Uppsala: Diskurs Förlag, 1986. (Dissertation, Uppsala University) * ''Partier och organisationer'', Mats Bäck and Tommy Möller, 1st edition, Stockholm: Allmänna förlaget, 1990. . Several more editions (6th edition, Stockholm: Norstedts Juridik, 2003) * ''Brukare och klienter i välfärdsstaten: Om missnöje och påverkan inom barn- och äldreomsorg.'' Stockholm: Publica, 1996. * ''Politikerförakt eller mogen misstro?'' Stockholm: Svenska kommunförbundet, 1998. * ''Premiär för personval. Forskningsrapporter utgivna av Rådet för utvärdering av 1998 års val.'' SOU 1999:92. (Editor, with Sören Holmberg). * ''Demokratins trotjänare. Lokalt partiarbete förr och nu.'' Demokratiutredningens forskarvolym X, SOU 1999:130. (With Gullan Gidlund). * ''Politikens meningslöshet. Om misstro, cynism och utanförskap.'' Malmö: Liber förlag, 2000. * ''Att lyckas med välfärdsreformer. Erfarenheter, strategier och förutsättningar.'' Stockholm: Reforminstitutet, 2001. * ''Uppsala stads historia. 11, Nittonhundratalets Uppsala.'' (With Hans Norman). Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksell, 2002. (inb) * ''Mellan ljusblå och mörkblå: Gunnar Heckscher som högerledare.'' Stockholm: SNS, 2004. (inb) * ''Svensk politisk historia 1809–1975''. (1st edition) Lund,

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, 2004. (2nd ed., Lund : Studentlitteratur, 2005, .) * ''Folkomröstningar.'' Stockholm: SNS förlag, 2005. * ''Svensk politisk historia: strid och samverkan under tvåhundra år'', Lund: Studentlitteratur, 2007. * ''Politiskt ledarskap.'' Malmö: Liber, 2009.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Moller, Tommy Living people 1958 births Swedish political scientists Academic staff of Stockholm University Uppsala University alumni