The JCPA Adjudication Committee, Chaired by Claudia Scott, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, Peter deLeon, University of Colorado, US, Christoffer Green-Pedersen, University of Aarhus, Denmark and Yu-Ying Kuo, Shih Hsin University, Taiwan (members) have unanimously selected:
“How to Construct a Robust Measure of Social Capital: Two Contributions"
JCPA, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 275-292
by
Gert Tinggaard Svendsen & Christian Bjørnskov
University of Aarhus, Denmark
The Award of $1,000 was possible thanks to the JCPA & ICPA-Forum invitational International Institutional Sponsorship Program. We extend our gratitude to the sponsoring institutions for their assistance in promoting comparative policy studies. The Award was presented at the 5th Annual JCPA/ICPA-Forum Workshop in Milan.
Gert Tinggaard Svendsen, PhD is Professor of Public Policy, Department of Political Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark. His doctorate was awarded by the Aarhus School of Business. In 1996, he was appointed as Assistant Professor by the Department of Economics, Aarhus School of Business, where he later became an Associate. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Maryland, Department of Economics (1994-95) where he worked with Prof. Wallace E. Oates and Prof. Mancur Olson.
He is Director of the Danish Social Capital Project (SoCap) since 2002 and serves in advisory capacities as a member of the Editorial Board of Public Choice (2004-2009) and is former Chair of the Danish Public Choice Association (2004-2006). Svendsen has received external financial support for numerous projects, including the Danish Social Science Research Council, the Danish Ministry of Energy, the European Union, and the World Bank. He is the author of seven books and about 50 scientific articles in international journals on political economy issues and studies in social capital. His main contributions are within public policies and lobbyism in the European Union; social capital; the Scandinavian welfare model; climate change policies and environmental regulation.
Christian Bjørnskov, PhD is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, University of Aarhus, Denmark. His doctorate was awarded by the Aarhus School of Business. His primary research interests include social trust/informal institutions, public choice/new institutional economics, subjective well-being and life satisfaction, trade theory/international economics. He has served as an external consultant for the Copenhagen Consensus since 2009.
