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Marta Reuter

PhD, researcher, post-doctoral fellow

Currently affiliated with the TRANSDEMOS program
E-mail: marta.reuter@statsvet.su.se

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Research interests

Civil society and its role in political governance; politics of transnationalization; new institutional theory.

Research projects

Europeanization of civil society as institutional change (2009-2011)
Post-doctoral research project funded by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond). The project focuses on the extent to which the transnationalisation and Europeanisation processes affect the way civil society organisations define and relate to their constituencies. Affiliated with the TRANSDEMOS programme.

New Voices, Old Roots: Dilemmas of Populism in Enlarged Europe(2007-2009)
funded by the Baltic Sea Foundation. My part in the project focuses on the role played by Eurosceptic political parties in the discursive construction of “Europe”.

Regulating Chemicals in the Baltic Sea Area: The Politics of Expertise(2006-2008) funded by the Baltic Sea Foundation, and the Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning (FORMAS). The project focused on the relationship between experts and decision-makers in policy processes in the field of chemicals regulation at the EU and national levels.

Current affiliations and positions outside of the Department

• Regional co-editor (for Northern Europe) of the new international journal Nonprofit Policy Forum based at Georgia State University in Atlanta, USA, and published by Berkeley Electronic Press (http://www.bepress.com/npf/ )

• Member of the scientific council of the Ideell Arena third sector think tank;

• Faculty in the European Program in Civil Society Leadership (EPICS);

• Facilitator within the European Civil Society PhD Network;

• Member of the E.V.A. (European Voluntary Associations in the Modern and the Contemporary Period) research network based at the Renvall Institute in Helsinki.

• Reviewer with Voluntas: International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Organizations.

• Member of the scientific council of the Sparbanksakademin think tank.

Selected publications

“Independent Watchdogs or Integrated Policy-Makers? Civil Society Participation in the Hybrid Governance Environment Around the Baltic Sea”, in F. Wijkström and A Zimmer (eds.) Nordic Civil Society at a Cross-Roads, Nomos, 2011.

“Sparbankrörelsens ansvar och det transnationella rummet”, in Filip Wijkström (ed.) Idéer för framtiden. Tankar på vägen in i det nya sparbankslandet, SparbanksAkademin, 2010.

“Technocracy, Politicization and Non-involvement: Politics of Expertise in the European Regulation of Chemicals” (Johan Eriksson, Mikael Karlsson, Marta Reuter), Review of Policy Research 27:2, 2010.

‘Scientific Committees and EU Policy: The Case of SCHER‘ (Johan Eriksson, Mikael Karlsson & Marta Reuter), in Eriksson, Johan, Michael Gilek and Christina Rüden (eds) Regulating Chemical Risks: European and Global Challenges. Springer: Dordrecht, 2010.

Networking a Region into Existence? Dynamics of Civil Society Regionalization in the Baltic Sea Area, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin, 2007.

Review, Norbert Götz and Jörg Hackmann (2002) "Civil Society in the Baltic Sea Region", Journal of Baltic Studies, Vol. 36, No. 3, Fall 2005.

"Introduction" in Catherine Gicquel, Victor Makarov and Magdalena Zolkos (eds.) The Challenge of Mobility in the Baltic Sea Region, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin, 2005.

"Fear of the Other and the Emergence of Regional Identity in the Baltic Sea Area" in Jan Hecker-Stampehl, Aino Bannwart, Dörte Brekenfeld and Ulrike Plath (eds.) Perceptions of Loss, Decline and Doom in the Baltic Sea Area, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin, 2004.

Selected conference papers

Victors Write History: Reflections on the Political Actorhood of Civil Society Organizations (with Filip Wijkström), European Group on Organizational Research (EGOS), Gothenburg 2011.

Who framed democracy? Civil society as wielder of the democratic wand (with Filip Wijkström) ECPR Joint Session of Workshops, Lisbon 2009.

From hostile outsiders to reluctant insiders? Eurosceptic parties and EU enlargement ECPR Joint Session of Workshops, Nicosia 2006.

New Regionalism and transnational civil society World International Studies Conference (WISC), Bilgi University, Istanbul 2005.

The East-West divide and the emergence of a regional civil society in the Baltic Sea area Nordic Political Science Association (NOPSA), Reykjavik 2005.

'New' and 'old' Europeans and the EU constitution: the values at stake
International conference 'After EU Enlargement: Changes and Challenges in the Baltic Sea Region', Södertörn University College, Stockholm 2004.

Cross-border NGO cooperation in the Baltic Sea region
International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR), Toronto 2004.

Workshop convenor

• ECPR Joint Sessions 2012 i Antwerpen (workshop “Re-Assambling the Public”) tillsammans med Annette Zimmer från Münsters universitet i Tyskland.

• NOPSA 2008 i Reykjavik (workshop “Populism”) tillsammans med Ann-Cathrine Jungar från Södertörns högskola.

Education

Ph.D., Political Science, Humboldt University Berlin, 2006.

M.A., Political Science, Lund University, 2000.

B.A., Political Science, Stockholm University / Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1999.

Past affiliations

• Visiting Researcher (“Senior Associate Member”) at St. Antony’s College, Oxford University,  October-November 2007.

• Lecturer / researcher at the Dept. of Political Science, Södertörn University College, 2004-2009.

• Junior researcher within the international research project "The Baltic Sea Area Studies - Northern Dimension of Europe" (BaltSeaNet), Berlin-Tartu-Stockholm, 2001-2004.