Ole Therkildsen

MA, Policy Analysis & Regional Planning;
MSc, Geography/Public Administration/Political Science
Senior Researcher, research unit on Politics and development
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Personal CV, short CV

Expertise

Research and consultancy work on state-building, public sector reform, decentralisation, service provision, politics of production, good governance, taxation and capacity development in the public sector - mainly in East Africa.

Selected projects and programmes

Elites, Production and Poverty: A comparative study.

Public sector reform issues, especially concerning decentralisation and service delivery.

Selected publications

‘Elections and Landmark Decisions in Tanzania and Uganda.’ Accepted for publication in Democratization (co-author) 2012.

‘Working in neopatrimonial settings: perceptions of public sector staff in Tanzania and Uganda.’ Accepted for publication in Bierschenck T. and O. de Sardan (eds). African Bureaucracies. Brill Publishers 2012.

‘What drives states to support the development of productive sectors?. Strategies ruling elites pursue for political survival and their policy implications.’ With Lindsay Whitfield. DIIS Working Paper, 2011: 15.

‘Policy making and implementation in agriculture: Tanzania's push for irrigated rice’. DIIS Working paper. 2011: 26.

Mass Taxation and State-Society Relations in East Africa. With O. Fjeldstad.In Taxation and State Building in Developing Countries: Capacity and consent. Ed. by D. Bräutigam,O. Fjeldstad and M. Moore. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2008.

‘Taxation and state-building with a (more) human face’ . DIIS Policy Brief. October 2008.

Elusive public sector reforms in east and southern Africa. In Public sector reform in developing countries. Ed. by Y. Bangura. Basingstoke: Palgrave. 2006.

Selected commissioned work

2009, Elites, Production and Poverty in Africa. Background paper for the preparation of the new Danish Aid Policy (Danida)

2008, Public sector reforms and the development of productive capacities in LDCs. Background paper no 1 for the 2008 LDC report (UNCTAD)

2007, Review of Democracy, Justice and Peace programme, 2006 - 2010, Uganda. For Danida. April - May 2007 (Co-author).

2006, Some evaluation-based findings and recommendations of relevance for the Africa strategy (Danida)

2006, Staff management and organizational performance in Tanzania and Uganda: public servant perspectives (Danida)

2006, Environmental sector programme support, 2007 - 2011. Appraisal. For Danida. October 2006 (co-author).

Selected research related activities

Peer reviews for Comparative Political Studies, International Review of Administrative Sciences, Journal of Modern African Studies, Public Administration and Development, and World Development.

Member of Advisory Group for the Research Programme Consortium on Power, Politics and People, ODI, London.

Member of the Advisory Board for the Forum for Development Studies, a journal of the Norwegian Institute for International Affairs (NUPI).

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