Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard
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Education and employment
Kurrild-Klitgaard is Ph.D. (Pol.Sci.), M.Sc. (Cand.phil., Soc.Sci.) and B.A. (Copenhagen), and M.A. (Pol.Sci.) (Columbia UniversityColumbia University
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). His current position is as Professor of Political Theory and Comparative Politics at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen
University of Copenhagen
The University of Copenhagen is the oldest and largest university and research institution in Denmark. Founded in 1479, it has more than 37,000 students, the majority of whom are female , and more than 7,000 employees. The university has several campuses located in and around Copenhagen, with the...
, where he has held various positions since 1991, and where he specializes in political institutions, political economy and American politics, especially issues such as elections, electoral systems and constitutions. Before his current position, he was professor at the Dept. of Political Science and Public Management, University of Southern Denmark and assistant professor at the Dept. of Political Science, University of Aarhus (1998-2000). He has held visiting appointments at several institutions, including Saint Edmund's College at University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
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, the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy at Columbia University
Columbia University
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, the Dept. of Economics, New York University
New York University
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, and the Institute for Humane Studies, George Mason University
George Mason University
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He has served as a member and vice president of the Danish government’s National Social Science Research Council and being the representative of Danish social science in the European Science Foundation. Kurrild-Klitgaard is the recipient of Fyens Stiftstidende's Research Award (2003), and as a graduate student at Columbia University
Columbia University
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he was a Fulbright Scholar and a Claude R. Lambe Fellow. He was chosen as the University of Copenhagen's "Teacher of the Year" (2007).
Academic publications
Kurrild-Klitgaard has published close to a hundred articles in academic journals and anthologies. He is also the author of several books, most recently Individ, Stat og Marked: Studier i Rationalitet og Politik (2005), Bushs Amerika (2005) og Adam Smith: Økonom, Filosof, Samfundstænker (2004), and he has edited and co-authored such books as Partier og Partisystemer i Forandring (2008), The Dynamics of Intervention (2005), Valg, Vælgere og Velfærdsstat (2000), Etik, Marked og Stat: Liberalismen fra Locke til Nozick (1992), and Farvel til Socialstaten: En Bog om Privatisering (1988). He has also contributed to many anthologies, including Encyclopedia of Public Choice (2004) and is on the advisory editorial board of International Encyclopedia of Political Science.He has worked with several academic journals, and currently is European Editor of Public Choice and is or has been a member of the Editorial Boards of Scandinavian Political Studies, Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, Journal of Private Enterprise and the Journal of Libertarian Studies
Journal of Libertarian Studies
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Public debate
Kurrild-Klitgaard writes as a columnist and commentator for the daily newspaper Berlingske Tidende (1998-2002 and again since 2004) and has previously done so for Politiken (2003-04) and Dagen (2002). At Berlingske Tidende he is one of the contributors to the widely read daily column Groft Sagt.He is frequently used by radio and TV as a commentator on Danish and US politics and is also regularly used as a speaker outside academia. (IN 2006 the weekly "Mandag Morgen" ranked him as the fifth most frequently used political scientist in Danish media, cf. "Mandag Morgen," 15th of January 2007.))
Kurrild-Klitgaard blogs with a group of other academics at the group-weblog Punditokraterne, which according to Politiken (October 2006) and Altinget.dk (March 2006) is one of the most widely read and respected Danish blogs.
Organizations
Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard has held positions in a number of academic organizations, including as president of the Danish Political Science Association (2002-05), member of the Board of the Nordic Political Science Association and of the Council of the International Political Science Association, as well as on the advisory board of the public policy think-tank CEPOSCEPOS
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of which he was one of the initiators, co-founders and board members (2004-05). He has also been elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a member of the Philadelphia Society and the Mont Pelerin Society
Mont Pelerin Society
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, and has served as vice president of the latter.