How can advanced democracies and welfare states achieve welfare-enhancing, liberal institutional reforms? Nils Karlson develops a general theory based on an extended comparative case study of Sweden and Australia over the last 25 years, and offers an in-depth contribution to the field of institutional change, explaining how to govern a country well and how to overcome different barriers to reform, such as special interests, negativity biases and media logic

Nils Karlson is CEO and founder of The Ratio Institute – an independent Swedish research institute focusing on the conditions for enterprise, entrepreneurship, market economy and political change. After doctoral studies in economics and political science at George Mason University and Uppsala University, he earned his doctorate with a thesis on State State: An inquiry into the role of invisible hands in politics and civil. He is also a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and Mont Pelerin Society.