Astrid Hedin is an associate professor of political science and public administration at Malmo University, Sweden. During spring 2024, she is a Sabbatical Scholar of the Swedish Central Bank Tertiary Foundation Foundation (RJ). Hedin has written on Communist State Administrative Structures (Oxford Research Encyclopedia, 2021) and Communist state travel controls as state capacity in everyday world politics (Cooperation and conflict, 2019). Her trilogy of articles on how the communist example impacted on West European worker participation reforms in the 1970s include Cold war isomorphism (2016), The Origins and Myths of the Swedish Model (2015), and Before the Breakdown (2019).
Astrid Hedin
Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Administration, Malmö University, Sweden