Publications in peer-reviewed journals
Wennström, Johan (2019). "Marketized Education: How Regulatory Failure Undermined the Swedish School System." Journal of Education Policy, forthcoming.
Henrekson, Magnus and Wennström, Johan (2019). "'Post-Truth' Schooling and the Decline of Swedish Education." Journal of Institutional Economics, forthcoming. Link.
Wennström, Johan (2018). "'A Plague on Both Your Houses': How Left and Right Undermined Moral Motivation in the Swedish School System." Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, 120(3-4): 415-434. Link.
Wennström, Johan (2016). "A Left/Right Convergence on the New Public Management? The Unintended Power of Diverse Ideas." Critical Review, 29(3-4): 380-403. Link.
Working papers
Wennström, Johan and Öner, Özge (2019). "Political Hedgehogs: The Geographical Sorting of Refugees in Sweden", IFN Working Paper No. 1266. Link.
Wennström, Johan (2017). "Anarchy, State, and Utopia: Timothy Snyder's Interpretive Framework for the Holocaust Applied to Norway Under the Nazi Occupation, 1940-45," IFN Working Paper No. 1151. Link.
Other articles in English
Wennström, Johan (2019). "Europe's New Beggars." Quillette, 10/4. Link.
Wennström, Johan (2019). "The Exhaustion of Hedgehog Morality." Quillette, 27/3. Link.
Henrekson, Magnus and Wennström, Johan (2018). "'Post-Truth' and the Decline of Swedish Education." Quillette, 18/9. Link.
Books
Wennström, Johan (2019). Interpreting Policy Convergence Between the Left and the Right: Essays on Education and Immigration. Doctoral dissertation. Linköping Studies in Arts and Sciences No. 760. Linköping: Linköpings universitet. Link.
Wennström, Johan (2017). Market, State, and Morality: Two Studies of How Left and Right Undermined Moral Motivation in the Swedish School System. Licentiate thesis. Faculty of Arts and Sciences Thesis No. 122. Linköping: Linköpings universitet. Link.
Wennström, Johan (2014). Teachers Without Freedom: When Left and Right Kidnapped the Teaching Profession [Lärare utan frihet: när vänstern och högern kidnappade lärarprofessionen]. Stockholm: Samhällsförlaget. Link.
Wennström, Johan (2012). The Felicity of Virtue [Dygdens glädje]. Stockholm: Atlantis.
IFN Pod radio
The former Swedish Government launched Etableringsreformen, stipulating that refugees be placed in municipalities where there are job opportunities. Özge Öner and Johan Wennström have analyzed where new arrivals are placed and find that it is in municipalities with a declining population and high unemployment – in other words where the conditions for job growth is weak. These findings and more are discussed in this podcast (24 juni 2015).
In addition, read about the research in Ekonomisk Debatt 4/2015.