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The spring of 2015 will see the publication of a new research report on policy professionals, i.e. the group of people who are hired to work with politics, for instance communicators, political experts and advisors. The work is financed by the Swedish Research Council and has been running from 2012 through 2014. It builds on interviews with 70 policy professionals and on the mapping of the group’s size, qualifications and background. 

Policy professionals represent a growing group which currently numbers between 2,000 and 2,500 people. They are often political scientists and economists educated in Stockholm and Uppsala. Policy professionals are roughly half and half women and men. The report is written by Stefan Svallfors, Professor of Sociology, Bo Rothstein, Professor of Social Science Cristina Garsten, Professor of Social Anthropology.