Thirteenth edition

Returning west across the plain after a wild night out with Sofi in Örebro, I am drafting a syllabus for a new course called “The Swedish Political System in a Comparative Perspective” that we plan to offer to international students in the future. Looking for suitable readings, I discovered that Comparative government and politics: an introduction is just out in a thirteenth edition which says something about the passing of time considering that I had the fourth edition or something when I was an undergraduate student in Örebro.

Clearly in violation of that White January promise, Sofi and I started the evening at Clarion Borgen which always brings back so many memories, including from when I stayed there in 2022 when taking a SoTL-course at Örebro University and started my mornings with photo intervals along Svartån. Otherwise, I got to deepen my friendship with Sofi’s lovely flat-coated retriever Krut, in part by sharing some of my Jamon Serrano Gran Reserva in front of the fireplace ;-)