Publications

For full list of publications see University of Helsinki research portal

Books

Erkkilä, Tero (2020) Ombudsman as a Global Institution – Transnational Governance and Ideational Change. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.

Erkkilä, Tero and Ossi Piironen (2018) Rankings and Global Knowledge Governance – Higher Education, Innovation and Competitiveness. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.

Peters, Guy B., Patrick von Maravic and Tero Erkkilä (2015) Public Administration. Research Strategies, Concepts and Methods. Routledge, New York.

Erkkilä, Tero, editor (2013). Global University Rankings: Challenges for European Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. [Review in the Journal of Contemporary European Research]

Erkkilä, Tero (2012) Government Transparency. Impacts and Unintended Consequences. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. [Review in the Public Administration]

Erkkilä, Tero (2010) ‘Reinventing Nordic Openness. Transparency and State Information in Finland.’ Acta Politica 40, Department of Political and Economic Studies. p. 359

Erkkilä, Tero & Tiilikainen Teija (2012) Avain EU-käsitteisiin. Uusittu laitos, 1. painos. Eurooppa-tiedotus, Helsinki. p. 90

Erkkilä, Tero & Tiilikainen Teija (2012) Nyckel till EU-begrepp. Reviderad utgåva, första upplagan. Europainformationen, Helsinki. p. 95

Erkkilä, Tero & Tiilikainen Teija (2008) Avain EU-käsitteisiin. 5. päivitetty painos. Eurooppa-tiedotus, Helsinki. p. 90 [1. painos 2004]

Erkkilä, Tero & Tiilikainen Teija (2008) Nyckel till EU-begrepp. 5. reviderad upplaga. Europainformationen, Helsinki. p. 95 [1. upplaga 2004]

Selected articles and book chapters

Erkkilä, Tero (2021) Information Processing and Digitalization in Bureaucracies. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Ahonen, Pertti and Tero Erkkilä (2020) Transparency in Algorithmic Decision-Making: Ideational Tensions and Conceptual Shifts in Finland. Information Polity 25 (4): 419-32.

Erkkilä, Tero (2020) Transparency in Public Administration. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Erkkilä, Tero and Ossi Piironen (2020) Trapped in University Rankings: Bridging Global Competitiveness and Local Innovation. International Studies in Sociology of Education 29 (1-2), 38-60.

Erkkilä, Tero, B. Guy Peters and Ossi Piironen (2016) Introduction to the Special Issue: Politics of Comparative Quantification, The Case of Governance Metrics. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis 18 (4), 319-328.

Erkkilä, Tero (2016) Global Governance Indices as Policy Instruments: Actionability, Transparency and Comparative Policy Analysis. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis 18 (4), 382-402.

Erkkilä, Tero (2014) The Nordic Principle of Openness, European Integration and Global Governance in Götz, Norbert & Marklund, Carl (eds.) The Promise of Openness: Cultures and Paradoxes. Brill, Leiden. p. 73-90.

Krizsán, Attila & Erkkilä, Tero (2014) Multilingualism among Brussels-based civil servants and lobbyists: perceptions and practices. Language Policy 13 (3), 201-219.

Erkkilä, Tero, and Ossi Piironen (2014) (De)politicizing Good Governance: The World Bank Institute, the OECD and the Politics of Governance Indicators. Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research 27 (4), 344-360.

Kehm, Barbara M. & Tero Erkkilä. (2014) Editorial: The Ranking Game. European Journal of Education 49(1): 3-11.

Erkkilä, Tero (2014) Global University Rankings, Transnational Policy Discourse and Higher Education in Europe. European Journal of Education 49(1): 91-101.

Erkkilä, Tero & Krizsan, Attila (2013) “Identities Reframed: EU Civil Servants and Lobbyists’ Perceptions of Europeanism and Nationalism”, Ajankohta: poliittisen historian vuosikirja 16, 131-153.

Erkkilä, Tero & Piironen, Ossi (2013) Shifting fundaments of European higher education governance: competition, ranking, autonomy and accountability. Comparative Education 50 (2), 177-191.

Erkkilä, Tero & Piironen, Ossi (forthcoming). (De)politicizing Good Governance: the World Bank Institute, the OECD and the politics of governance indicators. Innovation: The European Journal of Social Sciences

Erkkilä, Tero & Piironen, Ossi (2013). University Rankings and Transnational Governance of Higher Education: Constructing Autonomy as an Attribute of Success. Comparative Education

Erkkilä, Tero & Kauppi, Niilo (2013) Setting the Policy Agenda for Higher Education Reform: Global University Rankings, European Union and OECD in Niilo Kauppi (ed.) A Political Sociology of Europe. ECPR Press, “New Research”.

Erkkilä, Tero & Kauppi, Niilo (2013) Définir l’université mondiale : Les logiques de la compétition et l’internationalisation de l’enseignement supérieur. in Jean-Christophe Graz et Nafy Niang (eds.) Des Services hors normes Internationalisation et régulation de l’économie des services., Science Po Press, Paris.

Kauppi, Niilo & Erkkilä, Tero (2011) The Struggle Over Global Higher Education: Actors, Institutions, and Practices. International Political Sociology 5 (3), 314–326.

Erkkilä, Tero (2010) ‘Transparency and Nordic Openness: State Tradition and New Governance Ideas in Finland’. in Jansen, St.A., Schröter E., B.P., Stehr, N. (Hg.) Transparenz. Multidisciplinäre Durchsichten durch Phänomene und Theorien des Undurchsichtigen. Zu-Schriften. Jahrbuch der Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen. VS-Verlag, Wiesbaden. p. 348-372.

Erkkilä, Tero (2010) ’Viranomaistiedonvaihdon kulttuuriset haasteet Euroopan unionin oikeus- ja sisäasioissa’. in Nuotio, Kimmo & Malkki Leena (toim.) Vapauden, turvallisuuden ja oikeuden Eurooppa. Forum Iuris, Oikeustieteellinen tiedekunta. p. 119-133.

Erkkilä, Tero & Kauppi, Niilo (2010) ‘Alternatives to Existing International Rankings’. in World Social Science Report 2010. Unesco, Paris. p. 239-241.

Erkkilä, Tero & Kauppi, Niilo (2010) L’Europe et la logique du palmarès dans le champ global de l’enseignement supérieur en formation: Acteurs, institutions, pratiques’. in Marti, Roland & Vogt, Henri (eds.) Europa zwischen Fiktion und Realpolitik, Band 9/2009, Frankreich-Forum. Frankreichzentrum, Universität des Saarlandes. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld. p. 111-128.

Erkkilä, Tero & Piironen Ossi (2009) ‘Politics and Numbers. The Iron Cage of Governance Indices’. in Cox, Raymond (ed.) Ethics and Integrity of Public Administration: Concepts and Cases. ME Sharpe, Armonk. p. 125-145.

Erkkilä, Tero (2007) ‘Governance and Accountability – A Shift in Conceptualisation’. Public Administration Quarterly 31 (1), 1-38.