Published 14 June 2018 This year, Sweden celebrates a century of democracy and fair elections are seen as self-evident. How did our democracy develop and how did we get rid of election fraud? One of your researchers has now examined the country’s election fraud history and its underlying causes – from 1719 to the early 1900s. The conclusion? Bureaucrats and political parties are the biggest factor

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Published 18 June 2018 Johannes Lindvall has, together with David Rueda, authored the book chapter ”Public Opinion, Party Politics, and the Welfare State” in the book ”Welfare Democracies and Party Politics—Explaining Electoral Dynamics in Times of Changing Welfare Capitalism”. I their study Johannes Lindvall (Lund University) and David Rueda (University of Oxford) show how social policy in rich d

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Published 21 June 2018 Jens Bartelson, Martin Hall and Jan Teorell are the editors of the newly released book “De-Centering State Making”. Bridging the gap between international relations and comparative politics, this book transposes Eurocentric theories and narratives of state-making to new historical and geographical contexts in order to probe their scope conditions. In doing this, the authors

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Published 25 June 2018 Thorsteinn Kristinsson has co-authored three chapters in the forthcoming book ”Small States and Shelter Theory: Iceland’s External Affairs”.  Through a re-examination of the history of Iceland’s external relations, the book proposes a new theoretical framework with which to understand the place of small political entities in world politics. Further information about the publ

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Published 14 August 2018 Johannes Lindvall and Per Andersson, who defended his dissertation at the department in 2017, has just published the article ”Crises, investments, and political institutions” in the Journal of Theoretical Politics. The article is based on a game-theoretic analysis of decision-making under different types of institutions.Read the article on Sage Journals’ websiteJohannes Li

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Published 16 August 2018 What influences the likelihood that an individual joins a radical group? Hanna Bäck and Niklas Altermark have, together with Emma Bäck and Holly Knapton, studied this question in an experimental study. The results show that when experiencing social exclusion, highly rejection sensitive individuals tend to adapt to the radical group’s opinionsThe researchers write more abou

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Published 17 August 2018 Karin Aggestam has together with Ann Towns, Gothenburg University, authored the article ”The gender turn in diplomacy: a new research agenda”. The article is published in International Feminist Journal of Politics. Learn more on tandfonline.comKarin Aggestam’s personal page

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Published 21 August 2018 Jan Teorell is a new member of the Skytte Prize Committee, which is one of the largest academic prizes in the field of Political Science. - I expect to learn even more about the already vast, heterogeneous and growing field of political science. I have some previous experience with being on prize committees for the American Political Science Association, but nothing on thi

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Published 29 August 2018 Annika Björkdahl has authored the article ”Republika Srpska: Imaginary, performance and spatialization”, which has been published in Political Geography. This article is about the becoming of states and how such states are a socially constructed spaces, imagined and performed by those who perceive themselves as belonging to that state. It asks through what imaginaries and

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Published 24 August 2018 Jakob Skovgaard co-edited and contributed to the book "The Politics of Fossil Fuel Subsidies and their Reform” (Cambridge University Press). The book offers a range of insights into why fossil fuel subsidies continue to persist despite agreement among experts about the benefits of reform, repeated international commitments to eliminate them, and valiant efforts by some cou

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Published 4 September 2018 Do female representatives participate less often in legislative debates, and does it matter which topic is debated? Hanna Bäck and Marc Debus answer this question by analyzing speechmaking among members of parliament in seven European countries.  The results show that female members are under-represented in legislative debates, especially when debates deal with topics th

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Published 6 September 2018 In the recently-published article “Measuring Polyarchy Across the Globe, 1900-2017”, Jan Teorell, together with Michael Coppedge, Staffan Lindberg and Svend-Erik Skaaning, presents a new measure of polyarchy for a global sample of 182 countries from 1900 to 2017 based on the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) expert poll data. This new democracy index is directly anchored in

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Published 10 September 2018 Catarina Kinnvall has together with Ian Manners and Jennifer Mitzen edited a special issue of European Security, entitled “Ontological (In)Security in the European Union”. The European Union (EU) faces many crises and risks to its security and existence. While few of them threaten the lives of EU citizens, they all create a sense of anxiety and insecurity about the futu

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Published 13 September 2018 Fabio Cristiano has contributed with the chapter “Internet Access as Human Right: A Dystopian Critique from the Occupied Palestinian Territory" to the newly published volume Human Rights as Battlefields. In his chapter, Cristiano explores the controversial correlation between technology and political freedoms by questioning the inclusion of internet access into the huma

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/fabio-cristiano-digital-rights-and-palestine - 2025-04-15

Published 18 September 2018 Christer Jönsson has contributed with two book chapters. The first book chapter is "Lessons for Democracy: Diplomacy to the Rescue?" which has been published in the book Democracy under Threat: A Crisis of Legitimacy?. The second book chapter is "Evolution in Knowlege and Norms" (co-author Leon Gordenker) which has been published in the book “The Oxford Handbook on the

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Published 20 September 2018 Douglas Brommesson has co-authored the newly published article “Teaching university teachers to become better teachers: the effects of pedagogical training courses at six Swedish universities”,  which has been publish in “Higher Education Research & Development”. The article can be found on tandfonline.comDouglas Brommesson's personal page

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Published 9 October 2018 Catarina Kinnvall has recently published the article “Ontological Insecurities and Postcolonial Imaginaries: The Emotional Appeal of Populism” in Humanity & Society”. In the article, Catarina Kinnvall addresses the particular narratives and discourses that respond to increased feelings of uncertainty, anxiety, and fear, so-called ontological insecurities, and their connect

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Published 11 October 2018 Photo: Leif Johansson Josef Chaib will defend his dissertation "Evidence, Expertise and 'Other' Knowledge: Governing Welfare Collaboration" on October 12 at 10:15 in Niagara, Malmö University. Discussant is Associate Professor Gun Hedlund, Örebro University. In contemporary welfare, collaboration between professions, agencies and different municipal departments is increas

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Published 16 October 2018 Catarina Kinnvall and Jennifer Mitzen have authored an introductory article for their joint special issue in “Journal of International Relations and Development (JIRD)”, with the title “Ontological security and conflict: the dynamics of crisis and the constitution of community”. In an era defined by insecurity, uncertainty, and increasing anxieties, ontological security h

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/fruitful-lens-analyzing-world-politics - 2025-04-15

Published 24 October 2018 How is EU-funding translated into local policy? In an article in the journal Critical Policy Studies, Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren and Mats Fred have analyzed how EU-projects in education policies are mediated and translated into local policies. They conclude that these processes entail both a change in organisation - from permanent to temporary endeavors - as well as changes i

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