Published 2 April 2019 Jan Teorell has, together with Staffan Lindberg, co-authored the chapter ”Demokratins utveckling i världen: Tendenser under och efter rösträttens århundrade” in the book ”Rösträttens århundrade: Kampen, utvecklingen och framtiden för demokratin i Sverige”. This is a chapter in an edited volume that was issued to celebrate 100 years of Swedish democracy. Together with Staffan

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Published 8 April 2019 Sara Kalm has written the article ”On academic housekeeping and its allocation” (in Swedish), which was recently published in the journal ”Sociologisk Forskning”. Academic housekeeping denotes the type of work tasks within university departments that are low-status, time-consuming, largely invisible, and that nevertheless need to be done. This article discusses academic hous

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Published 15 April 2019 Sara Kalm and Johannes Lindvall have co-authored the article ”Immigration policy and the modern welfare state, 1880–1920”, which has been published in the Journal of European Social Policy. In the article, Kalm and Lindvall describe the relationship between the size of the welfare state and the nature of national immigration policies in the first few decades of the history

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Published 29 April 2019 Johannes Stripple has, together with Herriet Bulkeley, co-authored the article ”Towards a material politics of socio-technical transitions: Navigating decarbonisation pathways in Malmö”, which has been published in the journal ”Political Geography”. The authors write about how perspectives on material politics shape contribute to the understanding of decarbonisation pathway

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Published 30 April 2019 Mia Orange will defend her dissertation "Sustaining Authoritarianism: Clientelism and Repression in Kyrgyzstan, Kenya, Tanzania and Kazakhstan" on May 3 at 10:15 in Eden auditorium. Discussant is Professor Jonas Linde, University of Bergen. Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan and Tanzania share a past and present as authoritarian states. Dominant parties are in power in Tanzania

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Published 10 May 2019 Ina Möller has defended her doctoral thesis "The Emergent Politics of Geoengineering" today at 10:00 in Eden auditorium. Discussant was Associate Professor Robert Falkner, The London School of Economics and Political Science. Her thesis studies the appearance of ‘geoengineering’ in the political discussion on climate change. The term describes a set of ideas on how to stabili

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Published 14 May 2019 Catarina Kinnvall has published a book chapter in “Routledge Handbook of Critical International Relations” (edited by Jenny Edkins), entitled “Racing to the bottom, squeezing through the cracks: Imagining unbordered space”. The chapter examines the possibility of an expanded imagination of space as unbordered. It details how immigration and refugee policies and bordering prac

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Published 21 May 2019 Jan Teorell has, together with Anna Persson and Bo Rothstein, co-authored the article "Getting the basic nature of systemic corruption right: A reply to Marquette and Peiffer", which has been published in the journal Governance. This is a response to a critique of a previously published article (Persson, Rothstein & Teorell 2013), in which the authors launched a new theory of

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/response-critique-new-theory-corruption - 2025-07-05

Published 24 May 2019 Audrey Vandeleene and her co-authors have published an article in Basic Income Studies entitled "Framing the Basic Income: An Experimental Study of How Arguments and Metaphors Influence Individuals’ Opinion Formation”. Drawing on an experimental design, the article explores the framing impact of metaphors and uses the basic income policy as context for the analysis - hereby n

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Published 28 May 2019 Sara Kalm has written the article ”Affective naturalisation: practices of citizenship conferment”, recently published in the journal ”Alternatives: Global, Local, Political”. The article develops the notion “affective naturalization” by combining the literature of affect and politics with insights from economic anthropology and by focusing on the varied practices of citizensh

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Published 29 May 2019 Jakob Skovgaard has co-authored the article “The Politics of Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Their Reform: Implications for Climate Change Mitigation” with Harro van Asselt. The article is published in the journal “Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews – Climate Change”. It examines the political implications of policies subsidising fossil fuel subsidies for climate change mitigation. Po

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Published 31 May 2019 Jan Teorell and Agnes Cornell have together with nine other authors co-authored the article “Introducing the Historical Varieties of Democracy Dataset: Political Institutions in the Long 19th Century”, which has been published in the Journal of Peace Research. In this article the authors introduce a new dataset called “The Historical Varieties of Democracy dataset”, or Histor

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Published 7 June 2019 Mårten Lindberg has defended his doctoral thesis "Why Sweden suspended military service: The policy process, 1990 to 2009" today at 10:15 in Eden auditorium. Discussant was Professor Kjell Engelbrekt, Swedish Defence University. Why Sweden suspended military service: The policy process, 1990 to 2009Mårten Lindberg’s personal page

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Published 5 June 2019 Augustín Goenaga, Johannes Lindvall and Jan Teorell have, together with Thomas Brambor, co-authored the article ”The Lay of the Land: Information Capacity and the Modern State”, which has been publish in the journal ”Comparative Political Studies”. This article presents new cross-country comparative evidence on the efforts of states to collect and process information about th

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Published 11 June 2019 Jan Teorell has together with Håvard Hegre and Michael Bernhard co-authored the article “Civil Society and the Democratic Peace”, which will be published in the forthcoming edition of “Journal of Conflict Resolution”. In this article, the authors theorize that three distinct structures of democratic constraint may explain the so-called “democratic peace” – why more democrati

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Published 13 June 2019 Tony Ingesson has authored the article ”Anticipating the Zombie Apocalypse: Using Improbability to Teach Intelligence Analysis”, which has been published in the journal ”International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence”. One of the challenges in intelligence analysis, both as an academic subject and in its applied form, is to try to prevent bias, more or less su

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Published 25 June 2019 Lisa Strömbom has recently published the article ”Exploring analytical avenues for agonistic peace” in “Journal of International Relations and Development”. The study presents a novel analytical framework for conceptualization and analyses of peace processes. This article highlights the importance of studying both identity change and change of social institutions when aiming

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Published 13 August 2019 Tobias D. Nielsen, Jacob Hasselbalch, Karl Holmberg and Johannes Stripple have authored the article ”Politics and the plastic crisis: A review throughout the plastic life cycle”, which has been published in the journal “Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Energy and Environment”. This article surveys the politics of plastics by considering how plastic flows (production, consu

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Published 14 August 2019 Lisa Strömbom has recently published the article "Exploring Prospects for Agonistic Encounters in Conflict Zones: Investigating Dual Narrative Tourism in Israel/Palestine" in “Alternatives”. The study introduces an analytical framework designed to investigate facilitating and hindering circumstances when introducing and disseminating alternative views of history in communi

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Published 15 August 2019 Elsa Hedling has recently published the article ”Storytelling in EU public diplomacy: reputation management and recognition of success” in the journal Place Branding and Public Diplomacy. The study conceptualizes storytelling in public diplomacy and explores how storytelling is used in the communication of EU foreign policy. The article treats storytelling as narrative str

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