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What are the sources and processes of legitimacy in global governance? The research program LegGov has published the volume ”Legitimacy in Global Governance” (Oxford University Press). The volume includes chapters written by LegGov researchers Anders Uhlin, Catia Gregoratti, Magdalena Bexell, Kristina Jönsson and Fariborz Zelli at the Department of Political Science.Learn more about the book on gl

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-legitimacy-global-governance - 2025-10-25

Simon Davidsson has authored the article ”Left-Right Orientation, Homeownership, and Class Position in Sweden” in the journal Scandinavian Political Studies. Sweden is a country where left‐right orientation structures the political landscape, homeownership is increasingly important, and the importance of class for political preferences and behavior is changing or even weakening.This article explor

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/davidsson-significance-homeownership-sweden - 2025-10-25

Niklas Altermark and Emil Edeborg have published their article “Visualizing the Included Subject: Photography, Progress Narratives, and Intellectual Disability” in the journal ”Subjectivity”. In the article, Altermark and Edenborg examine how photographs are used to create a progress narrative of disability politics that hamper our understanding of how this group is being oppressed today.  Learn m

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/photographs-disability-politics - 2025-10-25

Annika Bergman Rosamond has, together with Michelle Pace (Roskilde), co-authored the article “Political Legitimacy and celebrity politicians: Tony Blair as Middle East envoy 2007-2016”. The article is published in the journal Middle East Critique. This article explores former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s role as the official envoy of the Quartet on the Middle East, with many observers quest

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/celebrity-politician-tony-blairs-role-middle-east-envoy - 2025-10-25

Klas Nilsson has recently received a prize for his dissertation ”The Money of Monarchs”. The award is conferred by Vetenskapssocieteten and was presented at the annual celebration held on November 23. Vetenskapssocieteten exists to promote humanist research, in part by providing support to younger researchers.Nilsson’s dissertation, the Society notes, “makes an important contribution to the study

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/vetenskapssocieteten-lund-gives-prize-dissertation-political-science - 2025-10-25

Catarina Kinnvall and Ted Svensson have published a joint article in “Review of International Studies”, entitled “Misrecognition and the Indian state: The desire for sovereign agency”. In the article, they show how the Indian state is being rethought, restructured and reimagined through Hindu nationalism and how the concept of misrecognition accounts for desires for sovereign agency and group cohe

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-misrecognition-and-indian-state - 2025-10-25

Karin Aggestam, Annika Bergman-Rosamond and Annica Kronsell have co-authored the journal article ”Theorising Feminist Foreign Policy”, which has been published in International Relations. The article advances a new theoretical framework, which enables a thoroughgoing study of feminist foreign policy. It draws upon feminist international relations theory and the ethics of care to embrace the lived

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/theorising-feminist-foreign-policy - 2025-10-25

Maiken Røed has co-authored the article "Explaining Participation Bias in the European Commission's Online Consultations: The Struggle for Policy Gain without too Much Pain" published in Journal of Common Market Studies. The article investigates participation bias in the European Commission's online consultations and focuses on the effects of issue characteristics. More information is available on

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/roed-european-commissions-online-consultations - 2025-10-25

Elsa Hedling defended her dissertation "Blending Politics and New Media. Mediatized Practices of EU Digital Diplomacy" on December 19 at 10:00 in Eden auditorium. Discussant was Professor Alister Miskimmon, Queen’s University Belfast. In her PhD thesis titled “Blending Politics and New Media. Mediatized Practices of EU Digital Diplomacy”, Elsa Hedling explores the relationship between politics and

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/elsa-hedling-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-10-25

Catarina Kinnvall has published the article “On the Frontline: Populism and White Nationalism” in the journal Discover Society. In the article, Catarina Kinnvall discusses the dangers of seeing rising ethnic diversity as a threat to democracy and the West – a position held by a number of academics, journalists and commentators in Britain and Europe.Learn more on discoversociety.orgCatarina Kinnval

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/populism-and-white-nationalism - 2025-10-25

Magdalena Bexell and Kristina Jönsson have published an article entitled "Country Reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals–The Politics of Performance Review at the Global-National Nexus" in the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities. Debates on governance through goal-setting and performance review have gained momentum with the adoption of the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Developm

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-politics-sustainability-performance-review - 2025-10-25

Are female politicians less likely to be promoted to specific ministerial posts, and is it important for them to toe the party line? Hanna Bäck has, together with Johan Bo Davidsson and Markus Baumann, studied this question in an analysis of Swedish cabinet appointments. The results of their statistical analysis suggest that women are less likely to become ministers when deviating from the party l

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-female-cabinet-appointments - 2025-10-25

Tobias Dan Nielsen has co-authored an article called ”Global outsourcing of carbon emissions 1995–2009: A reassessment”, which has been publish in the journal ”Environmental Science & Policy”. The article investigates carbon flows in international trade, adjusting for differences in production technology between countries. It provides a more nuanced understanding of the impact of international tra

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/nielsen-carbon-flows-international-trade - 2025-10-25

Audrey Vandeleene has co-edited the book ”Candidates, Parties and Voters in the Belgian Partitocracy”, which just has been published at Palgrave Macmillan. The book studies electoral candidates and their relationship with political parties and voters in the Belgian partitocratic context.  All book chapters rely on data from the Belgian Candidate Survey 2014 that was coordinated by Audrey Vandeleen

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/vandeleene-candidates-parties-and-voters - 2025-10-25

Karin Aggestam has contributed with a chapter to “Oxford University Press Handbook on Women, Peace and Security” on “WPS, peace negotiations and peace agreements”. The book's editors are Sara Davies and Jacqui True. The chapter analyses women’s representation in peace negotiations and the contents of peace agreements. Based on a comprehensive interview survey of global peacemakers opportunities an

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-negotiations-and-peace-agreements - 2025-10-25

Who represents the party in parliamentary debates? Hanna Bäck has, together with Markus Baumann, Marc Debus and Jochen Müller, studied this question in an analysis of parliamentary debates in six European countries. The results of their analysis suggest the party leadership restricts floor access to a small number of representatives, especially before an election, in order to maintain the “party b

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-parliamentary-debates - 2025-10-25

Jakob Skovgaard and Roger Hildingsson have co-authored the book chapter “Environmental Policy and the Economic Crisis – The Swedish and Danish Cases” together with Bengt Johansson. The chapter is published in the book “The Impact of the Economic Crisis on European Environmental Policy”. It concerns how environmental policy has developed since the onset of the economic crisis in 2007-2008 in Denmar

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/skovgaard-and-hildingsson-swedish-and-danish-environmental-policy-after-crisis - 2025-10-25

Carlo Knotz and Johannes Lindvall have contributed to the series SAGE Research Methods Case with the contribution ”Using Quantitative Methods to Study Welfare State Reforms”. The authors discuss the promises and pitfalls of using quantitative methods to study social policymaking. Read more on methods.sagepub.com About the authors:Johannes Lindvall’s personal pageCarlo Knotz defended his PhD at the

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/lindvall-quantitative-methods - 2025-10-25

Anders Persson is the editor of the special issue ”The occupation at 50: EU-Israel/Palestine relations since 1967” in the journal ”Middle East Critique”. Annika Bergman Rosamond and other leading researcher from Europe and the Middle East have contributed with articles. The purpose of this special issue has been to bring together the leading voices in the field of EU-Israel/Palestine relations to

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/persson-and-bergman-rosamond-field-eu-israelpalestine-relations - 2025-10-25

Rikard Bengtsson and Malena Rosén Sundström are the editors of the book “The EU and the emerging global order”, a book in honour of Ole Elgström upon his retirement. The book contains a number of contributions from Swedish and international authors active in Ole Elgström’s different research areas. From the department, Christer Jönsson and Anders Persson have contributed chapters to the volume.Rea

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bengtsson-and-rosen-sundstrom-editors-new-book-eu-and-global-order - 2025-10-25