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Scholars acknowledge the existence of intra-party divisions and the potentially negative electoral effects of disunity. Some assume that intra-party divides are between professional politicians and grassroots members, others highlight the importance of ideological blocs. Yet, precisely mapping factional structures, especially ideological factions, is difficult because of the “black box of intra- p

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-ann-kristin-kolln-and-jonathan-polk-intra-party-politics-comparative-political-studies - 2025-11-05

Elias Isaksson has successfully defended his thesis entitled 'Between Growth and Sustainability: Exploring the Construction of Sustainable Mobility in Swedish Transport Policy'. Congratulations! Abstract Transport policies in Western Europe are increasingly framed in terms of sustainable mobility. This is a response to an urgent need to tackle adverse consequences of the transport system and impli

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/elias-isaksson-has-successfully-defended-his-thesis - 2025-11-05

In their article, Catarina Kinnvall and Ted Svensson read the COVID-19 pandemic from a Lacanian perspective, in which trauma and ontological insecurity are at the heart of the analysis. They argue that a psychoanalytical approach allows us to grasp why the most common response to the pandemic consisted of intensified commitments to home, nationalism, and exclusionary bordering practices and, in ef

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-isq-article-state-responses-covid-19-catarina-kinnvall-and-ted-svensson - 2025-11-05

New article by Jonathan Polk and Guri Rosén on trade and the transnational cleavage in Journal of European Public Policy. Theorists of the transnational cleavage, defined as a political reaction against European integration and immigration, also regularly conceptualise international trade preferences as a component of this contemporary societal divide. Yet empirical analyses of this cleavage focus

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/polk-and-rosen-transnational-cleavage-and-party-positioning-trade - 2025-11-05

Agnese Pacciardi has recently published an article on the securitisation of migrants’ mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. By analysing newspaper articles and declarations by the Italian government and prominent politicians, she shows how this securitisation has relied on gendered and rationalised notions deeply entrenched in colonial modernity. Author: Agnese Pacciardi  Title: Viral bo

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/agnese-pacciardi-securitisation-migration-and-mobility-during-covid-19 - 2025-11-05

Mats Fred and Sebastian Godenhjelm are editors of the anthology "Projectification of Organizations, Governance and Societies - Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Implications". The book gathers a nascent field of research on projectification by consolidating a network of Scandinavian researchers with similar interests. The hope is that this can lead to a "Scandinavian School of Projectificatio

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-anthology-starting-point-scandinavian-school-projectification-research - 2025-11-05

The university’s new professors will be inaugurated in a ceremony at the main University Building on 13th October 2023 at 16:00. Among the new professors are our colleagues Jonathan Polk, Robert Klemmensen and Fariborz Zelli. The ceremony includes the official inaugurations by the vice-chancellor, performances by the Academic Orchestra and addresses by some of the new professors and the chair of L

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/inauguration-ceremony-new-professors-13-october-three-political-scientists - 2025-11-05

Karin Aggestam, Annika Bergman Rosamond and Elsa Hedling have co-authored the article ”Digital Norm Contestation and Feminist Foreign Policy, published in the journal International Studies Perspectives. Abstract: This article examines the role of digital norm contestation in feminist foreign policy (FFP). It analyzes how states that participate in digital diplomacy are involved in challenging and

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-digital-norm-contestation-and-feminist-foreign-policy - 2025-11-05

Isabel Bramsen and Anine Hagemann have published a new article, ”How research travels to policy: the case of Nordic peace research". The article investigates how Peace Research affects the policies and practice of peace in the Nordic countries. Based on interviews with researchers and practitioners the article identifies four “travelers ”that connects research and practice: students, findings, con

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bramsen-and-hagemann-investigates-how-peace-research-affects-policies-and-practice - 2025-11-05

Does a perceived threat increase affective polarization? And what is the role of emotional reactions to threat in increasing hostility and bias toward other parties’ supporters? Hanna Bäck has together with Emma Renström and Royce Carroll analyzed these questions in two experimental studies performed in Sweden and Germany. They show that people who react with anger to a perceived threat to the ing

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-threats-emotions-and-affective-polarization - 2025-11-05

Can political elites influence affective polarization among the voters through their social media communication? Does the content of their communication matter or is it enough to get a neutral message from a representative of your favorite or most hated party? Hanna Bäck, Royce Carroll, Emma Renström, and Alexander Ryan have tried to answer these questions in a survey experiment. They show that vo

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/elite-communication-and-affective-polarization - 2025-11-05

In the article "Different logics of pain: the gendered dimension of chronic pain in a relational setting" in Social Science & Medicine, Stina Melander analyzes how chronic pain affects the conditions for how women and men live together. I think my husband has taken more responsibility for the home … and helps with these big and heavy duties like grocery shopping and such things. The quote above is

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/men-and-women-have-different-priorities-when-living-chronic-pain - 2025-11-05

The European Council meeting of EU heads of state and government was hosted by the Department of Political Science, Lund university this week with great success. Guided by the Spanish presidency of the EU, the President of the European Council, and the European Commission, a meeting of the General Affairs Council and the Council working group on energy were held in the morning to hear of Commissio

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/european-council-negotiations-success-lund-masters-students - 2025-11-05

In an article published in Geopolitics, Annika Björkdahl and Johanna Mannergren Selimovic explore the relationship between gender, silence and place by analysing the former rape camp Vilina Vlas in Bosnia-Herzegovina. There is a deafening silence around the Vilina Vlas rape camp almost 30 years after the war. The Vilina Vlas spa hotel is located on the outskirts of Višegrad, a small town nestled o

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/silence-surrounding-rape-camp-vilina-vlas-echoes-almost-30-years-after-war - 2025-11-05

Isabel Bramsen and Jonathan Luke Austin from the University of Copenhagen have published an academic article, Visual (data) observation in International Relations in Review of International Studies. The article discusses the use of visual data to observe real-time events in the study of international relations. Has Visual International Relations (IR) become too distant from the content of visual a

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bramsen-and-austin-politics-seeing-differently - 2025-11-05

Jens Bartelson, a leading scholar of the history of international thought, provides new answers to this question by analyzing how relations between polities have been conceptualized across different historical contexts from the sixteenth century to the present day. A global intellectual history of the international system, this book challenges the widespread assumption that this system emerged as

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-jens-bartelson-when-and-how-did-modern-world-become-international-one - 2025-11-05

Conflictual cabinet terminations are seismic events in democracies, but their consequences are understudied. Florence So argues that the electoral impacts of conflictual cabinet terminations following non-policy conflicts are electorally costly. They signal parties’ deteriorating governing competence, which reduces parties’ vote shares. In contrast, terminations following policy conflicts, particu

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/florence-so-government-breakdown-published-american-political-science-review - 2025-11-05

Hanna Bäck, Robert Klemmensen and Florence So have received a three-year grant from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond for the project "Divided Parliaments? Polarization, Moralization, and the Risk of Gridlock". The project will start next year. Congratulations! Description In well-functioning democracies, political representatives are capable of compromising to pass legislation that solve problems facing

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hanna-back-robert-klemmensen-and-florence-so-receive-three-year-grant-riksbankens-jubileumsfond - 2025-11-05

New paper on critical pedagogies published in International Studies Perspectives (@ISP_Journal) by two teachers and a current student at Lund University’s Department of Political Science.   Christie Nicoson, Barbara Magalhães Teixeira, and Alva Mårtensson examine an ongoing elective course at the Department, Peace in the 21st Century: Critical Debates on Violence, Justice, and Peace, and present n

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/why-do-we-study-peace-and-what - 2025-11-05

At the annual meeting in Gothenburg on 5 October, Hanna Bäck was elected as the new chair and Roxanna Sjöstedt as the new secretary of the Swedish Political Science Association. Congratulations on these honorary assignments! With this, the federation's website has also got an updated layout and hopefully a more easy-to-navigate structure, see SWEPSA.org!Read more about Hanna Bäck on her personal p

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-sjostedt-new-chairman-and-secretary-swedish-political-science-association - 2025-11-05