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Johannes Lindvall and Katren Rogers have co-authored the article “The Changing Faces of the Modern State” published in Governance. The article describes the changing nature of the English and Swedish states between 1800 and 2020 from the perspective of ordinary citizens. Abstract This paper describes the changing nature of the English and Swedish states between 1800 and 2020 from the perspective o

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/lindvall-and-rogers-changing-faces-modern-state - 2026-01-09

The research program Legitimacy in Global Governance (LegGov) has published three books summarising its research. Research findings concern sources of legitimacy, processes of legitimation and delegitimation, and consequences of legitimacy crises in global governance.  Contributing authors from our Department are Magdalena Bexell, Farsan Ghassim, Catia Gregoratti, Kristina Jönsson, Anders Uhlin an

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-books-legitimacy-global-governance - 2026-01-09

Hanna Bäck, Emma Renström and Royce Carroll have co-authored the article, ”Protecting the Ingroup? Authoritarianism, Immigration Attitudes, and Affective Polarization”, which is published in Frontiers in Political Science. Abstract: What makes people affectively polarized? Affective polarization is based on the idea that partisanship can be a social identity leading to polarization in the form of

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hanna-back-immigration-attitudes-and-affective-polarization - 2026-01-09

SIEPS Podcast goes on a lookout for the EU in the Swedish election campaign. But EU issues occupy a hidden place among the parties' positions. Why is that? To reflect on this, this section will be visited by Magnus Blomgren, associate professor of political science at Umeå University, and Maria Strömvik, senior lecturer in political science at Lund University. The next Swedish government will repr

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/stromvik-and-blomgren-election-and-eu-issues - 2026-01-09

Between 2015 and 2020 it became significantly harder to be granted sick insurance in Sweden. Altermark and Plesner examine the lived experiences for chronically ill people of losing financial support. They show that consequences often are drastic, as people experience economic crisis. This in turn gives rise to stress and uncertainty with regards to the future that often contributes to deteriorati

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/altermark-and-plesner-how-welfare-cutbacks-condition-narratives-sickness - 2026-01-09

With Russia’s descent into imperial nostalgia, it is more important than ever to understand the separatist entities dotting the shared neighbourhood with the European Union. We need to learn whether these represent indigenous creations that support—or colonial dependencies that subvert—international principles of self-determination and noninterference. We arbitrate between these competing scripts

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/understanding-separatist-entities-russias-near-abroad - 2026-01-09

Bergman and Davitti examine the future of human rights by looking at how ‘authoritarianism’, in its multifaceted forms and manifestations, intersects with existing discourses on climate change, environmental protection, populism and ‘gender deviance’. By adopting an intersectional lens they  interrogate the emergence of the right to a healthy environment and reflect on whether it will help against

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bergman-rosamond-and-davitti-gender-climate-breakdown-and-human-rights - 2026-01-09

In a new article Annika Bergman Rosamond explores the ethics of world heritage through a cosmopolitan lens. She proposes that cosmopolitanism provides fertile ground for the study of world heritage, in particular if combined with sensitivity to distinct indigenous ethical and political claims. The empirical emphasis is placed on the world heritage site of Laponia in the North of Sweden – a locatio

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bergman-rosamond-explores-ethics-and-politics-world-heritage-new-article - 2026-01-09

Malte Breiding Hansen has authored the article “Between Warring Parties: Culture Wars Over LGBT+ Equality” for the Culture Wars in Europe and Eurasia series/research project at the Illiberalism Studies Program, Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at The George Washington University. The article applies the concept of heterogeneity to show that the culture wars framework i

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hansen-lgbt-culture-wars-illiberalism-studies-program-george-washington-university - 2026-01-09

The paper draws on the rich feminist scholarship, practice and activism of the 20th and 21st centuries to present some of the central feminist ideas, concepts and principles that the co-authors think should inform the idea of a feminist approach to foreign policy. It briefly considers the ideas and ambitions of the FFPs adopted to date, with a focus on Sweden as the pioneer of the concept. It argu

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/annika-bergman-rosamond-has-co-authored-scga-position-paper-scotland-and-feminist-foreign-policy - 2026-01-09

Sometimes the public sector, often by external "change agents", is described as slow-moving and difficult to change. But not wanting to embrace a new service or idea may as well be rooted in a clear-sighted professional assessment, on the part of civil servants, of the usefulness of the proposed change in public organization. Sometimes the proposed innovation is simply not very good or, for that m

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/productive-resistance-public-sector-innovation - 2026-01-09

Isabel Bramsen and Anine Hagemann has written a chapter on hybrid peace mediation in Routledge Handbook for Intercultural Mediation. The chapter is called "Hybrid peace mediation in the age of pandemics" and investigates the benefits and challenges of virtual mediation as well as how virtual and physical mediation can supplement each other, for example with virtual mediation keeping the contact be

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bramsen-and-hagemann-hybrid-peace-mediation - 2026-01-09

Today Simon Davidsson defended his thesis "The Development of Parliamentarism in Western Europe". The aim of the dissertation project is to describe and explain the evolution of parliamentarianism in Western and Central Europe in the long run. The project includes a new conceptualization of parliamentarianism, an original data collection effort concerning this institution, the use of Bayesian meth

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/simon-davidsson-has-successfully-defended-his-phd-thesis - 2026-01-09

In this article, Joel W. Abdelmoez, PhD student in comparative politics in the Middle East, explores how gender politics in Saudi Arabia has been represented in English-language media in the context of new reforms and digital technologies. The smartphone application "Absher" has received a lot of criticism, and this study gives an overview of the features that have been most controversial and how

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/abdelmoez-gender-and-technology-saudi-arabia - 2026-01-09

Do markets shape morality? A recent study building on experimental data from Greenland suggests that they do, but not in the way one perhaps would expect. The authors find that market participation generalizes morality, in that participants exposed to the market economy are found to discriminate less between their own community (ingroup) and outsiders (outgroup) in moral decision-making experiment

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/agneman-and-bianco-chevrot-markets-and-morals - 2026-01-09

Previous research shows that wars contributed to the expansion of state revenues in the Early Modern period and in the twentieth century. There are, however, few cross-national studies on the long nineteenth century. Using new annual data on wars and public revenues from 1816 to 1913 for 27 American and European countries, this article provides new evidence that military conflicts very rarely trig

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/goenaga-sabate-and-teorell-publish-article-review-international-organizations - 2026-01-09

Isabel Bramsen and Jonathan Luke Austin have published a new article on how Video Data Analysis can be applied in Peace Research, with a specific focus on capturing and analyzing emotions. Abstract Methodologically, Peace Research has long been dominated by words, numbers, and sometimes images. This article suggests also integrating Video Data Analysis (VDA) into the analytical toolbox of Peace Re

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bramsen-and-austin-video-data-analysis-applied-peace-research - 2026-01-09

The possibility for stakeholders, as well as other interested parties and citizens, to participate in the law-making process is a vital part of any democratic system. In this report, Maria Strömvik and Jelle Verheij analyse the possibilities for stakeholders to have a say in the process when the European Commission is adopting delegated acts. The aim of this report is to provide an exploratory ove

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/stakeholder-participation-eu-executive-lawmaking - 2026-01-09

Roger Hildingsson has together with Annica Kronsell published a book chapter on Green State theory in the new edition of the edited volume The State: Theories and Issues. To Bloomsbury's website and the book. Roger Hildingssons profile in Lund University research portal Find out more about Annica Kronsell here at University of Gothenburg's website

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hildingsson-green-state - 2026-01-09

Roger Hildingsson and Åsa Knaggård has recently published a book chapter on the success of the Swedish carbon tax in the edited volume Successful Public Policy in the Nordic Countries. Ever since the Swedish carbon tax was introduced in 1991, as one of the first cases in the world, it has provided a pioneering example of carbon pricing. In the chapter, ”The Swedish Carbon Tax: A Resilient Success”

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hildingsson-and-knaggard-success-swedish-carbon-tax - 2026-01-09