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Anthoula Malkopoulou has published an article on "Hermann Heller on politics: discipline, sphere and activity" in the journal “History of European Ideas”. The article examines how a leading German constitutional theorist in the 1920s envisioned the idea, practice and science of politics in terms of shared values and social cooperation. Malkopoulou finds that Hermann Heller understood politics as a

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/malkopoulou-concept-politics - 2025-12-15

Jan Teorell, Agnes Cornell and Carl Henrik Knutsen have co-authored the article "Bureaucracy and growth", which has been published in the journal ”Comparative Political Studies”. In this paper, Jan Teorell together with co-authors Agnes Cornell and Karl Henrik Knutsen, revisit the hypothesis that a Weberian bureaucracy enhances economic growth. Theoretically, there are good reasons to expect such

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/teorell-bureaucracy-and-growth - 2025-12-15

Martin Hall (2020) Seeing the Nomads Like a State: Sweden and the Sámi at the Turn of the Last Century, in Jamie Levin (ed) Nomad-State Relationships in International Relations: Before and After Borders, Palgrave McMillan. In modern history, states have typically attempted to eliminate nomadism. Perhaps uniquely, Sweden reinforced nomadism among some of its Sámi population. In this chapter, I argu

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/martin-hall-seeing-nomads-state - 2025-12-15

Sara Kalm has co-written an article with Anna Meeuwisse at the School of Social Work (LU), called ”For love and for life: emotional dynamics at the World Congress of Families”. It analyses the mobilisation of conservative transnational activism in the field of family policy, and it has recently been published in the journal Global Discourse.  Länk till publikationen på ingentaconnect.com Sara Kalm

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/love-and-life-emotional-dynamics-world-congress-families - 2025-12-15

Sara Kalm has written an article called ”Citizenship Capital”, which has recently been published in the journal Global Society. This article examines the citizenship dimension of transnational inequalities. It is clear that some citizenships offer great advantages while others are liabilities for the individual, and the aim of this present article is to develop a conceptualisation of citizenship a

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sara-kalm-citizenship-dimension-transnational-inequalities - 2025-12-15

Annika Bergman Rosamond has authored the article 'Music, mining and colonisation: Sámi contestations of Sweden’s self narrative,’ published in a special issue on politics and music in the Danish political science journal Politik, Vol. 23:1, 2020. Sweden’s dominant self-narrative has tended to marginalise its historical colonisation of Sápmi. Indeed, there  has been little emphasis on the historica

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/annika-bergman-rosamond-music-mining-and-colonisation - 2025-12-15

Malkopoulou has published two articles on how high voting turnouts improve political representation and help fight off right-wing populism. In ‘The Politics of Voter Presence’ (International Political Science Review), Malkopoulou and Hill draw on theories of political presence to defend the act of voting. In doing so, they shift the focus of such theories from the composition of legislatures to th

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/malkopoulou-value-electoral-participation - 2025-12-15

Annika Bergman Rosamond has published the chapter ‘Celebrities as Ethical Actors: Individuals and Cosmopolitan Obligation’ in The Routledge Handbook to Rethinking Ethics in International Relations, edited by Birgit Schippers, 2020. This chapter offers an investigation into the cosmopolitan, privileged and self serving  underpinnings of celebrity activists in their role as diplomats and humanitaria

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/celebrities-ethical-actors-individuals-and-cosmopolitan-obligation - 2025-12-15

Ted Svensson has published an article in the International Journal of Heritage Studies. The article analyses recent public initiatives to memorialise the establishment of India and Pakistan as postcolonial states in terms of violent partitioning rather than as a successful act of independence from British imperialism. The twin focal points of the article are the Partition Museum in Amritsar and th

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/curating-partition-dissonant-heritage-and-indian-nation-building - 2025-12-15

Sindre Gade Viksand has published an article in the Review of International Studies. The article analyzes how peripheral actors in imperial structures are able to acquire external assistance for their independence struggles. This article builds a framework to better understand how these extra-imperial ties are translated into peripheral positional power. This framework is constructed on the basis

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/contentious-colonies-positional-power-imperial-peripheries - 2025-12-15

John Gerring, Tore Wig, Wouter Veenendaal, Daniel Weitzel, Jan Teorell, & Kyosuke Kikuta have co-authored the article "The Rise and Demise of a Regime Type", Comparative Political Studies, forthcoming. In this paper, Jan Teorell together with co-authors propose an explanation for why monarchy was the dominant form of rule in the pre-modern era but then substantially declined in prevalence over the

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/teorell-why-monarchy-was-dominant-form-rule-pre-modern-era - 2025-12-15

Ted Svensson has recently contributed to an article in the journal Critical Studies on Security. Rituals are customarily muted into predictable routines aimed to stabilise social orders and limit conflict. As a result, their magic lure recedes into the background, and the unexpected and disruptive elements are downplayed. Our collaborative contribution counters this move by foregrounding rituals o

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/rituals-world-politics-visual-practices-disordering-things - 2025-12-15

'Cosmopolitanism and Individual Ethical Reflection - the Embodied Experiences of Swedish Veterans' nyligen publicerad in Critical Military Studies, online first. This article aims to enable a conversation between cosmopolitanism and  feminist-inspired research on embodied military experiences. While the article rests on cosmopolitan reasoning, it critiques it for disregarding individuals’ other-re

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/annika-bergman-rosamond-has-together-annica-kronsell-authored-new-article - 2025-12-15

Magdalena Bexell and Kristina Jönsson have published two new articles about the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In the journal Policy Studies they identify three main roles of parliaments in the case of national policy-making based on intergovernmental agreements, such as the 2030 Agenda, and examine the cases of Sweden and Ghana with regard to each of those roles. The ar

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-articles-2030-agenda-legitimacy-and-responsibility - 2025-12-15

‘Anxiety, Fear, and Ontological Security in World Politics: Thinking with and beyond Giddens’ Catarina Kinnvall and Jennifer Mitzen have recently edited a symposium with International Theory, entitled ‘Anxiety, Fear, and Ontological Security in World Politics’. The symposium also contains their introductory article: ‘Anxiety, Fear, and Ontological Security in World Politics: Thinking with and beyo

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/catarina-kinnvall-and-jennifer-mitzen-have-published-new-article-international-theory - 2025-12-15

Daniel Möller Ölgaard has published a non-peer reviewed piece with E-IR, an open access International Relations journal online. Supplementing Naomi Klein’s concept of the Pandemic Shock Doctrine with a focus on the necropolitical dimensions of digital capitalism, this essay shows how the digital-capitalist logic relies on the exploitation of human bodies.Link to the publicationen on e-ir.info Dani

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/reflections-naomi-kleins-pandemic-shock-doctrine - 2025-12-15

Anders Uhlin has, together with Håkan Johansson, edited a thematic issue on “Civil Society Elites” in the journal Politics and Governance. The volume includes among other articles Johansson’s and Uhlin’s editorial ”Civil Society Elites: A Research Agenda” and three articles stemming from the research project ”Civil Society Elites: New Perspectives on Civil Society in Cambodia and Indonesia” led by

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-thematic-issue-civil-society-elites-edited-anders-uhlin-and-hakan-johansson - 2025-12-15

Magdalena Bexell, Kristina Jönsson and Nora Stappert have published an article in the Journal of International Relations and Development.  The article explores which groups global governance organisations target in their attempts at self-legitimation. The selection of such groups shows whose legitimacy beliefs matter to the organisation. The cases examined demonstrate that an organisation's assess

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-legitimacy-and-global-governance - 2025-12-15

After the 2018 election, it took 134 days for Sweden to get a new government. This government consisted of the same parties and had the same prime minister as the previous one. Why was that? And why did it take so long? Were our constitutional provisions regulating government formation to blame? This book answers these questions based on extensive interviews with the most important political actor

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-134-days-government-formations-process-after-2018-election - 2025-12-15

In this study, Jan Teorell together with colleagues attempt to reconcile competing positions in an important debate about the relationship between regime type and human development. First, the relationship is more likely to be perceived when democracy is measured in a nuanced fashion, taking account of gradations of democracy and autocracy. Second, some aspects of democracy – those associated with

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/democracy-and-human-development-issues-conceptualization-and-measurement - 2025-12-15