Why do coalition parties settle some policy issues in great detail, whereas other issues are hardly mentioned in coalition agreements? Hanna Bäck has, together with Heike Klüver, studied this question in an analysis of over 200 agreements in 24 West and East European countries. The results in their analysis show that parties are clearly more likely to spend a lot of effort on negotiating and agree

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-coalition-agreements - 2025-09-09

Jens Bartelson has received two awards by the International Studies Association. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award and the ISA Theory Section Best Monograph Award. The last mentioned award has been given to Bartelson for his book ”War in International Thought”. Motivation for the Distinguished scholar awardJens Bartelson’s pioneering contribution to the field of Historical Int

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bartelson-has-received-two-awards - 2025-09-09

Ketevan Bolkvadze has, together with Marina Povitkina from University of Gothenburg, published the article "Fresh Pipes with Dirty Water: How quality of government shapes the provision of public goods in democracies" in the “European Journal of Political Research”. Using mixed methods design the authors investigate why democracy is not enough for the provision of basic public goods, such as access

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/how-quality-government-shapes-provision-public-goods-democracies - 2025-09-09

The speaker of the Swedish Parliament, Andreas Norlén. Photo: Melker Dahlstrand/The Swedish Parliament A study of the Swedish government formation process 2018-2019 aims to map the sequence of events and summarize what can be learnt from the process and the formal rules governing it. The study aims to answer three research questions: Why did the current government form? Why did it take so long? Ho

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/study-government-formation-process - 2025-09-09

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 Lindberg, the chapter

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/was-swedish-extension-suffrage-early-or-late - 2025-09-09

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 housekeeping in a Swedish c

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/academic-housekeeping - 2025-09-09

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 of the modern welfare st

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/immigration-policy-and-modern-welfare-state - 2025-09-09

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 pathways. Learn the article on

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/stripple-decarbonisation-pathways-malmo - 2025-09-09

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 and Kazakhstan, while el

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/mia-orange-will-defend-her-thesis-may-3 - 2025-09-09

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 stabilize global temperature

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ina-moller-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-09-09

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 practices in Europe inters

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-new-book-chapter - 2025-09-09

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 corruption that they

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/response-critique-new-theory-corruption - 2025-09-09

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 nicely combining the ba

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/vandeleene-metaphors-and-basic-income - 2025-09-09

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 citizenship conferment.Through

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kalm-naturalisation - 2025-09-09

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. Policies that support th

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/skovgaard-politics-fossil-fuel-subsidies-and-climate-change - 2025-09-09

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 Historical V-Dem for short,

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/dataset-containing-indicators-political-regimes-and-institutions - 2025-09-09

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

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/marten-lindberg-has-defended-his-thesis - 2025-09-09

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 themselves, their territ

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/information-capacity-and-modern-state - 2025-09-09

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 democratic dyads do not engage i

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/teorell-democratic-peace - 2025-09-09

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 subconscious personal ide

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ingesson-wants-students-reflect-bias-group-dynamics-and-deception - 2025-09-09