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Michael Molavi and Isabel Schoultz have received a major research grant from the European Commission’s Horizon Europe Programme. Together with newly hired post-doctoral researcher, Elin Jönsson, they will study how ongoing de-democratisation processes affect protest cultures and how these effects comparatively vary across Europe. Europe is experiencing a steady democratic decline. The trend is dis

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/eu-funds-research-about-democratic-decline-and-protest-culture - 2025-09-29

Climate change is a reality for communities globally, forcing governments and international agencies to propose climate adaptation measures. For many people, these top-down approaches don't always align with their needs, values or legal rights. Ana Maria Vargas is one of the researchers in the project "Everyday forms of resistance to state adaptation regulation: An ethnographic study of responses

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/the-justice-in-resisting-climate-change-policies - 2025-09-29

In October last year, the Sociology of Law Department's researcher and senior lecturer Patrik Olsson was invited to a conference in Uzbekistan's capital Tashkent to contribute with expertise on the country's social and political development. On October 24, 2024, an international conference on the topic "Development of Free Civil Society and Non-Governmental Non-Profit Organizations" was held in Ta

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/patrik-olsson-invited-uzbekistan-expert-civil-society-and-non-profit-development - 2025-09-29

Ida Nafstad and Heraclitos Muhire each had an article among the five most downloaded from the journal Justice, Power and Resistance last year. Both articles have been accessed more than 2000 times since their publication. Ida Nafstad wrote the article "Police abolition and transformative justice in the footsteps of Thomas Mathiesen's penal abolition", outlining Thomas Mathiesen's penal abolition t

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/two-articles-department-among-jprs-most-downloaded - 2025-09-29

Anna Lundberg has received funding for two projects investigating how and why public employees and trade unions respectively mobilise against the government's Informers Act. The law makes it mandatory for staff in certain public organisations to report undocumented migrants to the border police. In the "Human Rights Mobilization of Welfare Professionals Against the Informers Act – Arguments, Strat

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/anna-lundberg-leads-two-new-projects-studying-informer-act - 2025-09-29

A PhD programme exploring law and governance in authoritarian regimes across Central Asia has received nearly €4.7 million in funding from the European Commission, with an additional €800,000 contributed by the Swiss Secretariat for Research, Education and Innovation. The initiative aims to provide critical insights into legal and societal structures in authoritarian states. Titled "Sociology of A

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/sociology-law-department-leads-eu55m-eu-funded-research-authoritarian-law-and-legality-central-asia - 2025-09-29

The project "ProTest: Protest as a Democracy Test. Protest Culture under Transformation and as a Transformative Power" was launched with a two-day kick-off meeting on 7–8 April at Corvinus University of Budapest. The project gathers a multidisciplinary consortium of nine European academic and research institutions to examine the evolving role of protest in democratic societies. The April meeting i

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/researchers-studying-protest-culture-gathered-budapest-project-kick - 2025-09-29

A €1.8 million EU grant will fund new research into the challenges of promoting good governance and the rule of law in non-Western societies. In May, the European Commission's HORIZON Programme confirmed the funding for Rustamjon Urinboyev's research and training program "The Political Economy of Legal and Governance Reform in Non-Western Societies: Insights from Central Asia". The project starts

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/new-grant-backs-research-alternative-non-western-legal-and-governance-institutions - 2025-09-29

The search is on for 25 researchers from around the world in Lund University’s largest ever international recruitment drive. Welcome to join a world-class university dedicated to understanding, explaining, and improving our world and the human condition. As an Assistant Professor, you develop your qualifications over four years. You can then be promoted to permanent employment as a senior lecturer

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/sociology-law-department-hiring-assistant-professor-law-rights-and-social-movements - 2025-09-29

What are the incentives of politicians to either clean up or maintain corrupt courts in nondemocracies? Ketevan Bolkvadze examines this in a recent article published in the Comparative Political Studies. This article offers a novel take on the problem of judicial independence in nondemocracies. Some scholars hold that political fragmentation leads to more judicial independence; others argue that i

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bolkvadze-problem-judicial-independence-nondemocracies - 2025-09-29

Roxanna Sjöstedt has together with Anders Themnér, Uppsala University, co-authored the article ”Buying Them Off or Scaring Them Straight: Explaining Warlord Democrats’ Electoral Rhetoric”, which has been published in the journal Security Studies. AbstractPost–civil war democracies are characterized by intense electoral competition. To ensure continued political relevance, ex-military-turned-politi

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sjostedt-warlord-democrats-electoral-rhetoric - 2025-09-29

Jakob Skovgaard and Åsa Knaggård have co-authored the article “Mapping and clustering the adoption of carbon pricing policies: what polities price carbon and why?” together with Sofía Sacks Ferrari (SIPRI, formerly the Department of Political Science, LU). The article is published in the journal Climate Policy. It concerns what countries as well as sub- and supranational entities adopt carbon taxe

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/skovgaard-and-knaggard-adoption-carbon-pricing - 2025-09-29

Douglas Brommesson and Rikard Bengtsson have co-authored the article "Staten som kommunikatör - En panelstudie av effekterna av kampanjen Om krisen eller kriget kommer", which has been published in ”Kungl. Krigsvetenskapsakademiens Handlingar och tidskrift”. In 2017, the Swedish government took the initiative to conduct a country¬wide information campaign with the aim of informing the citizens on

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/brommesson-and-bengtsson-government-communicator - 2025-09-29

Roger Hildingsson has published the article ”Sustainable Welfare in Swedish Cities: Challenges of Eco-Social Integration in Urban Sustainability Governance” in the journal “Sustainability”. The article is on eco-social integration in urban sustainability governance. Based on studies in three Swedish cities (Malmö, Göteborg, Stockholm), the analysis emphasizes the challenges involved in integrating

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hildingsson-eco-social-integration-urban-sustainability-governance - 2025-09-29

Annika Bergman Rosamond has recently published a book chapter titled “Celebrity global motherhood: Maternal care and cosmopolitan obligation” in the edited collection “Troubling Motherhood Maternality in Global Politics”, edited by Lucy B. Hall, Anna L. Weissman, and Laura J. Shepherd, Oxford University Press, 2020. The rise to prominence of celebrity culture is a key feature of our times. Mass au

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bergman-rosamond-celebrity-global-motherhood - 2025-09-29

Johan Matz has published the book ”Stalin’s Double-Edged Game: Soviet Bureaucracy and the Raoul Wallenberg case 1945-1952”. The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series, Lexington Books, Rowman and Littlefield, 2020. Raoul Wallenberg, the courageous Swedish financier and trade executive turned diplomat who saved thousands of Jews in Hungary in 1944, was arrested in January 1945 by the Soviet military

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-johan-matz - 2025-09-29

Nina Wilén has together with Lindy Heinecken (Stellenbosch University) co-authored the article ”No Place Like Home? Postdeployment Reintegration Challenges Facing South African Peacekeepers” in the journal ”Armed Forces and Society”. We find that peacekeeping veterans experience the time away from the children, concerns over infidelity and too little institutional support as difficult challenges,

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/wilen-challenges-peacekeepers - 2025-09-29

Catarina Kinnvall has published a forum commentary entitled “Multiplicity, Discipline and the Political” in “New Perspectives: Interdisciplinary Journal of Central and East European Politics and International Relations” (edited by Benjamin Tallis). This forum draws together scholars working in different ways and different settings to discuss how (and, indeed, whether) Multiplicity: can become more

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-new-publication - 2025-09-29

Jan Teorell has together with Michael Coppedge, John Gerring, Adam Glynn, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Staffan I. Lindberg, Daniel Pemstein, Brigitte Seim, Svend-Erik Skaaning, co-authored the book ”Varieties of Democracy: Measuring Two Centuries of Political Change” (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020). “Varieties of Democracy” is the essential user's guide to The Varieties of Democracy project

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-varieties-democracy - 2025-09-29

Karin Aggestam and Jacqui True are guest editors of a Special Issue on gender and foreign policy in the journal “Foreign Policy Analysis”. They have also co-authored the introductory article “Gendering Foreign Policy. Advancing a Comparative Framework for Analysis”. The Special Issue addresses the rise and resistance to pro-gender norms and feminist strategies in foreign policy and global politics

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-and-true-gender-and-foreign-policy - 2025-09-29