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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The notification of the date of the defence and "posting" of Ivan Gusics thesis "War, peace & the city: urban conflict over peace(s) in the postwar cities of Belfast, Mitrovica, and Mostar." was held on Thursday, September 21, at 3:15 PM in Edens lobby. The academic tradition of nailing ones thesis to a board ("spikni

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ivan-gusics-doctoral-thesis-posted - 2026-10-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Hanna Bäck, professor of political science, has published the article "Veto player theory and reform making in Western Europe" in European Journal of Political Research. The article focuses on governments' capacity to implement policy reforms, and builds on a new comparative data set on about 5,600 important economic 

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hanna-back-governments-capacity-implement-reform - 2026-10-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Hanna Bäck and Roxanna Sjöstedt have authored the chapter “Political Science Perspectives” (in Swedish) in a new textbook for middle- and junior high school teacher students, published by Gleerups. Read a sample of the book here at the Gleerup web siteHanna Bäck's personal web page.Roxanna Sjöstedt's personal web page

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-textbook-social-sciences-teachers-grade-4-9 - 2026-10-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Hanna Bäck has co-authored the chapter "No More Political Insiders? Ministerial Selection in Sweden During the Post-WWII period" which was published recently in a book on technocratic ministers in the European countries. The chapter investigates Swedish ministers' background and shows that most ministers have had a so

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/most-swedish-ministers-have-had-solid-political-background - 2026-10-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Department of Political Science is co-hosting the 2017 Lund Conference on Earth System Governance held at Lucsus in October. The conference is part of the global series organised by the Earth System Governance Project. The conference theme Allocation and access in a warming and increasingly unequal world will be a

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/full-programme-esg-conference-announced-fariborz-zelli-reflects-importance-conference - 2026-10-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Carlo Knotz, who defended his dissertation "Getting Tough on Unemployment" at the Department of Political Science in Lund in December 2016, has been awarded the 2017 Research Prize by the Swedish Federation of Unemployment Insurance Funds. He shares the prize with Patrik Vulkan at the University of Gothenburg.The priz

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/knotz-awarded-research-prize - 2026-10-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Catarina Kinnvall and Ted Svensson have recently published an article entitled 'Ontological Security and the Limits to a Common World: Subaltern Pasts and the Inner-Worldliness of the Tablighi Jama'at' in Postcolonial Studies. The article attends to the contested notions of transnationalism, globality and ontological

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-and-svensson-transnationalism-and-ontological-security - 2026-10-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) has granted 35,1 million SEK to the 6 year research programme "Civil society elites? Comparing elite composition, reproduction, integration and contestation in European civil societies". The programme is led by professor Håkan Johansson at the School of Social Work at LU. Participants fr

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-research-programme-civil-society-elites - 2026-10-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Between Thursday 26 to Saturday 28 October, The Lund University Critical Animal Studies Network (LUCASN) will be hosting Sweden’s very first international conference in Critical Animal Studies. As co-founders of LUCASN, Jana Canavan and Kurtis Boyer from the Political Science Department are co-organisers of the confer

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/swedens-first-international-critical-animal-studies-conference-lund - 2026-10-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Jakob Skovgaard has published the article “The Role of Finance Ministries in Environmental Policy Making: The case of European Union Emissions Trading System reform in Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands” in the journal “Environmental Policy and Governance”. The article concerns the role of finance ministries on the

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jakob-skovgaard-finance-ministries-and-environmental-policy-making - 2026-10-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Department of Political science researchers Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren, Niklas Altermark and Linda Nyberg all awarded grants from Forte. Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren has, together with Patrik Hall, Mats Fred and Kettil Nordesjö from Malmö University, been awarded 6 million for the project "Acquiring practical knowledge: social

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/three-grants-departments-research-group-public-administration - 2026-10-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Annika Bergman Rosamond and Annica Kronsell have co-authored the journal article "Cosmopolitan militaries and dialogic peacekeeping: Danish and Swedish women soldiers in Afghanistan" in International Femininist Journal of Politics, October 2017. Read full article at Taylor & Francis Online Annika Bergman Rosamonds per

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-female-soldiers-and-dialogic-peacekeeping - 2026-10-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The self-regulation of rickshaw drivers in Bogota, Colombia was the topic of the talk when Ana Maria Vargas Falla presented a chapter of her coming dissertation at the annual meeting of The Law & Society Association in Seattle, May 28-31, 2015. The conference theme was Law’s Promise and Law’s Pathos in the Global Nort

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/vargas-falla-talked-about-coming-theses-seattle - 2026-10-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Due to an anonymous threat made toward the university and its students via the app Jodel, which the police regards very seriously, the university will be closed on Monday for all students and staff at all campuses. More information will be posted on the university websites www.lu.se and www.lunduniversity.lu.se during

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/lund-university-closed-monday-12-october - 2026-10-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Isabel Schoultz at the Sociology of Law Department has together with Janne Flyghed at the Department of Criminology at Stockholm University been granted 3.9 million SEK from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) for the project Business as usual. Corporate defense strategies against accusations of crime. The project aims to

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/39-million-rj-business-usual - 2026-10-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Hate crimes are a part of the daily lives of many Roma and remarkably often children are the victims. At the same time reports of these crimes are very low as well as solving rates. This is now shown in two reports on hate crime that the Swedish Commission against antiziganism (Kommissionen mot antiziganism) has order

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/why-hate-crimes-antiziganistic-motives-seldom-are-solved - 2026-10-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The new book by Reza Banakar, Driving Culture in Iran: Law and Society on the Roads of the Islamic Republic, argues that Iranians’ driving behaviour is an indicator of how they have historically related to each other and to their society at large, and how they have maintained a form of social order through law, cultur

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/banakar-explores-dangerous-driving-habits-iran - 2026-10-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Our researcher Matthias Baier is on of the members in the project “The Annual Report - Words, images, numbers” which has been granted money from Pufendorf Institute. ”The aim of this project is to explore and unfold this multifaceted nature of annual reports”.Learn more on Pufendorf Institute’s websiteMatthias Baier’s

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/money-pufendorf-institute-research-project - 2026-10-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Ana Maria Vargas Falla defended her dissertation "Outside the Law: An Ethnographic Study of Street Vendors in Bogotá" on June 8 at 13:15. External reviewer: Associate Professor Johan Gärde, Ersta Sköndal högskola.Ana Maria Vargas Falla’s personal page 

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/ana-maria-vargas-falla-has-defended-her-thesis - 2026-10-27

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Eva Schömer has authored the article "Sweden, a Society of Covert Racism: Equal from the Outside: Everyday Racism and Ethnic Discrimination in Swedish Society” in Oñati Socio-legal Series. Abstract:    Sweden is widely considered to have one of the most equal and gender-equal societies in the world. But the Swedish so

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/schomer-covert-racism - 2026-10-27