Published 27 April 2017 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Nina Wilén, peace and conflict researcher and guest researchers at the department, has written the article ”The civilised Self and the barbaric Other: ex-rebels making sense of sexual violence in the DR Congo” which was recently published online. Read the article at tandfonline.comNina Wilén is a peace and conflict researcher who focuses on gender,

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/how-do-ex-rebels-make-sense-sexual-violence - 2025-05-11

Published 26 April 2017 OUTREACH: Today, 26th April, Niklas Altermark will participate in the parliamentary hearing on personal assistance. Also participating are representatives of the disability movement, other researchers from a variety of disciplines and a number of people heavily involved when personal assistance was introduced. The purpose of the event is to highlight personal assistance and

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/altermark-parliamentary-seminar-personal-assistance - 2025-05-11

Published 28 April 2017 Annika Björkdahl was invited to give a talk entitled ”Peace and the Politics of Memory” at St. Andrews University in Scotland on Monday the 17th April at the Arts Lecture Theatre. The talk was part of the School of International Relations, IR Monday Seminar Series.St. Andrews University's websiteAnnika Björkdahl's personal page here on the department's website.   

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorkdahl-gave-talk-scotland-peace-and-politics-memory - 2025-05-11

Published 28 April 2017 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Jan Teorell has published a paper explaining election fraud historically in the case of Sweden, drawing on original data from second-instance election petitions filed in 1719–1908, "Partisanship and Unreformed Bureaucracy: The Drivers of Election Fraud in Sweden, 1719-1908". These petitions reveal systematic procedural violations committed by local

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/teorell-eighteenth-century-election-fraud-sweden - 2025-05-11

Published 3 May 2017 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Roxanna Sjöstedt has published the article "Securitization and Foreign Policy Analysis", in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Sjöstedt describes and reviews in this article the central assumptions of securitization theory in order to capture its applicability to the study of foreign policy. AbstractSince it was launched in the mid-1990s, the c

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sjostedt-securitization-and-foreign-policy-analysis - 2025-05-11

Published 5 May 2017 The notification of the date of the defence and "posting" of Per Andersson's thesis "Essays on the Politics of Taxation" was held today, Friday 5th May, at 3:15 pm in Eden's lobby.  The academic tradition of nailing ones thesis to a board ("spikning" in Swedish) means that the thesis is made available to the public, who should be given the chance to read it in advance and then

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/anderssons-doctoral-thesis-posted - 2025-05-11

Published 4 May 2017 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Nina Wilén has written the article "The World Turned Away From Burundi, but Its Crisis Is Getting Worse” in World Politics Review. Learn more on worldpoliticsreview.comNina Wilén is a peace and conflict researcher who focuses on gender, security architecture and military intervention in Africa. Nina Wilén is currently a guest researcher at the departm

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/world-turns-away-burundi-crisis-worsens - 2025-05-11

Published 11 May 2017 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Government investigations rely on unsubstantiated evidence in reports on extensive cheating in welfare systems for people with disabilities. Both current and former governments have based their assistance policies on public commissions that lack scientific basis. This is shown in a new report by political scientists Niklas Altermark and Hampus Nilsso

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-report-unreliable-evidence-behind-accusations-cheating-personal-assistance - 2025-05-11

Published 11 May 2017 OUTREACH: Karin Aggestam gave a talk on gender and peace negotiations at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, on Wednesday 10th May. "Monash Gender, Peace & Security is a group of policy and community engaged scholars whose research is focused in the field of gender, peace and security. We seek to use our research to inform scholarly debate, policy development and impleme

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-gender-and-peace-negotiations-monash-university-0 - 2025-05-11

Published 18 May 2017 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Jan Teorell has published the article "Institutional stepping stones for democracy: how and why multipartyism enhances democratic change" which presents evidence in support of a more positive understanding of multipartyism and democracy. AbstractScholars of electoral authoritarianism and comparative institutions have emphasized how authoritarian regi

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/how-even-fake-elections-can-hasten-democratic-change - 2025-05-11

Published 18 May 2017 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Niklas Altermark’s article 'The Post-Institutional Era: Visions of History in Research on Intellectual Disability' is included in the 30 year anniversary issue of the leading disability studies journal Disability & Society. AbstractIn this article, I address how the history of intellectual disability politics is made sense of in social scientific res

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/glancing-back-intellectual-disability-research - 2025-05-11

Published 19 May 2017 Per Andersson defended his doctoral thesis "Essays on the Politics of Taxation" on 19th May at 10 o'clock in Hornbergssalen, Kulturen, Lund. External reviewer: Reader Lucas Leeman, Department of Government, University os Essex, UK."Essays on the Politics of Taxation"Per Andersson's personal page.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/andersson-has-defended-his-thesis - 2025-05-11

Published 2 June 2017 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Annika Björkdahl has together with Stephanie Kappler published the book Peacebuilding and Spatial Transformation. Peace, Space and Place with Routledge. The book investigates peacebuilding in post-conflict scenarios by analyzing the links between peacebuilding agency, space and place. It focuses on case studies from Cyprus, Kosovo, Bosnia-Herzegovina

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-investigates-peacebuilding - 2025-05-11

Published 2 June 2017 OUTREACH. Fabio Cristiano gave a talk at the conference “Fear and Loathing of the Online Self” in Rome, featuring Franco Bifo Berardi, Jodi Dean, Wendy Chun, Gabriella Coleman, and many others. More info: http://networkcultures.org/online-self/program/.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/cristiano-online-conference - 2025-05-11

Published 7 June 2017 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Kurtis Boyer has a new chapter entitled: "Saving the Polar Bear and Other Objects" published in the new anthology : "Critical Norths: Space, Nature, Theory" from the University of Alaska Press. Link to PublisherLink to Kurtis Boyer's Personal Page

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/boyer-affect-and-politics-arctic-wildlife-protection - 2025-05-11

Published 9 June 2017 Hanna Bäck has published the article “Representing the Region on the Floor: Socioeconomic Characteristics of Electoral Districts and Legislative Speechmaking”. The article which focuses on how representatives from different regions participate in parliamentary debates.Read full articleHanna Bäck's personal webpage

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-representation-and-parliamentary-debates - 2025-05-11

Published 27 June 2017 OUTREACH: Annika Bergman Rosamond and Annica Kronsell gave a number of papers at the ECPR conference “European Conference on Politics and Gender” in Lausanne, Switzerland 8-11 June. Annika Bergman Rosamond was also an invited speaker on the final plenary roundtable  'Gender at the Border: the Refugee Crisis in Europe’, see more: https://ecpr.eu/Events/PanelDetails.aspx?Panel

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/plenary-roundtable-and-papers-ecpr-conference - 2025-05-11

Published 2 July 2017 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Jakob Skovgaard has published the article "The devil lies in the definition: competing approaches to fossil fuel subsidies at the IMF and the OECD” in the journal “International Environmental Agreements”. The article concerns how the IMF and the OECD have addressed subsidies to fossil fuels in different ways and which factors that induced them to add

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/skoovgard-competing-approaches-fossil-fuel-subsidies - 2025-05-11

Published 2 July 2017 NEW FROM OUR RESEARCHERS: Annika Björkdahl has together with Stephanie Kappler published the book Peacebuilding and Spatial Transformation. Peace, Space and Place with Routledge. The book investigates peacebuilding in post-conflict scenarios by analyzing the links between peacebuilding agency, space and place. It focuses on case studies from Cyprus, Kosovo, Bosnia-Herzegovina

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-investigates-peacebuilding-post-conflict-scenarios - 2025-05-11

Published 24 August 2017 Reform Capacity argues that the view that an effective government requires a concentration of power is mistaken. Professor Johannes Lindvall recently published his new book Reform Capacity at Oxford University press.Reform Capacity argues that the view that an effective government requires a concentration of power is mistaken. Reform capacity - the ability of political dec

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/reform-capacity-professor-johannes-lindvall - 2025-05-11