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Niklas Altermark and Hampus Nilsson have recently published their article ”Crafting the ’Well-Rounded Citizen’: Empowerment and the Government of Counterradicalization” in International Political Sociology. The study explores and critically discusses how preventative work against violent extremism has come to revolve around fostering citizens.Learn more on academic.oup.com Niklas Altermark’s perso

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/altermark-preventative-work-against-violent-extremism - 2025-10-31

Michael Hansen has, together with Kathleen Dolan from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, co-authored the article "Blaming Women or Blaming the System? Public Perceptions of Women’s Underrepresentation in Elected Office", which was recently published in "Political Research Quarterly". While scholars understand some of the reasons for the underrepresentation of women in elected office in the U

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hansen-public-perceptions-womens-underrepresentation-elected-office - 2025-10-31

Why are some governments more corrupt than others? Why do high-level officials in some countries seem to extract more rents than others? In the recently-published article “Cabinets, Prime Ministers, and Corruption: A Comparative Analysis of Parliamentary Governments in Post-War Europe” Hanna Bäck and Jan Teorell, together with Staffan Lindberg, present one answer to such questions, focusing on the

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/corruption-governments - 2025-10-31

What different roles have municipalities had in the emerging processes of experimental governance - or governance through trials and urban living labs? This question is discussed in a new article by Annica Kronsell and Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren. The article ”Experimental governance: the role of municipalities in urban living labs” has been publish in the journal European Planning Studies.Read the art

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/experimental-governance - 2025-10-31

There are studies that show that women and men are assessed and treated differently within academia. This is something Hanna Bäck, the new chair for the Swedish Research Council’s evaluation committee for political science, peace and conflict studies, and media and communication studies, want to change. Hanna Bäck has previously participated in the Swedish research council’s assessment group for p

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-new-chair-swedish-research-councils-evaluation-committee - 2025-10-31

Hanna Bäck has, together with Emma Bäck, Marie Gustafsson Sendén and Sverker Sikström, co-authored the article ”From I to We: Group Formation and Linguistic Adaption in an Online Xenophobic Forum”, which was recently published in Journal of Social and Political Psychology. The article focuses on processes of group identification and how individuals adapt in an online forum. The authors analyze tex

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/how-do-individuals-adapt-groups-online - 2025-10-31

Women’s role in peace processes, and the political economy of gender-based violence in post-conflict societies. These are topics researched by one of the new honorary doctors in social sciences – the political scientist Jacqui True. Jacqui True is a professor of political science and international relations in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University in Australia where she is the Directo

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-honorary-doctor-expert-women-peace-processes - 2025-10-31

Ulrika Waaranperä and Sandra Engstrand, PhD-students at Lund University and Malmö University, will defend their dissertations this week. Ulrika Waaranperä will defend her dissertation "Histories of land: Politicization, property and belonging in Molo, Kenya" on April 19 at 10.15 in Niagara, Malmö University. The external reviewer is professor Morten Bøås, Norwegian Institute of International Affai

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/two-dissertations-department - 2025-10-31

Christer Jönsson has contributed with the chapter "Classical Liberal Internationalism" to the revised edition of the book ”International Organization and Global Governance” (edited by Thomas G. Weiss and Rorden Wilkinson). Although unfairly pilloried for being out of touch with "reality" by a new generation of realist scholars after World War II, classical liberal internationalism was clear about

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/revised-edition-classical-liberal-internationalism - 2025-10-31

Why are some countries more democratic than others? Why do some countries remain democratic whereas other backslide toward authoritarianism? In the recently-published article “Economic development and democracy: An electoral connection”, Jan Teorell, together with Carl Henrik Knutsen, John Gerring, Svend-Erik Skaaning, Mathew Maguire, Michael Coppedge and Staffan Lindberg, argue that a clear relat

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/economic-development-and-democracy - 2025-10-31

Mikael Sundström has, together with Robert Holmberg, authored the article "When implementation falters: the challenge of having peripheral issues stick in organisations", that has been published in Journal of Strategy and Management. The purpose of the article is to study a class of issues that in spite of recognised needs and explicit managerial demands have proven notoriously hard to have “stick

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/when-implementation-falters - 2025-10-31

Ole Elgström is first author, with co-authors Natalia Chaban, Michèle Knodt, Patrick Muller och Sharon Pardo, of the article "Perceptions of the EU's role in the Ukraine-Russian and the Israel-Palestine conflicts: A biased mediator?, which was recently published in the journal International Negotiation. Abstract:This article focuses on how the European Union’s (EU) mediation activities during the

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/elgstrom-eu-biased-mediator - 2025-10-31

Niklas Altermark and Linda Nyberg have author the article ”Neuro-politics: knowing politics through the brain”. Abstract:In recent years, neuroscientific knowledge has been applied far beyond its context of emergence to explain human behaviour in general and to address a host of specific societal problems. In this article, we discuss the emerging research field of ‘neuropolitics’ that seeks to bri

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/political-science-and-brain - 2025-10-31

Ole Elgström has together with Natalia Chaban author the article "On a Journey with Uncertain Destination: Metaphors and Images of the EU in Russian and Ukrainian Media after Brexit Vote", which has been published in the journal European Foreign Affairs Review. Abstract:The outcome of the British Brexit referendum sent shockwaves across Europe. It sent signals about the future of the European Unio

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/how-characterize-eu-after-brexit - 2025-10-31

To what extent have long-standing norm diffusion and socialization processes affected the rights for the Russian minority in Estonia? In the article “Beyond Compliance: Recognition, Solidarity and Minority Rights in Post-Accession Estonia” recently published in the journal “Nationalism and Ethnic Politics”, Roxanna Sjöstedt examines the internalization of the minority rights norm, focusing on the

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sjostedt-minority-rights-after-socialization-processes - 2025-10-31

Karin Aggestam has authored the chapter "Depoliticisation, Water, and Environmental Peacebuilding” in the handbook ”Routledge Handbook of Environmental Conflict and Peacebuilding”. Learn more about the handbook on routledge.comKarin Aggestam’s personal page

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-depoliticization-and-environmental-peacebuilding - 2025-10-31

Audrey Vandeleene has, together with Lieven De Winter, authored the book chapter ”The Curious Stability of Candidate Selection Methods in Belgium in Times of Crisis” in the book ”The Selection of Politicians in Times of Crisis”. In their chapter, they analyse changes in the processes of selection of electoral candidates over time, with a special focus on non traditional parties - the regionalists,

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/vandeleene-intraparty-candidate-selection-processes-times-crisis - 2025-10-31

This year, Sweden celebrates a century of democracy and fair elections are seen as self-evident. How did our democracy develop and how did we get rid of election fraud? One of your researchers has now examined the country’s election fraud history and its underlying causes – from 1719 to the early 1900s. The conclusion? Bureaucrats and political parties are the biggest factors influencing election

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/how-sweden-became-one-worlds-most-stable-democracies - 2025-10-31

Johannes Lindvall has, together with David Rueda, authored the book chapter ”Public Opinion, Party Politics, and the Welfare State” in the book ”Welfare Democracies and Party Politics—Explaining Electoral Dynamics in Times of Changing Welfare Capitalism”. I their study Johannes Lindvall (Lund University) and David Rueda (University of Oxford) show how social policy in rich democracies has been sha

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-research-development-welfare-state - 2025-10-31

Jens Bartelson, Martin Hall and Jan Teorell are the editors of the newly released book “De-Centering State Making”. Bridging the gap between international relations and comparative politics, this book transposes Eurocentric theories and narratives of state-making to new historical and geographical contexts in order to probe their scope conditions. In doing this, the authors question received expla

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-state-making - 2025-10-31