Published 13 November 2023 Conflictual cabinet terminations are seismic events in democracies, but their consequences are understudied. Florence So argues that the electoral impacts of conflictual cabinet terminations following non-policy conflicts are electorally costly. They signal parties’ deteriorating governing competence, which reduces parties’ vote shares. Florence So, Postdoctoral Fellow a

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/florence-so-government-breakdown-published-american-political-science-review - 2025-04-11

Published 14 November 2023 Hanna Bäck, Robert Klemmensen and Florence So have received a three-year grant from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond for the project "Divided Parliaments? Polarization, Moralization, and the Risk of Gridlock". The project will start next year. Congratulations! Description In well-functioning democracies, political representatives are capable of compromising to pass legislation

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hanna-back-robert-klemmensen-and-florence-so-receive-three-year-grant-riksbankens-jubileumsfond - 2025-04-11

Published 15 November 2023 New paper on critical pedagogies published in International Studies Perspectives (@ISP_Journal) by two teachers and a current student at Lund University’s Department of Political Science.   Christie Nicoson, Barbara Magalhães Teixeira, and Alva Mårtensson examine an ongoing elective course at the Department, Peace in the 21st Century: Critical Debates on Violence, Justic

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/why-do-we-study-peace-and-what - 2025-04-11

Published 20 November 2023 Professor Hanna Bäck and Associate Professor Roxanna Sjöstedt, Lund University. At the annual meeting in Gothenburg on 5 October, Hanna Bäck was elected as the new chair and Roxanna Sjöstedt as the new secretary of the Swedish Political Science Association. Congratulations on these honorary assignments! With this, the federation's website has also got an updated layout a

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-sjostedt-new-chairman-and-secretary-swedish-political-science-association - 2025-04-11

Published 20 November 2023 'Caring feminist states? Paternalistic feminist foreign policies and the silencing of Indigenous justice claims in Sweden and Canada' by Annika Bergman Rosamond, Georgia De Leeuw and Jessica Cheung in INTERNATIONAL FEMINIST JOURNAL OF POLITICS. Annika Rosamond Bergman Georgia de Leeuw ABSTRACTThe self-identification of Sweden and Canada as exceptionally caring and ethica

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bergman-rosamond-de-leeuw-and-cheung-paternalistic-feminist-foreign-policies - 2025-04-11

Published 21 November 2023 Associate Professors Ted Svensson and Agustín Goenaga, Lund University. Congratulations on the grant! Abstract Previous research has offered important insights about the instruments that states use to govern their populations. It has also shown that colonial experiences had far-reaching consequences for contemporary levels of political and economic development. However,

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ted-svensson-and-agustin-goenaga-receive-three-year-grant-swedish-research-council-project-imperial - 2025-04-11

Published 24 November 2023 Mats Fred, Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren and Lina Berglund-Snodgrass (SLU) have received a 4-year grant from Formas for the project ”NavRISK: Achieving sustainability through risk-taking? The navigating between risk and and stability in urban experiments in planning”. Congratulations! SummaryThe notion that we must go beyond business-as-usual and innovate to achieve climate- an

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/project-achieving-sustainability-through-risk-taking-receives-4-year-grant-formas - 2025-04-11

Published 27 November 2023 Associate Professor Roxanna Sjöstedt and Professor Hanna Bäck, Lund University. Roxanna Sjöstedt, Hanna Bäck, and Louise Olsson at PRIO in Oslo have received a four-year research grant from the Swedish Research Council, the call Project Grant for Research on Societal Preparedness and Security. Congratulations! Project: All Aboard!? A multi-level analysis of societal secu

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sjostedt-back-olsson-receive-swedish-research-council-grant-analysis-societal-security-and - 2025-04-11

Published 27 November 2023 Annika Fredén has co-authored a new field experiment article in the US-based journal Election Law Journal in collaboration with Peter Esaiasson, University of Gothenburg, and Jan Teorell, Stockholm University. We conducted the study in close collaboration with the Swedish election authorities and show that the infrastructure for voting and whether voters can select the b

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/originally-designed-field-experiment-voting-behavior-published-election-law-journal - 2025-04-11

Published 28 November 2023 Professor Annika Björkdahl, together with Associate Professor Johanna Mannergren Selimovic at Södertörn University, have received research funding from the Swedish Research Council for three years of research with the project 'Beyond the Archive: Gendering Holocaust knowledge production through women's testimonies in the Ravensbrück archive'. Congratulations on the resea

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/annika-bjorkdahl-and-johanna-mannergren-selimovic-receive-grant-project-womens-experiences-holocaust - 2025-04-11

Published 12 December 2023 Professor Catarina Kinnvall and Professor Ian Manners, Lund University. The project is focused on the emotional economy of anti/pro-democratic expressions of grievances, with an aim to explain how anti-social grievance politics transform into democratic political action. Congratulations on the research grant! Project name: Politics of Grievance and Democratic Governance

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/catarina-kinnvall-and-ian-manners-represent-lund-university-horizon-project-pledge-politics - 2025-04-11

Published 19 December 2023 Associate Professor Sara Kalm, Lund University. The distinctive features of modern citizenship include, among other things, that it is both internally inclusive and externally exclusive. These characteristics largely evolved during the “long nineteenth century”, the period between the French Revolution and the First World War. Similar to that of today, the historical sit

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sara-kalm-citizenship-and-mobility-poor - 2025-04-11

Published 9 January 2024 Gustav Agneman and Lisa Strömbom has co-authored a new article in Journal of Conflict Resolution (open access). It presents results from a conjoint field-experiment in Meta, Colombia. Associate Professor Lisa Strömbom, Lund University. Associate Professor Gustav Agneman, Department of Economics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. The article helps increase und

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/agneman-and-strombom-new-article-journal-conflict-resolution - 2025-04-11

Published 11 January 2024 Anders Uhlin has together with Malin Arvidsson authored the chapter “Civil Society Boundary Crossing and Elite Integration” published in Civil Society Elites: Exploring the Composition, Reproduction, Integration, and Contestation of Civil Society Actors at the Top, edited by Håkan Johansson & Anna Meeuwisse. Professor Anders Uhlin, Department of Political Sciences, Lund U

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/arvidsson-and-uhlin-boundary-crossing-civil-society-elites - 2025-04-11

Published 22 August 2024 Professor Ian Manners has just published the concluding article on ‘Political psychology of emotions in European Union foreign policy in times of ontological (in)security and crisis’ in a special issue of the Journal of European Integration edited by Seda Gürkan and  Özlem Terzi on The role of emotions in EU foreign policy.Professor Manners’ concluding article argues that

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/concluding-article-special-issue-political-psychology-emotions-european-union-foreign-policy-times - 2025-04-11

Published 29 August 2024 Associate Professor Jakob Skovgaard och doctoral student Evan Drake at the Department of Political Science, Lund University. Despite 15 years of international commitments to phase out fossil fuel subsidies, global subsidies reached a record $1.5 trillion in 2022. In a recent article for npj Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform, Jakob Skovgaard, Evan Drake and their co-authors call f

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-approach-needed-address-fossil-fuel-subsidies - 2025-04-11

Published 29 August 2024 I denna artikel studeras innovationsarbete i offentlig sektor och hur olika aktörer – kommuner, konsulter, akademiker, finansiärer och frivilligorganisationer - skapar och sprider gemensamma berättelser om en illa fungerande offentlig sektor i behov av att ”öppna upp” för nya typer av aktörer, tjänster och kunskap. Genom berättelserna kan vitt skilda aktörstyper (ex. riskk

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/vilka-arbetar-innovation-i-offentlig-sektor-och-hur-gor-dom-det - 2025-04-11

Published 29 August 2024 This article examines public sector innovation and how different actors – municipalities, consultants, academics, financiers, and non-profit organizations – create and distribute stories about a poorly functioning public sector in need of "opening up" to new types of actors, services, and knowledge. Despite differences, the actors involved narrate their world similarly con

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/promoting-public-sector-innovation-who-does-what-when-and-how - 2025-04-11

Published 2 September 2024 Lisa Strömbom and Isabel Bramsen. Inclusion has become somewhat of a standard formula when trying to create political order in the transition from war to peace. But how does inclusion come into play in practice? In the article, Inclusivity in Practice: Patchworks of Inclusion at Multiple Tracks in the Colombian Peace Process, Bramsen and Strömbom investigate the inclusio

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/inclusivity-practice-patchworks-inclusion-multiple-tracks-colombian-peace-process - 2025-04-11

Published 9 September 2024 Anna Wieslander and external reviewer Professor Anders Wivel, University of Copenhagen, during the dissertation at the Department of Political Science, Lund University. Anna Wieslander has successfully defended her thesis entitled 'Transatlantic Transitions: Responses to the Russian Threat in the Baltic Sea Region, 2014–2020'. Congratulations! Dr. Anna Wieslander receive

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/anna-wieslander-has-successfully-defended-her-thesis - 2025-04-11