Published 30 January 2018 Hanna Bäck has, together with Emma Bäck and David Sivén, co-authored the article ”Why engage in collective action? The conditional effect of social support and efficacy on protest participation”, which was recently published in “Basic and Applied Social Psychology”. The article focuses on answering the question of why people engage in protest activities. The authors sugge

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hanna-back-protest-participation - 2025-07-25

Published 21 February 2018 Fabio Cristiano has authored the article “From Simulations to Simulacra of War: Game Scenarios in Cyberwar Exercises”, which is part of the latest issue of the Journal of War and Culture Studies. Abstract: This article explores the underlying culture of war sustaining the setting of scenarios within cyberwar games. In particular, it engages with the question of how to si

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/fabio-cristiano-cyberwar-and-simulations - 2025-07-25

Published 23 February 2018 Michael Hansen has, together with Jennifer Clemens, co-authored the article "What to expect when you’re electing: the relationship between far-right strength and citizenship policy in Europe", which was recently published in "Comparative European Politics". The analysis builds on previous research exploring the impact of far-right support on citizenship policy. Using Bay

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hansen-radical-rights-impact-citizenship-policy-europe - 2025-07-25

Published 27 February 2018 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.c

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/altermark-preventative-work-against-violent-extremism - 2025-07-25

Published 2 March 2018 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

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hansen-public-perceptions-womens-underrepresentation-elected-office - 2025-07-25

Published 6 March 2018 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 que

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/corruption-governments - 2025-07-25

Published 9 March 2018 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 Planni

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/experimental-governance - 2025-07-25

Published 14 March 2018 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’

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-new-chair-swedish-research-councils-evaluation-committee - 2025-07-25

Published 22 March 2018 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.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/how-do-individuals-adapt-groups-online - 2025-07-25

Published 3 April 2018 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 w

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-honorary-doctor-expert-women-peace-processes - 2025-07-25

Published 18 April 2018 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 Institut

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/two-dissertations-department - 2025-07-25

Published 27 April 2018 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 internati

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/revised-edition-classical-liberal-internationalism - 2025-07-25

Published 3 May 2018 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, arg

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/economic-development-and-democracy - 2025-07-25

Published 15 May 2018 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 notorious

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/when-implementation-falters - 2025-07-25

Published 18 May 2018 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

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/elgstrom-eu-biased-mediator - 2025-07-25

Published 21 May 2018 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 ‘neuropolit

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/political-science-and-brain - 2025-07-25

Published 28 May 2018 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 futur

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/how-characterize-eu-after-brexit - 2025-07-25

Published 29 May 2018 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

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/sjostedt-minority-rights-after-socialization-processes - 2025-07-25

Published 31 May 2018 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 - 2025-07-25

Published 11 June 2018 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 part

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/vandeleene-intraparty-candidate-selection-processes-times-crisis - 2025-07-25