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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Do governing parties strategically time welfare benefit cuts and other austerity policies to help them win elections? Hanna Bäck has, together with med Daniel Strobl, Wolfgang Müller and Mariyana Angelova analyzed this question in a comparative analysis of the Western European countries. You can read about their resul

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-timing-austerity-reforms - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Annika Bergman Rosamond and Catia Gregoratti have recently published the article “Neoliberal turns in global humanitarian governance: corporations, celebrities and the construction of the entrepreneurial refugee woman” in the  Journal of Humanitarian Affairs (Manchester University Press) 2:3, 2021. This article seeks

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-annika-bergman-rosamond-and-catia-gregoratti - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Karin Aggestam and Jacqui True have co-authored the article “Political leadership and gendered multilevel games in foreign policy” published Open Access in the journal International Affairs. Link to the article on academic.oup.com Karin Aggestam’s personal page Jacqui True’s homepage

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-and-true-political-leadership-and-gendered-multilevel-games-foreign-policy - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. "Achieving a Feminist Peace by Blurring Boundaries between Private and Public” The article is published in the book “A Requiem for Peacebuilding?" Link to the publication on springer.com Nina Wilén’s personal page

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-nina-wilen - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. How do party cues influence support for a policy proposal? Does it matter whether information on a policy is presented by an in- or outgroup representative? Hanna Bäck has together with Annika Fredén and Emma Renström analyzed this question in a large-scale survey experiment. You can read about their results in the ar

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-party-cues-and-political-attitudes - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 'Politicization and EU Development Policy: The Role of External Perceptions. Case of Ukraine' This article highlights the role of external audiences and their perceptions in analysing the politicization of EU development policy. We analyse how EU foreign assistance is understood in two different intermediary arenas of

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/elgstrom-and-chaban-external-perceptions-and-politicization-eu-development-policy - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Klas Nilsson has recently received a prize for his dissertation ”The Money of Monarchs”. The award is conferred by Vetenskapssocieteten and was presented at the annual celebration held on November 23. Vetenskapssocieteten exists to promote humanist research, in part by providing support to younger researchers.Nilsson’

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/vetenskapssocieteten-lund-gives-prize-dissertation-political-science - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Catarina Kinnvall and Ted Svensson have published a joint article in “Review of International Studies”, entitled “Misrecognition and the Indian state: The desire for sovereign agency”. In the article, they show how the Indian state is being rethought, restructured and reimagined through Hindu nationalism and how the c

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-misrecognition-and-indian-state - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Karin Aggestam, Annika Bergman-Rosamond and Annica Kronsell have co-authored the journal article ”Theorising Feminist Foreign Policy”, which has been published in International Relations. The article advances a new theoretical framework, which enables a thoroughgoing study of feminist foreign policy. It draws upon fem

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/theorising-feminist-foreign-policy - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Maiken Røed has co-authored the article "Explaining Participation Bias in the European Commission's Online Consultations: The Struggle for Policy Gain without too Much Pain" published in Journal of Common Market Studies. The article investigates participation bias in the European Commission's online consultations and

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/roed-european-commissions-online-consultations - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Elsa Hedling defended her dissertation "Blending Politics and New Media. Mediatized Practices of EU Digital Diplomacy" on December 19 at 10:00 in Eden auditorium. Discussant was Professor Alister Miskimmon, Queen’s University Belfast. In her PhD thesis titled “Blending Politics and New Media. Mediatized Practices of E

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/elsa-hedling-has-defended-her-thesis - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Catarina Kinnvall has published the article “On the Frontline: Populism and White Nationalism” in the journal Discover Society. In the article, Catarina Kinnvall discusses the dangers of seeing rising ethnic diversity as a threat to democracy and the West – a position held by a number of academics, journalists and com

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/populism-and-white-nationalism - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Magdalena Bexell and Kristina Jönsson have published an article entitled "Country Reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals–The Politics of Performance Review at the Global-National Nexus" in the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities. Debates on governance through goal-setting and performance review have

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-politics-sustainability-performance-review - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Are female politicians less likely to be promoted to specific ministerial posts, and is it important for them to toe the party line? Hanna Bäck has, together with Johan Bo Davidsson and Markus Baumann, studied this question in an analysis of Swedish cabinet appointments. The results of their statistical analysis sugge

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-female-cabinet-appointments - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Tobias Dan Nielsen has co-authored an article called ”Global outsourcing of carbon emissions 1995–2009: A reassessment”, which has been publish in the journal ”Environmental Science & Policy”. The article investigates carbon flows in international trade, adjusting for differences in production technology between count

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/nielsen-carbon-flows-international-trade - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Audrey Vandeleene has co-edited the book ”Candidates, Parties and Voters in the Belgian Partitocracy”, which just has been published at Palgrave Macmillan. The book studies electoral candidates and their relationship with political parties and voters in the Belgian partitocratic context.  All book chapters rely on dat

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/vandeleene-candidates-parties-and-voters - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Karin Aggestam has contributed with a chapter to “Oxford University Press Handbook on Women, Peace and Security” on “WPS, peace negotiations and peace agreements”. The book's editors are Sara Davies and Jacqui True. The chapter analyses women’s representation in peace negotiations and the contents of peace agreements.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-negotiations-and-peace-agreements - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Who represents the party in parliamentary debates? Hanna Bäck has, together with Markus Baumann, Marc Debus and Jochen Müller, studied this question in an analysis of parliamentary debates in six European countries. The results of their analysis suggest the party leadership restricts floor access to a small number of

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-parliamentary-debates - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Jakob Skovgaard and Roger Hildingsson have co-authored the book chapter “Environmental Policy and the Economic Crisis – The Swedish and Danish Cases” together with Bengt Johansson. The chapter is published in the book “The Impact of the Economic Crisis on European Environmental Policy”. It concerns how environmental p

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/skovgaard-and-hildingsson-swedish-and-danish-environmental-policy-after-crisis - 2026-07-21

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Carlo Knotz and Johannes Lindvall have contributed to the series SAGE Research Methods Case with the contribution ”Using Quantitative Methods to Study Welfare State Reforms”. The authors discuss the promises and pitfalls of using quantitative methods to study social policymaking. Read more on methods.sagepub.com About

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/lindvall-quantitative-methods - 2026-07-21