Published 10 January 2019 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 the authors:Johannes Lindvall’s personal pageCarlo Kno

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Published 15 January 2019 Anders Persson is the editor of the special issue ”The occupation at 50: EU-Israel/Palestine relations since 1967” in the journal ”Middle East Critique”. Annika Bergman Rosamond and other leading researcher from Europe and the Middle East have contributed with articles. The purpose of this special issue has been to bring together the leading voices in the field of EU-Isra

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/persson-and-bergman-rosamond-field-eu-israelpalestine-relations - 2025-06-25

Published 18 January 2019 Rikard Bengtsson and Malena Rosén Sundström are the editors of the book “The EU and the emerging global order”, a book in honour of Ole Elgström upon his retirement. The book contains a number of contributions from Swedish and international authors active in Ole Elgström’s different research areas. From the department, Christer Jönsson and Anders Persson have contributed

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bengtsson-and-rosen-sundstrom-editors-new-book-eu-and-global-order - 2025-06-25

Published 28 January 2019 Christer Jönsson and Anders Johnsson have co-authored the article "Parliaments in Global Governance” in the journal ”Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations”. Existing research on the role of parliaments in global governance has emphasized the history, structure and formal powers of international parliamentary institutions and their

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jonsson-parliaments-global-governance - 2025-06-25

Published 29 January 2019 The edited volume ”Europeanization in Sweden: Opportunities and Challenges for Civil Society Organizations” (editors Anna Meeuwisse och Roberto Scaramuzzino) has recently been published by Berghahn Books. Three department colleagues have contributed. Elsa Hedling has, together with Anna Meeuwisse, co-authored the chapter "Access to the European Union and the Role of Domes

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-volume-about-europeanization-sweden - 2025-06-25

Published 1 February 2019 Ole Elgström has, together with Natalia Chaban and Michèle Knodt, co-authored the article ”Perceptions of EU mediation and mediation effectiveness: Comparing perspectives from Ukraine and the EU”, which has been published in the journal Cooperation and Conflict. The authors analyse the European Union (EU) as ‘an effective peacemaker’. They contribute to this field by inve

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/eu-mediation-effectiveness-russia-ukraine-conflict - 2025-06-25

Published 7 February 2019 Jakob Skovgaard has co-authored the article “Bureaucratic politics and the allocation of climate finance” with Lauri Peterson (Uppsala University). The article is published in the journal World Development. It concerns how bureaucratic politics has influenced the allocation of aid for climate mitigation and adaptation in developing countries. An important insight from the

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/skovgaard-bureaucratic-politics-and-allocation-climate-aid-between-developing-countries - 2025-06-25

Published 1 March 2019 The refugee crisis of 2015 forced Sweden and its citizens to face politically and morally difficult questions about migration, human rights and the nation state. Different perspectives on these issues within political theory are discussed by Björn Östbring in his dissertation which he defended today. In the public debate it is easy to discern two camps expressing opposing an

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorn-ostbring-has-defended-his-thesis - 2025-06-25

Published 4 March 2019 Karin Aggestam and Annika Bergman Rosamond have co-authored the article ”Re-politicising the Gender-Security Nexus: Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy”. The article is published in a special issue on the politicisation of security in the  journal European Review of International Studies. The article analyses the politicisation of the WPS- (Women, Peace and Security) agenda and

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-and-bergman-rosamond-re-politicising-gender-security-nexus - 2025-06-25

Published 7 March 2019 Karin Aggestam and Lisa Strömbom have contributed with a chapter ”Peacebuilding in the Middle East” to Routledge Handbook on Middle East Security (eds. A. Jägerskog, et al) The chapter analyses peacebuilding in the Middle East with focus on four subdomains and regions: Security sector reforms in Tunisia; Women, peace, security in Iraq; youth and peace activism in Lebanon; an

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-and-strombom-peace-building-middle-east - 2025-06-25

Published 5 March 2019 Hanna Bäck, Johannes Lindvall and Jan Teorell have, together with Carl Dahlström and Elin Naurin, co-authored the article “Sweden’s Parliamentary Democracy at 100”, which has been published in the journal Parliamentary Affairs. The article assesses how Swedish parliamentary democracy works today, almost one hundred years into its history.Learn more on doi.org Personal pages:

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Published 11 March 2019 Jan Teorell and Staffan Lindberg have written the article ”Beyond Democracy-Dictatorship Measures: A New Framework Capturing Executive Bases of Power, 1789-2016”, which has been published in the journal “Perspectives on Politics”. This article attempts to integrate the literatures on authoritarian regime types and democratic forms of government by proposing a theoretical fr

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/authoritarian-regime-and-democratic-forms-government - 2025-06-25

Published 12 March 2019 Tobias Dan Nielsen, Karl Holmberg and Johannes Stripple have co-authored the article ”Need a bag? A review of public policies on plastic carrier bags – Where, how and to what effect?”, which has been published in the journal Waste Management. The plastic carrier bag epitomises many of the features that have transformed plastics into a material that defines our contemporary

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Published 18 March 2019 Ivan Gusic has published the article ”The relational spatiality of the postwar condition: A study of the city of Mitrovica”, which has been published in Political Geography. The article is about how postwar societies both shape and are shaped by postwar spaces, depicting this theoretical argument through the postwar city of Mitrovica (Kosovo). Read the article on sciencedir

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/gusic-how-war-and-peace-interplay-space - 2025-06-25

Published 19 March 2019 Jan Teorell has authored the chapter “Measuring Institutions: What We Do Not Know“ in the book “A Research Agenda for New Institutional Economics” (the editors are C. Ménard and M. Shirley). This is a chapter in an edited volume issue by and, first and foremost, for economists. Its overarching theme is the future research agenda within the theoretical perspective called “Ne

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Published 22 March 2019 Tobias Nielsen and Fariborz Zelli have together with four other researchers co-authored the article ”What future for primates? Conservation struggles in the forests of Cross River State, Nigeria”, which has been published in the journal ”Sustainability Science”. In this article, the authors analyse the impacts of human-induced faunal loss and the associated multi-level gove

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/what-future-primates - 2025-06-25

Published 25 March 2019 Why do coalition parties settle some policy issues in great detail, whereas other issues are hardly mentioned in coalition agreements? Hanna Bäck has, together with Heike Klüver, studied this question in an analysis of over 200 agreements in 24 West and East European countries. The results in their analysis show that parties are clearly more likely to spend a lot of effort

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-coalition-agreements - 2025-06-25

Published 29 March 2019 Jens Bartelson has received two awards by the International Studies Association. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award and the ISA Theory Section Best Monograph Award. The last mentioned award has been given to Bartelson for his book ”War in International Thought”. Motivation for the Distinguished scholar awardJens Bartelson’s pioneering contribution to the

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bartelson-has-received-two-awards - 2025-06-25

Published 27 March 2019 Ketevan Bolkvadze has, together with Marina Povitkina from University of Gothenburg, published the article "Fresh Pipes with Dirty Water: How quality of government shapes the provision of public goods in democracies" in the “European Journal of Political Research”. Using mixed methods design the authors investigate why democracy is not enough for the provision of basic publ

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/how-quality-government-shapes-provision-public-goods-democracies - 2025-06-25

Published 28 March 2019 The speaker of the Swedish Parliament, Andreas Norlén. Photo: Melker Dahlstrand/The Swedish Parliament A study of the Swedish government formation process 2018-2019 aims to map the sequence of events and summarize what can be learnt from the process and the formal rules governing it. The study aims to answer three research questions: Why did the current government form? Why

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/study-government-formation-process - 2025-06-25