Hanna Bäck, professor of political science, has published the article "Veto player theory and reform making in Western Europe" in European Journal of Political Research. The article focuses on governments' capacity to implement policy reforms, and builds on a new comparative data set on about 5,600 important economic reform measures undertaken in 13 Western European countries. Link to articleHanna

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hanna-back-governments-capacity-implement-reform - 2025-08-25

Hanna Bäck and Roxanna Sjöstedt have authored the chapter “Political Science Perspectives” (in Swedish) in a new textbook for middle- and junior high school teacher students, published by Gleerups. Read a sample of the book here at the Gleerup web siteHanna Bäck's personal web page.Roxanna Sjöstedt's personal web page.  Hanna Bäck and Roxanna Sjöstedt.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-textbook-social-sciences-teachers-grade-4-9 - 2025-08-25

Hanna Bäck has co-authored the chapter "No More Political Insiders? Ministerial Selection in Sweden During the Post-WWII period" which was published recently in a book on technocratic ministers in the European countries. The chapter investigates Swedish ministers' background and shows that most ministers have had a solid political background, and that the share of "technocrats" has not increased s

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/most-swedish-ministers-have-had-solid-political-background - 2025-08-25

The Department of Political Science is co-hosting the 2017 Lund Conference on Earth System Governance held at Lucsus in October. The conference is part of the global series organised by the Earth System Governance Project. The conference theme Allocation and access in a warming and increasingly unequal world will be addressed in five thematic streams: Environmental justice in earth system governan

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/full-programme-esg-conference-announced-fariborz-zelli-reflects-importance-conference - 2025-08-25

Carlo Knotz, who defended his dissertation "Getting Tough on Unemployment" at the Department of Political Science in Lund in December 2016, has been awarded the 2017 Research Prize by the Swedish Federation of Unemployment Insurance Funds. He shares the prize with Patrik Vulkan at the University of Gothenburg.The prize sum of 75 000 SEK is shared equally between the prize winners.The SO research p

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/knotz-awarded-research-prize - 2025-08-25

Catarina Kinnvall and Ted Svensson have recently published an article entitled 'Ontological Security and the Limits to a Common World: Subaltern Pasts and the Inner-Worldliness of the Tablighi Jama'at' in Postcolonial Studies. The article attends to the contested notions of transnationalism, globality and ontological security that the Islamic revivalist movement Tablighi Jama'at stands for and att

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-and-svensson-transnationalism-and-ontological-security - 2025-08-25

Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) has granted 35,1 million SEK to the 6 year research programme "Civil society elites? Comparing elite composition, reproduction, integration and contestation in European civil societies". The programme is led by professor Håkan Johansson at the School of Social Work at LU. Participants from the Department of Political Science are Niklas Altermark, Sara Kalm and Anders

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-research-programme-civil-society-elites - 2025-08-25

Between Thursday 26 to Saturday 28 October, The Lund University Critical Animal Studies Network (LUCASN) will be hosting Sweden’s very first international conference in Critical Animal Studies. As co-founders of LUCASN, Jana Canavan and Kurtis Boyer from the Political Science Department are co-organisers of the conference. The conference will take place at the Pufendorf Institute. Critical Animal

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/swedens-first-international-critical-animal-studies-conference-lund - 2025-08-25

Jakob Skovgaard has published the article “The Role of Finance Ministries in Environmental Policy Making: The case of European Union Emissions Trading System reform in Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands” in the journal “Environmental Policy and Governance”. The article concerns the role of finance ministries on the Danish, Dutch and German government positions on the reform of the EU’s greenhous

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jakob-skovgaard-finance-ministries-and-environmental-policy-making - 2025-08-25

Stora Brännbo Konferens och Hotel. Photo courtesy of Stora Brännbo Interested in spending a couple of days in Sigtuna to write together with peers in a beautiful environment and discuss your writing with senior scholars? The retreat takes place at Stora Brännbo Konferens och Hotel and starts in the late afternoon on the 13th of May and ends in the afternoon of the 15th of May. The graduate school

https://www.graduateschoolasianstudies.lu.se/article/writing-retreat-may - 2025-08-25

Photo by ConvertKit on Unsplash.com Want to stay up-to-date on Asian affairs and research in the Nordics and beyond? Tune in to the Nordic Asia Podcast! The Nordic Asia Podcast is a collaboration between the following academic partners: Asia Centre, University of Tartu (Estonia), Asian Studies, University of Helsinki (Finland), Centre for Asian Studies, Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania), Cent

https://www.graduateschoolasianstudies.lu.se/article/centre-east-and-south-east-asian-studies-and-graduate-school-asian-studies-joins-nordic-asia-podcast - 2025-08-25

New deadline 15 April. At this workshop, led by Altitude Meetings, and co-organised with the Graduate School in History, you will get practical advice in a workshop format on how to become a better speaker.The workshop takes place on 22 May at Stadshallen in LundSee here for more information

https://www.graduateschoolasianstudies.lu.se/article/extended-application-deadline-workshop-presentation-skills-and-public-speaking - 2025-08-25

Application deadline: 13 June, 2024 During the fall of 2024, we will give the PhD course Critical Perspectives on East and South-East Asian Studies. The course is given part-time during the fall semester with some in-person events in Lund. Please check the link for more information and application form if you are interested. PhD students focusing on East and South-East Asia, currently enrolled in

https://www.graduateschoolasianstudies.lu.se/article/applications-are-now-being-accepted-our-fall-2024-phd-mobility-and-phd-course-critical-perspectives - 2025-08-25

Sigtunastiftelsen. Image from Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. The 2024 annual retreat will be held 6-8 November in Sigtuna at Sigtunastiftelsen. The application deadline is 25 September. At this event we will discuss the need for knowledge on East and South-East Asia among Swedish and international institutions, and career possibilities in and experi

https://www.graduateschoolasianstudies.lu.se/article/application-annual-retreat-application-now-closed - 2025-08-25

We are pleased to announce that applications are now open for two workshops taking place in fall 2024. Podcast Production Workshop, 24-25 October 2024This one-and-a-half-day workshop in October covers all essential aspects of podcast production, from concept development and recording to post-launch engagement. It is a hands-on, interactive workshop that starts from the basics and requires no prior

https://www.graduateschoolasianstudies.lu.se/article/upcoming-workshops-application-now-closed - 2025-08-25

The open-access journal for early career scholars in Asian Studies Asia in Focus has opened for paper submissions. Submission deadline: November 30th. We are happy to announce a call for papers for the next issue of the Asia in Focus journal—published by the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University—with a planned publication date in spring.   Asia in Focus is an open access jo

https://www.graduateschoolasianstudies.lu.se/article/open-call-papers-asia-focus-issue-no-11 - 2025-08-25

Deadline to apply: 29 November 2024. For Spring 2025 you can apply for:PhD CoursesAsia in the Global Economy4 Credits, 20 January to 20 February 2025    Research ethics and fieldwork in an authoritarian context3 credits, 27-28 February 2025 WorkshopsVisual methods and art-based research in the social sciences17-18 March in Lund    Presentation skills and public speaking8 May in Lund     MobilityAp

https://www.graduateschoolasianstudies.lu.se/article/applications-are-now-open-our-spring-2025-courses-workshops-mobility-and-annual-retreat - 2025-08-25

The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies together with the Graduate School in Asian Studies have recently produced three episodes of the Nordic Asia Podcast. The episodes deal with academic freedom issues in Thailand, China and the Indo-Pacific, as well as a Tibetan filmmaker. The episodes were hosted and produced by several of the Centre's PhD students and our intern. Two of them were pro

https://www.graduateschoolasianstudies.lu.se/article/nordic-asia-podcasts - 2025-08-25

PhD students who are enrolled in the Graduate School in Asian Studies and at a Swedish university, and who specialise in East or Southeast Asia, are invited to apply for a mobility opportunity at one of our partner institutions during the autumn term of 2025.Visitors to Lund are welcome during the period 10 November to 12 December.  The deadline to apply is 1 September. Please note that acceptance

https://www.graduateschoolasianstudies.lu.se/article/applications-are-now-being-accepted-fall-2025-phd-mobility - 2025-08-25

Joanne Kuai (Karlstad University) and Tabita Rosendal (Lund University) have successfully defended their PhD dissertations. On Friday, 30 May, Joanne Kuai successfully defended her dissertation “AI, News, and the State: Reinstitutionalising Journalism in Global China’s Algorithmic Age” at Karlstad University. This dissertation that dives into how AI is reshaping journalism in China and beyond, com

https://www.graduateschoolasianstudies.lu.se/article/two-new-doctorates - 2025-08-25