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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 data from the Belgian Candidate Survey 2014 that was coordinated by Audrey Vandeleen

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/vandeleene-candidates-parties-and-voters - 2025-10-09

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. Based on a comprehensive interview survey of global peacemakers opportunities an

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-negotiations-and-peace-agreements - 2025-10-09

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 representatives, especially before an election, in order to maintain the “party b

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-parliamentary-debates - 2025-10-09

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 policy has developed since the onset of the economic crisis in 2007-2008 in Denmar

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/skovgaard-and-hildingsson-swedish-and-danish-environmental-policy-after-crisis - 2025-10-09

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 Knotz defended his PhD at the

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/lindvall-quantitative-methods - 2025-10-09

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-Israel/Palestine relations to

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/persson-and-bergman-rosamond-field-eu-israelpalestine-relations - 2025-10-09

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 chapters to the volume.Rea

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bengtsson-and-rosen-sundstrom-editors-new-book-eu-and-global-order - 2025-10-09

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 efforts to forge links wit

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jonsson-parliaments-global-governance - 2025-10-09

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 Domestic Embeddedness”Ylva Stub

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-volume-about-europeanization-sweden - 2025-10-09

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 investigating perceptions of E

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/eu-mediation-effectiveness-russia-ukraine-conflict - 2025-10-09

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 article is that the level

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/skovgaard-bureaucratic-politics-and-allocation-climate-aid-between-developing-countries - 2025-10-09

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 and deeply held moral bel

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorn-ostbring-has-defended-his-thesis - 2025-10-09

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 global gender mainstre

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-and-bergman-rosamond-re-politicising-gender-security-nexus - 2025-10-09

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; and environmental coopera

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-and-strombom-peace-building-middle-east - 2025-10-09

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:Hanna BäckJohannes Lind

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-lindvall-and-teorell-swedens-parliamentary-democracy - 2025-10-09

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 framework of five dimensio

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/authoritarian-regime-and-democratic-forms-government - 2025-10-09

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 modern culture. The vers

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/need-bag - 2025-10-09

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 sciencedirect.comIvan Gusic’s pers

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/gusic-how-war-and-peace-interplay-space - 2025-10-09

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 “New Institutional Economic

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/teorell-measurement-institutions - 2025-10-09

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 governance gaps, through a c

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/what-future-primates - 2025-10-09