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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.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 - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.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 - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Does party system polarization lead to more government crises? Are there institutions that can mitigate such destabilizing effects? Hanna Bäck has together with Henning Bergmann and Thomas Saalfeld analyzed this question in a comparative analysis of 28 European democracies. You can read about their results in the arti

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-polarization-and-government-crises - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. New teaching material by Roger Hildingsson, Ludwig Bengtsson Sonesson och Johannes Stripple Our colleagues Roger Hildingsson, Ludwig Bengtsson Sonesson och Johannes Stripple have recently launched a new teaching material – Beyond the Fossil Society – for high school and upper secondary school. In collaboration with th

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/looking-future-world-beyond-fossil-society - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In his chapter on ‘Normative Power Approach to European Union External Action, Ian Manners demonstrates how the Normative Power Approach (NPA) to the EU sets out a radically different means of studying and changing planetary politics The NPA uses normative theory, theories of explanation and understanding, and practic

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-chapter-ian-manners-normative-power-approach-eu-external-action - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Johannes Lindvall has, together with Kerstin Enflo and Alexandra L. Cermeño, published the article “Railroads and Reform: How Trains Strengthened the Nation State” in the journal British Journal of Political Science. The article shows that the coming of the railroad in the middle of the nineteenth century strengthened

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/lindvall-how-railroad-strengthened-nation-state - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. How can the long-term be considered in urban planning and experimentation? In a new article – "Planning for 1000 years: The Råängen experiment" published in the journal Urban Planning – Roger Hildingsson, Johannes Stripple and Alice Herrström have together with Peter Pelzer, Utrecht University, studied how the Church

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hildingsson-and-stripple-long-term-futures-urban-planning - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Ole Elgström has together with Natalia Chaban (University of Canterbury, New Zeeland) published a chapter on “Theorizing external perceptions of the EU” in the new textbook/handbook The External Action of the European Union. The book is edited by Sieglinde Gstöhl and Simon Schunz and published by Macmillan Internation

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/elgstrom-external-perceptions-eu-1 - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Malena Rosén Sundström, Ekatherina Zhukova and Ole Elgström have co-authored the article “Spreading a norm-based policy? Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy in international media”. The article has been published in the journal Contemporary Politics. The article investigates how Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP) is

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/rosen-sundstrom-zhukova-and-elgstrom-swedens-feminist-foreign-policy - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Jakob Skovgaard has authored the book “The Economisation of Climate Change –  How the G20, the OECD and the IMF Address Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Climate Finance”. The book investigates how international economic institutions increasingly address climate issues. The international economic institutions’ involvement ran

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-open-access-book-international-economic-institutions-addressing-climate-change - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. After a long economic crisis, Lebanon is on the brink of ruin. The currency has lost much in value and people's savings have been eaten up. The crisis in the country is also taking place at the political and social level. Despite this, the corrupt elite continues to rule the country, without being punished for their w

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/will-lebanon-survive-crisis - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Agustín Goenaga has authored the article “Who cares about the public sphere?”, which will be published in the forthcoming edition of the journal European Journal of Political Research. In this article, Agustín Goenaga examines to what extent citizens consider the public sphere important for democracy. Many of today's

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/who-cares-about-public-sphere - 2026-05-05

Annika Björkdahl is one of the authors of the article “Peacebuilding, Structural Violence and Spatial Reparations in Post-Colonial South Africa”, which has been published in Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding. The article shows how peacebuilding cannot address persistent structural, spatial and economic violence in South Africa. More information about the article can be found on Taylor & Fr

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorkdahl-peacebuilding-south-africa - 2026-05-05

Maiken Røed’s article “Party goals and interest group influence on parties” has been published in the journal West European Politics. The comparative analysis of interest groups’ influence on political parties in six European democracies shows that ideological proximity between interest groups and parties, as well as parties’ willingness to compromise on policy, affect interest groups’ influence.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/roed-interest-group-influence-political-parties - 2026-05-05

Lisa Justesen and Jakob Strandgaard have defended their dissertations this week. Lisa Justesen Lisa Justesen defended her dissertation "The Emerging Outer Space Order: Professional Orders, Heterarchy, Hypermodernity and Political Reason" on May 20 at 10.15. The external reviewer was Professor Mark Rhinard, Stockholms University. Lisa Justesen’s dissertation aims to make sense of, and to conceptual

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/two-dissertations-department-0 - 2026-05-05

Strong external pressure is needed to stop the violence between Israel and Hamas, which has harvested immense humanitarian suffering on both sides. And it must happen quickly, according to Peace and conflict researcher Lisa Strömbom. The UN warns of full-scale war if the ongoing violence between Israel and Hamas continues to escalate. Hundreds, many of them children, have been killed in the attack

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/israel-palestine-conflict-external-pressure-needed-bring-parties-negotiating-table - 2026-05-05

Elsa Hedling has recently published the article ”Transforming practices of diplomacy: the European External Action Service and digital disinformation” published Open Access in the journal International Affairs. The article explores the transformative role of practices of countering digital disinformation in European Union diplomacy. It argues that the rise in efforts to counter disinformation and

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hedling-diplomatic-practices-countering-digital-disinformation - 2026-05-05

Julie Hassing Nielsen and Johannes Lindvall have co-authored the article ”Trust in government in Sweden and Denmark during the COVID-19 epidemic”, which has been published in the journal West European Politics. Did the different public-health policies that Sweden and Denmark pursued in the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic result in different levels of public trust in governments’ and health auth

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/nielsen-and-lindvall-trust-government-during-covid-19-epidemic - 2026-05-05

Annika Bergman Rosamond has together with Katharine Wright (Newcastle University) published the article ‘Nato’s Strategic Narratives – Angelina Jolie and the Alliance’s Celebrity and Visual Turn’ in the journal Review of International Studies. The article focuses on Angelina Jolie's high-profile visit to Nato in 2018, and how that signals a move to brand the alliance's strategic narrative within t

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bergman-rosamond-natos-strategic-narratives-and-celebrity - 2026-05-05

Elin Fjellman and Malena Rosén Sundström has co-authored the article ”Making a (Political) Career: Young Party Members and Career-Related Incentives for Party Membership”. The article has been published in the journal Scandinavian Political Studies. The study investigates what career-related incentives young and active party members consider when calculating costs and benefits of their party membe

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/young-party-members-and-their-thoughts-careers - 2026-05-05