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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.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 - 2026-10-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.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 - 2026-10-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.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 - 2026-10-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.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 - 2026-10-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.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 - 2026-10-09

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 - 2026-10-09

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 - 2026-10-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.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

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/persson-and-bergman-rosamond-field-eu-israelpalestine-relations - 2026-10-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.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

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bengtsson-and-rosen-sundstrom-editors-new-book-eu-and-global-order - 2026-10-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.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

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jonsson-parliaments-global-governance - 2026-10-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.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

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-volume-about-europeanization-sweden - 2026-10-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.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

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/eu-mediation-effectiveness-russia-ukraine-conflict - 2026-10-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.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

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/skovgaard-bureaucratic-politics-and-allocation-climate-aid-between-developing-countries - 2026-10-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.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

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorn-ostbring-has-defended-his-thesis - 2026-10-09

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

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-and-bergman-rosamond-re-politicising-gender-security-nexus - 2026-10-09

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

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-and-strombom-peace-building-middle-east - 2026-10-09

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

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-lindvall-and-teorell-swedens-parliamentary-democracy - 2026-10-09

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

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/authoritarian-regime-and-democratic-forms-government - 2026-10-09

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

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/need-bag - 2026-10-09

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

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/gusic-how-war-and-peace-interplay-space - 2026-10-09