Published 16 August 2024 In the 2022 Swedish General Election, the Liberal party was in danger of not reaching parliamentary representation, but finally succeeded to make it to parliament. How opinion polls affect this kind of voting is the focus in a new publication by Annika Fredén together with colleagues at Chalmers and the University of Gothenburg, published in International Journal of Public

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-publication-strategic-voting-threshold-parties - 2025-01-12

Published 16 August 2024 Laura Landorff and Anders Uhlin have authored the article “Why do business leaders, senior politicians and civil servants move to leading positions in EU civil society? Exploring capital gains through boundary crossing”, recently published in European Politics and Society. Why do business leaders, senior politicians and civil servants move to leading positions in EU civil

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/landorff-and-uhlin-economic-and-political-elites-eu-civil-society - 2025-01-12

Published 22 August 2024 Professor Ian Manners has just published the concluding article on ‘Political psychology of emotions in European Union foreign policy in times of ontological (in)security and crisis’ in a special issue of the Journal of European Integration edited by Seda Gürkan and  Özlem Terzi on The role of emotions in EU foreign policy.Professor Manners’ concluding article argues that

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/concluding-article-special-issue-political-psychology-emotions-european-union-foreign-policy-times - 2025-01-12

Published 29 August 2024 Associate Professor Jakob Skovgaard och doctoral student Evan Drake at the Department of Political Science, Lund University. Despite 15 years of international commitments to phase out fossil fuel subsidies, global subsidies reached a record $1.5 trillion in 2022. In a recent article for npj Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform, Jakob Skovgaard, Evan Drake and their co-authors call f

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-approach-needed-address-fossil-fuel-subsidies - 2025-01-12

Published 29 August 2024 I denna artikel studeras innovationsarbete i offentlig sektor och hur olika aktörer – kommuner, konsulter, akademiker, finansiärer och frivilligorganisationer - skapar och sprider gemensamma berättelser om en illa fungerande offentlig sektor i behov av att ”öppna upp” för nya typer av aktörer, tjänster och kunskap. Genom berättelserna kan vitt skilda aktörstyper (ex. riskk

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/vilka-arbetar-innovation-i-offentlig-sektor-och-hur-gor-dom-det - 2025-01-12

Published 29 August 2024 This article examines public sector innovation and how different actors – municipalities, consultants, academics, financiers, and non-profit organizations – create and distribute stories about a poorly functioning public sector in need of "opening up" to new types of actors, services, and knowledge. Despite differences, the actors involved narrate their world similarly con

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/promoting-public-sector-innovation-who-does-what-when-and-how - 2025-01-12

Published 2 September 2024 Lisa Strömbom and Isabel Bramsen. Inclusion has become somewhat of a standard formula when trying to create political order in the transition from war to peace. But how does inclusion come into play in practice? In the article, Inclusivity in Practice: Patchworks of Inclusion at Multiple Tracks in the Colombian Peace Process, Bramsen and Strömbom investigate the inclusio

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/inclusivity-practice-patchworks-inclusion-multiple-tracks-colombian-peace-process - 2025-01-12

Published 9 September 2024 Anna Wieslander and external reviewer Professor Anders Wivel, University of Copenhagen, during the dissertation at the Department of Political Science, Lund University. Anna Wieslander has successfully defended her thesis entitled 'Transatlantic Transitions: Responses to the Russian Threat in the Baltic Sea Region, 2014–2020'. Congratulations! Dr. Anna Wieslander receive

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/anna-wieslander-has-successfully-defended-her-thesis - 2025-01-12

Published 16 September 2024 This chapter explores feminist activism during and after the so-called Arab Spring, a transformative event that brought new challenges and a new political environment for feminist activists. At first, the overthrow of old regimes raised hopes for a more open and liberated society, but these hopes did not last long. Feminist organizations in countries such as Egypt and T

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/abdelmoez-digital-feminist-practice-during-and-after-arab-spring - 2025-01-12

Published 20 September 2024 Barbara Magalhães Teixeira on her dissertation and external reviewer Professor Jan Selby, University of Leeds. Barbara Magalhães Teixeira has successfully defended her thesis entitled 'The Nature of Peace and the Continuum of Violence in Environmental Conflicts'. Congratulations! AbstractIn this dissertation, I aim to explore the links between nature, conflict, and peac

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/barbara-magalhaes-teixeira-has-successfully-defended-her-thesis - 2025-01-12

Published 26 September 2024 Isabel Bramsen has published a new chapter on the role of emotions and emotional energy in conflict, repression and violence in The Oxford Handbook of Emotions in International Relations. AbstractEmotions play a significant role in shaping human interaction, not least in the context of conflict and violence. This chapter delves into the intricate interplay between emoti

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bramsen-role-emotions-and-emotional-energy-conflict-repression-and-violence - 2025-01-12

Published 30 September 2024 Professor Annika Björkdahl, Department of Political Science, Lund University. The book “Peace and the Politics of Memory”, Manchester University Press, co-authored with Johanna Mannergren, Susanne Buckley-Zistel, Stefanie Kappler and Timothy Williams provides new understandings of how the politics of memory impacts peace in societies transitioning from a violent past. I

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-book-annika-bjorkdahl-et-al-peace-and-politics-memory - 2025-01-12

Published 4 October 2024 Visiting political scientists from the University of Denver discuss the upcoming U.S. election with students in a packed auditorium at Eden, moderated by Professor Jonathan Polk. On Thursday, the Eden auditorium was filled with students when the Department of Political Science was visited by researchers from the University of Denver to analyze and discuss the political sit

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/full-house-when-visiting-political-scientists-denver-discussed-upcoming-us-election - 2025-01-12

Published 10 October 2024 To what extent does moderation in ideological positioning by social democratic parties affect their short- and long-term electoral fortunes? This chapter builds on our prior work to further probe whether there is a link between moderation and individual voters’ shifts from social democratic parties at a later point, by considering a larger number of cases and by different

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/polk-and-karreth-new-study-voter-responses-social-democratic-party-ideological-moderation - 2025-01-12

Published 11 October 2024 Guest lecture with Jason Diakité for peace and conflict students in the Eden auditorium. Brilliant guest lecture with Jason Diakité for peace and conflict students and an insightful and thought-provoking research seminar with Jason and Madubuko Diakité on popular culture, racism, world peace, democracy, agency, space and "exercising citizenship"! Thanks! Jason Diakité och

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jason-diakite-lu-honorary-doctor-and-madubuko-diakite-lu-raoul-wallenberg-institute-visited-eden-and - 2025-01-12

Published 17 October 2024 Karin Aggestam and Tim Dunne have co-authored the chapter “The failure of diplomacy and protection in Syria”, in Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases (3d edition), eds S. Smith, A. Hadfield, and T. Dunne, Oxford: Oxford University Press. AbstractThis chapter argues that the international community’s response to the Syrian civil war was a failure of resolute diplomacy.

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/karin-aggestam-and-time-dunne-failure-diplomacy-and-protection-syria - 2025-01-12

Published 25 October 2024 Hello Ian Manners! Lund University has recently committed itself to student-centred education to improve the quality of learning and teaching on campus. Could you tell us more about the motivation behind this focus? – Certainly! Lund University aims to create a learning environment where students are at the heart of the educational process, and a crucial part of that is t

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/professor-ian-manners-active-learning-social-science - 2025-01-12

Published 4 November 2024 Lisa Strömbom, Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor in Political Science. Photo: Johan Persson. Lisa Strömbom, together with Gustav Agneman (LU and Trondheim University) and Angelica Rettberg (Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá), has published the article “Do Apologies Promote the Reintegration of former combatants? Lessons from a Video Experiment in Colombia” in Journa

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/strombom-agneman-och-rettberg-journal-peace-research-apologies-and-reintegration-former-combatants - 2025-01-12

Published 8 November 2024 Associate Professors Isabel Bramsen and Lisa Strömbom, Department of Political Science, Lund University. Isabel Bramsen, Lisa Strömbom, and Kasia Jezierska have received funding for the project "The United Nations as a Platform Enabling Agonistic Contestation and Engagement? (UNPEACE)" to analyse the UN Security Council and the UN General Assembly meetings about Israel-P

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/isabel-bramsen-lisa-strombom-and-kasia-jezierska-have-been-granted-funding-swedish-research-council - 2025-01-12

Published 21 November 2024 This article explores legitimation attempts by global multistakeholder partnerships that seek to support implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda. This generation of global partnerships faces strong expectations on obtaining synergies between policy fields and between the actors involved. We examine self-legitimation in a comparative study o

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-legitimacy-challenges-multistakeholder-partnerships-2030-agenda - 2025-01-12