Published 11 March 2019 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 fr

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Published 12 March 2019 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

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Published 18 March 2019 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 sciencedir

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Published 19 March 2019 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 “Ne

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Published 22 March 2019 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 gove

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Published 25 March 2019 Why do coalition parties settle some policy issues in great detail, whereas other issues are hardly mentioned in coalition agreements? Hanna Bäck has, together with Heike Klüver, studied this question in an analysis of over 200 agreements in 24 West and East European countries. The results in their analysis show that parties are clearly more likely to spend a lot of effort

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Published 29 March 2019 Jens Bartelson has received two awards by the International Studies Association. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award and the ISA Theory Section Best Monograph Award. The last mentioned award has been given to Bartelson for his book ”War in International Thought”. Motivation for the Distinguished scholar awardJens Bartelson’s pioneering contribution to the

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Published 27 March 2019 Ketevan Bolkvadze has, together with Marina Povitkina from University of Gothenburg, published the article "Fresh Pipes with Dirty Water: How quality of government shapes the provision of public goods in democracies" in the “European Journal of Political Research”. Using mixed methods design the authors investigate why democracy is not enough for the provision of basic publ

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/how-quality-government-shapes-provision-public-goods-democracies - 2025-04-25

Published 28 March 2019 The speaker of the Swedish Parliament, Andreas Norlén. Photo: Melker Dahlstrand/The Swedish Parliament A study of the Swedish government formation process 2018-2019 aims to map the sequence of events and summarize what can be learnt from the process and the formal rules governing it. The study aims to answer three research questions: Why did the current government form? Why

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/study-government-formation-process - 2025-04-25

Published 2 April 2019 Jan Teorell has, together with Staffan Lindberg, co-authored the chapter ”Demokratins utveckling i världen: Tendenser under och efter rösträttens århundrade” in the book ”Rösträttens århundrade: Kampen, utvecklingen och framtiden för demokratin i Sverige”. This is a chapter in an edited volume that was issued to celebrate 100 years of Swedish democracy. Together with Staffan

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Published 8 April 2019 Sara Kalm has written the article ”On academic housekeeping and its allocation” (in Swedish), which was recently published in the journal ”Sociologisk Forskning”. Academic housekeeping denotes the type of work tasks within university departments that are low-status, time-consuming, largely invisible, and that nevertheless need to be done. This article discusses academic hous

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Published 15 April 2019 Sara Kalm and Johannes Lindvall have co-authored the article ”Immigration policy and the modern welfare state, 1880–1920”, which has been published in the Journal of European Social Policy. In the article, Kalm and Lindvall describe the relationship between the size of the welfare state and the nature of national immigration policies in the first few decades of the history

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Published 29 April 2019 Johannes Stripple has, together with Herriet Bulkeley, co-authored the article ”Towards a material politics of socio-technical transitions: Navigating decarbonisation pathways in Malmö”, which has been published in the journal ”Political Geography”. The authors write about how perspectives on material politics shape contribute to the understanding of decarbonisation pathway

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/stripple-decarbonisation-pathways-malmo - 2025-04-25

Published 30 April 2019 Mia Orange will defend her dissertation "Sustaining Authoritarianism: Clientelism and Repression in Kyrgyzstan, Kenya, Tanzania and Kazakhstan" on May 3 at 10:15 in Eden auditorium. Discussant is Professor Jonas Linde, University of Bergen. Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan and Tanzania share a past and present as authoritarian states. Dominant parties are in power in Tanzania

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Published 10 May 2019 Ina Möller has defended her doctoral thesis "The Emergent Politics of Geoengineering" today at 10:00 in Eden auditorium. Discussant was Associate Professor Robert Falkner, The London School of Economics and Political Science. Her thesis studies the appearance of ‘geoengineering’ in the political discussion on climate change. The term describes a set of ideas on how to stabili

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Published 14 May 2019 Catarina Kinnvall has published a book chapter in “Routledge Handbook of Critical International Relations” (edited by Jenny Edkins), entitled “Racing to the bottom, squeezing through the cracks: Imagining unbordered space”. The chapter examines the possibility of an expanded imagination of space as unbordered. It details how immigration and refugee policies and bordering prac

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Published 21 May 2019 Jan Teorell has, together with Anna Persson and Bo Rothstein, co-authored the article "Getting the basic nature of systemic corruption right: A reply to Marquette and Peiffer", which has been published in the journal Governance. This is a response to a critique of a previously published article (Persson, Rothstein & Teorell 2013), in which the authors launched a new theory of

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/response-critique-new-theory-corruption - 2025-04-25

Published 24 May 2019 Audrey Vandeleene and her co-authors have published an article in Basic Income Studies entitled "Framing the Basic Income: An Experimental Study of How Arguments and Metaphors Influence Individuals’ Opinion Formation”. Drawing on an experimental design, the article explores the framing impact of metaphors and uses the basic income policy as context for the analysis - hereby n

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Published 28 May 2019 Sara Kalm has written the article ”Affective naturalisation: practices of citizenship conferment”, recently published in the journal ”Alternatives: Global, Local, Political”. The article develops the notion “affective naturalization” by combining the literature of affect and politics with insights from economic anthropology and by focusing on the varied practices of citizensh

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Published 29 May 2019 Jakob Skovgaard has co-authored the article “The Politics of Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Their Reform: Implications for Climate Change Mitigation” with Harro van Asselt. The article is published in the journal “Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews – Climate Change”. It examines the political implications of policies subsidising fossil fuel subsidies for climate change mitigation. Po

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/skovgaard-politics-fossil-fuel-subsidies-and-climate-change - 2025-04-25