Published 7 April 2020 Anthoula Malkopoulou has published an article on "Hermann Heller on politics: discipline, sphere and activity" in the journal “History of European Ideas”. The article examines how a leading German constitutional theorist in the 1920s envisioned the idea, practice and science of politics in terms of shared values and social cooperation. Malkopoulou finds that Hermann Heller u

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Published 16 April 2020 Jan Teorell, Agnes Cornell and Carl Henrik Knutsen have co-authored the article "Bureaucracy and growth", which has been published in the journal ”Comparative Political Studies”. In this paper, Jan Teorell together with co-authors Agnes Cornell and Karl Henrik Knutsen, revisit the hypothesis that a Weberian bureaucracy enhances economic growth. Theoretically, there are good

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/teorell-bureaucracy-and-growth - 2025-02-05

Published 5 May 2020 Martin Hall (2020) Seeing the Nomads Like a State: Sweden and the Sámi at the Turn of the Last Century, in Jamie Levin (ed) Nomad-State Relationships in International Relations: Before and After Borders, Palgrave McMillan. In modern history, states have typically attempted to eliminate nomadism. Perhaps uniquely, Sweden reinforced nomadism among some of its Sámi population. In

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Published 5 May 2020 Sara Kalm has co-written an article with Anna Meeuwisse at the School of Social Work (LU), called ”For love and for life: emotional dynamics at the World Congress of Families”. It analyses the mobilisation of conservative transnational activism in the field of family policy, and it has recently been published in the journal Global Discourse.  Länk till publikationen på ingenta

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/love-and-life-emotional-dynamics-world-congress-families - 2025-02-05

Published 13 May 2020 Sara Kalm has written an article called ”Citizenship Capital”, which has recently been published in the journal Global Society. This article examines the citizenship dimension of transnational inequalities. It is clear that some citizenships offer great advantages while others are liabilities for the individual, and the aim of this present article is to develop a conceptualis

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Published 10 June 2020 Annika Bergman Rosamond has authored the article 'Music, mining and colonisation: Sámi contestations of Sweden’s self narrative,’ published in a special issue on politics and music in the Danish political science journal Politik, Vol. 23:1, 2020. Sweden’s dominant self-narrative has tended to marginalise its historical colonisation of Sápmi. Indeed, there  has been little em

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Published 11 June 2020 Malkopoulou has published two articles on how high voting turnouts improve political representation and help fight off right-wing populism. In ‘The Politics of Voter Presence’ (International Political Science Review), Malkopoulou and Hill draw on theories of political presence to defend the act of voting. In doing so, they shift the focus of such theories from the compositio

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Published 15 June 2020 Annika Bergman Rosamond has published the chapter ‘Celebrities as Ethical Actors: Individuals and Cosmopolitan Obligation’ in The Routledge Handbook to Rethinking Ethics in International Relations, edited by Birgit Schippers, 2020. This chapter offers an investigation into the cosmopolitan, privileged and self serving  underpinnings of celebrity activists in their role as di

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/celebrities-ethical-actors-individuals-and-cosmopolitan-obligation - 2025-02-05

Published 23 July 2020 Ted Svensson has published an article in the International Journal of Heritage Studies. The article analyses recent public initiatives to memorialise the establishment of India and Pakistan as postcolonial states in terms of violent partitioning rather than as a successful act of independence from British imperialism. The twin focal points of the article are the Partition Mu

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/curating-partition-dissonant-heritage-and-indian-nation-building - 2025-02-05

Published 27 July 2020 Sindre Gade Viksand has published an article in the Review of International Studies. The article analyzes how peripheral actors in imperial structures are able to acquire external assistance for their independence struggles. This article builds a framework to better understand how these extra-imperial ties are translated into peripheral positional power. This framework is co

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/contentious-colonies-positional-power-imperial-peripheries - 2025-02-05

Published 4 August 2020 John Gerring, Tore Wig, Wouter Veenendaal, Daniel Weitzel, Jan Teorell, & Kyosuke Kikuta have co-authored the article "The Rise and Demise of a Regime Type", Comparative Political Studies, forthcoming. In this paper, Jan Teorell together with co-authors propose an explanation for why monarchy was the dominant form of rule in the pre-modern era but then substantially decline

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Published 18 August 2020 Ted Svensson has recently contributed to an article in the journal Critical Studies on Security. Rituals are customarily muted into predictable routines aimed to stabilise social orders and limit conflict. As a result, their magic lure recedes into the background, and the unexpected and disruptive elements are downplayed. Our collaborative contribution counters this move b

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Published 19 August 2020 'Cosmopolitanism and Individual Ethical Reflection - the Embodied Experiences of Swedish Veterans' nyligen publicerad in Critical Military Studies, online first. This article aims to enable a conversation between cosmopolitanism and  feminist-inspired research on embodied military experiences. While the article rests on cosmopolitan reasoning, it critiques it for disregard

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Published 24 August 2020 Magdalena Bexell and Kristina Jönsson have published two new articles about the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In the journal Policy Studies they identify three main roles of parliaments in the case of national policy-making based on intergovernmental agreements, such as the 2030 Agenda, and examine the cases of Sweden and Ghana with regard to ea

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Published 25 August 2020 ‘Anxiety, Fear, and Ontological Security in World Politics: Thinking with and beyond Giddens’ Catarina Kinnvall and Jennifer Mitzen have recently edited a symposium with International Theory, entitled ‘Anxiety, Fear, and Ontological Security in World Politics’. The symposium also contains their introductory article: ‘Anxiety, Fear, and Ontological Security in World Politic

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Published 17 September 2020 Daniel Möller Ölgaard has published a non-peer reviewed piece with E-IR, an open access International Relations journal online. Supplementing Naomi Klein’s concept of the Pandemic Shock Doctrine with a focus on the necropolitical dimensions of digital capitalism, this essay shows how the digital-capitalist logic relies on the exploitation of human bodies.Link to the pub

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Published 21 September 2020 Anders Uhlin has, together with Håkan Johansson, edited a thematic issue on “Civil Society Elites” in the journal Politics and Governance. The volume includes among other articles Johansson’s and Uhlin’s editorial ”Civil Society Elites: A Research Agenda” and three articles stemming from the research project ”Civil Society Elites: New Perspectives on Civil Society in Ca

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Published 29 September 2020 Magdalena Bexell, Kristina Jönsson and Nora Stappert have published an article in the Journal of International Relations and Development.  The article explores which groups global governance organisations target in their attempts at self-legitimation. The selection of such groups shows whose legitimacy beliefs matter to the organisation. The cases examined demonstrate t

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Published 13 October 2020 After the 2018 election, it took 134 days for Sweden to get a new government. This government consisted of the same parties and had the same prime minister as the previous one. Why was that? And why did it take so long? Were our constitutional provisions regulating government formation to blame? This book answers these questions based on extensive interviews with the most

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Published 19 October 2020 In this study, Jan Teorell together with colleagues attempt to reconcile competing positions in an important debate about the relationship between regime type and human development. First, the relationship is more likely to be perceived when democracy is measured in a nuanced fashion, taking account of gradations of democracy and autocracy. Second, some aspects of democra

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/democracy-and-human-development-issues-conceptualization-and-measurement - 2025-02-05