Published 24 October 2018 How is EU-funding translated into local policy? In an article in the journal Critical Policy Studies, Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren and Mats Fred have analyzed how EU-projects in education policies are mediated and translated into local policies. They conclude that these processes entail both a change in organisation - from permanent to temporary endeavors - as well as changes i

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Published 26 October 2018 Kurtis Boyer defended his dissertation "An Autocracy of Empathy: Human-Animal Relations and the Emotional Architecture of Speciesism" on October 26 at 10:00 in Eden auditorium, Paradisgatan 5H, Lund. Discussant was Professor Erika Cudworth, University of East London.An Autocracy of Empathy: Human-Animal Relations and the Emotional Architecture of Speciesism Kurtis Boyer’s

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Published 25 October 2018 After four years of drafting, debating, rethinking, and revising, the IPSP report is finally published with Cambridge University Press. Karin Aggestam is one of many contributing lead authors. Read more on ipsp.orgKarin Aggestams personal page

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Published 30 October 2018 Jakob Skovgaard has published the article "Policy coherence and organizational cultures: Energy efficiency and greenhouse gas reduction targets” in the journal Environmental Policy and Governance. The article concerns the role of the organizational cultures of two of the European Commission’s Directorate-Generals, respectively Energy and Climate Action, for the policy coh

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Published 1 November 2018 Is there a return of the “north” in Nordic foreign policy? Douglas Brommesson is the editor of new special section in Global Affairs where he together with a group of Nordic scholars seeks to identify, analyse and explain developments of and variations in what we call "Nordicness" in the foreign and security policies of Nordic states.  In this special section in Global Af

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Published 8 November 2018 What are the sources and processes of legitimacy in global governance? The research program LegGov has published the volume ”Legitimacy in Global Governance” (Oxford University Press). The volume includes chapters written by LegGov researchers Anders Uhlin, Catia Gregoratti, Magdalena Bexell, Kristina Jönsson and Fariborz Zelli at the Department of Political Science.Learn

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Published 12 November 2018 Photo: Mostphotos Simon Davidsson has authored the article ”Left-Right Orientation, Homeownership, and Class Position in Sweden” in the journal Scandinavian Political Studies. Sweden is a country where left‐right orientation structures the political landscape, homeownership is increasingly important, and the importance of class for political preferences and behavior is c

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Published 16 November 2018 Niklas Altermark and Emil Edeborg have published their article “Visualizing the Included Subject: Photography, Progress Narratives, and Intellectual Disability” in the journal ”Subjectivity”. In the article, Altermark and Edenborg examine how photographs are used to create a progress narrative of disability politics that hamper our understanding of how this group is bein

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Published 19 November 2018 Annika Bergman Rosamond has, together with Michelle Pace (Roskilde), co-authored the article “Political Legitimacy and celebrity politicians: Tony Blair as Middle East envoy 2007-2016”. The article is published in the journal Middle East Critique. This article explores former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s role as the official envoy of the Quartet on the Middle East

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Published 27 November 2018 Klas Nilsson has recently received a prize for his dissertation ”The Money of Monarchs”. The award is conferred by Vetenskapssocieteten and was presented at the annual celebration held on November 23. Vetenskapssocieteten exists to promote humanist research, in part by providing support to younger researchers.Nilsson’s dissertation, the Society notes, “makes an important

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Published 29 November 2018 Catarina Kinnvall and Ted Svensson have published a joint article in “Review of International Studies”, entitled “Misrecognition and the Indian state: The desire for sovereign agency”. In the article, they show how the Indian state is being rethought, restructured and reimagined through Hindu nationalism and how the concept of misrecognition accounts for desires for sove

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Published 30 November 2018 Karin Aggestam, Annika Bergman-Rosamond and Annica Kronsell have co-authored the journal article ”Theorising Feminist Foreign Policy”, which has been published in International Relations. The article advances a new theoretical framework, which enables a thoroughgoing study of feminist foreign policy. It draws upon feminist international relations theory and the ethics of

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Published 4 December 2018 Maiken Røed has co-authored the article "Explaining Participation Bias in the European Commission's Online Consultations: The Struggle for Policy Gain without too Much Pain" published in Journal of Common Market Studies. The article investigates participation bias in the European Commission's online consultations and focuses on the effects of issue characteristics. More i

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Published 19 December 2018 Elsa Hedling defended her dissertation "Blending Politics and New Media. Mediatized Practices of EU Digital Diplomacy" on December 19 at 10:00 in Eden auditorium. Discussant was Professor Alister Miskimmon, Queen’s University Belfast. In her PhD thesis titled “Blending Politics and New Media. Mediatized Practices of EU Digital Diplomacy”, Elsa Hedling explores the relati

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Published 6 December 2018 Catarina Kinnvall has published the article “On the Frontline: Populism and White Nationalism” in the journal Discover Society. In the article, Catarina Kinnvall discusses the dangers of seeing rising ethnic diversity as a threat to democracy and the West – a position held by a number of academics, journalists and commentators in Britain and Europe.Learn more on discovers

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Published 10 December 2018 Magdalena Bexell and Kristina Jönsson have published an article entitled "Country Reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals–The Politics of Performance Review at the Global-National Nexus" in the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities. Debates on governance through goal-setting and performance review have gained momentum with the adoption of the 2030 Agenda a

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Published 13 December 2018 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 suggest that women are less likely to become ministers when

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Published 17 December 2018 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 countries. It provides a more nuanced understanding of the

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Published 18 December 2018 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 data from the Belgian Candidate Survey 2014 that was coor

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Published 20 December 2018 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. Based on a comprehensive interview survey of global p

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-negotiations-and-peace-agreements - 2025-04-21