Published 31 October 2019 What are the incentives of politicians to either clean up or maintain corrupt courts in nondemocracies? Ketevan Bolkvadze examines this in a recent article published in the Comparative Political Studies. This article offers a novel take on the problem of judicial independence in nondemocracies. Some scholars hold that political fragmentation leads to more judicial indepen

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Published 28 November 2019 Roxanna Sjöstedt has together with Anders Themnér, Uppsala University, co-authored the article ”Buying Them Off or Scaring Them Straight: Explaining Warlord Democrats’ Electoral Rhetoric”, which has been published in the journal Security Studies. AbstractPost–civil war democracies are characterized by intense electoral competition. To ensure continued political relevance

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Published 16 December 2019 Jakob Skovgaard and Åsa Knaggård have co-authored the article “Mapping and clustering the adoption of carbon pricing policies: what polities price carbon and why?” together with Sofía Sacks Ferrari (SIPRI, formerly the Department of Political Science, LU). The article is published in the journal Climate Policy. It concerns what countries as well as sub- and supranational

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Published 8 January 2020 Douglas Brommesson and Rikard Bengtsson have co-authored the article "Staten som kommunikatör - En panelstudie av effekterna av kampanjen Om krisen eller kriget kommer", which has been published in ”Kungl. Krigsvetenskapsakademiens Handlingar och tidskrift”. In 2017, the Swedish government took the initiative to conduct a country¬wide information campaign with the aim of i

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Published 13 January 2020 Roger Hildingsson has published the article ”Sustainable Welfare in Swedish Cities: Challenges of Eco-Social Integration in Urban Sustainability Governance” in the journal “Sustainability”. The article is on eco-social integration in urban sustainability governance. Based on studies in three Swedish cities (Malmö, Göteborg, Stockholm), the analysis emphasizes the challeng

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Published 16 January 2020 Annika Bergman Rosamond has recently published a book chapter titled “Celebrity global motherhood: Maternal care and cosmopolitan obligation” in the edited collection “Troubling Motherhood Maternality in Global Politics”, edited by Lucy B. Hall, Anna L. Weissman, and Laura J. Shepherd, Oxford University Press, 2020. The rise to prominence of celebrity culture is a key fea

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Published 23 January 2020 Johan Matz has published the book ”Stalin’s Double-Edged Game: Soviet Bureaucracy and the Raoul Wallenberg case 1945-1952”. The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series, Lexington Books, Rowman and Littlefield, 2020. Raoul Wallenberg, the courageous Swedish financier and trade executive turned diplomat who saved thousands of Jews in Hungary in 1944, was arrested in January 19

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Published 27 February 2020 Nina Wilén has together with Lindy Heinecken (Stellenbosch University) co-authored the article ”No Place Like Home? Postdeployment Reintegration Challenges Facing South African Peacekeepers” in the journal ”Armed Forces and Society”. We find that peacekeeping veterans experience the time away from the children, concerns over infidelity and too little institutional suppor

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Published 30 January 2020 Catarina Kinnvall has published a forum commentary entitled “Multiplicity, Discipline and the Political” in “New Perspectives: Interdisciplinary Journal of Central and East European Politics and International Relations” (edited by Benjamin Tallis). This forum draws together scholars working in different ways and different settings to discuss how (and, indeed, whether) Mul

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Published 14 February 2020 Jan Teorell has together with Michael Coppedge, John Gerring, Adam Glynn, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Staffan I. Lindberg, Daniel Pemstein, Brigitte Seim, Svend-Erik Skaaning, co-authored the book ”Varieties of Democracy: Measuring Two Centuries of Political Change” (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020). “Varieties of Democracy” is the essential user's guide to The Vari

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Published 9 March 2020 Karin Aggestam and Jacqui True are guest editors of a Special Issue on gender and foreign policy in the journal “Foreign Policy Analysis”. They have also co-authored the introductory article “Gendering Foreign Policy. Advancing a Comparative Framework for Analysis”. The Special Issue addresses the rise and resistance to pro-gender norms and feminist strategies in foreign pol

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Published 13 March 2020 Roger Hildingsson has together with Oscar Svensson and Jamil Khan co-authored the article ”Studying Industrial Decarbonisation: Developing an Interdisciplinary Understanding of the Conditions for Transformation in Energy-Intensive Natural Resource-Based Industry”, which has been published in the journal ”Sustainability”. The article examines the potential of combining three

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Published 17 March 2020 Annika Bergman Rosamond has together with Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, Mo Hamza, Jeff Hearn, Vasna Ramasar, Helle Rydstrom, published the article ”The case for Interdisciplinary Crisis Studies” in the journal ”Global Discourse”. In this article Bergman Rosamond and her co-authors argue that our contemporary world is defined by the presence and claims of crisis – from climate c

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Published 20 March 2020 Christer Jönsson has authored the article ”Revisiting the Problem of Credibility in the Age of Post-Truth”, which has been published in the journal ”International Negotiation”. Credibility is a central concept in negotiation theory. To make your messages credible is an essential part of persuasion. At the receiving end, you need to make credibility assessments of the messag

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/credibility-problem-international-negotiations-and-digital-everyday-life - 2025-03-09

Published 24 March 2020 Annika Bergman Rosamond has authored the article “Swedish Feminist Foreign Policy and “Gender Cosmopolitanism”, which has been published in the journal ”Foreign Policy Analysis”. Gender justice and equality have risen to prominence in the constitution of foreign and security policy. In this article Bergman Rosamond locates the analysis of feminist foreign policy (FFP) withi

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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

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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

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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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