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 information is available on

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/roed-european-commissions-online-consultations - 2025-08-25

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 relationship between politics and

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/elsa-hedling-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-08-25

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 discoversociety.orgCatarina Kinnval

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/populism-and-white-nationalism - 2025-08-25

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 and its Sustainable Developm

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-article-politics-sustainability-performance-review - 2025-08-25

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 deviating from the party l

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-female-cabinet-appointments - 2025-08-25

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 impact of international tra

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/nielsen-carbon-flows-international-trade - 2025-08-25

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 coordinated by Audrey Vandeleen

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/vandeleene-candidates-parties-and-voters - 2025-08-25

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 peacemakers opportunities an

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-negotiations-and-peace-agreements - 2025-08-25

Who represents the party in parliamentary debates? Hanna Bäck has, together with Markus Baumann, Marc Debus and Jochen Müller, studied this question in an analysis of parliamentary debates in six European countries. The results of their analysis suggest the party leadership restricts floor access to a small number of representatives, especially before an election, in order to maintain the “party b

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-parliamentary-debates - 2025-08-25

Jakob Skovgaard and Roger Hildingsson have co-authored the book chapter “Environmental Policy and the Economic Crisis – The Swedish and Danish Cases” together with Bengt Johansson. The chapter is published in the book “The Impact of the Economic Crisis on European Environmental Policy”. It concerns how environmental policy has developed since the onset of the economic crisis in 2007-2008 in Denmar

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/skovgaard-and-hildingsson-swedish-and-danish-environmental-policy-after-crisis - 2025-08-25

Carlo Knotz and Johannes Lindvall have contributed to the series SAGE Research Methods Case with the contribution ”Using Quantitative Methods to Study Welfare State Reforms”. The authors discuss the promises and pitfalls of using quantitative methods to study social policymaking. Read more on methods.sagepub.com About the authors:Johannes Lindvall’s personal pageCarlo Knotz defended his PhD at the

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/lindvall-quantitative-methods - 2025-08-25

Anders Persson is the editor of the special issue ”The occupation at 50: EU-Israel/Palestine relations since 1967” in the journal ”Middle East Critique”. Annika Bergman Rosamond and other leading researcher from Europe and the Middle East have contributed with articles. The purpose of this special issue has been to bring together the leading voices in the field of EU-Israel/Palestine relations to

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/persson-and-bergman-rosamond-field-eu-israelpalestine-relations - 2025-08-25

Rikard Bengtsson and Malena Rosén Sundström are the editors of the book “The EU and the emerging global order”, a book in honour of Ole Elgström upon his retirement. The book contains a number of contributions from Swedish and international authors active in Ole Elgström’s different research areas. From the department, Christer Jönsson and Anders Persson have contributed chapters to the volume.Rea

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bengtsson-and-rosen-sundstrom-editors-new-book-eu-and-global-order - 2025-08-25

Christer Jönsson and Anders Johnsson have co-authored the article "Parliaments in Global Governance” in the journal ”Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations”. Existing research on the role of parliaments in global governance has emphasized the history, structure and formal powers of international parliamentary institutions and their efforts to forge links wit

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jonsson-parliaments-global-governance - 2025-08-25

The edited volume ”Europeanization in Sweden: Opportunities and Challenges for Civil Society Organizations” (editors Anna Meeuwisse och Roberto Scaramuzzino) has recently been published by Berghahn Books. Three department colleagues have contributed. Elsa Hedling has, together with Anna Meeuwisse, co-authored the chapter "Access to the European Union and the Role of Domestic Embeddedness”Ylva Stub

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-volume-about-europeanization-sweden - 2025-08-25

Ole Elgström has, together with Natalia Chaban and Michèle Knodt, co-authored the article ”Perceptions of EU mediation and mediation effectiveness: Comparing perspectives from Ukraine and the EU”, which has been published in the journal Cooperation and Conflict. The authors analyse the European Union (EU) as ‘an effective peacemaker’. They contribute to this field by investigating perceptions of E

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/eu-mediation-effectiveness-russia-ukraine-conflict - 2025-08-25

Jakob Skovgaard has co-authored the article “Bureaucratic politics and the allocation of climate finance” with Lauri Peterson (Uppsala University). The article is published in the journal World Development. It concerns how bureaucratic politics has influenced the allocation of aid for climate mitigation and adaptation in developing countries. An important insight from the article is that the level

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/skovgaard-bureaucratic-politics-and-allocation-climate-aid-between-developing-countries - 2025-08-25

The refugee crisis of 2015 forced Sweden and its citizens to face politically and morally difficult questions about migration, human rights and the nation state. Different perspectives on these issues within political theory are discussed by Björn Östbring in his dissertation which he defended today. In the public debate it is easy to discern two camps expressing opposing and deeply held moral bel

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorn-ostbring-has-defended-his-thesis - 2025-08-25

Karin Aggestam and Annika Bergman Rosamond have co-authored the article ”Re-politicising the Gender-Security Nexus: Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy”. The article is published in a special issue on the politicisation of security in the  journal European Review of International Studies. The article analyses the politicisation of the WPS- (Women, Peace and Security) agenda and global gender mainstre

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-and-bergman-rosamond-re-politicising-gender-security-nexus - 2025-08-25

Karin Aggestam and Lisa Strömbom have contributed with a chapter ”Peacebuilding in the Middle East” to Routledge Handbook on Middle East Security (eds. A. Jägerskog, et al) The chapter analyses peacebuilding in the Middle East with focus on four subdomains and regions: Security sector reforms in Tunisia; Women, peace, security in Iraq; youth and peace activism in Lebanon; and environmental coopera

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-and-strombom-peace-building-middle-east - 2025-08-25