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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 dem

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/authoritarian-regime-and-democratic-forms-government - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 transforme

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/need-bag - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 c

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/gusic-how-war-and-peace-interplay-space - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 rese

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/teorell-measurement-institutions - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 huma

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/what-future-primates - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-coalition-agreements - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 sch

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bartelson-has-received-two-awards - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 wh

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/how-quality-government-shapes-provision-public-goods-democracies - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 did it take so long? How did the formal rules

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/study-government-formation-process - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 celeb

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/was-swedish-extension-suffrage-early-or-late - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 neverthe

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/academic-housekeeping - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 immi

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/immigration-policy-and-modern-welfare-state - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 c

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/stripple-decarbonisation-pathways-malmo - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 authori

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/mia-orange-will-defend-her-thesis-may-3 - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/ina-moller-has-defended-her-thesis - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 deta

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/kinnvall-new-book-chapter - 2026-05-17

Explaining the Constitutive Effects of Digital Media on Diplomatic Norms and Practices Funding agency: Marianne och Marcus Wallenberg Foundation The research team consists of an interdisciplinary group of scholars with specialisation in strategic communication, political science, peace studies, visual politics, and international relations theory. The overarching aim of this project is to explain t

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/digital-diplomacy-turbulent-world - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 & T

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/response-critique-new-theory-corruption - 2026-05-17

Welcome to the programme MSc in European Affairs and the course European Governance (STVP30) We are pleased to welcome you to the Department of Political Science at Lund University. To secure your place on the course, please read the information below carefully. Compulsory introductory and registration meetings Attendance at the meetings below is mandatory.Programme introduction and registrationDa

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/education/new-student-admission-information/msc-european-affairs - 2026-05-17

Welcome to the Master of Science Programme in Welfare Policies and Management (SAWEM) and the course Welfare Regimes in Transition. Comparative Perspectives on Policies, Management and Reform (WPMP01) We are pleased to welcome you to Lund University and to the Department of Political Science, the Department of Sociology, and the School of Social Work. To secure your place on the programme and cour

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/education/new-student-admission-information/msc-welfare-policies-and-management - 2026-05-17