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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.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

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bengtsson-and-rosen-sundstrom-editors-new-book-eu-and-global-order - 2026-05-17

STVC76 – Comparative Politics (7.5 credits). Bachelor course in Political Science. Spring term. The aim of the course is to give advanced knowledge of comparative policy, particularly concerning the output side of the political system. This includes relationships between political institutions, political decision-making and public policy in democratic states. Some examples of questions that are br

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/education/exchange-students-coming-sweden/bachelor-courses/comparative-politics - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.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

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/jonsson-parliaments-global-governance - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.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

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/new-volume-about-europeanization-sweden - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.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

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/eu-mediation-effectiveness-russia-ukraine-conflict - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.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

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/skovgaard-bureaucratic-politics-and-allocation-climate-aid-between-developing-countries - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.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

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/bjorn-ostbring-has-defended-his-thesis - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.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

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-and-bergman-rosamond-re-politicising-gender-security-nexus - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.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

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/aggestam-and-strombom-peace-building-middle-east - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Hanna Bäck, Johannes Lindvall and Jan Teorell have, together with Carl Dahlström and Elin Naurin, co-authored the article “Sweden’s Parliamentary Democracy at 100”, which has been published in the journal Parliamentary Affairs. The article assesses how Swedish parliamentary democracy works today, almost one hundred ye

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-lindvall-and-teorell-swedens-parliamentary-democracy - 2026-05-17

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