Department of Government
Spotlight
Renowned Scholars Alexander Wendt and Martha Finnemore awarded the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science.
Media
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Det här handlar konflikten i Kosovo om
Source: Expressen Premium 2023-06-01
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Kravaller i Kosovo: Underliggande risk för eskalering
Source: TV4 Play 2023-06-01
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Nato skickar ytterligare 700 soldater till Kosovo
Source: Dagens Nyheter - Login 2023-05-30
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Det handlar konflikten i norra Kosovo om
Source: SVT 2023-05-30
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Guide: Därför är det oroligt i Kosovo
Source: Svenska Dagbladet Premium 2023-05-30
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Research at the Department of Government
Our research is characterised by methodological diversity, ranging from advanced statistical analysis to historical methods and analysis of ideas, and covers all major sub-areas of political science. A central focus of much of our research are questions of power and democracy as they arise in Sweden, Europe and the Global South.
Recent publications
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International Studies Review "A Typology of Ontological Insecurity Mechanisms: Russia's Military Engagement in Syria" -
Rebellious Riots "(Re)claiming Finfinne? Violent Protest and the Right to Addis Ababa" -
"Om akademisk frihet" -
"Hålla huvudet kallt Om distanserat engagemang i en uppjagad tid" -
Journal of Peace Research "The bridge to violence – Mapping and understanding conflict-related violence in postwar Mitrovica" -
Tidskrift för politisk filosofi: "Om Björn Östbrings Nationalstaten – en essä om liberal nationalism och Sveriges framtid" -
West European Politics: "Rallying around the unwaved flag: national identity and Sweden’s controversial Covid strategy" -
"Politiskt deltagande Val, partier & protester" -
NORA: "Exploring Sustainability in Parliamentary Gender Equality Work. Insights from the Swedish Riksdag" -
Journal of European Public Policy: "Drivers of parliamentary opposition in European Union politics: institutional factors or party characteristics?" -
Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift: Kristoffersson, Sara, 2022. Hela havet stormar. Fallstudie inifrån en myndighet. Stockholm: Volante. -
Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift: "Rationalism och kontrafakticitet. Iakttagelser och slutsatser från ett forskarliv" -
Journal of Common Market Studies: "Blacklisting and the EU as a Global Regulator: The Institutionally Predisposed Norm Breaker" -
Du sköra nya värld: "Politisk tolerans och självcensur i orostider" -
Political geography: "Contesting the growing city? Forms of urban growth and consequences for communal violence" -
Journal of Social Policy: "Discrimination in marketized welfare services: a field experiment on Swedish schools" -
Journal of Intervention and Statebuildning: "Peace between Peace(s)? Urban Peace and the Coexistence of Antagonists in City Spaces" -
Bakom och bortom järnridån: De sovjetiska åren och frigörelsen i Baltikum och Ukraina -
Journal of Civil Society: "Civil society and contested elections in electoral autocracies: Dissent and caution in Uganda’s 2016 elections" -
Acta Sociologica: "Labour leaders as identity entrepreneurs: Identity formation in the Swedish trade union movement in the 1920s" -
Juridisk Tidskrift: ”All makt åt folket – om en bortglömd idé?”
What do our students read?
Please find syllabus and reading list for the undergraduate courses.
Development Studies A
Political Science A
About the Department of Government
In 1622, Johan Skytte bequeathed land and property to Uppsala University. The donation was to finance a professorship in Eloquentia et politices (eloquence and politics). Over the centuries, a strong political science department has evolved around the professorship. The department is located at Gamla Torget 6 and in the historic building Skytteanum in Uppsala.
Johan Skytte Prize
The Johan Skytte chair in Eloquence and Government is probably the world’s oldest active professorship in political science. The lands included in the original donation continue to finance research and the Johan Skytte Prize. The prize money of SEK 500,000 is awarded every year by the Skytte Foundation at Uppsala University to the person who has made the “most valuable contribution to political science”.
Department of Government
Visiting address
Östra Ågatan 19, Uppsala
Opening hours
Student Office
7th floor
Opening Hours
Postal address
Statsvetenskapliga institutionen
Box 514
751 20 Uppsala
Contact
Email: expeditionen@statsvet.uu.se
Phone (switch): +46 18 471 00 00