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The Department of Government is a modern social science department with a rich historical heritage. Our research is international in focus and characterized by disciplinary curiosity and methodological innovation.

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Democracy and the social question

Current projects start 2023

Protecting Irregular Migrants in Europe: Institutions, Interests and Policies (PRIME)
Understanding political climate passivity in Sweden and the US
Does increased socioeconomic segregation lead to increased political inequality?
Inequality of political opportunity: Measures and Explanations
Theories of democratic self-defense: Exclusion, toleration, integration
State, Tourism, and Heritage: Kalbeliya in its pre-recognition phase in India
More rights, more participation? The rights of gays, lesbians and bisexuals and their political engagement in Sweden
Still segregated? Temporal and intersectional analysis of the residential, occupational and political segregation of sexual minorities in Sweden
The independent role of research in society and the primacy of the will of the people
What does it take to make leadership gender equal?

Current projects start 2022

Closing the ’value-action gap’ between values and individuals’ climate footprint
Living as a Survivor: A Study of the Political, Social and Economic Integration of Tsunami Survivors
Online platforms and the challenges of democratic exclusion
An upper secondary education for all? How does the design of upper secondary education affect the risk of dropping out and unemployment?
Expanding Markets in Life: Exploring emerging ART practices in India and Uganda
Gender and Political Representation in a (Post-) Pandemic Era
Obstacles and opportunities for equal participation of citizens with intellectual disabilities
Climate policy as a social question: Can social policies reduce opposition to carbon taxes?
Local self-government, professionalism and court defiance in Swedish eldercare
Sextortion: Sexual abuse of power: Taking action against sextortion in Tanzania

Current projects start 2021

The dream of an equal society: nostalgia or living vision?
Expert government agencies’ contribution to public deliberation: balancing the need for expertise with political equality
MIGPOL
Comparative Policy Laboratory
Methods for the analysis of spreading phenomena in networks, with a focus on the online spreading of political ideas through visual content
Nationhood in a Pandemic, Nordic Gold or Nordic Noir?
Secondary mobilization: The spread of political violence within and across borders
Thesis and Supervision Outcomes at Uppsala University

Current projects start 2020

Artificial Intelligence, Democracy and Human Dignity
The genetics of life course outcomes
Courts as guarantor for an individualized and need based eldercare?
Shades of Civic Activism: State – Labour Relations in India and Ethiopia
Between freedom of movement and hard borders
New roles in a hostile world? How liberal states are changing their foreign policy in a new security environment
Contested Elections and Street Politics. Comparing Protest Coalitions in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Continuation of Conflict-related Violence in Postwar Cities: Mapping violence at the street level
The Cost of Doing Politics: Gender Aspects of Political Violence

Current projects start 2019 and earlier

The Heavy Metal Project
Mistra Geopolitics
Frontiers of Political Representation
TRAMPOLINE Exploring the transformative potential of extreme weather events
The Politics of Resentment in Sweden and the United States: Emotion, Motivation and Identity
Strike Notice
Aging Migrants, Labor Market Transitions and the Welfare State
Is parliament a gender equal workplace?

PAST projects

Defending or defeating democracy?
Civil society and electoral autocracy in Kenya and Uganda
Arrested Development: The Dangerous Mix of Patronage and Justice in Post-Conflict Countries
Nature via Nurture
Contributivism
On Practices, Debates and Attitudes About Grounding Democratic Inclusion on Economic Contributions
Democratic Self-Defense: The Social Model
The politics of public investment
Equalising political participation through upper secondary education?
Opposition to Gender Equality Policies in the European Multi-Level Space: The Case of Abortion
Parties, politicians and personal ties
Understanding the Pippi Longstocking Paradox and Statist Individualism
Rationalism and Counterfactuality. Observations and conclusions from a life as a scholar
The Urban Dilemma: Urbanisation and ethnocommunal conflict
Varieties of Peace

The political significance of work
Children’s participation and the outcome of care in Swedish child and family welfare
The Origin and Reproduction of Political Inequality
The Paradox of Political Opposition in Multilevel Europe
Gender and social media in contentious elections
Gender Politics and Electoral Authoritarianism
Governing public professions: Performance management and professional autonomy in the police and military
How can trade unions contribute to increase gender equality in worklife?
How does national inspections affect welfare professions?
Mapping Women Peacemakers: Exploring the “More Women-More Peace” Nexus
Mechanisms of Trust: Citizens and societal institutions in three marginalized residential areas
The Fateful Year of 1809. How Swedish history could have been different

EURYKA
Fackföreningens digitala utveckling (in Swedish)
Gender, politics and violence in Thailand
Liberal Nationalism in the Welfare State
Masculinity, Nationalism and Military Service in a Conflict Zone: Surveys in Southern Thailand
The Everyday Practice of Paying Taxes in Sub-Saharan Africa

The emergence and evolution of child politics in comparative perspective
Global Economic Crisis
Gender Aspects on Election Violence
Persona Project
State - Labour Relations under Authoritarian Rule: Co-optation, Cooperation, Coexistence, Contestation
Reminder Project
School strikes for climate
Thomas Hobbes and Liberty of Conscience
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Last modified: 2023-09-22

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