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Worth the sacrifice? Illiberal and authoritarian practices during Covid-19
(2020-09)
Excessive use of emergency powers and limitations of media freedoms have raised concerns that Covid-19 is infecting democracy itself. How do government responses to Covid-19 violate democratic standards? How do such ...
Governance through community policing: What makes citizens report poaching of wildlife to state officials?
(2021-03)
Rulers of weak states face a predicament. They lack capacity to monitor crime and need citizens to partake in intelligence-sharing. Yet, agents of such authorities are seldom trusted, raising doubts about whether locals ...
The Right Kind of Queer: Race, Sexuality, and Gender in Contemporary Constructions of Swedishness
(2020-11-12)
Recent years have seen an increased mobilisation of LGBT rights in nationalist projects of (non-)belonging. This thesis provides new insights into the role played by race, sexuality, and gender in these projects by examining ...
Understanding the Conditions and Consequences of Women’s Political Representation
(2021-12-17)
In recent decades, women’s ability to engage in politics and civil society has risen dramatically across the globe. What has the increase in the number of women in politics, their “descriptive representation”, meant in ...
Röster från svenskt yrkesfiske. Rapport om uppföljningsintervjuer
(University of Gothenburg / Göteborgs universitet, 2021)
How to Build Democracy after Authoritarian Breakdown: Insights from a Mixed Methods Approach
(2021-05)
Mass movements that are able to overthrow a dictator do not always lead to democracy. Transition periods present narrow windows of opportunity in which activists face difficult decisions to build democracy and prevent ...
Uncertainty and Persuasion. Essays on Behavioral Political Economy
(2022-01-13)
When voters form their political opinions and decide whom to vote for, they are confronted with at least two types of uncertainty. First, voters cannot be sure what reforms a political party will pursue once in office. ...
Populism and COVID-19: How Populist Governments (Mis)Handle the Pandemic
(2021-05)
Populist parties and actors now govern various countries around the world. Often elected by the public in times of economic crises and over the perceived failure of the elites, the question stands as to how populist ...
Fighting the Disease or Manipulating the Data? Democracy, State Capacity, and the COVID-19 Pandemic
(2022-01)
We discuss and analyze how regime type and state capacity shape the abilities and incentives of political leaders to respond to COVID-19. We argue that there is likely a complementary relationship between democracy and ...