Michal Grahn

LGBTQ vote can keep far-right forces at bay in the forthcoming EP election Far-right parties are growing increasingly hostile towards LGBTQ rights. In the forthcoming European Parliament elections, such parties are expected to gain significant ground. Michal Grahn shows…

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🗳 Far-right parties are growing increasingly hostile towards LGBTQ rights. In the European Parliament elections, 6–9 June, such parties are expected to make major gains
@grahn.bsky.social shows that non-straight voters might, through mobilisation, help keep far-right forces at bay
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📯📯 I am happy to announce I defended my Ph.D. thesis!

Sincere thanks to my examiners @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social & Thomas Chadefaux (@conflictresearch.bsky.social) for thoughtful questions and an engaging discussion about the arguments I presented

The Green Gender Gap: Environmental attitudes and pro-environmental vote choice across Europe Does gender matter for how we engage with green political ideas? Using more than twenty years of data across 36 European countries, this paper identif…

Still controlling for gender without thinking about why? You can cite me💚👩‍🔬💚

I show that the gender gap in progressive climate and environmental views is a persistent empirical regularity that cannot be explained by differences in socioeconomic background, political ideology, or risk aversion.

New paper out! Working with geospatial data is cool.

Rallied by thy neighbor: how minority spatial concentration increases voter turnout | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja

New paper out in the @thejop.bsky.social with @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social & @grahn.bsky.social

Your neighbours shape your politics — but can living near people like *cause* higher turnout?

We studied 20,000+ queer individuals across the entire Swedish population to find out

doi.org/10.1086/740816

Join us the 17 February at @sns.it in Florence (and online) to discuss equality in academia!

Thrilled to share our new paper with amazing Agus.

We show that non-traditional families, especially open and age-gap couples, face substantial prejudice. Even LGB couples encounter bias, highlighting persistent inequalities in societies often seen as tolerant.

The Mental Load Quiz Made with Tally, the simplest way to create forms.

How do you measure the domestic mental load? 🧐

And how does your experience stack up against our research of 3,000 US parents?

I created a quiz using the same approach we use in peer-reviewed sociological research so you can find out!

Hope this sparks some conversations 💡

tally.so/r/447Xxk

Conceptual flipsiding and reversal of liberal-democratic notions: discursive-political strategies in/and the normalisation of illiberal public imagination The process of strategically redefining key liberal-democratic and other widely accepted social and political concepts by the far-right and other illiberal actors has recently become a widespread, ...

Now published: Joint intro paper w. N.Krzyzanowska & J.Rydgren laying out key ideas of our
Social Semiotics SI on “Conceptual flipsiding and reversal of liberal-democratic notions: discursive-political strategies in/and the normalisation of illiberal public imagination" doi.org/10.1080/1035...

Hopefully of interest! @podmalm.bsky.social @norocel.bsky.social @chrishartlinguist.bsky.social @veronikakoller.bsky.social @georgenewth.bsky.social @janagoyvaerts.bsky.social @littvay.bsky.social @patyrossini.bsky.social @profvaccari.bsky.social @grahn.bsky.social @kotnarowski.bsky.social

Happy new year 2026 from up north! ❄️

Happy holidays! :) 🎄

This is where your e-mail finds me. Happy holidays! 🎄🎄🎄

Ph-Done, as they say. I’m feeling relieved to be done, happy to have passed, privileged to have so many wonderful friends around me, tired after a hectic week, and excited for what comes next.

In our first paper on instrumental inclusion we showed that people update their views on LGBTQ+ rights in response to out-group threat.

Here we extend the theory to test diverse cases of selective inclusion

doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

Joel Abdelmoez has successfully defended his thesis! Lund University. External reviewer: Professor Laleh Khalili, University of ExeterSupervisor: Karin AggestamAssistant supervisor: Rola El-Husseini DeanMore information about the thesis is available in ...

Read more here: www.svet.lu.se/en/article/j...

Had the pleasure to serve on the examination committee today at Lund University for @jwa.bsky.social brilliant PhD dissertation on feminist activist solidarity and mobilization in Egypt and Tunisia. An insightful work, rich both theoretically and empirically.

New publication with @turnbulldugarte.com in @psrm.bsky.social! 🧵

We study whether citizens’ liberal values are selective: do people support policies based on who promotes them?

Short answer: Yes, and it's driven by ethnic out-group disidentification. (1/11) 👇

doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

We're happy to announce at least three vacant PhD positions starting in fall 2026! Read more and apply here: www.uu.se/en/departmen...

Jag söker en forkningsassistent i statsvetenskap för att hjälpa till med diverse uppgifter! Sök här: www.uu.se/om-uu/jobba-...

Elin Bjarnegård and Michal Grahn elected to the leadership of SWEPSA – Department of Government – Uppsala University

@elinbja.bsky.social and I are leading SWEPSA (Swedish Political Science Association) for the coming two years! Looking forward to it! :)

www.uu.se/en/departmen...

This is a terrible move that will hurt the trans community as well as the Labour Party in the long term.

Friday brought good news and bad news. Today I am now allowed to share the good.

Via the generous donation of the Wallenberg Foundation and the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, I now have a few million euros to help understand more about the selective inclusion of LGBTQ+ citizens

Staying Power: Unpacking Seniority as a Gendered Informal Institution in Parliament Abstract. Political seniority—commonly understood as accumulated parliamentary tenure—is an underexamined informal institution that structures access to po

New article by @rmuriaas.bsky.social and I: While seniority can benefit all parliamentarians and serve as a powerful resource, it does not confer power equally. Women face structural barriers to accessing seniority, and even when they attain it, their legitimacy and influence remains contested.

New article out! 🔥

I’m excited to share our new piece on how political seniority works as a gendered informal institution that shapes access to power in parliaments.

The article draws on interviews with the French National Assembly.

gendersky polisky

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Three new Wallenberg Academy Fellows at Uppsala University – Uppsala University

Read more here: www.uu.se/en/news/2025...

Huge congratulations to the best @turnbulldugarte.com & @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social for getting Wallenberg fellowships (equivalent to two ERC grants!!!) So well-deserved!!

Yesterday, I had a lovely opportunity to present co-authored work on how to counter femonationalism at
@mzesunimannheim.bsky.social . Engaged audience and great feedback! Thanks to @wurthmann.bsky.social for the invite!

@katharinalawall.bsky.social, @sophiemainz.bsky.social, @turnbulldugarte.com

❗️ Tue, Dec 2, 12:15-13:30 CET
📍 A 231 and ZOOM
MZES Speaker Series
with

@grahn.bsky.social

"Countering Femonationalism:
Evidence from an Audio-visual Experiment in Germany"

👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/even...

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Tomorrow, the fantastic @grahn.bsky.social is presenting his amazing research at MZES Speaker Series. So glad to have you in Mannheim, Michal!!