Department of Government, Uppsala University

The Uppsala Political Science Association’s thesis award of 2025 is awarded to Filip Garpenby, for his thesis “Classroom Discussions in Polarised Times: Implications for Students who Deviate from Consensus.”
Filip's exciting thesis can be accessed here: uu.diva-portal.org/smash/record...

Gz Filip!

The Johan Skytte Prize laureate Herbert Kitschelt

Join us next week!
@lisayfan.bsky.social (@politicsoxford.bsky.social) will present her work on expressions of loyalty by female elites. Jakob Tolstrup (Aarhus) and @parzetterberg.bsky.social (@uu-polisci.bsky.social) will discuss.

On October 3rd at 14:15 (CEST), professor Herbert Kitschelt gives his Skytte Prize Lecture, livestreamed in Brusewitz Hall at the Department of Government, Östra Ågatan 19, Uppsala.

All are welcome to attend. The lecture will be followed by a mingle.

More at: www.skytteprize.com/news/the-202...

A Culture of Support Matters: Inside Uppsala’s Development Research Group - Uppsala University

A culture of support matters in research! Check out this glimpse into how two Uppsala University social science departments mobilize mutual support in the face of challenges.

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Preventable Catastrophe? The Hurricane Katrina Disaster Revisited This article probes the warning-response failures that left the city of New Orleans vulnerable to catastrophic hurricanes and the inability of local, state, and federal authorities to mount an adequa...

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🌀Twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina laid bare how denial, fragmented institutions, and crowded political agendas can turn a long-predicted storm into a full-blown catastrophe.
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The UPPGAP program for the fall 2025 is out. Check it out!

Check out this Elgar Encyclopedia entry on Political behavior of LGBT+ people penned by @wurthmann.bsky.social and myself. The piece summarizes what we know about queer political behavior and identifies some the remaining gaps. 🏳️‍🌈

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This is cool!

Cecilia Josefsson Receives the 2025 Victoria Schuck Award for “Defending the Status Quo: On Adaptive Resistance to Electoral Gender Quotas” - The Victoria Schuck Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor the best book published on women and politics.  Citation from the Award Committee: Cecilia Josefsson’s book, Defending the Status Quo: On [...]

So excited (and honored, humbled, grateful, and honestly still in disbelief) to share that I've received the 2025 Victoria Schuck Award from @apsa.bsky.social for my book Defending the Status Quo: On Adaptive Resistance to Electoral Gender Quotas (OUP).

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Happy to see this paper out in the July issue of CP! Using the case of abortion policy, I argue that clientelistic parties engage in strategic, mutually beneficial interactions with influential interest groups when material exchanges no longer guarantee office.

DN Debatt. ”Sexuell korruption är inte som andra mutbrott” DN Debatt. Nya förslag kan få motsatt effekt och skapa fler risker för de utsatta, skriver fyra forskare.

Idag skriver vi om sexuell korruption i Sverige på DN Debatt.

@dagensnyheter.bsky.social @uu-polisci.bsky.social @uppgap.bsky.social @qoginstitute.bsky.social

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Excited to share that @grahn.bsky.social and I have co-authored a new chapter, "The Political Behavior of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Trans+ People", for the upcoming Elgar Encyclopedia of Gender and Politics (ed. Zoe Lefkofridi).
#LGBTQ

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Do the rich ditch politics? Evidence from Sweden The world has seen a massive increase in wealth and wealth inequality over the last decades. Given the skew in policy making towards the preferences o…

At long last, this paper is now published. Does wealth (causally!) confer an advantage in terms of political participation? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Carl Öhman, Assistant Professor at the Department of Government, Uppsala University

@cohman.bsky.social is one of two receivers of this year's Oscar Prize at Uppsala University. Grats Carl!

"Carl Öhman's book The Afterlife of Data asks important questions about who should control the data we leave behind us, and by extension, our collective history."

www.uu.se/en/staff/new...

It always feels like a great class reunion to attend the lovely ECPR Parliaments Conference @sgparliaments.bsky.social

This year in - super hot - Barcelona, I presented joint work with THE one and only @martigso.bsky.social on cross-partisan co-sponsorship in parliamentary systems

Sommarlyssning till tågresan eller hängmattan? I det här avsnittet av Begreppsbiblioteket får jag grotta ner mig i ett av mina favoritbegrepp: institution. Vad är egentligen en institution? Och varför är det ett så viktigt begrepp om man vill förstå makt, motstånd och förändring?

Research article "Feminist Institutionalism and Ethnography: Crafting Research from a Diverse Methodological Menu" by Michal Grahn & Cherry M. Miller. Abstract begins: The objective of feminist institutionalist (FI) political science is to expose institutions that perpetuate gender inequalities. The nature of these entities and the best strategies for studying them remain hotly debated topics. Some scholars identify ethnography as a valuable methodology for FI research. However, novices to this methodology might need help navigating it. In this theory-generating article, we aim to bridge the gap between different approaches to FI and ethnographic methodologies. We propose ethnographic approaches suitable for scholars who see gendered institutions as real entities that constrain and enable human practices, as well as those who perceive them as sedimented clusters of meanings.

📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢

In "Feminist Institutionalism and Ethnography" @grahn.bsky.social & Cherry M Miller propose ethnographic approaches for scholars looking to research the gendered outcomes of institutions.

🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟 polisky gendersky

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My trip back from #epsa2025 by #train was a joy. 4k km, well-functioning AC (needed in the heat). Amazed at the amazing public transport network Europe offers. Door to door, just public transport. #sustainabletravel #climatechange @epssnet.bsky.social

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.

🔗 epssnet.org

Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.

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Nytt avsnitt av Begreppsbiblioteket: Vad är en institution? - Uppsala universitet

What's an institution? New episode of Begreppsbiblioteket out now! (Podcast in Swedish)

Med begreppet institution kan vi mena många saker, men vad är den minsta gemensamma nämnaren?

Begreppsbiblioteket är Statsvetenskapliga institutionens podd som vrider och vänder på vårt ämnes centrala begrepp.

New company aims to prevent corruption involving sex as currency - Uppsala University

With the help of Uppsala University Innovation, we have started a company to turn our research results into practice! www.uu.se/en/news/2025...

So happy to see this article written with @fursthenrik.bsky.social published!

Conference: Disability and political participation - Uppsala University

CfP, workshop on disability and political participation (Dec. 1-3, Uppsala). Deadline for abstracts: June 20. Please share with those who might be interested. More info here:

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

Helena Wockelberg and Nils Hertting

On 1 June, the Department of Government welcomed two new professors of Political Science. Congratulations from all of us at the department to Helena Wockelberg and Nils Hertting!

Read more about Helena's research here: www.uu.se/en/contact-a...

And Nils' research here: www.uu.se/en/contact-a...

🧵1/ Are primaries bad for political diversity? Conventional wisdom says yes—but our article in @wepsocial.bsky.social shows that candidate selection modes are not necessarily a bottleneck for representation, at least when it comes to demand. 🗳️👥 @sandrahkansson.bsky.social

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Celebrating one of our newly appointed professors Helena Wockelberg! If you want to find out more about her research have a look here: www.uu.se/kontakt-och-...

Super happy to see this paper now in print! We show that parties which do not enter coalitions, but have formal (written) support agreements with minority cabinets- such as Tidö Agreement in Sweden - are likely to be punished at the next elections, similarly to junior coalition partners.

Meet @uu-polisci.bsky.social, partner in #MEN4DEM!

You can access the thesis here:

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