Anders Sjögren
Affiliated Researcher at Uppsala University Future Institutes (UUniFI); Uppsala University Conflicting Objectives Research Nexus (UUniCORN)
- E-mail:
- anders.sjogren@statsvet.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Segerstedthuset, Dag Hammarskjölds v 7
751 05 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 256
751 05 Uppsala
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Government; Faculty
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 34 88
- E-mail:
- anders.sjogren@statsvet.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Östra Ågatan 19
753 22 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 514
751 20 UPPSALA
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Short presentation
I am Associate Professor in Political Science and Senior Lecturer with an orientation towards development studies. My research and teaching are within comparative politics and centres on how democratisation and national identity shapes and is shaped by state-society relation. Empirically, I specialise on Kenya and Uganda. Together with Jesper Bjarnesen, I currently work on Contested Elections and Street Politics where we compare protest coalitions in Africa.

Publications
Recent publications
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Part of Journal of Modern African Studies, p. 263-284, 2025
- DOI for Between the ghetto and the establishment: Bobi Wine, Uganda’s NUP and the challenges of movement-to-party transition in an electoral autocracy
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Part of Komparativ politik, p. 277-306, Studentlitteratur AB, 2025
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Autokratisering och civilsamhälle
Part of Kunskapskonferensen 2025, p. 17-20, Myndigheten för ungdoms- och civilsamhällesfrågor, 2025
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Afrika: avkolonisering, demokrati och utveckling
Part of Egentligen är världen full av hopp, p. 103-118, Bokförlaget Korpen, 2025
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Socialdemokrati i Afrika söder om Sahara?: Svaga rörelser och enorma utmaningar
Part of Egentligen är världen full av hopp, p. 345-358, Bokförlaget Korpen, 2025
All publications
Articles in journal
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Part of Journal of Modern African Studies, p. 263-284, 2025
- DOI for Between the ghetto and the establishment: Bobi Wine, Uganda’s NUP and the challenges of movement-to-party transition in an electoral autocracy
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Part of Contemporary Politics, p. 21-43, 2024
- DOI for Extending contestation: opposition party strength and dissenting civil society engagement with autocratic elections
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Part of Journal of Civil Society, p. 307-325, 2022
- DOI for Civil society and contested elections in electoral autocracies: Dissent and caution in Uganda’s 2016 elections
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Part of Regional & Federal Studies, p. 577-596, 2021
- DOI for Engaging with elections: Ethno-regional mobilization, demands for federalism, and electoral politics in central Uganda
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Part of Ethnopolitics, p. 45-63, 2020
- DOI for Do Local Power-Sharing Deals Reduce Ethnopolitical Hostility?: The Effects of ‘Negotiated Democracy’ in a Devolved Kenya
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Part of Nationalism & Ethnic Politics, p. 343-362, 2019
- DOI for Accommodating, Opposing, or Dismissing?: Ethno-Regional Mobilization, (De)Centralization, and State-Wide Party Strategies in Nigeria and Kenya
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Risk för nya manipulationer när Kenya går till nyval
Part of Utrikesmagasinet, 2017
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Part of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, p. 22-40, 2017
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Territorialising identity, authority and conflict in Africa: an introduction
Part of Journal for Contemporary African Studies, p. 163-170, 2015
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Battles over boundaries: the politics of territory, identity and authority in three Ugandan regions
Part of Journal for Contemporary African Studies, p. 268-284, 2015
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Part of African Identities, p. 62-75, 2014
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Constitutional reform in Kenya: Towards a new order?
Part of Annual Report : 2010: The rise of Africa: miracle or mirage?, p. 18-19, 2011
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Uganda: land disputes in the wake of civil war
Part of New Routes, p. 8-11, 2011
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Part of Afriche e Orienti, p. 90-106, 2011
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Kenyas väljare bestals på löftet om förändring
Part of Internationella Studier, p. 25-31, 2008
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Part of Arena, p. 58-61, 2008
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Part of Internationella Studier, p. 24-31, 2007
Books
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Between Militarism and Technocratic Governance: State Formation in Contemporary Uganda
Fountain Publishers in cooperation with Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2013
Chapters in book
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Part of Komparativ politik, p. 277-306, Studentlitteratur AB, 2025
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Autokratisering och civilsamhälle
Part of Kunskapskonferensen 2025, p. 17-20, Myndigheten för ungdoms- och civilsamhällesfrågor, 2025
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Afrika: avkolonisering, demokrati och utveckling
Part of Egentligen är världen full av hopp, p. 103-118, Bokförlaget Korpen, 2025
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Socialdemokrati i Afrika söder om Sahara?: Svaga rörelser och enorma utmaningar
Part of Egentligen är världen full av hopp, p. 345-358, Bokförlaget Korpen, 2025
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Part of Autocratization in contemporary Uganda, p. 241-258, Bloomsbury Academic, 2024
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Part of Komparativ politik, p. 229-252, Studentlitteratur AB, 2022
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Part of Violence in African Elections., p. 47-66, Zed Books, 2018
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Part of Komparativ politik, p. 225-247, Studentlitteratur AB, 2018
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Part of Democracy, Constitutionalism, and Politics in Africa, p. 265-295, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
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Part of Land Grabbing in Africa, Routledge, 2015
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Towards a new constitutional order in Kenya: an introduction
Part of Kenya, p. 1-14, Zed Books ; Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2014
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Local politics, civil society and state formation in Uganda
Part of The Imperative of Good Local Governance, United Nations University Press, 2013
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Oil, territorial control and political belonging in Uganda
Part of Working the System in Sub-Saharan Africa, p. 142-160, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013
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Globalization, imperialism and resistance: an introduction
Part of Globalization, imperialism and resistance, p. 1-13, Politics of Development Group (PODSU), Department of Political Science, Stockholm University, 2007
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Global Power Relations and State Formation in Uganda
Part of Globalization, Imperialism and Resistance, p. 35-59, PODSU, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, Stockholm, 2007
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Civil society and authoritarianism: debates and issues : an introduction
Part of Civil society and authoritarianism in the third world, p. 1-20, PODSU, 2001
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State, civil society and democratisation: theoretical debates past and present
Part of Civil society and authoritarianism in the third world, p. 21-48, PODSU, 2001
Collections (editor)
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Kenya: the struggle for a new constitutional order
Zed Books ; Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2014
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Civil society and authoritarianism in the third world: a conference book
PODSU, 2001
Monograph doctoral thesis
Reports
Other
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Land, Mobility and Belonging in West Africa by Carola Lentz (review)
Part of Anthropological Quarterly, p. 1325-1328, 2014