Josefina Erikson

Do women ministers face greater scrutiny? Parliamentary questions as a lens to study gender and leadership in practice

Erikson, Josefina; Håkansson, Sandra; Josefsson, Cecilia; Borges, Robert

Part of European Journal of Politics and Gender, p. 1-27, 2026

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Sweden’s Updated Prostitution Policy: Populist Radical Right Influences and the Shift Away from Gender Equality

Reuterswärd, Camilla; Erikson, Josefina

Part of Politics & Gender, p. 901-907, 2026

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A Non-Gendered Approach to a Gendered Problem: Violence Mitigation Policy in the Swedish Parliament

Erikson, Josefina; Håkansson, Sandra

Part of Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, p. 1-17, 2026

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Att bana väg: En vänbok till Christina Bergqvist

Bjarnegård, Elin; Erikson, Josefina; Zetterberg, Pär

Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2026

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Making Sense of the Gendered Playing Field in Politics: A Typology of Gendered Institutional Constraints

Erikson, Josefina; Freidenvall, Lenita

Part of Social Politics, 2026

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Do women ministers face greater scrutiny? Parliamentary questions as a lens to study gender and leadership in practice

Erikson, Josefina; Håkansson, Sandra; Josefsson, Cecilia; Borges, Robert

Part of European Journal of Politics and Gender, p. 1-27, 2026

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Sweden’s Updated Prostitution Policy: Populist Radical Right Influences and the Shift Away from Gender Equality

Reuterswärd, Camilla; Erikson, Josefina

Part of Politics & Gender, p. 901-907, 2026

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A Non-Gendered Approach to a Gendered Problem: Violence Mitigation Policy in the Swedish Parliament

Erikson, Josefina; Håkansson, Sandra

Part of Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, p. 1-17, 2026

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Making Sense of the Gendered Playing Field in Politics: A Typology of Gendered Institutional Constraints

Erikson, Josefina; Freidenvall, Lenita

Part of Social Politics, 2026

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Leaders' desires to lead: progressive ambition and norms around gender balance in the Swedish parliament

Erikson, Josefina; Josefsson, Cecilia

Part of Politics, Groups, and Identities, p. 325-345, 2025

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Racism and Gender in the Parliamentary Workplace: Insight Into Immigrant Background MPs' Experiences of Discrimination in Sweden

Albertsson, Matilda; Erikson, Josefina

Part of Scandinavian Political Studies, 2025

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Adverse Contagion?: Populist Radical Right Parties and Norms on Gender Balance in Political Institutions

Erikson, Josefina; Josefsson, Cecilia

Part of Politics and Governance, 2024

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Exploring Sustainability in Parliamentary Gender Equality Work: Insights from the Swedish Riksdag

Erikson, Josefina; Freidenvall, Lenita

Part of NORA, p. 17-34, 2024

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Feminine Leadership Ideals and Masculine Practices: Exploring Gendered Leadership Conditions in the Swedish Parliament

Erikson, Josefina; Josefsson, Cecilia

Part of Politics & Gender, p. 1061-1086, 2023

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Three Dimensions of Gendered Online Abuse: Analyzing Swedish MPs'€™ Experiences of Social Media

Erikson, Josefina; Håkansson, Sandra; Josefsson, Cecilia

Part of Perspectives on Politics, p. 896-912, 2023

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Beyond client criminalization: Analyzing collaborative governance arrangements for combatting prostitution and trafficking in Sweden

Erikson, Josefina; Larsson, Oscar L.

Part of Regulation and Governance, p. 818-835, 2022

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Gender, Power and Privilege in the Parliamentary Workplace

Erikson, Josefina; Verge, Tània

Part of Parliamentary Affairs, p. 1-19, 2022

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The Parliament as a Gendered Workplace: How to Research Legislators’ (UN)Equal Opportunities to Represent

Erikson, Josefina; Josefsson, Cecilia

Part of Parliamentary Affairs, p. 20-38, 2022

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A special fund for gender equality?: Institutional constraints and gendered consequences in Swedish collective bargaining

Erikson, Josefina

Part of Gender, Work and Organization, p. 1379-1397, 2021

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Equal playing field?: On the intersection between gender and being young in the Swedish Parliament

Erikson, Josefina; Josefsson, Cecilia

Part of Politics, Groups, and Identities, p. 81-100, 2021

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A legislative gender-equality norm as a catalyst for change?: Discursive convergence in the case of the Swedish Parliament

Erikson, Josefina; Freidenvall, Lenita

Part of European Journal of Politics and Gender, p. 403-421, 2021

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Class and Gender in Conflict?: Exploring Intersectionality in Practice in Swedish Gender Equality Bargaining

Erikson, Josefina

Part of Politique Européenne, p. 190-214, 2021

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How platforms facilitate collaboration across organizational boundaries: fighting human trafficking in Sweden

Erikson, Josefina; Larsson, Oscar L.

Part of Policy sciences, p. 181-203, 2020

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The speaker’s gender equality group in the Swedish parliament  a toothless tiger?

Freidenvall, Lenita; Erikson, Josefina

Part of Politics, Groups, and Identities, p. 627-636, 2020

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Institutions, Gendered Perceptions, and Frames of Meaning: Explaining Strategic Choices of Women MPs in Swedish Prostitution Policy

Erikson, Josefina

Part of Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, p. 263-285, 2019

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Does Higher Education Matter for MPs in their Parliamentary Work?: Evidence from the Swedish Parliament

Erikson, Josefina; Josefsson, Cecilia

Part of Representation, p. 65-80, 2019

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The legislature as a gendered workplace: Exploring members of parliament's experiences of working in the Swedish parliament

Erikson, Josefina; Josefsson, Cecilia

Part of International Political Science Review, p. 197-214, 2019

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An Ideational Approach to Gendered Institutional Change: Revisiting the Institutionalization of a New Prostitution Regime in Sweden

Erikson, Josefina

Part of NORA Nordic journal of feminist and gender research, p. 22-40, 2019

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En dynamisk frameanalys av policyskapande

Erikson, Josefina

Part of Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift, p. 237-254, 2018

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Making the most of the frame: Developing the analytical potential of frame analysis

Björnehed, Emma; Erikson, Josefina

Part of Policy Studies, p. 109-126, 2018

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A School for all or a School for the Labour Market?: Analyzing the Goal Formulation of the Swedish Upper Secondary Education Reform

Erikson, Josefina

Part of Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, p. 139-154, 2017

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Ideas and actors in policy processes. Where is the interaction?

Erikson, Josefina

Part of Policy Studies, p. 451-467, 2015

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Criminalising the Client: Institutional change, gendered ideas and feminist strategies

Erikson, Josefina

Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017

Conclusions: Theorising Gendered Institutional Constraints and Feminist Strategies for Institutional Change

Erikson, Josefina; Freidenvall, Lenita

Part of Suffrage and Its Legacy in the Nordics and Beyond, p. 247-269, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024

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Still Signs of Masculine Norms in the Parliamentary Workplace?: Political Gender Equality in Finland and Sweden After a Century of Universal Suffrage

Erikson, Josefina; Björk, Anna; Paavola, Juho-Matti

Part of Suffrage and Its Legacy in the Nordics and Beyond, p. 199-220, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024

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Introduction: A Historical and Institutional Perspective on Women’s Political Inclusion

Erikson, Josefina; Freidenvall, Lenita

Part of Suffrage and Its Legacy in the Nordics and Beyond. Gender and Politics, p. 1-34, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024

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A Generation Without Political Gender Biases?: The Case of Sweden

Bjarnegård, Elin; Erikson, Josefina; Zetterberg, Pär

Part of Image of Gender and Political Leadership, p. 185-204, Oxford University Press, 2023

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Lärarfacken och den dubbla rollen - tjänsteman och profession

Erikson, Josefina

Part of Fackligt arbete bland svenska tjänstemän ur ett hundraårigt perspektiv, Tam-arkiv, 2016

The various “problems” of prostitution: A dynamic frame analysis of Swedish prostitution policy

Erikson, Josefina

Part of Prostitution, Harm and Gender Inequality, Ashgate, 2012

Att kriminalisera sexköparen: Kvinnor som politiska aktörer

Erikson, Josefina

Part of Bortom rösträtten, p. 156-174, Samtidshistoriska institutet, Södertörns högskola, 2011

Att bana väg: En vänbok till Christina Bergqvist

Bjarnegård, Elin; Erikson, Josefina; Zetterberg, Pär

Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2026

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Suffrage and Its Legacy in the Nordics and Beyond: Gender, Institutional Constraints and Feminist Strategies

Erikson, Josefina; Freidenvall, Lenita

Palgrave Macmillan, 2024

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Strider om mening: En dynamisk frameanalys av den svenska sexköpslagen

Erikson, Josefina

2011

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