Research at Department of Government
The Department of Government is a modern social science department with a rich historical heritage. Our research is international in focus and characterised by disciplinary curiosity and methodological innovation. See our seminar series here.
Shuffling Students, Shaping Futures?
Marcus Österman and Jonas Taghizadeh
University Governance: From Academic Republics to State Agencies and Subcontractors
Shirin Ahlbäck Öberg
Research Areas
Researchers and publications
Research Projects
Current projects start 2025
Academic Actors as Guardians of Democracy?
Gender as Tactic in Autocratic Politics
Juridification in the welfare sector: challenging professional discretion?
Masculinities for the Future of European Democracy (MEN4DEM)
Sexual corruption. Understanding, measuring and preventing abuse of power for sex
Should I stay or should I go? Polling station lines, voter turnout, and democratic equality
Current projects start 2024
Beyond Nature vs. Nurture: gene-environment interaction and political behavior
Democratic Resilience in an Age of Information Warfare
Do welfare systems shape public support for climate action? A cross-country experimental assessment
Shaping the Online Public Sphere: How and Why do Democracies Regulate Social Media Platforms?
What will we eat? Food as security politics in Sweden 1900-2025
Current projects start 2023
Does increased socioeconomic segregation lead to increased political inequality?
Inequality of political opportunity: Measures and Explanations
Protecting Irregular Migrants in Europe: Institutions, Interests and Policies (PRIME)
State, Tourism, and Heritage: Kalbeliya in its pre-recognition phase in India
Understanding political climate passivity in Sweden and the US
Current projects start 2022
Climate policy as a social question: Can social policies reduce opposition to carbon taxes?
Closing the ’value-action gap’ between values and individuals’ climate footprint
Expanding Markets in Life: Exploring emerging ART practices in India and Uganda
Gender and Political Representation in a (Post-) Pandemic Era
Living as a Survivor: A Study of the Political, Social and Economic Integration of Tsunami Survivors
Local self-government, professionalism and court defiance in Swedish eldercare
Online platforms and the challenges of democratic exclusion
Obstacles and opportunities for equal participation of citizens with intellectual disabilities
Current projects start 2020
All ongoing research projects
- Academic actors as guardians of democracy?
- An upper secondary education for all? How does the design of upper secondary education affect the risk of dropping out and unemployment?
- Beyond Nature vs. Nurture: gene-environment interaction and political behavior
- Bureaucracy and Ecopolitics in Ethiopia’s Political Transition – on the Role of Environmental Bureaucrats in Democratisation
- Can social policy reduce the risk of polarization over climate change mitigation? An experimental cross-country assessment
- Democratic Resilience in an Age of Information Warfare
- Do welfare systems shape public support for climate action? A cross-country experimental assessment
- Does increased socioeconomic segregation lead to increased political inequality?
- ENABLE
- Expanding Markets in Life: Exploring emerging ART practices in India and Uganda
- Frontiers of Political Representation
- Gender and Political Representation in a (Post-) Pandemic Era: How the Increased Salience of Health and Poverty Issues Affects Women's Political Inclusion and Power in Low-Income Countries
- Gender as Tactic in Autocratic Politics
- Genomics and life paths
- Governing through Consultants: How does Central Government Agency Use of Private Consultants Impact Public Values?
- Higher Education on the Democracy – Autocracy Continuum – What roles do bureaucrats in higher education play for democratisation and safeguarding democracy?
- How Violent Actors Distort the Path to Political Power: Evidence from Colombia
- Inequality of political opportunity: Measures and Explanations
- Juridification in the welfare sector: challenging professional discretion?
- Local self-government, professionalism and court defiance in Swedish eldercare
- Mobilizing Emotions to Build Democratic Resilience: Feminist Coalitions in the European Union
- More rights, more participation? The rights of gays, lesbians and bisexuals and their political engagement in Sweden
- Not Equally Bad? The Swedish welfare state transformation and its impact on poverty and inequality in comparative perspective
- Obstacles and opportunities for equal participation of citizens with intellectual disabilities: evidence from a world-leading accessibility initiative
- Online platforms and the challenges of democratic exclusion
- Political distortions of market competition and electoral competition in Sweden: An integrated analysis using micro-data on local politicians, firms, and procurement
- Protecting Irregular Migrants in Europe: Institutions, Interests and Policies (PRIME)
- Shifting the Calculus of Candidacy? Assessing the Impact of Hostile Political Climates on the Political Ambitions of Marginalized Groups
- Should I stay or should I go? Polling station lines, voter turnout, and democratic equality
- Shuffling Students, Shaping Futures? The impact of school closures and the opening of voucher schools on student achievement, school segregation and exclusion from society
- State, Tourism, and Heritage: Kalbeliya in its pre-recognition phase in India
- Still segregated? Temporal and intersectional analysis of the residential, occupational and political segregation of sexual minorities in Sweden
- The Open Society
- Understanding political climate passivity in Sweden and the US
- Universities as Democratic Spaces: Institutional Responses to Campus Protest in Sweden
- University Governance: From Academic Republics to State Agencies and Subcontractors
- Uppsala University Research Environment on Sexual Corruption – UURESC
- What does it take to make leadership gender equal? Studies of political leadership in a gender balanced context
- What will we eat? Food as security politics in Sweden 1900-2025