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 characterized by disciplinary curiosity and methodological innovation. See our seminar series here.
Democracy and the Social Question
Johanna Pettersson Fürst
Research Projects
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
Theories of democratic self-defense: Exclusion, toleration, integration
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 2021
Current projects start 2020
Past projects
Children’s participation and the outcome of care in Swedish child and family welfare
Democracy and the Social Question
Democratic Self-Defense: The Social Model
Defending or defeating democracy? Civil society and electoral autocracy in Kenya and Uganda
Equalising political participation through upper secondary education?
Gender Aspects on Election Violence
Gender Politics and Electoral Authoritarianism
Gender, politics and violence in Thailand
Gender and social media in contentious elections
How can trade unions contribute to increase gender equality in worklife?
How does national inspections affect welfare professions?
Is parliament a gender equal workplace?
Liberal Nationalism in the Welfare State
Living on contested land after war
Mapping Women Peacemakers: Exploring the “More Women-More Peace” Nexus
Mechanisms of Trust: Citizens and societal institutions in three marginalized residential areas
Nationhood in a Pandemic, Nordic Gold or Nordic Noir?
Opposition to Gender Equality Policies in the European Multi-Level Space: The Case of Abortion
Rationalism and Counterfactuality. Observations and conclusions from a life as a scholar
Shades of Civic Activism: State – Labour Relations in India and Ethiopia
The dream of an equal society: nostalgia or living vision?
The Everyday Practice of Paying Taxes in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Fateful Year of 1809. How Swedish history could have been different
The independent role of research in society and the primacy of the will of the people
The Paradox of Political Opposition in Multilevel Europe
The political significance of work
The politics of public investment
The Politics of Resentment in Sweden and the United States: Emotion Motivation and Identity
Thomas Hobbes and Liberty of Conscience
Understanding the Pippi Longstocking Paradox and Statist Individualism
All projects in alphabetical order
- Aging Migrants, Labor Market Transitions and the Welfare State
- An upper secondary education for all? How does the design of upper secondary education affect the risk of dropping out and unemployment?
- Autocratic Genderwashing
- Between freedom of movement and hard borders: The implementation of internal border controls as a challenge or continuation of European integration
- Beyond Nature vs. Nurture: gene-environment interaction and political behavior
- Can social policy reduce the risk of polarization over climate change mitigation? An experimental cross-country assessment
- Children’s participation and the outcome of care in Swedish child and family welfare: Building a model for regional development work
- 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
- Contested Elections and Street Politics. Comparing Protest Coalitions in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Courts as guarantor for an individualized and need based eldercare?
- Defending or defeating democracy? Civil society and electoral autocracy in Kenya and Uganda
- Democracy and the Social Question
- Democratic Resilience in an Age of Information Warfare
- Democratic Self-Defense: The Social Model
- Do welfare systems shape public support for climate action? A cross-country experimental assessment
- Does increased socioeconomic segregation lead to increased political inequality?
- ENABLE
- Equalising political participation through upper secondary education?
- Expanding Markets in Life: Exploring emerging ART practices in India and Uganda
- Expert government agencies’ contribution to public deliberation: balancing the need for expertise with political equality
- Frontiers of Political Representation
- Gender Aspects on Election Violence
- Gender Politics and Electoral Authoritarianism
- 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 and social media in contentious elections
- Global Economic Crisis
- Governing public professions: Performance management and professional autonomy in the police and military
- Governing through Consultants: How does Central Government Agency Use of Private Consultants Impact Public Values?
- How can trade unions contribute to increase gender equality in worklife? A study of LO as a gender equality actor
- How does national inspections affect welfare professions?
- Inequality of political opportunity: Measures and Explanations
- Is parliament a gender equal workplace? Exploring working conditions and their impact on legislators’ perform
- Liberal Nationalism in the Welfare State
- Living as a Survivor: A Study of the Political, Social and Economic Integration of Tsunami Survivors
- Living on contested land after war
- Local self-government, professionalism and court defiance in Swedish eldercare
- Mapping Women Peacemakers: Exploring the “More Women-More Peace” Nexus
- Mechanisms of Trust: Citizens and societal institutions in three marginalized residential areas
- More rights, more participation? The rights of gays, lesbians and bisexuals and their political engagement in Sweden
- Nationhood in a Pandemic, Nordic Gold or Nordic Noir? The Interplay between National Identity, Political Trust, Affective Polarization, and Attitudes to Immigrants in Denmark and Sweden in 2020-2021
- Nature via Nurture: Using novel methods to shed new light on how gene-environment interactions shape social, economic and political attitudes and behavior
- Notice of industrial action
- 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
- Opposition to Gender Equality Policies in the European Multi-Level Space: The Case of Abortion
- Parties, politicians, and personal ties: An individual-based approach to coalition formation research
- Pedagogical research project at the Department of Government
- Persona Project
- 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)
- School strikes for climate
- Secondary mobilization: The spread of political violence within and across borders
- Sexual Corruption
- Sexual corruption. Understanding, measuring and preventing abuse of power for sex
- Shades of Civic Activism: State – Labour Relations in India and Ethiopia
- Shifting the Calculus of Candidacy? Assessing the Impact of Hostile Political Climates on the Political Ambitions of Marginalized Groups
- State - Labour Relations under Authoritarian Rule: Co-optation, Cooperation, Coexistence, Contestation
- 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 Continuation of Conflict-related Violence in Postwar Cities: Mapping violence at the street level
- The Dream of an Equal Society: nostalgia or living vision?
- The Everyday Practice of Paying Taxes in Sub-Saharan Africa
- The Fateful Year of 1809. How Swedish history could have been different
- The Open Society
- The Origin and Reproduction of Political Inequality: Political Mobility in Sweden over the past 100 years
- The Paradox of Political Opposition in Multilevel Europe: Examining Plenary Debates in Thirteen Parliaments
- The Politics of Public Investment
- The Politics of Resentment
- The emergence and evolution of child politics in comparative perspective
- The genetics of life course outcomes: Leveraging new methods to advance social-science genomics
- The independent role of research in society and the primacy of the will of the people
- The political significance of work
- Theories of democratic self-defense: Exclusion, toleration, integration
- Thomas Hobbes and Liberty of Conscience: The Unity of Interpretation and Critique
- Trampoline
- Understanding political climate passivity in Sweden and the US
- Understanding the Pippi Longstocking Paradox and Statist Individualism
- Uppsala talks about begging
- 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