Political Sociology and Economy
POLSEK is a seminar series that brings together a broad group of researchers working in the fields of political behavior, public opinion, political psychology, political economy, social genomics, and many other areas.
Shuffling Students, Shaping Futures?
The impact of school closures and the opening of voucher schools on student achievement, school segregation and exclusion from society
Research projects
- 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?
- 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
- Do welfare systems shape public support for climate action? A cross-country experimental assessment
- Does increased socioeconomic segregation lead to increased political inequality?
- Equalising political participation through upper secondary education?
- Frontiers of Political Representation
- Genomics and life paths
- Global Economic Crisis
- How Violent Actors Distort the Path to Political Power: Evidence from Colombia
- How can trade unions contribute to increase gender equality in worklife? A study of LO as a gender equality actor
- Inequality of political opportunity: Measures and Explanations
- 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
- Nature via Nurture: Using novel methods to shed new light on how gene-environment interactions shape social, economic and political attitudes and behavior
- 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
- Parties, politicians, and personal ties: An individual-based approach to coalition formation research
- Persona Project
- Political distortions of market competition and electoral competition in Sweden: An integrated analysis using micro-data on local politicians, firms, and procurement
- 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
- Still segregated? Temporal and intersectional analysis of the residential, occupational and political segregation of sexual minorities in Sweden
- 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 Open Society
- The Origin and Reproduction of Political Inequality: Political Mobility in Sweden over the past 100 years
- The political significance of work
- The Politics of Public Investment
- The Politics of Resentment