Doctoral theses Doctoral Theses

Genetics and Politics: Gene-Environment Interplay for Social Life Outcomes and the Normative Implications of Social Science Genetics

Who shapes EU legislation?: A new assessment of the co-legislators’ relative influence

A Silent Revolution: How digital technologies are transforming public administration through the backdoor

A Genetically Informed Approach to Trust and Attitudes towards Immigration: Studies on Swedish Twins in the Age of Immigration and Diversity

Meritocratic Municipalities?: Promotions in Sweden’s Local Government Bureaucracy

Co-nationals under construction: Poland’s diaspora policy 1989–2023

Land & Liberty: On the Natural Monopoly of Violence

Toward a New Democratic Theory of Expertise

Foreign Policy After Empire: Explaining Georgia’s and Ukraine’s International Orientation from Independence until 2021

Tales of Lonely Young Men: Analysing Portrayals of Misogynistic Incel Violence

The European Union’s market power: Techniques, constraints and implications for external action

Politicians Under Threat: Gender Aspects of Violence against Political Representatives

The Resilience of Diplomacy: Adaptation and Continuity of Diplomatic Practice in Crises

Fractures in the Fabric of Democracy?: Change and Continuity in Public Opinion in Contemporary Europe

Managing migration in modern welfare states: Essays on the development, causes, and effects of policies regulating family immigration

Change and Progress in Disaster Risk Reduction

Mobilization or Abstention?: Economic Inequality and Labor Market Experiences as Foundations of Political Behavior

Earning, caring, and the quest for sustainable societies: Toward stable evolution?

Wealth and the economic vote: How assets and liabilities shape election outcomes

Statebuilding through diaspora recruitment?: The role of capacity, norms and representation for legitimacy in Somaliland and Liberia

The Socialization of Intergroup Attitudes: The Problem of Generations

Migration and social protection in European welfare states: Cui bono?

From Antagonism to Alienation: Redirecting Radical Democracy

Social-Policy Attitudes and the Great Recession: Changes in Perceptions of Unemployment Insurance, Forced and Unforced Immigration, and Taxation

Don’t Mention the War: The forging of a domestic foreign policy consensus on the entry, expansion and exit of Swedish military contributions to Afghanistan

Investigating the Determinants of International, National and Local Climate Policies

Adaptive Resistance: Power Struggles over Gender Quotas in Uruguay

Governing Migration: On the Emergence and Effects of Policies Related to the Settlement and Inclusion of Refugees

Don't be late for school again: Essays on education and support for democracy

The Rise of Online Counterpublics?: The Limits of Inclusion in a Digital Age

Deliberation, against all odds?: The critical prospects of mini-publics

Changing Swedish sickness insurance: Policies, institutions and outcomes

Laga efter läge: Statsråds föreställningar om styrning i Regeringskansliet

Incumbent Renomination: Accountability and Gender Bias

On Consumed Democracy: The Expansion of Consumer Choice, Its Causal Effects on Political Engagement, and Its Implications for Democracy

All Interventionists Now?: On the Political Economy of Active Labor Market Policy as Micro-Interventionist Multi-Tools

Deep Roots and Tangled Branches: Bureaucracy and Collaboration in Natural Resource Governance in South India

National Courts as Gatekeepers in European Integration: Examining the Choices National Courts Make in the Preliminary Ruling Procedure

What’s in a Line?: Making Sovereignty through Border Policy

Education, Stratification and Reform: Educational Institutions in Comparative Perspective

Essays on the collective action dilemma of vaccination

Vulnerability and Power: Social Justice Organizing in Rockaway, New York City, after Hurricane Sandy

Natural Disasters and National Election: On the 2004 Indian Ocean Boxing Day Tsunami, the 2005 Storm Gudrun and the 2006 Historic Regime Shift

The Social and Political Impact of Natural Disasters: Investigating Attitudes and Media Coverage in the Wake of Disasters

Strategic Colonels: The Discretion of Swedish Force Commanders in Afghanistan 2006–2013

Marketization in Swedish Eldercare: Implications for Users, Professionals, and the State

Centralized Disaster Management Collaboration in Turkey

Change, Institutions, and International Organisations: Essays on the English School of International Relations

Power from Below?: The Impact of Protests and Lobbying on School Closures in Sweden

Austerity Politics: Is the Electorate Responsible?