Josefina Erikson
Professor vid Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; Forskare och lärare
- Telefon:
- 018-471 13 13
- E-post:
- Josefina.Erikson@statsvet.uu.se
- Besöksadress:
- Östra Ågatan 19
753 22 Uppsala - Postadress:
- Box 514
751 20 UPPSALA
- Akademiska meriter:
- FD
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Kort presentation
Josefina Erikson is an Associate professor and Senior lecturer in the Department of Government.
Her research interests include gender and politics, political institutions, Swedish politics, new institutional theory and qualitative methods. In her most recent research projects she engages with gender equality in legislatures, conditions for political leadership, historical perspectives on women's political inclusion, and policy struggles in the European Union.
Forskning
2019- 2023 Research project, finansed by FORTE [The Swedish Research Council for Health, Working life and Welfare], lead by myself as PI, co- applicants Cecilia Josefsson and Christina Bergqvist. “Is parliament a gender equal workplace?”
2023-2025 Research Project finansed by FORTE [The Swedish Research Council for Health, Working life and Welfare], lead by Giulia Mariani, co-applicant, “The Struggle for Influence: Gender and Sexual Equality Policymaking at the European Union”
2023-2026 Research Project finansed by Vetenskapsrådet [The Swedish Research Council], lead by myself as PI, co-applicants Cecilia Josefsson and Sandra Håkansson. “What does it take to make leadership gender equal? Studies of political leadership in a gender balanced context”

Publikationer
Senaste publikationer
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Att bana väg: En vänbok till Christina Bergqvist
Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2026
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Ingår i Social Politics, 2026
- DOI för Making Sense of the Gendered Playing Field in Politics: A Typology of Gendered Institutional Constraints
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av Making Sense of the Gendered Playing Field in Politics: A Typology of Gendered Institutional Constraints
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Ingår i Politics, Groups, and Identities, s. 325-345, 2025
- DOI för Leaders' desires to lead: progressive ambition and norms around gender balance in the Swedish parliament
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av Leaders' desires to lead: progressive ambition and norms around gender balance in the Swedish parliament
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Ingår i Scandinavian Political Studies, 2025
- DOI för Racism and Gender in the Parliamentary Workplace: Insight Into Immigrant Background MPs' Experiences of Discrimination in Sweden
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av Racism and Gender in the Parliamentary Workplace: Insight Into Immigrant Background MPs' Experiences of Discrimination in Sweden
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Ingår i Suffrage and Its Legacy in the Nordics and Beyond, s. 247-269, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024
Alla publikationer
Artiklar i tidskrift
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Ingår i Social Politics, 2026
- DOI för Making Sense of the Gendered Playing Field in Politics: A Typology of Gendered Institutional Constraints
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av Making Sense of the Gendered Playing Field in Politics: A Typology of Gendered Institutional Constraints
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Ingår i Politics, Groups, and Identities, s. 325-345, 2025
- DOI för Leaders' desires to lead: progressive ambition and norms around gender balance in the Swedish parliament
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av Leaders' desires to lead: progressive ambition and norms around gender balance in the Swedish parliament
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Ingår i Scandinavian Political Studies, 2025
- DOI för Racism and Gender in the Parliamentary Workplace: Insight Into Immigrant Background MPs' Experiences of Discrimination in Sweden
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av Racism and Gender in the Parliamentary Workplace: Insight Into Immigrant Background MPs' Experiences of Discrimination in Sweden
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Ingår i Politics and Governance, 2024
- DOI för Adverse Contagion?: Populist Radical Right Parties and Norms on Gender Balance in Political Institutions
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av Adverse Contagion?: Populist Radical Right Parties and Norms on Gender Balance in Political Institutions
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Exploring Sustainability in Parliamentary Gender Equality Work: Insights from the Swedish Riksdag
Ingår i NORA, s. 17-34, 2024
- DOI för Exploring Sustainability in Parliamentary Gender Equality Work: Insights from the Swedish Riksdag
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av Exploring Sustainability in Parliamentary Gender Equality Work: Insights from the Swedish Riksdag
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Ingår i Politics & Gender, s. 1061-1086, 2023
- DOI för Feminine Leadership Ideals and Masculine Practices: Exploring Gendered Leadership Conditions in the Swedish Parliament
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av Feminine Leadership Ideals and Masculine Practices: Exploring Gendered Leadership Conditions in the Swedish Parliament
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Three Dimensions of Gendered Online Abuse: Analyzing Swedish MPs' Experiences of Social Media
Ingår i Perspectives on Politics, s. 896-912, 2023
- DOI för Three Dimensions of Gendered Online Abuse: Analyzing Swedish MPs' Experiences of Social Media
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av Three Dimensions of Gendered Online Abuse: Analyzing Swedish MPs' Experiences of Social Media
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Ingår i Parliamentary Affairs, s. 20-38, 2022
- DOI för The Parliament as a Gendered Workplace: How to Research Legislators’ (UN)Equal Opportunities to Represent
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av The Parliament as a Gendered Workplace: How to Research Legislators’ (UN)Equal Opportunities to Represent
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Ingår i Regulation and Governance, s. 818-835, 2022
- DOI för Beyond client criminalization: Analyzing collaborative governance arrangements for combatting prostitution and trafficking in Sweden
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av Beyond client criminalization: Analyzing collaborative governance arrangements for combatting prostitution and trafficking in Sweden
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Gender, Power and Privilege in the Parliamentary Workplace
Ingår i Parliamentary Affairs, s. 1-19, 2022
- DOI för Gender, Power and Privilege in the Parliamentary Workplace
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Ingår i Gender, Work and Organization, s. 1379-1397, 2021
- DOI för A special fund for gender equality?: Institutional constraints and gendered consequences in Swedish collective bargaining
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av A special fund for gender equality?: Institutional constraints and gendered consequences in Swedish collective bargaining
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Equal playing field?: On the intersection between gender and being young in the Swedish Parliament
Ingår i Politics, Groups, and Identities, s. 81-100, 2021
- DOI för Equal playing field?: On the intersection between gender and being young in the Swedish Parliament
- Ladda ner fulltext 1 (pdf) av Equal playing field?: On the intersection between gender and being young in the Swedish Parliament
- Ladda ner fulltext 2 (pdf) av Equal playing field?: On the intersection between gender and being young in the Swedish Parliament
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Ingår i European Journal of Politics and Gender, s. 403-421, 2021
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Ingår i Politique Européenne, s. 190-214, 2021
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Ingår i Policy sciences, s. 181-203, 2020
- DOI för How platforms facilitate collaboration across organizational boundaries: fighting human trafficking in Sweden
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av How platforms facilitate collaboration across organizational boundaries: fighting human trafficking in Sweden
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The speaker’s gender equality group in the Swedish parliament a toothless tiger?
Ingår i Politics, Groups, and Identities, s. 627-636, 2020
- DOI för The speaker’s gender equality group in the Swedish parliament a toothless tiger?
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av The speaker’s gender equality group in the Swedish parliament a toothless tiger?
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Ingår i Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, s. 263-285, 2019
- DOI för Institutions, Gendered Perceptions, and Frames of Meaning: Explaining Strategic Choices of Women MPs in Swedish Prostitution Policy
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av Institutions, Gendered Perceptions, and Frames of Meaning: Explaining Strategic Choices of Women MPs in Swedish Prostitution Policy
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Ingår i Representation, s. 65-80, 2019
- DOI för Does Higher Education Matter for MPs in their Parliamentary Work?: Evidence from the Swedish Parliament
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av Does Higher Education Matter for MPs in their Parliamentary Work?: Evidence from the Swedish Parliament
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Ingår i International Political Science Review, s. 197-214, 2019
- DOI för The legislature as a gendered workplace: Exploring members of parliament's experiences of working in the Swedish parliament
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av The legislature as a gendered workplace: Exploring members of parliament's experiences of working in the Swedish parliament
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Ingår i NORA Nordic journal of feminist and gender research, s. 22-40, 2019
- DOI för An Ideational Approach to Gendered Institutional Change: Revisiting the Institutionalization of a New Prostitution Regime in Sweden
- Ladda ner fulltext (pdf) av An Ideational Approach to Gendered Institutional Change: Revisiting the Institutionalization of a New Prostitution Regime in Sweden
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En dynamisk frameanalys av policyskapande
Ingår i Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift, s. 237-254, 2018
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Making the most of the frame: Developing the analytical potential of frame analysis
Ingår i Policy Studies, s. 109-126, 2018
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Ingår i Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, s. 139-154, 2017
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Ideas and actors in policy processes. Where is the interaction?
Ingår i Policy Studies, s. 451-467, 2015
Böcker
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Criminalising the Client: Institutional change, gendered ideas and feminist strategies
Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017
Doktorsavhandlingar, monografi
Kapitel i böcker, delar av antologi
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Ingår i Suffrage and Its Legacy in the Nordics and Beyond, s. 247-269, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024
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Ingår i Suffrage and Its Legacy in the Nordics and Beyond, s. 199-220, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024
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Introduction: A Historical and Institutional Perspective on Women’s Political Inclusion
Ingår i Suffrage and Its Legacy in the Nordics and Beyond. Gender and Politics, s. 1-34, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024
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A Generation Without Political Gender Biases?: The Case of Sweden
Ingår i Image of Gender and Political Leadership, s. 185-204, Oxford University Press, 2023
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Lärarfacken och den dubbla rollen - tjänsteman och profession
Ingår i Fackligt arbete bland svenska tjänstemän ur ett hundraårigt perspektiv, Tam-arkiv, 2016
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The various “problems” of prostitution: A dynamic frame analysis of Swedish prostitution policy
Ingår i Prostitution, Harm and Gender Inequality, Ashgate, 2012
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Att kriminalisera sexköparen: Kvinnor som politiska aktörer
Ingår i Bortom rösträtten, s. 156-174, Samtidshistoriska institutet, Södertörns högskola, 2011
Samlingsverk (redaktörskap)
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Att bana väg: En vänbok till Christina Bergqvist
Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2026
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Palgrave Macmillan, 2024