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The Department of Political Science is one of the larger departments at Stockholm University and is located in the F-building (floors 4, 5 and 7), and Skogstorpet. Around ten administrators, 50 researchers and teachers, and 25 graduate students work here.

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Vacant position in the doctoral program 2019-08-20 The Department announces one vacant position in the doctoral program with an orientation towards Comparative European Politics.
Closed for summer holidays 2019-06-11 The Student affairs office and the Student counselling is closed during summer and will open again August 27.
Initiative in environmental human sciences 2019-04-17 Climate refugees, climate change in fiction and protest movements for climate actions. These are some topics that will be studied in a new Stockholm University initiative on environmental human sciences.
New book: Gendering Military Sacrifice 2019-03-11 This book offers a feminist analysis of military sacrifice and reveals the importance of a gender perspective in understanding the idea of honourable death. Editors are Cecilia Åse and Maria Wendt.
New e-book: Responses of European economic cultures to Europe's crisis politics 2018-12-17 Josef Hien is, together with Christian Joerges, editor of the new e-book Responses of European Economic Cultures to Europe’s Crisis Politics: The Example of German-Italian Discrepancies.
New book: The Oxford Handbook of Political Consumerism 2019-03-29 The Oxford Handbook of Political Consumerism addresses the study of political consumerism. It discusses how production and consumption affect broader societal affairs.
New project has received funding from FORMAS 2018-11-16 The project ”Partnerships and participation in the implementation of Agenda 2030 and in global sustainability governance” has received 1,9 million SEK from FORMAS.
Science and Politics in Global and Environmental Governance 2018-11-09 Call for PhD course at Stockholm University Research School on Environment, Climate and Sustainability.
Over 12 million from The Swedish Research Council 2018-11-08 The Swedish Research Council has taken decisions on applications in this year's Open Call for proposals within Humanities and Social Sciences.
Grant to new research project about Making a Military Heritage 2018-10-29 The research project Making a Military Heritage: Gender and Nation in Sweden's Cold War History has received funding from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.
Power, representation and the demos in transnational democracy 2018-10-05 Ludvig Beckman has commented the GLOBALCIT Forum debate - Let me vote in your country, and I’ll let you vote in mine.
Video: Why We Need a Theory of Territory 2018-10-05 Margaret Moore is the 2018 holder of the Olof Palme Visiting Professorship. Watch her inaugural lecture.
New book: "The Practical Turn in Political Theory" 2018-05-14 Eva Erman and Niklas Möller are the authors of the new book "The Practical Turn in Political Theory".
Can one argue against democracy? 2017-06-21 Yes, says Jason Brennan, political philosopher at Georgetown University, Washington DC. and author of book Against Democracy, now published in Swedish. Here two political science students, Anton Karlström and Andreas Estmark, interview him at Stockholm University.
The Minister for Culture and Democracy, Alice Bah Kuhnke, visited the department 2015-09-03 The Minister for Culture and Democracy, Alice Bah Kuhnke, visited the department and held a guest lecture for the political science students.
New book: Governing the Embedded State. The Organizational Dimension of Governance 2015-09-17 New book by Göran Sundström, Stockholm University, Bengt Jacobsson, Södertörn University och Jon Pierre, University of Gothenburg.
Ethics & Global Politics 2014-12-12 Ethics & Global Politics is an Open Access, peer reviewed scholarly journal. The editorial office has moved to the Department of Political Science at Stockholm University.
Leading research areas at the Department of Political Science 2014-10-17 The Faculty of Social Sciences Board has appointed leading research areas at the faculty. Four of these are found at the Department of Political Science, Global and regional governance, InRights - Challenges to democratic rights and inclusion, Feminist and Critical Studies in Politics and Environmental Politics, Policy and Learning.