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

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Opening hours during Christmas 2020-12-18 The Student Affairs Office and the Study Counselling are closed from December 23 to January 4.
The transformation of democracy: new facts and explanations 2020-12-16 Why do people in a world that is more global than ever turn to national politics to secure their democracy, sometimes with the result that politics becomes more authoritarian and less democratic in the long run?
Policy Dynamics in the Decarbonized Welfare State 2020-10-23 The purpose of the project is to analyze the interplay between ‘new’ climate policies and ‘old’ social policies in a comparative perspective.
New research project: Swedish climate initiatives in a state of crisis 2020-10-02 Formas provides funding for an urgent research project, in which we will investigate how Swedish climate change initiatives manage to navigate through the COVID-19 pandemic.
New project: Transformative partnership 2020-09-25 The project “Transformative partnership”, led by Karin Bäckstrand, has been granted 20 million from the research council Formas.
New research project: Post-Corona Global Sustainability Cooperation 2020-09-25 The COVID-19 pandemic is not only a global health crisis. It is expected to lead to lasting changes in all policy areas of global cooperation and transnational governance.
New PhD students 2020-09-18 This autumn we are welcoming three new Phd students to our department. International environmental politics, violent extremism and social politics are some of the topics that the new Phd students are interested in.
New book: Governing the Climate-Energy Nexus 2020-06-12 Karin Bäckstrand and Naghmeh Nasiritousi are, together with Fariborz Zelli, Lunds University, Jakob Skovgaard, Lunds University, and, Oscar Widerberg, VU University Amsterdam, editors for the new book.
New funding to Swedish research programme on geopolitics and sustainability trends 2020-06-16 The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research, Mistra, has announced a package of funding for the interdisciplinary research programme Mistra Geopolitics.
Vulnerable yet solid: the legitimacy of the WHO 2020-04-20 The WHO has been exposed to several legitimacy crises over the years, yet the legitimacy of the organization appears solid. How can we understand this paradox?
Political Party Dynamics and Democracy in Sweden 2020-02-26 Sweden has often been described as a democratic forerunner, with one of the world's most stable party systems. However, the political landscape in Sweden has undergone a rapid change in recent years.
Societal Mobilization is Key to Global Climate Action 2020-02-19 It is not a question of either or, the Paris Agreement is necessary but needs to be strengthened with complementary initiatives.
Climate action shouldn’t mean choosing between personal and political responsibility 2020-01-31 Can your individual behaviour make a real difference to the environment? And should you be expected to voluntarily change your life in the face of our worsening environmental crises?
New Research Projects 2020-01-09 Do voters punish or reward incumbent political representatives for enacting climate policies? Does “naming and shaming” by international non-governmental organizations lead to environmental protection? These are some of the questions addressed in the department’s new research projects.
New project has received funding from the Swedish Research Council 2019-12-11 Faradj Koliev has received funding for the project International NGOs and environmental politics: The impact of NGO naming and shaming on states’ environmental policies, 1970-2020.
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.
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.
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.
Vacancies at the Department of Political Science 2020-11-12 One position as Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Political Science.
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.