Department of Political Science

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New project has received funding from Horizon2020 2019-10-11 The project aims to create a common platform for researchers on democracy together with non-academic experts focusing on voting behavior.
New project has received funding from the Swedish Energy Agency 2019-09-16 The research project “Pathways to Carbon Neutrality: From Pioneering Coalition to Effective Climate Club?” has received 5,9 million SEK from the Swedish Energy Agency. Naghmeh Nasiritousi is project leader.
New book: The European Union in a Changing world order 2019-09-05 The book explores how the European Union responds to the ongoing challenges to the liberal international order.
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.
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.