NEW - Silenced Voices: How Violence Marginalizes Women and Immigrant Politicians in Policy Debates - https://cup.org/4tHjlao - @sandrahkansson.bsky.social & @ceciliajosefsson.bsky.social #OpenAccess

Our project received funding from the Swedish Research Council! "How violent actors distort the path to political power: Evidence from Colombia" with Juan Diego Duque Salazar & @hannefjelde.bsky.social

Now that #NoKings 2.0 is behind us, here's a quick 🧵 into the data we collected in DC on Saturday to start thinking about what the day-of-action can tell us about this wave of Resistance to Trump2.0 and its policies. The day turned out millions across the US in over 2700 locations across the US:

DEBATT | Det är vårt ansvar att yttra oss, skriver 122 experter inom fred, säkerhet, utveckling, folkrätt och mänskliga rättigheter. www.dagensarena.se/opinion/sver...

Sverige lever inte upp till internationella åtaganden att förhindra folkmord | Dagens Arena

Det är vårt ansvar att yttra oss, skriver 122 experter.

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A short 🧵 so everyone can learn that political violence is nothing new in America. Of the 1,331 Black officials who served during Reconstruction, 158 (10.4%) were subjected to political violence. 1/7

Här skriver @sandrahkansson.bsky.social och jag om orsakerna till ungas politiska underrepresentation i Sverige, varför det är problematiskt och vilka åtgärder som kan vidtas. www.altinget.se/rikspolitik/...

Demokratin hotas när unga trängs bort - Altinget

Trots ett växande politiskt engagemang bland unga minskar deras representation i förtroendeuppdrag. Det hotar både ungas inflytande och demokratins legitimitet. För att vända utvecklingen krävs tydlig...

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Det finns ingen plats för politiskt våld i en demokrati, varken för fysiskt våld eller trakasserier, hot och hat. Min forskning visar att kvinnliga ledare systematiskt drabbas värre och att det hotar den demokratiska representationen. Kommenterar Wutzlers avhopp i DN: www.dn.se/sverige/fick...

Fick nog av hatet – moderattoppen hoppar av

Carina Wutzler har fått nog av hat och personangrepp. Nu lämnar hon rollen som kommunstyrelsens ordförande.

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In over 99.5 percent of protest events in April and May, we recorded no injuries, arrests, or property damage — an unprecedentedly tiny fraction for a movement of this size and geographic dispersion.

My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman@bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵

🧵1/ Are primaries bad for political diversity? Conventional wisdom says yes—but our article in @wepsocial.bsky.social shows that candidate selection modes are not necessarily a bottleneck for representation, at least when it comes to demand. 🗳️👥 @sandrahkansson.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0140...

7/ TL;DR: Whether inclusive or exclusive, how parties select candidates may matter less than we thought — when norms of political inclusion are already widely internalised. 📋🤝 #PoliSci #Representation #CandidateSelection #Primaries #Quotas #Sweden #WEP

Online first: "Inclusive or exclusive? Candidate selection methods do not affect descriptive representation" by @grahn.bsky.social & @sandrahkansson.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0140... #AcademicSky #Polisky

In a DIY society, we all have an incentive to push the work of care downstream. Because that work is essential. But it's also too labor-intensive to be profitable. So, men push it onto women. And women with privilege either do that work themselves or push it onto others more vulnerable than them. 7/

What happens to women when they are denied an abortion? Short run: their risk of death rises. A full 15 years later, they experience: more health issues, lower attainment, reduced labor-force participation, higher single motherhood, higher poverty, + greater government assistance

Depressing findings, but "Publish or Procreate" is a title for the ages.

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🚨 New WP! 📄 "Publish or Procreate: The Effect of Motherhood on Research Performance" (w/ @valentinatartari.bsky.social 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 We investigate how parenthood affects scientific productivity and impact — and find that the impact is far from equal for mothers and fathers.

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Statement by the Board of Uppsala University on the situation in Gaza - Uppsala University

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Och detta är läskigast av allt. SD vill även inskränka universitetsanställdas yttrandefrihet. Oavsett vad man tycker i sakfrågan är det givetvis djupt oroväckande att politiker tycker det är ”helt oacceptabelt” att forskare har en åsikt som inte går i linje med deras.

Welcome to the launch of my book Defending the Status Quo (OUP 2024)! academic.oup.com/book/58626 🗓 May 8, 15:00–16:00 CEST 📍 Dept. of Government, Uppsala University (or Zoom!) Speakers: @jennpiscopo.bsky.social, Drude Dahlerup, @elinbja.bsky.social & me.

Statsvetenskapliga föreningen arrangerar boklansering! 🚀 Kom och lyssna på ett samtal om kvinnor, politik, motstånd och könskvotering med @ceciliajosefsson.bsky.social, @elinbja.bsky.social, Drude Dahlerup och Jennifer Piscopo! 8 maj kl 15-16, Lunchrummet, Ö Åg. 19 Efteråt: 🍾+🍿+🫒+🍇+ 🍷

Imorgon reser jag till Ankara för att närvara på rättegången mot Joakim Medin. Av åtalet framgår att det helt saknas bevisning mot Joakim, han har bara gjort sig skyldig till journalistik. Den turkiska domstolen bör lägga ned åtalet. www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/8q...

Svenska politiker till Medins rättegång i Turkiet

Jonas Sjöstedt (V) och Ulrika Westerlund (MP) reser till Ankara för att närvara vid den svenske journalisten Joakim Medins rättegång. – Det gäller att sätta lit

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We’re live! 🚀 Say hello to the official Bluesky account of Uppsala University's Department of Government 🏛️✨ Follow us for the latest on cutting-edge research, publications 📚, and upcoming events.

🚨 Talking about harassment in politics hurts your political career. Yes, even in 🇸🇪. And, yes, for both women & men. Here’s what me and @sandrahkansson.bsky.social found in our Political Behavior paper using both experimental and descriptive approaches: link.springer.com/article/10.1... 👇

The Cost of Debating Harassment Against Politicians: Are Women and Men Affected Equally? - Political Behavior

Harassment of politicians is a growing global phenomenon, which threatens to erode the quality of democracy and descriptive representation. Past research has examined gender patterns of this violence ...

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Why is nobody talking about the fact that Elon's DOGE henchmen are MEN. There is no way women would be granted access in the way these young dudebros have been. None. Male entitlement opens doors and we are all going to suffer for it

New paper💡! My work on online dating, power and social institutions is now published in @apsrjournal.bsky.social! I provide a normative framework for what goes on in this part of the ‘digital sexual sphere’ and explore the role dating apps play in our societies. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We've finally made it to this side! 👋 Check out our semester schedule—we’ve got a stellar lineup of international researchers:

Holy forking shirt balls "Denial of a wanted abortion has both immediate and lasting effects. It increases a woman’s risk of death by 2.5 p.p within nine months, mainly due to unsafe abortion procedures, and raises the likelihood of carrying the pregnancy to term by 31 p.p. "

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Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Impact of Being Denied a Wanted Abortion on Women and their Children,” by Londoño-Vélez (@jlondonovelez.bsky.social) and Saravia: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

Falsk balans SR. Ronie Berggren Bulletin anklagade just oemotsagd George Soros att lägga sig i europeisk politik. En klockren antisemitisk trop och ha samtidigt mage att ta upp Förintelsens minnesdag. ➡️➡️

(1/7) 📢 New research alert! Even when people are shown clear evidence of #discrimination, it doesn‘t change their support for anti-discrimination policies. Read @kkrakows.bsky.social, @asmusletholsen.bsky.social, and my article in @ajpseditor.bsky.social to find out why: doi.org/10.1111/ajps...

American Journal of Political Science | MPSA Journal | Wiley Online Library

The disadvantages experienced by minorities and lack of societal remedies are partly attributable to native-majority citizens’ limited awareness of minority hardships. We investigate whether informin...

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Excited to share our new paper “Representation at Risk: Evaluating Levels and Consequences of Violence against Immigrant-Background Politicians”, accepted at APSR! Co-authored with @nazita.bsky.social. Available at: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

🏅In one of our most read articles this week @sandrahkansson.bsky.social employs survey experiments in 🇸🇪 & 🇺🇸 to ID underlying mechanisms in violence against women in politics in 'Explaining Citizen Hostility against Women Political Leaders' polisky gendersky www.cambridge.org/core/journal...