Do women pay a higher price for power? Gender bias in political violence in Sweden

S Håkansson - The journal of politics, 2021 - journals.uchicago.edu
Violence and intimidation against politicians is gaining attention in research on obstacles to
political gender equality, but we still do not know whether women experience more violence …

The glass ceiling in politics: Formalization and empirical tests

O Folke, J Rickne - Comparative Political Studies, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
There is a scarcity of women at the apex of political power, as well as a lack of methods to
disentangle the potential sources of this under-representation. This article suggests a four …

A losing gamble. How mainstream parties facilitate anti-immigrant party success

C Dahlström, A Sundell - Electoral Studies, 2012 - Elsevier
The emergence of anti-immigrant parties in Western Europe has provoked very different
responses from mainstream parties. Some have tried to counter the anti-immigrant parties …

Gender differences in environmental concern among Swedish citizens and politicians

A Sundström, AM McCright - Environmental politics, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Numerous studies find modest, consistent gender differences in environmental concern
within the general publics of North American and European countries, but results from the …

Understanding participatory governance arrangements in urban politics: Idealist and cynical perspectives on the politics of citizen dialogues in Göteborg, Sweden

N Tahvilzadeh - Urban Research & Practice, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The purpose of this article is to deepen the understanding of the spread of participatory
governance arrangements (PGAs) in urban politics. While PGAs tend to be viewed from a …

Do Anti‐immigration Parties Matter? The Case of the S weden D emocrats and Local Refugee Policy

N Bolin, G Lidén, J Nyhlén - Scandinavian Political Studies, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
With the increased electoral success of anti‐immigration parties, questions regarding what
impact the parties actually have naturally follow. Previous research has rarely explored this …

Inhomogeneity in plastic deformation of two-phase steels

B Karlsson, BO Sundström - Materials Science and Engineering, 1974 - Elsevier
Plastic deformation in ferritic-martensitic and ferritic-pearlitic steels with 0.3 vol.% inclusion
in a continuous matrix has been studied. Continuum mechanics (finite element method …

Explaining local Swedish refugee policy

G Lidén, J Nyhlén - Journal of International Migration and Integration, 2014 - Springer
In the Swedish migration system, the local level plays a crucial role since the municipalities
have full autonomy to accept or decline refugees. This has created a considerable variation …

Local Participatory Governance and Representative Democracy

N Hertting, C Kugelberg - Institutional Dilemmas in European …, 2018 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Over the past few decades and throughout the world, numerous governmentinitiated
experiments and attempts at directly engaging and including citizens have emerged as …

Participatory initiatives and political representation: The case of local councillors in Sweden

M Karlsson - Local Government Studies, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
The health of political parties and the institutions of representative democracy have been
extensively questioned during the last decade due to evidence of a widespread decline in …