Department of Government
We celebrate
400 years of Political Science in Uppsala
In 1622, Johan Skytte funded a professorship in Political Science and Eloquence and thus laid the foundation for the Department of Government.
Media
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DN Debatt. S och M måste samarbeta för att ta sig ur dödläget
Source: Dagens Nyheter - Login 2022-06-18
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Sten Widmalm: Kristofferssons upplevelse av kränkthet kvittade
Source: Upsala Nya Tidning Premium 2022-06-18
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Joakim Palme: Dags att lägga ner Pensionsgruppen
Source: Senioren 2022-06-17
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Försvaret dubbelt så viktig valfråga: "Kan bli fråga om kapplöpning"
Source: Sveriges Radio Uppland 2022-06-16
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Integrationsutredningen som försvann
Source: Kvartal 2022-06-14
News
- Stig Brewitz starts the ‘Anne-Marie Åkerlund Memorial Foundation at Uppsala University’
- Position available: Senior Lecturer in Political Science
- Position available: Senior Lecturer in Political Science
- Democracy under duress: how to defend and revitalize it?
- Welcome Irene Belmonte-Martin, new guest researcher visiting the department
Research at the Department of Government
Our research is characterised by methodological diversity, ranging from advanced statistical analysis to historical methods and analysis of ideas, and covers all major sub-areas of political science. A central focus of much of our research are questions of power and democracy as they arise in Sweden, Europe and the Global South.
Recent publications
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Nature Communications: " Exploring disaster impacts on adaptation actions in 549 cities worldwide" -
Perspectives on Politics: "Democracy Rules: Liberty, Equality, Uncertainty" -
Political Research Quarterly: "Mavericks or Loyalists? Popular Ballot Jumpers and Party Discipline in the Flexible-List PR Context" -
Social Politics: "Can Personal Parties Facilitate Women’s Political Seniority? A Study of Internal Rules of Conduct" -
Parliamentary Affairs: "When is Access to Political Capital Gendered? Lessons from the Czech Parliament" -
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction: "Change in policy regimes for disaster risk reduction in Fiji and Nepal" -
Filosofisk tidskrift: "Utopi lika viktig som realism om man vill förstå världen" -
Skör demokrati -
Journal of Democracy -
Public Administration: "The Trump Administration and the COVID-19 crisis: Exploring the warning-response problems and missed opportunities of a public health emergency" -
Nations and Nationalism -
Local Government Studies -
Journal of Behavioral Public Administration (JBPA) -
Moscow and the Non-Russian Republics in the Soviet Union
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Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift -
Review of International Studies -
Exceptional but Different: Navigating Transition in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania -
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction -
Routledge Handbook of Autocratization in South Asia
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Du stolta, du fria
What do our students read?
Please find reading lists for the undergraduate courses.
Reading list Development Studies A
Reading list Political Science A
Reading list Development Studies B
Reading list Political Science B
Reading list Development Studies C
Reading list Political Science C
Johan Skytte Prize
In 1622, Johan Skytte, then Vice-Chancellor of the University, established the Johan Skytte chair in Eloquence and Government, which is probably the world’s oldest active professorship in political science. The lands included in the original donation continue to finance research and the Johan Skytte Prize. The prize money of SEK 500,000 is awarded every year by the Skytte Foundation at Uppsala University to the person who has made the “most valuable contribution to political science”.
Department of Government
Visiting address
Östra Ågatan 19, Uppsala
Postal address
Statsvetenskapliga institutionen
Box 514
751 20 Uppsala
Contact
Email: statsvet@statsvet.uu.se
Phone (switch): +46 18 471 00 00