Associate Professors Ted Svensson and Agustín Goenaga receive three-year grant from the Swedish Research Council for the project "Imperial Capacity: Studying the Impacts of Colonial Bureaucracies on State Development". Congratulations! svet.lu.se/en/article/ted…

Do governments worldwide have the ability to implement their policies and achieve their goals? We just published a new topic page on state capacity @OurWorldinData: ourworldindata.org/state-capacity A thread on what the page has in store:

Wanted! An up-and-coming researcher who wants to conduct pioneering research to take up a position as associate senior lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Lund University. lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jo…

In a recently published book, Hanna Bäck, Alejandro Quiroz Flores and Jan Teorell present an original dataset on the background of foreign ministers, spanning thirteen countries and more than 200 years! @HannaEBack Alex Quiroz Flores Cambridge University Press - Politics svet.lu.se/en/article/new…

The e-book version of our new book (w/Jonathan Olsen) on the AfD is available now! We utilize a novel theory to explain each stage of the party's development - emergence, breakthrough, & success. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-…

Our new book on the AfD is out!

I have been nominated to serve as Vice President / President-Elect of the Latin American Studies Association. You can hear my statement here. If you are a LASA member, I hope you will support me. youtube.com/watch?v=AYYx7z…

Looking forward to this great @LASACONGRESS panel in Bogotá organized by Jan Boesten.

Excited (and somewhat intimidated) to be presenting new work with Léonie de Jonge / @leoniedejonge.bsky.social this morning at this fantastic panel CES on what history can tell us about contemporary challenges to democracy. With Amel Ahmed, Hannah Alarian, Agustín Goenaga & X-less Ivan Ermakoff.

Can all conferences please take place in France? What a treat to have CES in Lyon. To evidence that we're actually here for work: Looking forward to this fantastic panel on early party formation, w great papers by a.o. Dr. Philip J. Howe-loween 💀🎃👻 he/him, Agustín Goenaga & Lukas Haffert👇

We welcome external applicants to our PhD Course: Political Science Research – Problems and Perspectives. Read more here and apply! svet.lu.se/en/internal/ph…

This year, the PhD course that Jens Bartelson and I convene Statsvetenskap Lund on "Political Science Research: Problems and Perspectives" will be open to external students and will offer a hybrid option. Please share and apply by sending Jens and I an e-mail!

Exciting events going on at the CP group Statsvetenskap Lund this week! Today we have the amazing ruth dassonneville presenting her timely book on group-based cross-pressure and electoral volatility! Open to public! Thanks Jonathan Polk and Alex Ryan for organizing!

Come lead a Methods Center in Lund lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jo…

The CP Group Statsvetenskap Lund is stoked to welcome HPE expert Erik Bengtsson to our seminar series today! He will present his cool study on the electoral consequences of historical land inequality. Open to public! Jonathan Polk @HannaEBack Agustín Goenaga Robert Klemmensen Flori

Danish Business owners more critical of democratic institutions than their Swedish counterparts during the COVID-19. Responses to COVID-19 Policies in a Comparative Perspective by Julie Hassing Nielsen and Agustin Goenaga. Julie Hassing Nielsen Agustín Goenaga svet.lu.se/en/article/dan…