What does the research on climate disasters teach us? In this Climate Policy | climate-policy.bsky.social piece, Daniel Nohrstedt & I pinpoint unresolved puzzles & suggest a research agenda. Identifying policy designs leading to positive outcomes that avoid maladaptation is crucial. bit.ly/3SJ47SM

Our new WEP Journal article unveils that oppositional behavior in EU affairs is driven by two parallel dynamics: the distance between a party and elite actors on the EU dimension, as well as the distance between a party and voters & supporters on the classic left-right dimension.

Happy to give my take on 'is Defense a Priority Across Europe?' for Carnegie Europe along with 21 other policy experts. UI Research Utrikespolitiska institutet

New Sieps Policy Paper by Simon Hix and Abdul Ghafar Noury on the potential outcome and consequences of #EP2024. They take a deep dive into the roll-call vote data of the current term and the latest opinion polls for the elections on 6-9 June👇

The 2024 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science goes to Jürgen Habermas for having “constantly reminded us that the very lifeblood of democracy depends on human capacity and willingness to respect others by means of communicative action and on that basis to engage in critical argumentation and discourse.”

Climate change particularly important to Swedes in EU elections. Moa Mårtensson on the outlook for this summer’s EU elections. uu.se/en/news/2024/2…

Today Sieps and SNS organized the seminar Shaping Tomorrow’s Europe: Potential Outcomes and Consequences of the European Elections. Simon Hix presented his new study, comments by Susanne Palme and Sofie Blombäck. Recording available here: sieps.se/seminarier/#8d…

Do comprehensive welfare states bridge ethnic divisions and promote political tolerance of marginalised groups? In this Political Psychology piece, Prof Sten Widmalm and I present new evidence from Sweden. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/po… #OpenAccess

Why do mainstream parties accommodate niche parties? I am super happy to share my first dissertation article, now open access in JEPP doi.org/10.1080/135017… A short🧵

Vera Axyonova Katsia Lozka Kornely Kakachia Bidzina Lebanidze @IsiBurmester Fabienne Bossuyt Louise Amoris Jan Kofroň 33(4) OA Upon entering NATO: explaining defence willingness among Swedes by Thomas Persson & Sten Widmalm: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people. Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський. We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.

Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people. Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський. We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.

Dear Volodymyr @zelenskyyua, we stand with #Ukraine in good and in testing times. We must never confuse aggressor and victim in this terrible war. (FM)

Your dignity honours the bravery of the Ukrainian people. Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський. We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.

Nobody wants peace more than the Ukrainians do. Therefore we are working on a common path to a lasting and just peace. Ukraine can rely on Germany – and on Europe.

Ukraine is Europe! We stand by Ukraine. We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the agressor. Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.

Thank you for your support.

There is an aggressor: Russia. There is a victim: Ukraine. We were right to help Ukraine and sanction Russia three years ago—and to keep doing so. By “we,” I mean the Americans, the Europeans, the Canadians, the Japanese, and many others. Thank you to

Hur är det ställt med försvarsviljan bland svenskarna? Vi har undersökt frågan i samarbete med ⁦SOM-institutet⁩ Resultaten visar att viljan att slåss för landet är ganska god men det finns djupa klyftor i opinionen, skriver vi på ⁦DN Debatt⁩ . dn.se/debatt/forsvar…

Herbert P. Kitschelt is the winner of the 2025 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science. 🏆 He is awarded the prize for " having increased knowledge of the functioning of democratic party systems with exquisite theoretical acuity and impressive empirical breadth and depth."